Seattle’s Fleet Foxes have a unique sound: Part Brian Wilson, part folk explosion, part Coldplay-Muse-U2. If you want to get hooked on their psyche-strum sound, check out Track 2, White Winter Hymnal. It’ll haunt you for days. The Fleet Foxes are label mates to the Shins, both on Sub Pop Records (which brought you Nirvana). …

Today I read an article about Ted Turner’s chain of ‘green restaurants’. He’s got the right idea — clean up one of the biggest eco-offenders in business America, the eateries. They produce incredible amounts of solid waste, bring food in from long distances and purchase products produced in unsafe or unsustainable manners. For decades, we’ve …

OK – I need a social networking superstar to help me generate traffic to my existing properties, as well as establish myself on Facebook, MySpace, etc. Do you, or someone you know, have the chops to develop online audiences? I’m going to be setting up several properties to support my company’s products (Email Etiquette) and …

One of my favorite atmospheric records of the year is The Bees Made Honey In The Lion’s Skull by a rock band named Earth. It’s brainchild is Dylan Carson, maybe best known for being pals with an up and coming Kurt Cobain waaay back in the day. They are classified as experimental, but I think …

I recently made the decision to, whenever possible, use eco-friendly business supplies. Yesterday I was ordering business cards and researching bookmarks for my book tour as giveaways. I found a few ‘green printers’ such as Green Printer Online. They offer business and promotional cards that are made responsibly from recycled paper, using safe inks. Here’s …

Sometimes, you get your best ideas from the people you are attempting to teach. Yesterday, I gave a talk at a business convention and focused many of my remarks on email etiquette at work. As you know, I’m pretty passionate about this subject and even developed a training/edu-taining DVD (The Dirty Dozen Rules Of Email …

Last night I attended a charity event for Yo San University, where Dr. Mao’s and Dr. Dao’s new books were being launched. There were about 150 people at the event, which was held at a cool art gallery in Venice. The surprise MC was none other than mega-blogger Arianna Huffington. (No, it was not Traci …

This Sunday is Earth Day. I hope you are ‘observing’ it this year. With each passing year, the relevance and urgency of Earth Day grows. This year, I’d like to point you to a Earth Day video by Hearthmath. They are a leading research and technology organization that improves health, wellness and outlook for thousands …

Can you believe how many catalogs and junk mailings pour into your workplace? Even if they go straight to the recycling bin, that isn’t good enough. Recycling, according to the authors of Cradle To Cradle, should actually be called ‘downcycling’, because the materials get less and less useful with each pass. And recycling requires high …

Daniel Pink is one of the most creative minds in business writing today. His newest book is The Adventures Of Johnny Bunko, a graphic business book. You might call it a comic, but in Japan they call it Manga. This book takes you on a fun filled journey with Johnny Bunko, as he learns six …