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Make Your Office Green and Clean for 2014

Eco-Office Gals

This sounds patronising, however throughout my years of working in an office, experience has shown me that many employees do not follow this simple rule and end up printing hundreds of documents that just get wasted. Green Office Week has raised awareness with thousands of businesses across the country since it was established in 2009.

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If You Were Dying… Would Gratitude Be Your First Thought?

Success

I cleaned up trails at Addison State Park in central Vermont just for her,” Drew Johnson wrote. “I In 2009, a month after being told that her stage four pancreatic cancer had metastasized to the liver, limiting her lifespan to just weeks or even mere days, Joan Lewis felt well enough to cross off bucket-list items.

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Top 10 Small Business Trends for 2014

Small Business Labs

To see earlier lists, click on the year: 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 , 2008. Income Inequality:  Income inequality is a big issue that will become bigger in 2014. Boomer/Millennial Business Partnerships:  Growing numbers of baby boomers and millennials are teaming up to start and run small businesses. 

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Brands Built on the Tailgate Economy

Success

The company was founded in 2009 by Parker Duffey and Michael Otwell. Connor and Christa Hitchcock came up with a solution to that and turned it into the wildly successful clothing company Homefield Apparel. Like most entrepreneurs, the Seiders came up with their idea because they were frustrated by the available options.

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12 documentaries and series that will give you an up-close look at climate change — and some solutions

Ideas.Ted

Years of Living Dangerously , 2014, directed by Joel Bach. The Merchants of Doubt , 2014, directed by Robert Kenner. Reminiscent of Annie Leonard’s satirically whiteboarded Story of Stuff (2009), Raworth’s recorded talk presents an inspiring, and entirely plausible, solution. . Doughnut Economics , 2018, directed by TED.

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Women, Seniors Leading Self-Employment Growth in UK & Canada

Small Business Labs

This is up from 13% in 2008, and 8.7% About 886,000 people who were self-employed in 2009 had left by 2014, compared with 1.3 million who were self-employed in 2004 leaving by 2009."   Their data shows the UK has 4.6 million people working for themselves, with 15% of workforce self-employed.

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Patrice Washington Is Redefining Wealth By Scaling Joy

Success

I was supposed to be there for 60 days and ended up staying for two-and-a-half years,” Washington says. “It I grew up feeling very ugly and insecure,” she says. “I I learned to adopt a new definition of forgiveness, which is giving up the possibility of a better past,” she says. It was an amazing experience.”. Redefining Wealth.

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