Ecologically Responsible Jewelry

I found GreenKarat interesting because they create original earrings, rings and necklaces out of 100 percent postconsumer recycled gold.

Useful link:
www.greenkarat.com

Diamond Buying Experience

Jay Greene profiles Mark Vadon, Blue Nile's executive chairman and co-founder @ http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_23/b4087039014145.htm

Useful link:
www.bluenile.com

A Splendid Exchange

A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World by William J. Bernstein is fascinating story about human nature and character + covers history of trade from prehistoric to modern times. A great book. I liked it.

Useful link:
www.efficientfrontier.com

Neighbors are more useful alive than dead.
- William J. Bernstein

Indie Filmmakers

John Tozzi writes about Indie filmmakers who are using the Internet to get their stories in front of people who want to hear them, foregoing the conventional path of shopping their films to a distributor @ http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/jun2008/sb2008065_226261.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_news+%2B+analysis

Useful links:
www.filmcommunity.com
www.withoutabox.com
www.bside.com
www.cineticmedia.com

BusinessWeek staff writer John Tozzi's narrated slide show was brilliant. I liked it.
Thanks John.

Brand Heaven/Hell

(via Bruce Nussbaum/Businessweek) David Armano's illo of the steps to Brand Heaven--and Brand Hell was brilliant. Great visuals. I liked it.

Bob Dylan: The Drawn Blank Series

Bob Dylan: The Drawn Blank Series by Frank Zollner + Ingrid Mossinger + Kerstin Dreschel is a wonderful catalogue of the works of this great artist.

Useful links:
www.bobdylan.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTeYYenRTFA

Art Boom + Insurers

Nazanin Lankarani writes about fine art and collectible insurer, AXA Art Insurance + other viewpoints @ http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/30/arts/rcartaxa.php

Useful link:
www.axa-art.com

Business Of Green

According to The International Energy Agency, the amount it will cost to go green is $45 trillion. The agency thinks the answer might lie in a global treaty, persuading member nations of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to lower emissions. I don't think it's that easy. With the prices of gas and oil reaching record levels, energy entrepreneurs will have to think differently. We need to completely transform the way we produce and use energy.

Useful links:
www.iea.org
http://unfccc.int
http://ec.europa.eu
www.cera.com
www.ecfr.eu