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Never Broken: How Singer-Songwriter Jewel Became a Mental Health Advocate

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It’s hard to imagine Jewel—full name Jewel Kilcher—wrote it when she was just 17, two years after leaving an unstable home environment, moving into her own cabin and then leaving Alaska to study operatic voice at Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan. How do I have agency? After school, she moved to San Diego.

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How Eco-Friendly is your Furniture?

Eco-Office Gals

In the simplest possible terms, eco-friendly furniture is furniture that is created in a manner that has minimum negative impact on the environment. For example, where wood is used, it has to come from renewable sources, and any chemicals used in the process do not pollute or otherwise harm the environment.

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The Common Mistakes Futurists Make

Small Business Labs

This term was coined in the late 1990's and in the 2002-2005 time frame it was a very hot trend. But changing the way houses are built requires an enormous amount of change by a whole lot of people - from builders to suppliers to government agencies to house buyers. Overestimating the near term impact of new technologies.

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