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America’s fastest-growing suburbs are about to get very expensive

Vox Open Sourced

To a great extent, that’s what’s happened, and it’s given us lots of single-family homes, but also a mind-boggling expanse of costly, deteriorating infrastructure, nightmare commutes, unrestrained greenhouse gas emissions, sedentary, disease-promoting lifestyles, and one of the highest car crash death rates in the developed world.

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Is the decline of reading poisoning our politics?

Vox Open Sourced

The complicated sentences typically found in a philosophical treatise, legal brief, or Vox article — with their prepositional phrases sandwiched between em-dashes — could not plausibly perpetuate themselves in the absence of written text. Oral cultures’ reliance on memory also limited their capacity to generate complex, logical arguments.

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The 25 pieces of culture that explain the last 25 years

Vox Open Sourced

In many ways, although the books started publishing during the Clinton years, they were the ultimate Obama-era text: In 2016, Harry Potter readers were more likely to dislike Donald Trump , more likely to embrace diversity , and more likely to vote for Democrats. James has since won four titles — including one for Cleveland in 2016.

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SEC Approves Equity Crowdfunding

Small Business Labs

Prior to this change, equity crowdfunding had been legal only for accredited investors - those with high incomes or a high net worth. According to a Forbes article , equity crowdfunding was already set to surpass traditional VC funding in 2016 and the new rules will more or less guarantee this.

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

Eco-Office Gals

While it has always been legal to ship functional equipment out of the UK, it is not acceptable to dump off containers full of broken equipment into African countries such as Nigeria and Ghana. Donations to under-privileged individuals or groups could be promoted through tax credit incentives.

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

Eco-Office Gals

In the 21st century the development of retrofit products increased with MGC Lighting being an early adopter and promoter of LED cluster MR16 retrofit lamps. continue until 2016 to include not only consumer products but also those used in highway, office and industrial lighting applications. Energy savings can be directly related to a.

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Employee Perk or Productivity Secret? Corporate Wellness Programs Deliver on Both

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In fact, in 2016 the Harvard Business Review compiled data from leading experts on the topic. It concluded that programs are most likely to fail if they aren’t integrated properly into a “comprehensive workplace health promotion strategy.” Even before the pandemic, companies were looking to these initiatives to attract employees.