How greener schoolyards benefit kids — and the whole community

The spotlight When Lois Brink’s kids were in elementary school, she remembers being struck by how uninviting their schoolyard was. She described it as “scorched earth” — little more than a dirt field coated in “I don’t know how many decades of weed retardant” and some aging play equipment. But Brink, a landscape architect and

BTC block reward miners drowning in red ink as chasing the green gets harder

BTC block reward miners must be rethinking their business models because their current model no longer makes economic sense. The Core Scientific mining operation’s Q2 figures showed a net loss of $805 million in the three months ending June 30. While most of that red ink was a non-cash adjustment related to its recovery from

Video of Eric Schmidt blaming remote work for Google’s woes mysteriously vanishes

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who has since moved on to greener and perhaps more dangerous pastures, told an audience of Stanford students recently that “Google decided that work-life balance and going home early and working from home was more important than winning.” Evidently this hot take was not for wider consumption, as Stanford —

Hospitality America Focusing on Mentorship to Attract, Retain Hotel Employees and Cultivate Future Leaders

Greenville, S.C., August 13, 2024 — Employee turnover is a reality for the hospitality industry. Annual turnover is estimated to be between 70 to 80 percent, with analysts citing low wages, long hours, and a lack of career growth opportunities as contributing factors. For hotel management company Hospitality America, the solution to this ongoing problem

The West needs China for clean energy. It will pay a price to break free

London CNN  —  The United States and Europe are racing to narrow China’s commanding lead in clean energy technologies, throwing subsidies at local manufacturers and hiking tariffs on Chinese imports in a strikingly protectionist turn. China’s dominance in clean energy supply chains presents a conundrum for governments trying to green their economies and meet fast-approaching

Packers’ AJ Dillon Responds to Social Media Critics: ‘You Can’t Do What We’re Doing’

Doric SamAugust 13, 2024 Patrick McDermott/Getty Images Green Bay Packers running back AJ Dillon received a wave of criticism for his lackluster performance in Saturday’s preseason opener against the Cleveland Browns, but he’s responding to those who had negative things to say. “In all honesty, if you don’t live inside my house your opinion, to

Green light for retro tax sends a shockwave across mining and metals companies

Copyright © HT Digital Streams Limited All Rights Reserved. News The first to take the hit will be miners in states such as Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh. Summary The Supreme Court allowed states to tax them from as far back as 2005, in a lightning bolt for companies that could

A Miracle! Rice Growth Cycle Cut to 75 Days in Desert

Chinese scientists have successfully developed fast breeding rice in desert greenhouses in Hotan Prefecture, Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, for the first time under the trial period, making the rice grow from planting to harvest in just 75 days. Traditionally, rice has a growth cycle of over 120 days. The tech reduces the rice’s

Partners to transform Norwegian Risavika into green ammonia hub

Home Clean Fuel Partners to transform Norwegian Risavika into green ammonia hub August 14, 2024, by Aida Čučuk Iverson eFuels, Stavangerregionen Havn (Port of Stavanger), ASCO Norge and St1 have signed a partnership agreement to make green ammonia available in the Stavanger region of Norway and to position the Port of Stavanger as a bunkering