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X Misconceptions Related To Employee Time Tracking

Feel you are reaching out to a forest of abyss? Work seems endless? Keeping track of others worse.

CIBC Aventura card awards you for eating local

A Canadian bank has offered benefits for shopping local. With restrictions on restaurants beginning to ease across Canada, the CIBC bank is launching a new program to support business owners and help them bring back customers.

A $100 million USD fund unites Arab Gulf and Israel

A new fund is launched to create peace and hopefully cleantech investments between the Gulf and Israel.

Investing in green bonds with RE Royalties and Peter Leighton

How fast countries support businesses and award tenders for solar power plants and wind turbines depends not only on governments but the corporate funding mechanisms in place and the people who want to support green energy.

How banks are burning the Amazon

The list of banks supporting damaging practices to the Amazon include Banco do Brasil, Rabobank, and JPMorgan Chase.

3 Options for Protecting Your Business During the Pandemic

If you own a small business, there’s a good chance that you’ve had to navigate uncharted waters for a considerable portion of the past...

How To Set Up Your Small Business With Sustainability In Mind

Keeping your business sustainable is crucial as a green company. Fortunately, in 2020, it is becoming easier than ever.

10 Steps to creating an e-commerce

Let's say you wanted to set up an online business to do something good for our planet. Like solar panels for every home and building. HOw do you start? Here are some tips.

Invoicing to Insights: Where to Start With a New Business

There’s so much to consider when setting up a new business. Writing business plans, acquiring property and securing your licenses and permits are likely...

Cloud storage is revolutionizing the gaming and business world

Cloud computing is a recent phenomenon, but it is one that is taking the current digital world by storm. It is a form of...

Mega-mergers may move in during vulnerable times

Farmer Vernon Hugh Bowman took Monsanto to court and lost. Mergers between companies like Dow-Dupant, Monsanto-Bayer are frightening to market transparency and democracy, and to stakeholders like farmers.

10 Financial Advantages of Being an Eco-Friendly Business

10 Financial Advantages of Being an Eco-Friendly Business from Liventia

The Best Ways to Keep Your Employees Focused and Productive in 2020

It seems counter-productive, but getting your employees on a retreat in nature, forest bathing, meditating, silent retreats... they return happier and more productive, we mean doing more in less time, in a more positive workplace.

How You Can Improve the Functionality of Your Business

Your eco agenda aside - running a business means grappling with the same ordinary things as any business.

Tech investors read this: you can speculate on digital risks for 2020

At a time of regulatory and geopolitical uncertainty, investors should look for tech companies that understand how human rights standards build trust. This new report points the way.

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Climate change traced in sea turtle shells

It's sea turtles which may in the end save islands in the Seychelles. They may also better help us understand climate change. Like rings on a tree, scientists have found a way to read sea turtle shells and how they are impacted by climate change tells a story. 

Sámi shaman drums: why owning one could get you killed in Scandinavia

For centuries, the Sámi shaman drum was one of the most powerful sacred objects in northern Europe, and one of the most feared by church and state. If ISIS looks bad to us today for its religious fundamentalism, Christians were just as fervent. 

Flying the friendly skies… but can we get out in 90 seconds?

In a real emergency, romance takes a back seat to physics, panic, and how fast 150 people can squeeze through a narrow tube. The Federal Aviation Administration says every aircraft must be evacuated within 90 seconds. That’s the gold standard. But new research suggests that in the real world,  especially as we age, that number might be more aspirational than achievable.

Most of the world’s marine protected areas are polluted by sewage

Research from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the University of Queensland, published in Ocean & Coastal Management, found that nearly three out of four marine protected areas (MPAs) worldwide are exposed to sewage pollution.

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Saving Gourmet Wild Plants For The Future

Think of truffles, a gourmet wild food. The European...

Climate change traced in sea turtle shells

It's sea turtles which may in the end save islands in the Seychelles. They may also better help us understand climate change. Like rings on a tree, scientists have found a way to read sea turtle shells and how they are impacted by climate change tells a story. 

Sámi shaman drums: why owning one could get you killed in Scandinavia

For centuries, the Sámi shaman drum was one of the most powerful sacred objects in northern Europe, and one of the most feared by church and state. If ISIS looks bad to us today for its religious fundamentalism, Christians were just as fervent. 

Flying the friendly skies… but can we get out in 90 seconds?

In a real emergency, romance takes a back seat to physics, panic, and how fast 150 people can squeeze through a narrow tube. The Federal Aviation Administration says every aircraft must be evacuated within 90 seconds. That’s the gold standard. But new research suggests that in the real world,  especially as we age, that number might be more aspirational than achievable.

Most of the world’s marine protected areas are polluted by sewage

Research from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the University of Queensland, published in Ocean & Coastal Management, found that nearly three out of four marine protected areas (MPAs) worldwide are exposed to sewage pollution.

Adamah in Los Angeles wants to make Jewish climate action local, practical and spiritual

At a time when climate anxiety can feel abstract and overwhelming, and being Jewish something people may need to hide in big cities, Adamah Los Angeles is trying something different: turning Jewish values into local climate action with dirt-under-the-fingernails practicality.

How to safely remove astroturf and plastics from your backyard

For families with kids, pets, or anyone trying to build a cleaner outdoor space, removing old astroturf is one of the simplest ways to reduce unnecessary exposure to plastics and heat. Some past studies suggest that if kids have played on these surfaces you need to wash their hands. 

Is artificial turf bad for your health?

Artificial turf, the green plastic stuff that is supposed to look like grass, was sold to many home-owners as a clever compromise: a green-looking surface that makes you feel homey, but which needs no mowing. It survives heavy use, and in dry places like Middle East deserts, and in California or Texas, it can replace thirsty lawns. But it is toxic.
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