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Paul Bulla: How Urban Waste Is Powering Rural Sustainability

Paul Bulla Comcor Environmental Limited
September 03, 2014
The term “sustainability” is used more and more in urban settings today. With cities expanding, buildings reaching new heights and global populations exploding, it’s logical to implement environmentally responsible initiatives to dispose of the wastes these lifestyles generate. But what we don’t hear much about is the importance of sustainability after disposing of these wastes. Quite often, final disposal occurs in massive landfills, where waste is left to slowly decompose for many years.
 

Improving Access to Health: Small and Simple Wins

September 02, 2014
When you think of transformative advances in medical technology, big and complex probably comes to mind — MRI machines that take up entire rooms or robotic arms that can assist in tricky surgeries.
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Visual Control of Big Data

Mit News
August 29, 2014

Data-visualization tool identifies sources of aberrant results and recomputes visualizations without them.

In the age of Big Data, visualization tools are vital. With a single glance at a graphic display, a human being can recognize patterns that a computer might fail to find even after hours of analysis.

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Dr. Dan Wicklum: Environmental Innovation in Canada’s Oil Sands

Dr Dan Wicklum Cosia
August 28, 2014
Science and innovation have played a key role in the development of Canada’s oil sands resources from the very beginning. The first scientific assessment of the oil sands was conducted in 1848, more than 150 years ago. Since then, the spirit of innovation and the application of science and technology have allowed Canada to become a world leader in the responsible production of unconventional resources like the oil sands.
 
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Stacey Jarrett Wagner: Would You Like A Coffee With That College Education?

Stacey Jarrett Wagner The Jarrettwagner Group
August 27, 2014
As families’ education costs skyrocket and the need for skilled workers keeps business owners up at night, a new model for workforce training has just hit the streets. Starbucks is providing a free college education to thousands of its employees through an online partnership with Arizona State University. Open to all of Starbuck’s U.S.
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Grayson Brulte: Moving Towards a Frictionless Payment Experience

Grayson Brulte Brulte Company
August 26, 2014
As a society, our payment habits are once again changing as individuals become more comfortable with new technologies that no longer require taking their credit card out to buy goods and services.
 
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Industrial Internet Helps the Trains Run on Time

August 25, 2014
The morning commute is primed for innovative disruption, whether you’re spending hours sitting in traffic jams to stuck inside a jam-packed subway car. SkyTran, an elevated transit system that’s being developed in partnership with NASA, aims to make commuting hassles a thing of the past by zipping passengers around in futuristic-looking driverless pods suspended high above the ground.
 

Energy Efficiency — Malaysia’s Future

August 22, 2014

“There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.”

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Dane Linn: Evolution at Work

Dane Linn Business Roundtable
August 21, 2014
As the old saying goes, everyone complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. So it seems, sometimes, when it comes to the very real and persistent skills gap that drags down our entire economy. For those unaware of the term, the skills gap refers to the split between the kinds of skills that employers are looking for in their workers and those that job candidates actually possess.
 

Is Your Power Company Extreme-Ready?

August 20, 2014

Eight million homes and businesses without electricity after Superstorm Sandy in 2012, tens of thousands left in the cold by last winter’s polar vortex.

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Power generation increasingly resembles an extreme sport — is your utility company ready for the next round?

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