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Bruce Holland S 16 Week Leadership Development Course - Virtual Group - Business Specialists. People Development Irresistible Leadership In-house Program Features The major features of this program are: The Irresistible Leadership Process We have found that the best results are achieved by starting with a one-day workshop followed by short (half day) fortnightly modules.

Bruce Holland S 16 Week Leadership Development Course - Virtual Group - Business Specialists

This produces lasting results without killing the budget and the participants. Urban Design and Roadways. Brighton New Road was transformed into a place for people by Danish urban designer Jan Gehl.

Urban Design and Roadways

What might Long Street’s profile look like if we re-imagined it as a place for people rather than a road for cars? The recent motion to pedestrianise Long Street has generated a lot of interest and discussion. It is still just an idea, and it is up to us as citizens to talk about it, and to provide input into what form the street may take that will best serve the city. Little town reggio – Streetmix.

How to order online from your local corner shop. Surveys. Help OPAL scientists with valuable research, learn new skills, have fun Children taking part in the soil and earthworm survey OPAL is running surveys across England to learn more about the state of our environment, and we’d like everyone to get involved.

Surveys

Categories - PolicyPlay. Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship will cover acts of being an entrepreneur.

Categories - PolicyPlay

For the purpose of this blog, this will be defined as one who stimulates innovation through a start-up organization or within an established one by introducing new business processes, changing financial models, or revamping a full section producing transformation within the local, national or global economy. This may result in a new organization, improve a SME or a multinational conglomerate by the individual or group of individuals responding to a perceived opportunity. Social Justice A socially just society is one based upon the principles of equality of opportunity and solidarity; which pedagogy also maintains that a socially just society both understands and values human rights, as well as recognizing the dignity of every human being.

Ethical Finance Ethical finance is concerned with the social and environmental impacts of grants, investments and loans. Clean Tech Governance Urban Planning. A GLOBAL MOVEMENT TO DEFEND SEED FREEDOM. Categories - PolicyPlay. Informative eBook On Extreme Weather And Our Changing Climate. Fungi Could be the Death of Styrofoam Cups.

Photos via Ecovative Design For years now, coming into contact with polystyrene, or as it´s better know, Styrofoam, has been nearly unavoidable, despite the well-documented hazardous effects it has on the environment--namely, that it can´t easily be recycled nor does it biodegrade.

Fungi Could be the Death of Styrofoam Cups

Oh, and it´s petroleum based, too. As a result, far too much of the 35 million tons of the stuff produced yearly ends up floating in our oceans, lakes, and streams, or blowing like tumbleweed through our streets and parks, years and decades after it served its brief role as a disposable coffee cup or carrying case for your leftovers. According to the company´s Web site: Bioregional Website. Electricity Production Every time you turn on a light electricity flows from the source of production to your home, school or business.

Bioregional Website

Oberlin Municipal Light and Power System (OMLPS) is a community-owned, not-for-profit utility founded by Oberlin citizens in 1934 to provide our community with electricity. Although OMLPS has its own generating facility, most of the community’s electricity is produced outside of Oberlin. Electricity for Oberlin is generated using a mixture of energy sources.

In 2013 these include landfill gas (62%), coal (18%), hydroelectric (9%), wind (3%), solar (3%), nuclear (3%) and natural gas (2%) 1 . Drinking Water Whenever we turn the knob on a faucet or use a washing machine we are consuming water that ultimately comes from the west branch of the Black River. Watershed Oberlin is located within the Black River Watershed. Waste Water Weather Agriculture. Disease and death in America: A poor bill of health. What An Eco-Friendly Family Car Might Look Like In 2050. What's the Latest Development?

What An Eco-Friendly Family Car Might Look Like In 2050

For the next World Solar Challenge, scheduled for October 6-13 in Australia, students at the Netherlands' Eindhoven University of Technology are submitting as their entry what they're calling the world's first solar-powered family car. Named "Stella," it seats four people, contains intuitive driving features -- such as a steering wheel that expands and contracts depending on the car's speed -- and even has a trunk. More importantly, the car's solar cells "generate more electricity on average than the car uses and that means the surplus electricity can be returned to the power grid, thereby making the car 'energy-positive.'" What's the Big Idea? Climate Friendly Rice: The End of the Paddy Field? One of the biggest challenges of adapting to and mitigating climate change will be adjusting agriculture to the demands of a changing climate, feeding an expanding population, and finding a way to reduce climate impacts of key food crops.

Climate Friendly Rice: The End of the Paddy Field?

The following news item offers hope on all three fronts. Eco Business: Climate News Network: Less seed is needed for fewer, stronger plants. Achieving this with less fertilizer means saving greenhouse gases in production, and less irrigation also saves the amount of fuel needed for water pumps.In areas where arsenic in water is a problem – like Bangladesh – this new method reduces arsenic contamination in crops and soil.