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Amazon is paying its employees $12,000 to train for a job at another company
The forward-thinking company helps employees forward their dream careers--even if it means it's not at Read More...
Apple invests $10 million in a greener method of aluminum production
Apple uses a lot of aluminum in its products. Unfortunately, the way aluminum is produced hasn’t changed much in the last 100+ years. It’s pretty dirty, releasing greenhouse gases into the air. Aluminum is one of eight materials that Apple is focused on to find cleaner, greener ways of Read More...
Uber and NASA are teaming up to make flying taxis a reality
If Uber wants its flying taxi service to become a reality, it’s smart to deepen its relationship with a government agency that routinely handles logistics for ground-to-air traffic. That’s why Uber has signed not one, but two agreements with NASA to stimulate the growth of its flying taxi Read More...
Building your creative capacity will make you an asset in the age of automation
If you want to survive the onslaught of jobs that will come about through automation, the CEO of IDEO says you should build your creative capacity. Creativity is one of the few things that automation will struggle to wrestle from us, making it a vital asset to have in the future. Want to become Read More...
Online platform connects smallholder farmers with marketplace
Cutting out the exploitative middleman was the goal for this new agritech startup that is revolutionizing farming for Ghana’s Read More...
This venture capital group is investing $36 million in black female founders
Despite reportedly being the fasted growing group of entrepreneurs, black women still get little funding from venture capital firms. Backstage Capital, a VC fund that has supported more than 80 companies led by underrepresented founders, wants to change that with a new fund that’s been dubbed Read More...
Uber's diversity officer has a suggestion for developing a more inclusive mindset
Most people think that becoming more inclusive means first learning about others, according to Bo Young Lee, Uber’s new chief diversity Read More...
This startup invented a vending machine that sells raw salad
Typically when you think of vending machine food, you think of colorfully packaged sweets that are full of sugar. A Montreal-based startup is challenging that idea with the creation of a new vending machine that sells raw salad instead. The salad is conveniently packaged in sustainable glass Read More...
Wrangler puts its corporate weight behind soil health
In his excellent book Growing a Revolution, David R. Montgomery suggests that for far too long we've been arguing over organic versus conventional agriculture. Instead, he says, we really should have been focused on soil health. You see, there are big organic farms that are losing soil hand over Read More...
This is how Starbucks is responding to its recent racial-profiling controversy
Starbucks is taking the racial-profiling incident that happened in one of its stores in Philadelphia very seriously. In response to the incident, in which two black men were asked to leave the store for no actual reason, Starbucks has announced that it will close more than 8,000 company-owned US Read More...