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Category Archives: Jobs
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Emily DeMasi in Energy 31 days ago
The Obama Administration placed an emphasis on building high-speed and intercity passenger rail to connect communities and economic centers across the country, but will the strategic plan work the in the United States?
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Lane Jost in Corporate Social Responsibility 37 days ago
A recent United Nations Global Compact (UNGC)/Accenture study of 766 corporate CEOs has found that 93% of executives surveyed believe that sustainability will be a key factor in the future of their businesses. So, I suppose CSR is the new Tiger Woods for the global management consulting behemoth?
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Knights Apparel CEO Joseph Bozich (pictured above in the firm’s Dominican Republic factory) doesn’t believe boosting market share and doing good are mutually exclusive. In Sunday’s New York Times, business reporter Steven Greenhouse covers the firm’s newly acquired Dominican Republic apparel operation that makes t-shirts and sweats for American college and university bookstores.
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John Ivanko in Inspiring Ideas 267 days ago
Whether you’ve been forced to take unpaid furloughs, reductions in pay (or increases in insurance premiums and out-of-pocket medical expenses) or find only one person in your household with a job instead of two, you’re not alone in having to rediscover how to live on as much as 50 percent less in household income. According… Read More…
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Fred Etcheverry in Jobs 318 days ago
Stan Ovinshisky graduated from high school and took machining courses at a technical school. With this formal education he has made significant contributions to solid-state physics, neurology, chemistry and cybernetics. He also invented an electric car battery. You may recall his appearance in, “Who Killed the Electric Car?”
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Troubleshooting and making repairs in shop class utilizes the complete scientific method. To repair a malfunctioning device the student must first hypothesize why it is not working. Next the student must design an experiment (test) to determine the correctness of this hypothesis. The student must repair and test that the device is working.
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We need a new model for production and consumption. According to World Watch, “If the consumption aspiration of the wealthiest of nations cannot be satiated, the prospects for corralling consumption everywhere before it strips and degrades our planet beyond recognition would appear to be bleak”
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Scott Cooney in Jobs 358 days ago
Healthy school lunches the key to a sustainable future, lower health care costs, and happier citizens?
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Cindy Tickle in Jobs 358 days ago
Are you looking for a green job? Or a job in corporate social responsibility and sustainable business? Well, all you need to do is tweet. “Green” recruiters understand the best way to reach the new generation of “green” talent is via social media… Facebook, Linkedin, blogs, Flickr, YouTube and of course, Twitter. So fire up… Read More…
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The Texas American Federation of Teachers (AFT) cites the case of a widowed public school teacher that retired with a $900 monthly pension. She would have been eligible to receive $600 survivor benefits based on her husband’s Social Security contribution, but the windfall elimination provision (WEP) eliminated all of her survivor benefits.
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Kelli Peterson in Inspiring Ideas 408 days ago
The Dilemmas Project, a multi-media platform for engaging citizen participation around the ongoing dilemmas ordinary people are facing every day.
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If you have every put your heart into a movement, you know that anyone who is coerced becomes a drag. Unfortunately, the national service issue is surrounded by the others-should-want-to-do-it-for-their-own-good myth.
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Failing to register with the Selective Service through negligence or intention can ban men from government jobs, college loans and even college. What is really amazing is that this life sentence is irrevocable.
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Reenita Malhotra in Inspiring People 542 days ago
The word is that Van Jones is soon to be appointed as the Green Czar of the Obama administration. The rumor has been floating around the blogosphere for the last twenty-four hours and although it is yet to be confirmed, here is a summary of what blogs are saying.
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The World Trade Organization will meet in Brussels Monday (Feb. 9, 2009) to head-off the rising wave of protectionism.
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Ramsay Mameesh in Inspiring Ideas 572 days ago
Think Globally – Act Locally. Green Municipal Bonds offer the opportunity to rescue the economy and the environment. Local governments are needlessly watching their economies disintegrate, waiting and begging for handouts from Washington D.C., while all along the power to save their economies and help the environment lies in their hands – Green Municipal Bonds…. Read More…
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mcmilker in Jobs 577 days ago
There’s a lot of excitement out there, especially in the green sector, about President Obama’s plans to improve the economy. That much of the stimulus is also environmentally friendly means more growth in the green sector. And that means more green jobs. Fast Company cites that: “Massive investments in clean energy promise to keep farmers,… Read More…
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The economic, psychological and deglobalizationeffes of unemployment can be devastating.
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Senators Schumer, Durbin, Representative Brad Miller (D-NC) and others are introducing bills to allow homeowners to have their mortgages reduced by a bankruptcy judge.
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A state-of-the-art “smart grid” can increase the efficiency of green energy sources. It will require a trained workforce and extensive educational programs.
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Brenda Keener in Jobs 628 days ago
As today’s blue collar workers lament the loss of jobs to illegal immigrants or offshoring, a whole new movement is afoot that very well may provide the solution to unemployment woes. As we experience the total revolution of our economy as we know it, an entirely new set of jobs are being created; green collar jobs. In fact, not since the Industrial Age has the global economy experienced the onsite of such a dramatic transformation!
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President-elect Barack Obama has announced a bold initiative to save or create 2.5 million jobs in the next two years.
He will direct his economic team to formulate a two-year Economic Recovery Plan that will put millions of Americans to work rebuilding crumbling roads and bridges, modernizing our schools, and securing our clean energy future. Watch this video for complete details. -
John-Paul Maxfield in Jobs 885 days ago
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