Nick Tart

Nearly everyone has things around their house that they don't use. At the same time, a lot of people are moving into their first home and have nothing. Wouldn't it be great if there were some way to connect these two types of people? This is the concept that Julie and Steve Lins developed with their site, SentFromEbove.com...

You hear all the time how businesses are striving to 'go green' and how you should purchase appliances that that will help your home 'go green.' But what does this even mean? If you turn off the lights when you leave a room or shut off the water while you brush your teeth...

Since their introduction in the mid 1990s, CFLs (compact flourescent lamps) have generated lots of discussion and debate in light bulb aisles across the world. Yes there is a lot of hype behind them, but CFLs truly are an incredible technology...

Thousands of organizations and businesses are going the extra mile and spending the extra dollar to buy utility-scale energy from renewable resources. So much so that the United States E.P.A. (Environmental Protection Agency) compiles a quarterly list of the top green power companies from their Green Power Partnership program...

WOW! Seven-hundred billion dollars. Enough money to cover every square inch of the 102 floors of the Empire State Building with $100 bills, 280 times. Enough money to buy every person in America over the age of one a brand new iPhone G3, 5 times. Enough money to provide every single person in Africa with two meals a day for 140 days. Did America really make 700 billion dollars worth of mistakes...

There are essentially three types of health insurance: indemnity plans, managed care plans, and government-sponsored health insurance. Each type has its own advantages and disadvantages based on the type of health insurance you are looking for...

Over the last 10 years, entrepreneurship has become a growing trend with growing importance within the global marketplace. In fact, according to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), about 330 million people, or 14% of the adults in the 35 countries surveyed, are involved in forming new businesses...

There are hundreds of home based business opportunities out there that promise $2,000 per week or more. But you know that things that sound too good to be true usually are. So how do you determine if a certain home based business is a scam? In making this determination, there are three specific criteria you should test for: legitimacy, suitability and marketability...

Suppose you enter an elevator from the 25th floor of a high profile skyscraper in New York City. Then, just before the door closes, someone else enters the elevator with you. You notice that he is the CEO of a major corporation that your company hopes to do business with. This is a huge opportunity and you only have 30 seconds before you both get off at the ground floor. That is why you should always have an elevator speech ready to pitch at any moment...

Businesses around the world are going green but not all of them receive the same recognition as General Electric, Starbucks, and Wal-Mart. These innovative businesses have earned their share of acknowledgement and it is about time they receive some...