Solar maps are becoming an increasingly useful – and more widely used – tool for solar system installers, city planners and building managers alike. A quality solar map can help determine payback periods, development locations and system scales. These, and many other reasons, made the environmental engineers at UCSD catch our eye. They’ve developed aRead… Read more »
Last week I heard a news story on the radio about how telecommuting was hurting people’s pocketbooks because they didn’t stop to think about the added expenses to forgo the drive into work. One woman living in Atlanta had an old inefficient furnace in her home, and if she was out of the house atRead… Read more »
When I was CEO, the senior staff would refer to my role as ‘sitting in the big chair’ – I find this is a warm and respectful way to refer to the leader of the organization, and continue to enjoy using it even today. Through many, many conversations with top leaders of all kinds andRead… Read more »
Mentoring Learning Community Focus Group Strategic Partners would like to invite you to participate in a new Focus Group for the purpose of structuring the 2011-2012 Mentoring Learning Community which discusses best practices related to invigorating, designing, and managing successful mentoring programs. Invitation to 2011 Mentoring Learning Community Focus Group As you know, Strategic PartnersRead… Read more »
Gadi Ben-Yehuda Baltimore Mayor Rawlings-Blake created an open data initiative for Baltimore City: http://data.baltimorecity.gov/. Already, the most widely accessed feeds are Real Property Taxes, Parking Citations, and 311 Customer Service Requests – an interesting datum in itself. On a related note. . . Federal Computer Week cites “An Open Government Implementation Model: Moving to IncreasedRead… Read more »
A Survey of Course Content Authoring Tools is being conducted by Lachlan Blackhall from the Educational Development Group, College of Engineering & Computer Science at the Australian National University. This is to see which would be suitable for engineering and computer science courses. Lachlan would like to get input from beyond the ANU and educatorsRead… Read more »
The Career Dropout Movement: Career Dropout is a cultural movement for fearless individuals who’ve amassed dreams and passions beyond their 9-to-5 jobs. This movement is inspiring, liberating and creative, because so many people have suppressed their dreams in the name of conformity, stability, expectation, and financial gain; usually based on their pursuits of career attainment,Read… Read more »
The Career Dropout Movement: Career Dropout is a cultural movement for fearless individuals who’ve amassed dreams and passions beyond their 9-to-5 jobs. This movement is inspiring, liberating and creative, because so many people have suppressed their dreams in the name of conformity, stability, expectation, and financial gain; usually based on their pursuits of career attainment,Read… Read more »
If you were like me, on January 25 you sat glued to your television for over an hour watching President Barack Obama deliver his second state of the union (SOTU) address. What is abundantly clear after hearing his address is that it will take more than ideological compromises in Congress to win the future forRead… Read more »
Daniel W. Yohannes is the CEO of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), a U.S. foreign aid agency that works to promote poverty reduction in developing countries through economic growth. Prior to this role, Yohannes worked in banking and economic development for more than thirty years. A native of Ethiopia, Yohannes is also an active philanthropistRead… Read more »