Market Forces Continue To Shape The eRetailing Industry
WalMart quietly closes its doors on its online site while it remodels, Priceline's founder admits defeat in the grocery and gasoline markets, Toys"R"Us abandons its website to ally itself with…
The Prickly Underbelly of Industrial Ecology
by Dr. Braden Allenby, AT&T EH&S Vice President The term "industrial ecology" has long been recognized as an evocative analogy, suggesting the benefits of designing industrial systems to more closely…
The Urban Game
by Dr. Braden Allenby, AT&T EH&S Vice President Viewing the World Summit in Johannesburg from a safe distance, I could not help but think of Shakespeare: "full of sound and…
Climate Change and Technological Evolution
by Dr. Braden Allenby, AT&T EH&S Vice President As noted last month, communication between the technological and environmental discourses is still fairly minimal. This is unfortunate for a number of…
Green Technology: From Oxymoron to Null Set
by Dr. Braden Allenby, AT&T EH&S Vice President Last month's column raised the question of how the Internet and its postmodernist pastiche of time and place is liable to change…
Global Climate Change Adaptation
by Dr. Braden Allenby, AT&T EH&S Vice President (Reprinted with permission from the Green Business Letter) The political state of global climate change is tumultuous and highly polarized, and lends…
Complex Systems and Human Freedom
by Dr. Braden Allenby, AT&T EH&S Vice President (Reprinted with permission from the Green Business Letter) Perhaps the last great project of the traditional Enlightenment was the 20th century effort…
Environmentalism: Private or Public Morality?
by Dr. Braden Allenby, AT&T EH&S Vice President (Reprinted with permission from the Green Business Letter) Democratic systems of governance, especially those that guarantee true freedom of speech and religion,…
The Commoditization of Nature
by Dr. Braden Allenby, AT&T EH&S Vice President (Reprinted with permission from the Green Business Letter) One of the most famous lines of The Communist Manifesto is Marx and Engle's…
Earth Systems Engineering
by Dr. Braden Allenby, AT&T EH&S Vice President (Reprinted with permission from the Green Business Letter) To start with the big picture, it is important to recognize the systemic meaning…
Marx, Environment and Complexity
by Dr. Braden Allenby, AT&T EH&S Vice President (Reprinted with permission from the Green Business Letter) Some people may wonder why this column, written by an industry person, refers so…
1st Dynasty (2920 – 2770 BC)
First Dynasty Egypt's 1st Dynasty saw the emergence of a unified land stretching from the Delta to the first cataract at Aswan, a distance of over one thousand kilometers along…
Burgi Mameluke Period
Burgi (Tower) Mameluke Period Circassian (Burgi) Mamlukes Rulers Sultan Zaher Barqooq (1382-1399) Sultan Farag Ben Barqooq (first time) (1399-1405) Sultan Abd El-Aziz Ben Barqooq (1405) Sultan Farag Ben Barqooq (second…
Ottoman Turk Period
Ottoman Turk Period Ottoman Rulers Khayer Pasha (1517-22) Moustafa Pasha (1522-23) Kouzlagah Pasha (1523) Ahmed Pasha (1523) Ibrahim Pasha (1524) Suliman Pasha (1524-34) Khissru Pasha (1524-36) Suliman Pasha (second time)(1536-38)…
French Occupation Period
French Occupation Period When Napoleon arrived in Cairo, he brought with him a wide array of disorders and also Europe. After the three years that he spent in Cairo, the…
British Occupation Period
British Occupation Period The British occupation had no physical changes on Cairo since the British had been ruling Egypt indirectly for years. Tawfik remained the khedive, the consular courts dealt…
Swim with the dolphins at Malta
I can’t stop laughing as the dolphin sweeps me through the water while I cling tightly to his hard dorsal fin. Spray smacks me in the face as we whoosh…
‘Dragons in The World of Eld
Dragons: In the old days, when the Gods were still young, they created dragons, to help them travel the world in a comfortable way. In their creation, they where all…
Part 4: Online Payment Systems & Credit Card Processing
Online shoppers want the same things from your e-commerce web site that they demand from bricks-and-mortar retailers. You have to make them feel safe and comfortable before they'll shop online.…
Part 3: Building Credibility With Your E-Commerce Customers
Having a professional-looking, fully functional e-commerce web site is one way you build credibility with potential online shoppers. Just as in the bricks-and-mortar store, you must win your customers' trust…