In particular, E Source identified the 10 largest power-drawing plug loads while in active mode and the five largest energy-consuming plug loads over the course of an entire year.

FORBES: Energy Waste Rebounds: Top 10 Energy Pigs in the Plug

They then placed all of these cards on the wall and realized that, between the ten of them, they had over 150 active projects, many of which were drawing upon the same resources or impacting the same groups.

FORBES: The Problem With Priorities

Martin Wolf and Gillian Tett, FT editors, did a superb job of drawing out the puzzling tensions acutely active in the global economy.

FORBES: The New World Order Of Global Markets

At the same time the ratio of active workers paying into the system to retirees drawing from the system has reached 1.86 to 1.

FORBES: Old Age Pensions 10 Percent of GDP and Rising

Unlike most touch-screen tablets and mobile phones, which rely exclusively on multi-touch input, the OpenTablet 10 adds a unique active precision stylus that is ideal for note taking, drawing and signatures.

ENGADGET: OpenPeak debuts OpenTablet 10 with transflective display