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New Consumer Bill of Rights The original work done by John F. Kennedy on the Consumer Bill of Rights was a towering achievement and it was never our intent to start from scratch. In fact, it was our intent to change the original as little as possible while still expanding and updating the rights. Golisano Institute of Sustainability Industry Outreach Industrial Training GIS offers education and training programs to industry that: Enable companies to incorporate proven sustainable production practices in their operations Answer today's most pressing business and technology questions regarding sustainable production Increase employee confidence Teach employees and organizations vital new sustainable production skills Manual Rainmeter displays customizable skins, like memory and battery charge, RSS feeds and weather forecasts, right on your desktop. Many skins are even functional: they can record your notes and to-do lists, launch your favorite applications, and control your media player - all in a clean, unobtrusive interface that you can rearrange and customize to your liking. Rainmeter is at once an application and a toolkit. You are limited only by your imagination and creativity. Getting started with Rainmeter

Temple SmallBizU The Temple University Small Business Development Center provides exceptional training opportunities for start-up and existing business owners. Take advantage of the free or nominally priced educational programs. Classes are available in the following areas: Business PlanningBusiness OperationsHuman resourcesAccounting, FinanceTaxesMarketingSalesLegal Issues There are also excellent training opportunities in international trade, environmental, government procurement and technology commercialization. Our two featured series are our Entrepreneurial Success Workshop and Construction Management Certificate program.

Environment "I want Chicago to be the greenest city in the world, and I am committed to fostering opportunities for Chicagoans to make sustainability a part of their lives and their experience in the city." -- Mayor Emanuel The City of Chicago is a leader of innovative environmental initiatives, and sustainability is a key focus of Chicago’s policies. From the Chicago Climate Action Plan's broad leadership to the City's targeted energy efficiency investments, Chicago is integrating sustainability in the places residents work, live, learn, and play while preparing for a resilient future. Acids and Bases: Kitchen Chemistry Different types of substances can combine in many different ways. Some substances react chemically with one another when they come into contact, recombining to form other substances. Two classes of substances that combine readily, and sometimes violently, are acids and bases. To understand the chemical behavior of acids and bases, we have to begin with water. Water molecules consist of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom (HOH). In liquid water, some of these molecules come apart to form two kinds of ions: positive hydrogen ions (H+) and negative hydroxide ions (OH-).

Darden Speaker Series This series features speakers who have visited Darden as part of the Darden Distinguished Speaker Series (DDSS), the Darden Leandership Forum (DLF), and the 50th Anniversary Speaker Series. The speaker series brings top-level corporate, government, and industry leaders to Darden to discuss current business issues and trends, and their individual leadership philosophy. These guest speakers represent a variety of experiences, industries and geographical regions, but all share a similar commitment to the core values consistent with the Darden mission: to better society by developing leaders in the world of practical affairs. Untitled Document We are Students for Ecological and Environmental Development at Northwestern University, and we promote advocacy, education and service on campus, around Chicago, and across the globe. Please use the menubar to browse links to learn more about SEED, our events and other resources. No matter what your interests, if you want to learn more about SEED, meet other friendly and passionate students or get involved please come to our general meetings on Tuesdays at 9pm in the Arch Room at Norris. You can also look for other events on our calendar below or email us with questions or to request a meeting. Always feel free to contact us at nuseed@gmail.com, and you can reach out to any individual exec member by finding their email on the leadership team page.

Yellow Drum Machine Audiofile Engineering asked me to make a robot like this for them, to be won in a promotional contest. Yellow Drum Machine II is done now, and it can be found here. .. There is always more fun to do with this robot, but for now I will just mark it "complete" in the current version, hope you enjoy it. Notice how the robot first plays on the object it finds (or is forced to find by the angry cameraman), plays a small beat, and records the beat it plays on it. COMMON Watch as Alex Bogusky, Rob Schuham and John Bielenberg present COMMON, and follow along with the deck below (Download PDF). We’re confident that benefiting people, communities, society, the environment and future generations is the new advantage in business. We’re launching the COMMON brand in support of this transition from competitive advantage to collaborative advantage. COMMON is one part community; one part business prototyper; and one part collaborative brand. A living network of creative people rapidly prototyping dozens or hundreds of progressive businesses designed to solve social problems.

Environmental Information Exchange Network & Grant Program The Environmental Information Exchange Network (or Exchange Network) is an Internet-based system used to exchange environmental and health data among EPA, states, tribes and territories, and other partners. The Exchange Network allows EPA and its partners to communicate with each other across the Internet. Partners can send and receive environmental data using Nodes. EPA’s Node on the Exchange Network is called the Central Data Exchange. Rainmeter, desktop customization tool Rainmeter includes tools that make it easier to share skins that you have created with other users. This page describes how to use the Skin Packager feature, and offers some guidelines for publishing a new skin in a public gallery, such as deviantArt or Customize.org. Skin Packager The Skin Packager is used to create a "package" file that contains all of the files needed to install a skin in Rainmeter. To launch the Skin Packager, open the Manage window and click the button labeled Create .rmskin package... in the bottom-left.

National Funding Assistance Program: Grants & Funding Working Together for Cleaner Air FY 2013 Request For Proposals (Closed) This funding opportunity is now closed. EPA announced a $9 million funding opportunity for the National Clean Diesel Funding Assistance Program on May 9, 2013, and accepted proposals through June 25, 2013. EPA anticipates that evaluations and selections will be completed by August 31, 2013, at which time applicants will be notified of their status. Supporting Information for RFP