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How Churchill Northern Studies Centre Is Bringing Food Sovereignty to the Arctic North

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It’s an innovative project known as Rocket Greens , spearheaded by the Churchill Northern Studies Centre (CNSC). The center comprises various departments that facilitate this mission by offering subsidized lodging, research laboratories, equipment and technical assistance to those seeking to conduct studies in the region. “We

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New lighting guide updated to embrace era of hybrid working

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There have been considerable developments since the previous edition, published in 2015. The guidance encourages the re-use of equipment where possible. The SLL have also produced TM66: Creating a circular economy in the lighting industry, which provides more detailed information on reusing existing equipment.

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One way to create cooler, cleaner megacities: Plant rooftop gardens!

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Green areas comprise less than four percent of the total urban built area, and recent construction projects have resulted in the destruction of tens of acres of the city’s already-sparse green space. From 2015 to 2017, Egypt borrowed $1.03 billion from China to finance infrastructure projects.

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Pauline Roussel CEO at Coworkies and Co-author of “Around The World in 250 Coworking Spaces” | Driving Collaboration: How Coworking Spaces Foster Connections in Work Communities

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So it was people who were kind of like coming into a room to work on side projects that were mainly tech related. And at the time in Berlin 2015, as I said, there were plenty of other spaces that were targeting very different audiences, like freelancers musicians or even parents. So that was what was called hacker spaces.

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24/7 darkness, polar bears and ice everywhere: 8 striking photos of Arctic researchers at work

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In 2015, for her first Arctic assignment, Horvath joined the crew of the US Coa st Guard icebreaker ship , pictured above, to document the team’s launch of the Puma drone, a surveillance tool that uses an electro-optical and infrared camera to chart the land area and measure data from events like oil spills.

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From the archive: The role of workplace design in employee engagement

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The vast majority of workers report that they are equipped with landline telephones (86 percent) and desktop computers (80 percent). Despite the high global adoption of mobile devices for personal use, the vast majority of respondents report that their organisations provide twice as much fixed technology as mobile options for work.

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Tim Leberecht of The House of Beautiful Business | Making Business More Human

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Tim is the author of the book The Business Romantic (HarperCollins, 2015), which has been translated into nine languages to date. Maybe it’s all, you know, Hollywood style projects of gig workers. million times to date. 00:01:35:14 – 00:01:53:25. Tim Leberecht. 00:01:54:08 – 00:02:15:09. Tim Leberecht. Jo Meunier.

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