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A conversation with the founder and CEO of Mint.com and vice president of Intuit’s personal finance division.
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The founder of personal finance tool Billshrink on how to avoid getting caught in the tangle of complicated reward bonuses.
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The founder of Billshrink on getting caught in the trap of credit card debt.
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Peter Pham created a website that helps people save on credit cards, wireless plans, and gas.
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A conversation with the CEO of Billshrink.
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Behavioral Psychologist Dan Ariely has some ideas on how to get us to reduce our carbon footprints.
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After seven years of grad school, the behavioral psychologist was unaccustomed to splurging.
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We can learn to compare each dollar we spend to a trip to the Bahamas or a latte, and weigh its value accordingly
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We all have those friends who are cheap when it comes to some things, and spend a lot on other things. Dan Ariely explains the root of their problem.
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What will happen to risk tasking and consumption now that we’ve suffered through the economic downturn? One thing’s for sure: people aren’t afraid to talk money anymore.
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The US ideology of independence greatly hinders fiscal responsibility.
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It’s a combination between being unable to envision the future, and having banks that don’t help us out at all.
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A conversation with the Behavioral Economist and Author of Predictably Irrational.
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Renewing a spiritual connection with nature is a must not only for average Americans, but also for green activists locked in offices.
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Environmental activism is largely the province of the white upper-middle class. How can this change?
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For Alex Matthiessen, resisting the temptation to micromanage keeps his Riverkeeper organization afloat.
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The American consumer lifestyle may be incompatible with a sustainable civilization. Then again, it may be incompatible with happiness as well.
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Unless a realistic, responsible national energy policy can keep it current, “green” may prove to be a passing fad.
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The Middletown power plant tragedy raises concerns about the potential for far deadlier catastrophe. In a 2009 video, Alex Matthiessen weighs the risks of maintaining New York’s Indian Point plant.
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The inside story of one of the most successful environmental restoration projects in U.S. history.
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Where does NYC drinking water come from? How is it kept safe from toxins and terrorists? Alex Matthiessen clears a few things up.
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A discussion with Alex Matthiessen, Riverkeeper of New York’s Hudson River and President of the organization Riverkeeper.
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George Halvorson, the CEO of Kaiser Permanente discusses how the new healthcare IT infrastructure paradigm can drive new strategies within the healthcare vertical industry and beyond.
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The author and illustrator gets “infected” by his parents’ worries, but once he does fall asleep, finds that “dreams become good metaphors.”
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You’ll need a serious technical grounding in art, but more importantly, an instinct for avoiding “over-sophistication.”
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Since he first began doodling with crayons on yellow X-ray paper, illustrator David Small has loved art. But it wasn’t his first career choice.
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How David Small’s experience with therapy in adolescence inspired the cathartic self-analysis of his memoir, “Stitches.”
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David Small doesn’t care if you call his “Stitches” a “comic book,” but his inspiration lies with the likes of Tolstoy and Flaubert.
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A conversation with the illustrator and author of “Stitches.”
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The UT psychologist admires “people who acknowledge the world as a complex place,” and his favorite example is someone far outside his discipline.
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