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Leadership Comes in Many Forms. Helping Business Save the Earth.

Great Leadership By Dan

Renewable energy in electricity generation. To increase the innovative output of business, especially the output of sustainable technologies, requires pushes and nudges along the edges. Business leaders clearly have a role to play in driving innovative new sustainable technologies that disrupt current markets.

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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. Capture those dollars with an electronic medical records business.

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“It's cold in here” and Other Fighting Words | Guy Harris: The.

The Recovering Engineer

.&# “The best technology for _ is.&# It may be a fact that you or I feel cold or hot in a particular environment. It is not a fact that it is hot or cold in that environment. The temperature measurement is a fact, and the existence of our feelings about the environment is a fact. The best technology for _ is.

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Katrina Markoff Named Woman of the Year by American Express and.

Women on Business

That kind of team environment undoubtedly helped Katrina get her company to where it is today. She also leads her company with a keen eye on the environment. The Vosges-Haut Chocolat headquarters runs on 100% renewable energies. Katrina’s focus on lifestyles doesn’t stop with her employees.

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Innovating Your Way Out Of The Resource Curse

The Horizons Tracker

The centrepiece of the institute is the Qatar Science & Technology Park, which brings together applied research and technology innovation, incubation and entrepreneurship. in 2011), this hides the fact that much of the other half of the economy is heavily reliant on the oil and gas sector for its revenues.

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Women and the economy: an opportunity for growth

Strategy Driven

Women are historically underrepresented in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. According to the US Department of Education, the number of computer science degrees peaked at 37 percent between 1984 and 1985 compared to only 18 percent in the period between 2008 and 2011. But let’s go further on education.

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Atlantis Lifts Off - Last Shuttle and End of an Era

Building Personal Strength

Atlantis - 2011 NASA photo Less than an hour ago, the space shuttle Atlantis launched safely into space to link up with the International Space Station. Scientists say that travel at light speed is impossible because matter (including the crew) stops being matter and becomes energy at that speed. Copyright 2011. Exciting stuff.

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