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Steve Jobs: This one question can help you accomplish anything
Steve Jobs didn’t attain success just by telling the people around him what to do. His success lies rather in a simple question he was willing to ask others. While this sentence is one you might not expect from Steve Jobs, it’s one all of us can and should say if we want to achieve our Read More...
Audi smart home battery grid creates a 'virtual power plant'
Audi isn't going to let rival automakers like BMW and Tesla corner the market on home batteries. The German badge is testing a Smart Energy Network where solar-powered batteries not only help your home minimize use of the electrical grid, but talk to each other. The result is, as Audi put it, a Read More...
This time-lapse mural shows how artists can help communities heal
Immediately following the devastation from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, recovery priorities included restoring communities’ access to food, power, and clean water, along with helping people dig out from the rubble. But as basic needs are met in parts of the territory, there’s also a need to Read More...
How to talk: 8 tips for doing it right
Yes, you know how to talk. This is about talking in a productive way, especially in those emotional conversations that come up in our intimate relationships. Here’s a list of tips to help keep your conversations on track and out of the emotional Read More...
What Facebook can learn from Kierkegaard about making authentic choices
Søren Kierkegaard, one of the fathers of existentialism, argued that it is the act of making choices that brings meaning to our lives; that through making choices, we live authentically, forming our own opinions, rather than being guided by the opinions of others or society as a whole. For Read More...
The secret to wealth and prosperity for any society
Poverty is a complex equation. But if current policies and cultural trends continue, the good news is that the reproductive empowerment factor is changing, and not just in Cascadia. According to Pew Research Center projections based on recent trend lines, by 2060, American women from four major Read More...
The key to retaining employees is to involve them in social causes
If you’re a business owner, listen up. A recent study found the best way to hold onto employees is to get them involved in social causes. Not only does it help to retain employees, but it also helps to attract employees, with 55 percent of respondents in a study saying that a company’s support Read More...
The case for imposing a tax on junk food in America
Taxes have been an effective approach to curbing the consumption of tobacco, alcohol, and soda in America. Why wouldn't a tax on junk food work as well? A junk food tax—on “non-essential” foods like candy and potato chips—has been shown to work in Hungary and Mexico. In fact, people in Read More...
This supermarket chain is going ‘plastic-free’ on all its own brand products
What we really need to tackle our plastic problem is for companies and governments to stop using plastics altogether when it isn’t necessary. The supermarket chain Iceland is showing that it’s possible to phase out the use of plastics completely after committing to eliminating plastic packaging Read More...
The EU is aiming to make all plastic packaging recyclable by 2030
Europeans produce 25 million tons of plastic waste annually and recycle less than 30 percent of it. This is a wildly unsustainable habit, one that will be targeted under a new policy declared by European Union regulators this week. Under the new policy, all plastic packaging on the EU market must Read More...