A report from Public/Private Ventures, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and creating programs in low-income communities, shows the immensely positive impact of job training programs on unemployed and low-skilled workers. According to the report, these programs that are developed in collaboration with specific industries such as health care, accounting and even computer maintenance are [...]
Filed under: Community, Expertise, News, Philanthropy on August 3rd, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: Business, charity, Community, infrastructure, jobs, opportunity, philanthropy
For the semi-arid country of Israel, the availability of fresh water has long been an issue. However, with the opening of the country’s third desalination plant, a greater abundance of fresh water may soon be available.
This desalination plant, operating in the northern city of Hadera, is being celebrated as the largest reverse osmosis facility of [...]
Filed under: News, Technology on July 5th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: Community, infrastructure, innovation, Technology
There was never more need for the mega-wealthy to respond to Bill and Melinda Gates’ call to give up a huge chunk of their assets for charity than now. According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, at least forty-five states have imposed cuts in major service areas, which depend on the government for [...]
Filed under: News, Philanthropy on June 29th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: Community, funding, infrastructure, philanthropy
In line with Abu Dhabi’s goal to reach 7 percent renewable energy power generation capacity within the next 10 years, Masdar Abu Dhabi has partnered with the bid consortium of Total S.A., the French petroleum goliath, and Abengoa Solar, a Spanish multinational corporation specializing in sustainable energy development.
Together, Masdar, Total and Abengoa Solar will [...]
Filed under: Environment, News on June 22nd, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: clean energy, Environment, infrastructure, innovation
As clean technology finds success in the commercial and industrial sectors, green implements are also finding their way closer and closer to home. In order to satisfy the growing demand for green urban architecture in particular, Israeli-Greek architect, Elias Messinas, is organizing a sustainable building workshop for Palestinian and Israeli architecture students.
Inspired by the late [...]
Filed under: Environment, News on June 18th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: Environment, infrastructure, israel, sustainability
This is what author and founder of Maggie’s cancer centers suggests in his freshly published book, Architecture of Hope. Categorized as an architectural book, the idea of architecture for health dawned upon Charles Jencks when his now-deceased wife, Maggie, was diagnosed with metastasized breast cancer. Dismayed at the environment that she had to spend much [...]
Filed under: Arts & Culture, Healthcare, News on May 14th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: healthcare, infrastructure
This week, a business coalition formed by AT&T and the Henry Ford Community College announced the creation of the Michigan Alliance for High-Tech Skills Training, an industry-led job retraining program that will be available to displaced workers and interested students in Michigan this year.
Henry Ford Community College will design a curriculum to develop core competencies [...]
Filed under: News on February 12th, 2010 @ 8:00 am
Tagged with: Business, economy, efficiency, funding, government, infrastructure, jobs, markets
Time To Know is an enigmatic Israeli startup that has somehow managed to remain under the radar of Israel’s tight knit startup community. What makes this little-known company so amazing is not just the daunting challenge it has chosen to meet, but that it has quietly ramped up 350 employees and no less than $60 [...]
Filed under: News on February 3rd, 2010 @ 8:00 am
Tagged with: Business, economy, entrepreneur, growth, infrastructure, innovation, research, Technology
As we attempt to curb our reliance on fossil fuels and move towards energy independence, I’m constantly on the lookout for new innovations in green technology that can open new opportunities, both for their environmental benefits and investment potential. So while the idea of offshore wind farms is nothing new, I was intrigued by the [...]
Filed under: Environment, News, Technology on September 9th, 2009 @ 3:37 pm
Tagged with: clean energy, energy, Green, Green Tech, green technology, Hywind, infrastructure, innovation, innovative, investing, investment, manufacturers, offshore, oil, opportunities, opportunity, success, Technology, turbine, wind farm
This Sunday’s landslide victory for the Democratic Party of Japan marked the first change in party power in half a century. Having watched as Barack Obama took the 2008 United States presidential election using change as the foundation of his campaign, this election paints a clear picture of what the Japanese people want: CHANGE.
The Democratic [...]
Filed under: News on September 1st, 2009 @ 11:21 am
Tagged with: Diet, DPJ, government, green technology, growth, infrastructure, Japan, LDP, leadership, lost decade, stimulus
Chemotherapy has been proven an effective treatment for cancer.
A new species of microbe is flourishing in the depths of the Gulf of Mexico.