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Happy New Year from all of us at MATR: "Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better person." --Benjamin Franklin
Start the New Decade with a vital discussion: "City Club Missoula -Cap And Trade: Is This The Answer To Decreasing Carbon Emissions?, 1/11, Missoula" http://www.matr.net/ar ... .html --- Hope you plan on visiting Glacier Park as it celebrates is 100th Birthday - Here's a plan for each month: "Nature 2010: Mark Glacier National Park’s centennial year with skiing, wildlife, wildflowers, trails" http://www.matr.net/ar ... .html
Glacier Raft and Outdoor Center
TechRanch
- Nature 2010: Mark Glacier National Park’s centennial year with skiing, wildlife, wildflowers, trails
Wouldn't it be great to visit Glacier in each of the next 12 months? Wouldn't that be a celebration worthy of these million acres? Of these waters (frozen and flowing), and glaciers and grizzly bears? Of these golden eagles and kingfishers?
City Club Missoula
- Looking for an entrepreneur to slap
I'm going to slap the next entrepreneur who drags out an income statement for 12 columns in excel and tells me it's a cash flow statement.
Leadership Montana
- City Club Missoula -Cap And Trade: Is This The Answer To Decreasing Carbon Emissions?, 1/11, Missoula
Whatever the mechanism, including the cost of dumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, will likely raise the cost of doing business. Who will pay those costs? What environmental impact will there be? How will Montana be affected?
- City Club Missoula Launches Photo Contest
Contest winners' photos will be featured on the CCM website throughout 2010.
- Climate unchanged - University of Montana Professor, Dr. Steven Running says Otter Creek vote signals larger issue
"Every one of of the other countries were waiting for [the U.S.] to show that we were serious," he says of the summit attendees. "And the very next day the Montana state government votes to lease another billion tons of coal, my God. All those countries saw how willing we are to lead. It's pretty pathetic. As long as the political leaders keep making decisions like that, all of these targeted emissions reductions are a total joke."
Montana Business
- 8 + Team Development Models
There are several proven, effective team development models available. A leader should pick one, learn it, and use it consistently.
Montana Economic Development
- Semitool Owner, Ray Thompson, to Address Montana Chamber of Commerce Business Days in Helena on Jan 14-15.
Semitool was just acquired by Applied Materials as a subsidiary of their SSG group in the last few weeks. Thompson will explain what that means for Semitool and Montana. He will keynote the “Legislator Appreciation Banquet” during the Montana Chamber’s annual Business Days. His talk is titled “Pioneering Technology in Montana.”
Funding and Building your Business
- Stimulus Funded Tennis Courts in Bozeman Draw Ire of Montana Governor
“They put a Christmas stocking in front of every city and county commissioner and allowed them to fill it with anything they wanted. The Republican Senate decided that they wanted to run Montana more like the US Congress and less like a Montana business,” Schweitzer said. “I am asking the City of Bozeman and other local governments to follow my lead in cutting non-essential spending. Just like Montana families have to make decisions about finances in these times, so does government.”
Montana Education Excellence
- The Customer Is Always Right - Jeff Bezos
Since founding Amazon in 1994, Jeff Bezos has revolutionized retailing. Now he's out to transform how we read.
- Innovation Is a Better Way to Compete
Don't get bogged down in a price war or a race to imitate a rival's product. Redefine your market instead, says entrepreneur-academic Richard Mammone
- Food Fighter - Does Whole Foods’ C.E.O. know what’s best for you?
We're trying to do good. And we're trying to make money. The more money we make, the more good we can do." --John Mackey, Whole Foods Market CEO
- Four ways technology will change advertising in 2010
Advertising will encourage you to stay on web pages longer and could soon bring the technology from 'Minority Report' to your cell phone. And you can buy stuff for your online self, too.
Wyoming Business
- Greater Ravalli Foundation teams with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to Increase Support of Ravalli County Schools
The Greater Ravalli Foundation has set aside $10,000 that it will use to match donations from the public to pay for educational needs at Ravalli County high schools. That $20,000 could, in turn, be matched by the Gates Foundation to provide a total of $40,000 for local schools.
- Montana school children are reminded that all data on Web is public forever
“Your activity with any digital device is public and permanent. Poor digital judgment often leads to immediate, life-altering and irreversible consequences. You are responsible for all of your actions when using digital technology.”
- Butte public schools revamp Web site
Butte schools will have a new Web site next month that administrators say will be far more user-friendly for students, parents and teachers.
Education
- Wind farms take center stage in Wyoming
Wind energy development in Wyoming garnered unprecedented attention this year as the state wrestled with regulation, taxation and environmental protection issues.
Government
- NBC Learn - Historic film and video archive available to teachers, students, schools and universities.
Get instant access to thousands of videos, images, documents and more. For K-12 or Higher Ed
Other Economies
- Looking back, looking ahead: Gov. Schweitzer reflects on year
"It gives us a great deal of pride that when 48 states zigged, we zagged," the Democratic governor said in a recent interview. "We were certainly not visionaries, but when times were good, we put money aside to get through this current downturn.
Energy and Climate Change
- States Ratchet Up the Lures To Recruit Companies
With fewer companies ready and willing to spend money to relocate, states and cities are digging deeper to offer more generous incentives.
- How California Went From Top of the Class to the Bottom
California’s economy is declining. Those of us who live here can all see it. Yet, Californians don’t have the will to make the necessary changes. Like a punch-drunk fighter, sitting helpless in the corner, California is unable to answer the bell for a new round.
Cool Stuff That's Coming
- How Algal Biofuels Lost a Decade in the Race to Replace Oil
“Just when they started to succeed is when the plug got pulled.”
- Tom Siebel’s Stealth Carbon Startup C3 Lands $26 Million And Condoleezza Rice On Its Board
What do Thomas Siebel, Condoleezza Rice and $26 million have in common? They are all connected to stealth energy startup C3, which may be entering the business of managing carbon cap-and-trade systems for corporations.
- Employer-Based Trip Reduction Rules - New pollution rule puts air pressure on area businesses
Air quality police want you to slowly step out of your vehicle.
- Walmart, others make money on Oregon's energy tax credits
When Oregon started handing out jumbo tax subsidies for renewable energy projects two years ago, one of the biggest beneficiaries was also one of the world's richest corporations -- Walmart.
Non-Profit News
- The pen is mightier: Livescribe pen hears, sees, says – and sells - Livescribe Inc.
In 18 months, the Oakland company has sold more than 300,000 of its Pulse Smartpens, computerized pens that record hours of audio that can be replayed from the exact moment accompanying notes are written.
- 5 Therapeutic Uses for Virtual Reality
Virtual reality isn’t just for movies and games. In doctors’ offices around the world, it’s being used to treat a range of phobias, disorders and mental and cognitive problems.
- Twitter co-founder takes aim at mobile payments
Jack Dorsey revolutionized online socializing by co-founding Twitter in 2006. Now he wants to transform the way people exchange money.
VIRUS ALERTS
- Nonprofits benefit from for-profit practices - Innovations for Learning and the TeacherMate Handheld Computer System
"There is an increased sophistication that has to happen on the part of all organizations because competition in the nonprofit sector has grown significantly," Howard said. "It is no longer enough just to do good. You have to do good well. You have to focus more on the management."
- Researcher: Google Wave, iPhone and Android will be heavily attacked in 2010
"First, the sending of spam, followed by phishing attacks, then the exploiting of vulnerabilities and the spreading of malware."
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