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- Michael Tucker: Entertainment Entrepreneur
- Michael Tucker is President of Zia Entertainment, a company that manages and develops various talent in the production industry. Tucker talks about how he found his career and the importance of staying flexible in a diverse and competitive business climate.
- Videos 2008-04-29
- Climate Changes Everything - The Dawn Of The Green Economy
- Rarely has a single issue - climate change - so dominated the political debate and the public imagination. Will 2008 be the year of climate fatigue, or has the specter of climate change become so deeply rooted that it will lead to the transformation of consumer habits and the establishment...
- White papers 2008-01-15
- The Cost of Extreme Weather
- The UN World Meteorological Organization released a statement yesterday which began with this less than cheerful assertion: Weather and climate are marked by record extremes in many regions across the world since January 2007. In January and April 2007 it is likely that global land surface temperatures ranked warmest...
- Blog posts 2007-08-08
- The Impact of Human Resource Management and Work Climate on Organizational Performance
- This paper examines relationships between Human Resource Management HRM, work climate and organizational performance in the branch network of a retail bank. It extends previous research on group-level climate-performance and HRM-performance relationships and examines how climate and HRM function as joint antecedents of business unit performance. Significant correlations are found...
- White papers 2005-07-19
- Transatlantic Interdependence in US Climate Change Policy: Cross-Border State-Business Relations Challenging State Autonomy
- While the US federal government rejects to participate in the Kyoto Protocol, business in the US is increasingly adapting to Kyoto-style policies. This raises questions about the autonomy of the federal government and state-business relations in climate change policy. Realist, neo-Marxist and liberal scholars each provide different answers to the...
- White papers 2005-05-01
- Capacity Building and Sustainability Knowledge in the Climate Change Regime
- Increasingly, there is evidence that developing countries are unable to meet their commitments under a number of international environmental treaties. This paper first examines the relationship between climate change and sustainable development in science and within the context of the climate change agreements. It then examines the problem of developing...
- White papers 2004-09-27
- Water Industry Compliance Evaporative Air conditioning Water Usage
- This report discusses about an evaporative air conditioner, which is a unit that cools air by moisture evaporation. They provide effective cooling in dry climates, and their cooling effect is minimal in hot humid climates. Therefore, they are most commonly found in hot dry climates such as inland areas of...
- White papers 2003-07-23
- Bio-Energy With Carbon Storage (BECS): A Sequential Decision Approach to the threat of Abrupt Climate Change
- Abrupt Climate Change (ACC - NAS, 2001) is an issue that 'haunts the climate change problem' (IPCC, 2001) but has been neglected by policy makers up to now, maybe for want of practicable measures for effective response, save for risky geo-engineering. A portfolio of Bio-Energy with Carbon Storage BECS technologies,...
- White papers 2003-06-19
- If We Were to Build It-Will They Come?
- The article says that every organization, large or small has its own climate; each climate is unique and multi-faceted. If we continue to look around the individual for answers then standardized programs or "fixes" will not be successful. If we apply a cookie-cutter approach to the wants and needs of...
- White papers 2003-01-04
- The Impacts of Climate Change: Implications for Defra
- This paper highlights the importance of climate change in meeting Defra's top level objectives on protecting the environment and promoting sustainable development. Defra's forward-looking approach means that adaptation measures are already a reality in at-risk policy areas such as flood management and water resources. But more needs to be done,...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Improved Organizational Effectiveness Through Better Relationships
- It is true that quality relationship between managers and their staffs are the engines of organizational effectiveness. These relationships are developed and maintained by the free flow of information, with curiosity being a critical component in that flow. The curious manager has the ability to reflect on his/her behavior and...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Dealing With Climate Change: The Role of Institutions in the Eyes of the Public
- Climate change has been defined as "a serious potential threat to the world's environment". There is compelling evidence that the climate is affected not only by naturally occurring variability, but also by human actions. Internationally, mitigation of climate change is being driven by the Kyoto Protocol, according to which signatory...
- White papers 2002-09-07
- Opportunities and Risks of Climate Change
- Climate change - a change in the average weather conditions - may have both positive and negative effects in individual cases, but it can never be without consequences. Since the weather influences all areas of life, climate changes affect each and every one of us. Thus, the decisive issue again...
- White papers 2002-07-11
- Photovoltaics in Buildings: Town Planning Considerations
- The world is facing potentially the greatest environmental upheaval since the onset of the last ice age. Whilst there is some international discord about the precise causes and effects of global warming, the mere fact that the issue is being debated worldwide and at the highest government levels is itself...
- White papers 2001-11-22
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- Monsanto Commits to Double Yield in Three Major Crops
- FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-8 June 2009-Monsanto Commits to Double Yield in Three Major CropsC2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Monsanto Company announced a three-point commitment to help increase food production in the face of growing demand, limited natural resources and a changing climate. It pledged to work...
- Articles 2009-06-08
- Analysing company training and development needs: the usefulness of HRD activities to the organisation can be justified only by the effectiveness with which they meet the real needs of the organisation. The needs analysis approach to the design of specific contents of HRD activities is recommended as a means to achieving this effectiveness in meeting organisational needs
- DESPITE an upsurge in human resource development HRD activities in organisations, training departments are still hard put to justify their usefulness and importance to their employers. Part of the reason is that the proliferation of HRD activities has blurred the distinction between what is truly needed by the organisation to...
- Articles 2008-12-01
- NOAA says June was 8th warmest on record
- WASHINGTON AP -- Earth scored another Top 10 finish in June -- climate wise. It was the eighth warmest June on record, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported Wednesday. And the first six months of the year were the ninth warmest since record...
- Articles 2008-07-17
- Mission: impossible?
- A new BBC2 thriller wants to charm us into taking notice of climate change. James Rampton reports from the set The makers of Burn Up knew from the outset that their drama would be a tough sell. The two-part BBC2 thriller by Simon Beaufoy, the writer of...
- Articles 2008-07-17
- Natural gas price hike in Oregon may help contractors
- Natural gas prices are expected to skyrocket next year, with utility bills increasing as much as 40 percent for residential customers, Oregon's three natural gas utilities told the Public Utility Commission this week. That's bad news for customers already squeezed by rising fuel prices and a weakening...
- Articles 2008-07-17
- AgraGate Disburses $4.2 Million to Carbon Credits Customers
- Mid-Year Checks Average $2,375 WEST DES MOINES, Iowa -- July is harvest time for a new crop - carbon credits - and farmers who have met the requirements for earning these environmental credits are now reaping the benefits. Nearly 1,800 farm operators received payments averaging $2,375...
- Articles 2008-07-16
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