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Solar investments are safer than stocks
For investors, particularly after the ’08 financial crisis, it’s difficult to decide on where to put your money. Savings accounts have tiny profit margins, and the volatility of the stock market has left many skeptical. A recent study has found that if you want to invest, solar is the best Read More...
Intel invests $300 million to increase internal diversity
Studies have shown that the work place is not equal. White males make more money than their female or minority coworkers do for the same jobs. Intel is trying to change that. In a recent announcement Intel says it will invest $300 million to diversify their workforce, creating pipelines Read More...
The opportunity of renewable energy takes Africa by storm
The opportunity of renewable energy takes Africa by storm In Lima, Peru, this weekend United Members for the first time reached a climate agreement that includes commitments from all countries. This consensus reflects the growing realization that global warming is a problem that reaches Read More...
Cost of solar energy dropping in the US
The newest Gold Rush will have us mining for sunshine. The Deutsche Bank, a global banking and financial services company, and the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the nation’s primary laboratory for research on renewable energy development, have both Read More...
Millennials choose sustainability, change business and the world
The socially responsible business sector is exploding. Some estimates say that businesses that put people and the planet before profits cover over $6 trillion in assets—a 300 percent increase in the last decade. A large factor driving the growth are millennials—those born between 1980 and Read More...
More than half the products at M&S have ‘sustainable attribute’
Most sustainability reports from major corporations provide many words about most often small achievements. Here’s a big exception. British retailer Marks and Spencer reports that already 63 percent of the company’s products sold have a “sustainable” attribute. That stunning figure makes Read More...
Flexibility and independence makes workers happier and more productive
The rat race is a drag, fighting the rush hour is a headache, and sitting in a drab cubicle all day can be life draining. More and more firms are going virtual, allowing their workers to work from home full time, or come into the office only a few times a month. It makes sense. Workers are happier Read More...
Sustainable banking is lucrative and has a conscience
As it turns out you can run a successful bank, while maintaining a moral conscience. The 2008 financial crisis left many of us skeptical about the ethics that drive financial decisions made around the world. The idea that you must sacrifice morality in order to make more money is nonsense, as Read More...
Social skills bring success and more money
This is a study that the technology-24 hour-screen-bound-nerd hoping to create the next Internet success should notice: Being able to read people’s emotions turns out to be an important trait if you want to succeed professionally. A new study conducted by German researchers looked at how well Read More...
Richard Branson: Why digital currencies will change the world
The Internet has transformed business beyond recognition. But we still use the same currencies we used a century ago. Digital currencies—like Bitcoins—are about to launch another digital revolution. Here’s what one Bitcoin investor, Sir Richard Branson, has to say ahead of the first The Read More...