5 Tips for Balancing A Career and Caregiving
An estimated 34 million Americans provide unpaid care to adults age 50 or older every year, according to the National Alliance for Caregiving and AARP, and that number is rapidly growing. More than half of those caregivers feel they have to make compromises at work to care for their aging parents, according to a new […]
New Research Shows Big Opportunities for Small Businesses
Today’s technology has changed the shopping experience. While many of us still enjoy trying on clothes at our favorite department store, we also relish the ability to buy specific and unique items through an e-commerce app, or research product details via our smartphone. The changing nature of retail has opened tremendous opportunities for small businesses […]
How One Furniture Manufacturer Goes ‘Beyond Sustainability’
It’s no surprise that more companies are paying attention to their impact on their environment. However, some stand out by going beyond reducing their carbon footprints, to cultivating socially conscious corporate cultures in which making a positive impact is as important as making a profit. Humanscale, a leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance […]
Automated Containers Make Organic Urban Farming Feasible
The future of agriculture can be found in commercial containers, in which plants can be grown hydroponically. Hydroponic farming has many benefits, including saving the resources involved in soil cultivation and avoiding the uncertainty of weather conditions, according to Seedo, an innovator in the field of commercial growth containers. Approximately 40 percent of the costs […]
Carrageenan: Sustainability From Farm to Table
Over 200,000 tons of dried, farmed, tropical seaweed are produced every year. The majority of the world’s red seaweed is farmed by nearly 60,000 family farmers in Africa, the Philippines and Indonesia. These families apply sustainable farming techniques that help to protect and preserve the habitats where they farm. Seaweed farming is one of the […]
Surety Bonds Protect Infrastructure Investment
Almost universal agreement surrounds the need to repair or replace America’s aging infrastructure of roads, highways, bridges, dams, drinking and wastewater facilities, ports, airports and other essential facilities that ensure the quality of living that Americans expect. Finding consensus on addressing the question of how to pay for the massive investment needed to fix the […]
New Car Technology May Take The Wheel out of Human Hands
Google has been making news in recent months for its work in a ground-breaking area: driverless automobile technology. A prototype of Google’s new self-driving car — a two-passenger electric vehicle with buttons to turn the vehicle on and off, but no steering wheel, accelerator pedal or brake pedal — was unveiled in May. Without a […]