It sounds like a high-school science fair project: How can you use graphite cloth, chicken wire and soil to create a battery? But it’s actually a high-stakes enterprise led by a Harvard engineering team with a very serious goal: creating a new source of power for the more than 500 million people in sub-Saharan Africa [...]
Twelve years ago, Susanne Wiigh-Mäsak was working in her greenhouse in the serene Swedish countryside when a morbid thought popped into her head. As she looked at her plants, her mind turned to death, specifically what happens after living things die. Plants become soil, but people? We either rot or get turned into ashes. “Soil [...]
Consultants can help entrepreneurs with business challenges that are beyond their areas of expertise. However, finding the right expert is critical for success.
Every entrepreneur has situations when business challenges are beyond her areas of expertise or that of employees. One option is to dive into an issue and work through it which can be a [...]
In this July 2, 2009 photo, Nathaniel “Ned” Solon talks on the phone-intercom at the Logan County Detention Center in Sterling, Colo. Solon admits he used the program to download video games and adult porn _ but not child porn. So what could explain that material? (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)
AP Technology Writer
SAN FRANCISCO — Of all [...]
Davis Vision of Latham received the 2009 Works for Me Large Business Award in recognition of its record of hiring people with developmental disabilities. The award, sponsored by the state Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, was presented during a ceremony in New York City.
“OMRDD views employment of people with developmental disabilities as a [...]
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