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Barnett's vision?that being green would feel good and earn him a whole lot of green?is symbolic of a marketplace revolution, says Yale's Daniel Esty, the co-author of Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage. CEOS are "falling over one another," Esty says, to address climate change within their companies, while billions of venture-capital dollars are being poured into technological solutions for the planet's environmental woes. "And then you have Shaklee, with a 50-year history of doing this," says Esty, who believes...
...ever point total at the year-end national tournament, launched its season at the East Stroudsburg University (ESU) Open with a mixed group of battle-tested veterans and newly recruited talents. On a Saturday morning at Koehler Fieldhouse, sophomore J.P. O’Connor, the only Harvard freshman to earn All-American honors in program history, started right where he left off. Ranked third in the nation at 149 lb., O’Connor went 6-0 and finished first in a tournament that had to be cut short because of the large number of participants. Wrestlebacks were canceled, meaning...
...World Economic Forum ranks countries in the Global Competitiveness Index - a rough gauge of which nations are best positioned to squeeze efficiency out of their businesses and to attract companies and investment from overseas. But if you look beyond the index and examine what countries are actually doing to earn their rankings, the bigger take-away is that globalization, inextricably linked to economic development, is very different from what it was only a few years...
...distinguish between types of prose by writing their own screenplays based on Potter's exploits; they pick up the basics of geography by plotting locations used in the Potter films. The student body is divided into the four "houses" in Rowling's novels - Hufflepuff, Gryffindor, Ravenclaw and Slytherin - and earn "house points" for academic achievement, just as in the books. "It's made school a lot easier and better," says 10-year-old Chantelle. "Everybody likes going to school...
...youth in the business leaves him time to carve out a place in the industry. But, he adds, “there’s a high likelihood that the rules are going to change. The definition of a writer and the expectations of what a writer will earn in the industry is unclear at the moment.” For him, the repercussions are immediate as well as long term. “I just finished a pilot and now I can’t take that to market. There’s no one who would...