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...allowance of 40 hours of paid time off each year for community service helped sell Laura Wagner on joining outdoor- footwear manufacturer Timberland two years ago. Wagner, 27, a customer-service representative, has cleared trails in state parks around the company's Stratham, N.H., headquarters and picked up litter on the beach in her neighborhood in Ogunquit, Maine, all on company time. This perk, which was first offered in 1992, is promoted at job fairs and on the company's website, says Ken Freitas, vice president of marketing for social enterprise. According to Freitas, 90% of those being considered...
...intricate, elegant and seemingly impossible designs. In her words, she is "open to enchantment" and takes inspiration from the grandeur of nature and the traditional crafts of Borneo. Her playful, bold, futuristic design sense produces pieces that are edgy and abstract, yet lyrical and sensuous. Showcases lined with desert litter, sand and slate display jewelry with names like Sea King, Pillow or Little Devil. Morris's newest Organic limited edition of wearable art pieces includes rings representing fire and water, massive bands set with cabochon stones or carved with geometric symbols, open-work sculpted cuffs and graceful pendants. Trying...
...telling that to a wobbling FORTUNE 500 company already looking ahead to what could be a tough economic climate in the next year or so. You can hear the vault opening. "The whole world knows they're available, and everybody knows they are the pick of the litter," says Thomas Neff, chairman of the executive-search firm SpencerStuart...
Street crew started sweeping away litter as thousands of supporters remained in front of the capitol building, even after Evans had left...
...control. Jos? baranek, for example, is one of the owners of a wood-products company called Cemex, and BR-163 runs right by his forest subsidiary?s 11,000-hectare property. He has had to take extraordinary steps, including creation of firebreaks and programs to pick up flammable forest litter, to prevent fire from destroying the timber operation he has built up over 22 years. Cemex?s wood-processing plant has the largest payroll in Santar?m, and the company?s timber property south of town is a model of forest management, which baranek hopes to get officially certified...