Electric cars are the main protagonists at this year's auto show in Paris. Volkswagen, Mercedes, Renault, PSA, Opel and Porche are also showing new concepts, production cars or both and all appear to be pursuing electric vehicles indicating that the technology may be going mainstream.

The wide spread fraud at Wells Fargo Bank is an example of what happens when Management puts pressure without adequate controls and breaks the law. This is a problem in environmental sustainability as well as in financial fraud as in this case.

Apple needs to consider its reputation and should make a bold move to use some of its enormous cash reserves to pay what could have been its tax bill and thus win back public acceptance before it is lost forever.