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How people become critical of the very food that makes them secure
2015-10-06 13:05:29| Beef
The problem with food security is that once it reaches a certain level, people become critical of the very food that has made them secure. This is a luxury that is both wonderful and contemptible. Vet's Opinion read more
18 companies launched by former Cisco people
2015-10-06 05:28:44| Wireless - Topix.net
Numerous tech companies have been founded over the years by former Cisco big shots and lower-level employees, with many a venture capitalist no doubt attracted by these entrepreneurs' Cisco pedigrees. Some of the companies have gone on to be successful on their own, others were acquired, and others just failed.
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More people, less food climate change threatens food production
2015-10-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Era: The world population is likely to grow from the 6.9 billion recorded in 2010 to somewhere between 8 and 10.5 billion by 2050. The path of future population growth is uncertain and can be affected by critical development initiatives related to gender equity and access to health services, including reproductive healthcare. Whether future population growth follows the low, medium, or high variant will have important implications for society's ability to address the climate crisis. The pressing...
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Lack of electricity locks people in poverty low-carbon energy key
2015-10-02 15:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Steam billows from an energy plant in a stretch of Kenyas Great Rift Valley, about 180km north of the capital, Nairobi. But the white clouds rising from the tidy grid of pipes arent a sign of polluting greenhouse gas emissions contributing to climate change. They are a signal that the country of more than 44 million, where some 65% of the population does not have access to electricity, is one giant step closer to delivering clean, reliable, renewable power to its people. The first phase of the...
Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like Family
2015-10-02 03:42:05| Grocery - Topix.net
Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like Family by Bob Chapman & Raj Sisodia, Portfolio, 272 pages, $27.95, October 2015, ISBN 9781591847793 The great Israeli short story writer Edger Keret told The New York Times Book Review earlier this year that he tends "to avoid autobiographies and memoirs, since I tend to mistrust people who are telling a story they have such a great stake in." And I tend to feel the same way about books written by business leaders touting their own approach to, or accomplishments in, business.
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