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Features to Look for When Buying Shipping Containers

Strategy Driven

The container may have been treated with pesticides or other chemicals depending on its previous use. If the container spent time traveling to harsh climates , it may show more wear than one stored in milder conditions. It is also important to prepare the site before the delivery of the container.

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How COVID-19 Has Reduced Air Pollution

The Horizons Tracker

One of the defining features of the coronavirus pandemic has been the reduction in travel. Air travel has ground to a halt, while the number of journeys we take by car, train, and bus have significantly fallen. Ozone is a secondary pollutant caused by chemical reactions in the lower atmosphere. Unprecedented fall.

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What are the Best Green Business Ideas?

Strategy Driven

Eco-Friendly Travel. Considering ways to live more sustainably does not often provoke people to restrict their travel plans. However, many people are looking for ways to travel in an eco-friendly way and participate in sustainable activities, from hiking to kayaking.

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The Secret to Keeping Your New Year’s Health Resolution

Michael Lee Stallard

Research shows that feelings of connection affect neurotransmitters (chemical messengers in the brain, including serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine), hormones (chemical messengers that travel throughout the body including adrenaline, cortisol, oxytocin, and vasopressin), and enzymes that affect chromosomes (such as telomerase).

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Tips for Managing Temperature-Sensitive Goods During Shipping

Strategy Driven

Depending on the route the truck travels, you may see significant variations in outside temperatures. Commodities, including chemicals, paint, glue, wine and alcohol, liquids, and some perishable foods need to be transported above freezing temperatures. Mountainous regions, or shipping during the winter, can cause items to freeze.

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Why Today’s Leaders Need to Be Perpetual Learners

Harvard Business Review

Born to immigrant parents in the Australian outback, he would eventually rise to the top of the corporate world, taking over in 2004 as CEO of Dow Chemical. In that job, which he held for 14 years, he won widespread credit for pushing an ambitious sustainability agenda, no easy task at one of the world’s biggest chemical producers.

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It Takes a Team

The Recovering Engineer

We have the Kevin Eikenberry Group team that supports us as we travel for training and speaking engagements. We have our families who have tolerated the long-hours of travel, phone calls, blog posts, article writing, meetings, and website development it takes to get a book written, published, and sold. And the list goes on and on.

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