Having a business card is essential in the modern world.
With the right tool, you can create your own business card. You can either make some simple design cards or add some fancy graphics, a logo or even a picture of yourself onto the cards. There are different application programs to choose from. Here is the basic guidance for using Microsoft Word to do the job.
First of all, open the file menu and choose new. Then open the tools menu, and choose Envelopes and Labels.
Secondly, click “Options” and confirm that “Avery Standard” is selected in the “Product type” menu.
Thirdly, choose “Business Card” in the “Product number” menu.
Fourthly, click “New Document” and select the correct margins for a business card in the label template that appears.
Fifthly, select pictures from the Insert menu and adjust it to the size you want.
Sixthly, choose a font for the text and type the text information, including your name, your business address, your e-mail address, fax number and phone number, etc.
Seventhly, copy and paste your design into each space on the page and use the Print Preview command to see how the cards will look.
Then, save your design and make sure the blank business cards are in the printer.
Last but not least, press Print on the toolbar when you’re ready to print.

Before Copenhagen, the markets in trading green-house gas emissions were buoyant. For the first time, nearly all of the world’s big economies, including the US and China, had set carbon reduction targets that vastly boosted prospects of the trade. As another fillip, the US was considering a federal system of carbon trading capable of sending the value of the market rocketing.
Traders were looking forwards to an accord at Copenhagen that would lead to the forging of a new world-wide legal pact on reducing emissions. They would be among the main beneficiaries of such a treaty, as trading in emissions is one of the key ways of encouraging countries and businesses to cut emissions. But the outcome from Copenhagen was nowhere near as definitive as the markets would have liked.
The “Copenhagen accord”—a last-ditch compromise cobbled together by 40 of the world’s big economies—agreed to reduce their emissions substantially by 2020 but failed to set a firm timetable for signing a legally binding global treaty. Although the UN is hoping that a treaty could be signed by the end of this year, for carbon traders, this was not enough.
Reflecting that sentiment, carbon prices fell by more than 8% on the first day of trading after the Copenhagen conference. In addition, many traders are facing a potential disaster: the deadline for the end of a large slice of their market is fast approaching. Carbon trading was set up under the 1997 Kyoto protocol, the world’s only existing legal treaty on climate change but one that failed to bind developing countries to take action on emissions and that was never ratified by the US.
The problems facing the carbon markets spell bad news for low-carbon businesses and technologies. The existence of a carbon price is supposed to generate investment in low-carbon goods and services but analysts estimate that prices of at least €30 a tone are needed for significant investments, and higher levels, above €50 a tone, would be needed to encourage investments in the newest and most expensive technologies, such as carbon capture and storage.
Eyes are now on the US. If President Barack Obama succeeds in pushing a cap-and-trade bill through the Senate, then a massive expansion of the global carbon market will be likely, whether or not there is a global treaty on the climate.

In the business world, an eye catching business card design plays a very important role for any entrepreneur to grow a business and generate a commercial success. An informative business card may not be what makes or breaks a business, but it will give you more professional.
A business card should be attractive at the very first sight, to make people willing to read more content on it. If you are getting customized cards designed by yourself, you can be better achieved this goal, as you are given much freedom to add any important content onto the cards.
These days, there are many online business card design services, with which you can design your own business cards and then order prints online. These sites usually offer a whole range of designs, templates, card types, as well as tools to undertake the process of planning. They could bring you a lot of inspiration and make the work a lot easier for you, even if you do not have any experience in business card design.
Do you want to make your business cards? Are you looking for some outstanding designs of business cards? Check it out online today for more information about cheap business cards solutions.

The past two years have been turbulent for the US ethanol industry.
The first generation of the fuel—produced from corn grown primarily in the Midwest—was once trumpeted as the country’s solution for energy independence and a job-generator for the rural heartland.
But then corn-based ethanol production became caught up in a debate over whether farmland should be used for fuel rather than food. It was blamed for soaring crop prices, demonized by environmentalists for its questionable green credentials and widely cited as an example of wasteful government subsidies. Ultimately it was market forces that caused the ethanol industry to collapse in 2008, with a production glut that destroyed profits.
It made a tentative recovery last year as the US economy stabilized. Another boost may come later this year when the Environmental Protection Agency is due to rule on whether to allow as much as 15% of ethanol to be blended into US petrol.
However, President Barack Obama’s administration is still holding out hope for a big breakthrough in second generation cellulosic ethanol, fuel made from non-food crops such as switch-grass and other plant fibers, which sidesteps the food versus fuel debate and is more efficient and less damaging in terms of carbon emissions. Switch-grass for example produces about five times the energy that it takes to grow.
The Obama administration is also promoting research into other second-generation fuels, such as those produced from by-products or industrial waste. Last year it set aside $564m from the economic stimulus program for projects to produce bio-fuel from raw materials such as non-corn kernel starch and algae. The promotion of bio-fuels such as cellulosic ethanol has long formed a key part of the government’s energy policy.
No US company producing bio-fuel from non-food crops, by-products or industrial waste is yet making significant commercial sales. The economy downturn is partly to blame. It also reflects the technical complexity of next-generation bio-fuel production. The US’s failure to pass cap-and-trade legislation, which would put a price on carbon emissions, has not helped.
The big question is when this activity will make next-generation bio-fuel commercially viable. It is likely to be at least a decade before the Exxon-Synthetic Genomics collaboration is ready to take products to market. The lack of distribution infrastructure is another problem.

Western countries, with US being the representative, have always been criticizing China on its control of copyright cover the Internet. However, China hit back hard recently against US criticism of the nation’s controls over the Internet, announcing that Washington’s push against online censorship could harm the relations between the two big powers.
Torrent search engines, from which people can download music, TV shows and movies for free, is playing a key role in the issue.
These days, in an approach to reorganize the torrent search engines in the nation and highlight the importance of audio-visual broadcasting license for a website, the Chinese authority has made some big moves. State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) has shut down the largest BitTorrent website—BTChina as well as another popular media sharing site VeryCD.com due to their copyright crackdown. This created a buzz among the Chinese netizens as both sites are claimed to be non-commercial sites and have millions of users across the country.
This approach indicates the dedication of the Chinese authority in beating the digital-video-disc piracy, and regulating the operation of many various online media resources. It makes a positive response to all the criticism over copyrights issues from Western countries. But meantime, China is taking the risks of being judged for its high pressure policy.