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

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Jewel’s mental health organization: Inspiring Children Foundation In 2002, after many years of putting what she learned to action, Jewel co-founded the Inspiring Children Foundation , which provides mental health programming to youth whose financial circumstances are a barrier to access. Because, unless my behavior changed, it didn’t matter.

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Green Gift Giving: Soda Stream Review & Giveaway!

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Globally, 206 billion liters of bottled water were consumed in 2008 (Zenith International Global Bottled Water Report, 2008). The energy required to make water bottles in the US only, is equivalent to 17 million barrels of oil (Container Recycling Institute, 2002). Blog about this giveaway and link back to this post.

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If You Think You’re Unbiased, You’re Wrong

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in 2020, according to the “Missing Pieces Report” by Deloitte and the Alliance for Board Diversity. I want them to have an equal chance to run a company like Intel one day,” he told a reporter from Bloomberg Business. We need to stop thinking about diversity programs in the workplace as a form of affirmative action.

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Lab rats – how the UK life sciences sector is struggling to find space to work

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According to a report earlier this year from property analyst Bidwells, there is pretty much no space left in Oxford or Cambridge for life science businesses to move into. It is estimated that two-thirds of all life sciences startups in Europe are formed in the UK.

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What Is Happiness and Why Is It Important?

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in his 2002 best-selling book, Authentic Happiness. People with high self-reported levels of happiness (known in the research world as subjective well-being, or SWB) have been shown to weigh less and have lower blood pressures and incidences of cancer. It’s also why married people tend to be happier overall than their single friends.

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