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Top 10 US Cities to Capture Small Business Recovery Act Dollars.

Women on Business

Ranking third in Popular Science ‘s list of ‘America’s Greenest Cities,’ Boston is putting its recovery money toward clean-energy initiatives. Partner with local R&D brainpower to start your own clean-energy venture. Jackson , MS If your specialty is education, head to Jackson, MS.

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Executive Vision – Leading in an Interconnected World: Transportation

Strategy Driven

Within each episode, Melissa Francis, Simon Hobbs, and a group of distinguished guests discuss what it takes to be a visionary leader; guiding their companies to success within the rapidly changing global marketplace.

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Quotes to Note from Superabundance

The Practical Leader

Put differently, growth does not solve all human problems, but without growth there can be no plenitude of food, sophisticated health care, excellent sanitation, modern transportation, and a plethora of other conveniences that make modern life so much better and more enjoyable than life in the past.

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5 Ways To Make Your Commute Bearable. | Rich Gee Group

Rich Gee Group

By the way, I totally understand about public transportation (I use it too) — but this post focuses solely on car commuting. And here’s the best part — most audiobooks today aren’t read by stuffy, upper-crust, gentry — they are now read by the author who adds so much more energy and information to the original book.

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UPS on Moving the U.S. at the Speed of Business

Harvard Business Review

They're concerned with growing budget deficits, uncertain tax policy, rising energy costs, and crumbling infrastructure. First, develop a strategy for energy security — then stick to it. We need a plan that will lead to energy independence so that we can stop moving from one energy crisis to another.

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The Scale of the Climate Catastrophe Will Depend on What Businesses Do Over the Next Decade

Harvard Business Review

degrees will require “rapid and far-reaching transitions in energy, land, urban and infrastructure (including transport and buildings), and industrial systems” and this transition will need to be “unprecedented in terms of scale…and imply deep emissions reductions in all sectors.” Embrace renewable energy.

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Behind China's Roaring Solar Industry

Harvard Business Review

Wednesday, Bloomberg reported that Chinese solar stocks had soared based on market expectations that demand in China for alternative energy will increase given the Chinese government's increasing solar capacity targets. In 1990, there were 227 million houses in China — by 2010, there were 371 million.