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How policy and cost savings are helping to drive the uptake of low-energy, retrofit LED Lamps

Eco-Office Gals

A phase-out of lamps started in 2009 and will. continue until 2016 to include not only consumer products but also those used in highway, office and industrial lighting applications. Post from: Eco-Office Gals How policy and cost savings are helping to drive the uptake of low-energy, retrofit LED Lamps. photo by: jurvetson.

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IBM Cuts Telecommuting and the Paradox of Place

Small Business Labs

.  While most of the coverage of this is focused on IBM's marketing department, the new policy is going to be extended to other departments at IBM.  And by 2009, when remote work was still, for most, a novelty, 40% of IBM’s 386,000 global employees already worked at home. In 2016, 31% were found to be doing the same.

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

Ideas.Ted

Gore may not have gotten the policy response he wanted, but the film jump-started a national conversation about our role in global warming. . Long-standing inequalities often distort environmental politics and policies in the US. Cooked: Survival by Zip Code , 2019, directed by Judith Helfand.

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