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Google Boulder’s Gift to NCWIT

Feld Thoughts

The head of Google Boulder (I think his official title in Googlespeak is “Engineering Site Director”) is Scott Green. I’ve known Scott since shortly after I moved to Boulder in 1995. As of a few weeks ago, NCWIT now has a great long-term home in an older Google office on 26th Street in Boulder off of the CU Campus.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I wondered what it would be like if the companies that purchased the coffee paid fair wages for the product and engaged in the developmental issues of importance in those communities. Greene, Land Carroll & Blair PC ! #20 Floralux is what makes our Restore Gel green. Could a company do that and still be profitable.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

2- Worked closely with our most active community members. We worked extremely closely with our most active community members to name Commaful. A name that our community helped choose and really reflects the people who use the site today! When I was focusing more on just the green part, I used Green And Profitable.

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Smells Like Money: The Business of Waste Management

Up and Running

” When Keith and Cheryl decided to branch out on their own in 1995, it was an exciting time. The movement continues, with more conscientious consumers taking note of a company’s carbon footprint, and supporting brands that exhibit a concerted effort to “being green.” is still recycled.

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These are the British Businesses Adopting Green and Sustainable Practices

The Startup Magazine

It appears as though consumer demand is motivating businesses to become more sustainable which is reinforced by government green tax breaks for energy-efficient SMEs. www.arcolatheatre.com/about/green. This was the start of the Green Arcola project, which began in 2007, that today has become a whole new enterprise of its own.

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

alexpoole.info

An argument has been raging for decades within the scientific and typographic communities on what seems a very insignificant issue: Do serifs contribute to the legibility of typefaces, and by definition, are sans serif typefaces less legible? 1995 ; De Lange et al., 1995 , Reynolds, 1979 ). Introduction. 2001 ; Tullis et al.,

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Out of the Crisis #16: Robert Schooley on why we weren't prepared, long-term thinking, and how to make decisions for the greater good.

Startup Lessons Learned

We have a large number of American citizens, American green card holders who have gotten sick in Mexico and are coming back to the US for care. And I was training in East Baltimore at the time and most of my patients were intercity members of the Baltimore community. We continue to see quite a few cases here in San Diego County.