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Articles Written by: ANYA KAMENETZ
Who is This?
Anya Kamenetz (born September 15, 1980 in Baltimore, MD) is an American freelance writer living in Brooklyn, NY. She is a staff writer for Fast Company magazine and a columnist for Yahoo! Finance.
My parents already treat the GPS on their car like it's a person: "Shh! She's talking!" Now researchers at the MIT Media Lab, in partnership with Audi, want to take that relationship one step further with AIDA, the "Affective Intelligent Driving Agent." ...
From ANYA KAMENETZ,
Fast Company,
29 Oct 2009
Fast Company loves smart electric meters. They're the first, essential step in the smart electric grid, which promises to fight global warming, improve efficiency, and bring consumer control into our electricity system.
Pacific Gas & Electric loves ...
From ANYA KAMENETZ,
Fast Company,
21 Oct 2009
Earlier this month, the world's chief energy economist told the UK Independent that global oil production was likely to peak in 10 years, with a "global energy crunch" starting as soon as next year.
"One day we will run out of oil, it is not today or ...
From ANYA KAMENETZ,
Fast Company,
25 Aug 2009
EnlargeTHE PROFESSOR: Free online content, says David Wiley, "is just the first step". | Photograph by Tyler Gourley
Is a college education really like a string quartet? Back in 1966, that was the assertion of economists William Bowen, later ...
From ANYA KAMENETZ,
Fast Company,
10 Aug 2009
He cites many of the same factors that are leading lots of people to take a closer look at the microgrid, small, local, renewable energy installations, instead of behemoth installations: the difficulty in getting financing and the cost of building ...
From ANYA KAMENETZ,
Fast Company,
7 Jul 2009
EnlargeIn Massachusetts, Jonah Decola teaches locals to build home power systems, like Sue Butler's 5.5-Kilowatt setup. | Photograph by Bob O'Connor
In April 2007, a helicopter landed in a backyard in Johnson Valley, California, a desert hamlet of 440 ...
From ANYA KAMENETZ,
Fast Company,
23 Jun 2009
I'll be discussing local power with alternative energy business leaders at Fast Company's Alternative Energy Forum in Seattle on June 24. Join us!
Small-scale, local power--the microgrid--is a big part of the path to sustainable energy, as I discuss ...
From ANYA KAMENETZ,
Fast Company,
20 Jun 2009
A briefing room at the United Nations yesterday morning made a very official setting for an announcement about the international, high-tech, and almost free future of higher education. Shai Reshef, featured in our Most Creative People list, has begun ...
From ANYA KAMENETZ,
Fast Company,
20 May 2009
Generally, I think my fellow Yahoo! Finance Expert gives pretty solid financial advice. Sure, she's compromised somewhat by her endorsements like MyFICO.com, but she seems to genuinely care about helping people, the opposite of an irresponsible stock ...
From ANYA KAMENETZ,
Huffington Post,
17 May 2009
In the May issue I wrote about how the UC Davis Energy Efficiency Center is making efficiency sexy as an investment to Silicon Valley VCs and big companies alike. Now The New York Times has caught on, reporting that Sequoia Capital, which made its name ...
From ANYA KAMENETZ,
Fast Company,
12 May 2009