According to a recent online survey, electronics recycling has sharply risen in the past three years. General recycling is at all-time high levels, with 84 percent of U.S. residents recycling their trash – helped no doubt by the widespread availability ofcurbside recycling programs in many communities.
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Job sprawl stalls in metropolitan areas.
As policymakers and regional leaders work to grow jobs and connect residents to economic opportunity following the Great Recession, where jobs locate matters. The location of employment within a metro area intersects with a range of policy issues—from transportation to workforce development to regional innovation—that affect a region’s long-term health, prosperity, and social inclusion.
Hedge funds, Wall Street investors and other institutions are crowding out individual home buyers.
Wall Street investors are pouring unprecedented amounts of money into real estate hard hit by the housing crash, bringing those moribund markets back to life but raising the prospect of another Wall Street-fueled bubble that won’t be sustainable.
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Traffic can be a huge burden on economic development, and just overall quality of life.
Sometimes when entrepreneurs are just fed up with something that is when they come up with the most innovative ideas. Their ability to make people’s lives just a little easier, whether through a solution to a dangerous social problem or an easy tool that helps people shop from their home, entrepreneurs can fill in gaps across sectors.
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More than five million students worldwide have registered for classes.
You can forget about the Socratic method when it comes to Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC’s), like those offered by Coursera, Udacity and edX.
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Workers can now be analyzed like any other data.
As it turns out, bosses really do matter and they may matter more than we even realize. For example, in telephone call centers where hourly workers handle a steady stream of calls under demanding conditions, the communication skills and personal warmth of an employee’s supervisor are often crucial in determining the employee’s tenure and performance. Recent research shows that the quality of the supervisor may be more important than the experience and individual attributes of the workers themselves.
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Unique visitors across the network of sites increased to 517 million last month.
Wikipedia and other websites owned by the Wikimedia Foundation, including Wikibooks,Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons now get more than 500 million unique visitors every month.
A majority of adoptees in Japan are men in their 20’s and 30’s.
The highest adoption rates in the world are in the United States and Japan. But there is one big difference. Most adoptees in the U.S. are children, in Japan kids only represent 2% of all adoptions. Men in their 20s and 30s make up the remaining 98%, or almost 90,000 adoptees in 2008 (up from fewer than 80,000 in 2000). Why do the Japanese adopt so many adults?
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Businesses that allowed employees to work remotely at least three times a month were more likely to log revenue growth.
Should companies rethink a ban on working from home? Here’s one reason to rethink that ban: Businesses with telecommuting policies tend to grow faster than those without them.
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According to new estimates released last week by the World Bank, the world’s poorest people are now concentrated most heavily in Sub-Saharan Africa after China’s huge leap in pulling its citizens out of extreme poverty in recent decades.
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Global energy an utilities sectors faces significant challenges from ongoing environmental sensitivity.
Gartner, Inc. has released a new report that identifies the top ten technology trends affecting the global energy and utility markets in 2013, as the industry faces significant challenges from ongoing environmental sensitivity, changing policymaker attitudes and consumer expectations.
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Ray Kurzweil believes that Moore’s Law applies to advances in the biological sciences. Will advances like artificial hips, cardiac pacemakers and spinal stimulators for pain be only the beginning of the realization of how humanity will be “re-engineered”” to take fuller and richer advantage of what science offers us?
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By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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