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"Love Drupal!!" - Max Gladwell

"There's a lot to Zumbox, but here's one of the main points. Most companies don't have the email addresses for the customers they send mail to. So that's a problem. It's why e-billing and such have such low adoption rates. The other problem is that postage and paper cost a lot. With Zumbox, the company can use the same street addresses they currently have to send digital versions of that mail securely and for FREE. It's 100% paperless. Think about it: most mail starts in a digital format. Then it's printed, packed, mailed, sorted, transported, and delivered. Why not just enable the native, digital format to be delivered online to the same street address? That's what Zumbox does. Email can't do that. Email requires a lot on the part of customer and company to make that connection, and most of the time you just get a notification via email that you have to now login to a website to "get" your statement. Zumbox is secure according to all of the same standards as the companies who actually..." - Max Gladwell

"It's a separate, parallel system to the USPS that is all digital. It uses the same street address system to send digital mail online. So the company that sends you mail already, they have your street address but probably don't have your email. That's the vast majority of cases. Now they can send it to the same address digitally i.e. thru your browser--no paper, no postage, no scanning. You just have to sign up for the service, which is free. In fact, you have mail in your Zumbox. Just go to http://www.zumbox.com, type in your street address, and there it is." - Max Gladwell

"Earthclass.com scans your paper mail so you can view it online. Much different model. No reduction in paper use at all, so very little benefit to the environment and little if no cost savings for anyone involved. So very little in the way of utility for companies, whether it's saving them on postage & paper costs or being able to better communicate with their customers." - Max Gladwell

"it's unfortunate, but necessary due to the security aspect." - Max Gladwell

"exactly. except that you get it thru your browser...wherever you happen to be." - Max Gladwell

"FedEx and UPS didn't put the USPS out of business. It's doubtful Zumbox will, either. But it can save companies money and reduce their environmental impact. Think about it: most paper mail starts out digital. Why not enable a way to send and deliver it in this native, low-impact, efficient form?" - Max Gladwell

"It's amazing that we don't realize what we're doing it when we wonder aloud about how global warming has made today--this 24-hour period--warmer that it otherwise would have been. And then we go off on how deniers can't disprove global warming just because it's cold. Need consistency to be credible." - Max Gladwell

"What ever happened to BioWillie?" - Max Gladwell

"Check out http://www.zumbox.com" - Max Gladwell

"It's not a matter of smooth. Think about this. When the air hits the dimples, it forms turbulence. Picture swirls of air circulating at the surface of the material. All subsequent air passes over the turbulence...not the surface of the car, which has much more drag than the turbulent air. So it forms a pocket of swirling air on every surface, thereby reducing the drag. That's the theory, and the results so far appear to be validating it. There's more to it with the effect of the wake, but we're not a physicists." - Max Gladwell

"About time that this happened. Not sure if there are surveys available ranking restaurants based on green practices and nutritious menu as yet." - Max Gladwell

"Nope, just the President we've been waiting for. Someone smart, competent, pragmatic, and truly conservative. Not too much to ask, until you look at the past eight years." - Max Gladwell

"It would have been one thing if this was The Nation or some other left-leaning magazine. But it was The Economist (our favorite magazine ever) As the election drew near, Obama earned endorsements from newspapers that hadn't backed a Democrat since FDR. He also got the votes of National Review columnist Christopher Buckley (son of ultra-conservative National Review founder William F. Buckley) and Secretary of State Colin Powell. All of the smart conservative money was on Obama." - Max Gladwell

"Nice article showcasing people who have actually taken energy independence to the next level." - Max Gladwell

"Interesting but not too sure about how easy will it be to use. Some good things like the device offers text-to-speech (TTS) capabilities, Bluetooth, MP3 playback and voice dialing with speech recognition. The company claims download speeds of up to 7.2 Mbps when using HSDPA." - Max Gladwell

"Surprising how controversial this startup has become." - Max Gladwell

"Waste is food." - Max Gladwell

""The men in suits" is pretty much a faceless enemy. We need a new energy economy that prices all costs into each and every unit of energy we consume. You can't argue with economics. As soon as it costs too much to pollute, the pollution will stop. We got a glimpse of what this is like last summer when oil went to $145/barrel. It needs to go back there but through taxes levied by the governments who don't actually have the oil, so those funds stay in the domestic systems to help clean up the mess and fund clean alternatives." - Max Gladwell

"It's not as important as energy, but it's up there" - Max Gladwell

"Carter was bad. Not as bad as Nixon. Who was not as bad as Bush." - Max Gladwell

"We should have solar film on everything" - Max Gladwell

"Great post. Be authentic and respect the currencies of the social web. Cash is not one of them, though it can be converted." - Max Gladwell

"Einstein is just so relevant to what we're going thru and what we need." - Max Gladwell

"Mom is pissed, for sure." - Max Gladwell

"Hell hath no fury like a mom with a blog. --MG" - Max Gladwell

"Great article with loads of information. The first step is to reduce waste altogether. Aim should be to avoid or at least re use stuff before sending them out for recycling. For example, Plastic Water Bottles" - Max Gladwell

"Interesting article especially since organic tends to be a little more expensive." - Max Gladwell

"The effort should be to minimize the negative impact on the environment." - Max Gladwell

"With a burgeoning and a fairly eco conscious middle class in most of the developing economies in Asia, there is a huge potential for cleaner but inexpensive technologies. ZAP car manufacturers have already struck an agreement with Tata Motors from India. Lots to look out for.." - Max Gladwell