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WEEE Recycling Is Not Just Good Business – It’s the Law

Eco-Office Gals

Since the 2007 Directive placed the responsibility for end life product disposal firmly on the shoulders of any company that manufactures, retails, otherwise distributes, stores or disposes of electrical or electronic equipment – failure to comply is creating devastating consequences for developing countries that accept black market e-waste.

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This Digital Nomad Couple Sold Everything to Travel the World in a Sailboat—Here’s What They’ve Learned About Life, Goal Setting and Relationships

Success

To the sailing community, she’s a 2007 Beneteau Oceanis 40 with a two-cabin layout. It is a lifestyle that comes with a high price, and I’m not really talking in terms of the money, because at the end of the day it’s just like living in a house or in an apartment; you’re going to have expenses,” Darsy says. Her name is Polar Seal.

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The U.S. Manufacturing Renaissance

Small Business Labs

  Higher costs in China, more expensive supply chains and growing U.S.   Key quote from their study press release : "Products that require less labor and are churned out in modest volumes, such as household appliances and construction equipment, are most likely to shift to U.S. .  The reasons? 

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Tim Rowe – Founder and CEO of CIC | Flexible Workspaces: Competing Globally

Allwork

It actually started showing up around, I think, 2006, 2007, somewhere like that. It’s about 80 robotics companies all in one building with all of the equipment that you would need to build robotics companies or robots. We often have volunteers working the bar, so that’s not really an expense. We have open bar.

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Q & A: What does “Fixed Costs” mean and why should they be as low.

The Small Business Blog

by Stefan Töpfer on Oct 25, 2007 I’m answering three questions here, emailed to me during last week, so excuse the long headline. Examples are rent, some employee costs, property taxes, telephone, heating and interest/bank expense. I will give examples and will let you fill in the rest for yourself. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Q & A: What are successful cost-cutting solutions in small.

The Small Business Blog

by Stefan Töpfer on Oct 18, 2007 How long is a string? 7 Comments » | Trackback | Share This 7 Responses to “ Q & A: What are successful cost-cutting solutions in small business? &# Liz Said on October 21st, 2007 at 3:03 pm Hi Stefan This is a great list. And I totally agree on not buying brand-new equipment.

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A Group Called Skeleton Staff (and more.)

Laughing all the Way to Work

We have to finish off any year-end expense reports and any other accounting that needs to be entered to close off 2007, and we have to do our regular work. 5, A publication of IAAP 2 Garcia, Maria, "Your Life.Simplified", Get Organized Now e-Newsletter (accessed December 30, 2007). 1 Resolutions and Reflection!

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