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Homes for Haiti – Miami company pledges prefab shelter

August 1, 2010

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InnoVida Holdings, LLC, headquartered in Miami Beach, is a company that builds fiber composite panels. It has pledged a donation of 1,000 prefab houses/shelters to Haiti. The company says the structures are waterproof, wind resistant and the walls have a far higher deflection capacity than concrete. The units have been designed by [...]

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Haiti Tent Shelters

July 31, 2010

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This is the current situation 100’s of thousands of homeless in Port-au Prince Haiti. People don’t trust their damaged houses and so live outside in Tent Cities. The rainy season will begin within the next few weeks and transitional and permanent homes are needed immediately.
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Habitat for Humanity Continues to Improve Haiti Shelter Options

July 31, 2010

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Habitat for Humanity’s Transitional Home as explained by Kip Scheidler, Senior Director of Global Disaster Response for Habitat for Humanity. Such homes are necessary in the transition from homeless to having new homes. Unfortunately, to often in poor communities these become the de facto permanent homes. Companies like Casa Humana International, a company [...]

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Need For Shelter In Haiti & Presidential Election

July 30, 2010

Friday, July 30, 2010
USAID Director Rajiv Shah “says shelter and rubble removal are immediate priorities in the reconstruction efforts in earthquake-devastated Haiti,” VOA News reports. Shah briefed the House Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere Thursday, and also “said between 300,000 and 400,000 units of shelter are needed. He said aid workers are trying to provide about [...]

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Law Enforcement as a Revenue Generator?

July 11, 2010

Tom Foreman | BIO AC360° Correspondent

The more we make the enforcement of laws and regulations into a cash making proposition, the further we stray from the true purpose of government

Reporter’s Note: I don’t know if President Obama has ever had a speeding ticket. I assume so. Just as I assume that he’d [...]

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Report: U.S. Green Building Market Will Balloon to $173.5 Billion by 2015

July 6, 2010

Think the trend of businesses making green office renovations is just a passing fad? Not according to the latest issue of EL Insights, which reports that the U.S. green building market value will balloon from $71.1 billion now to $173 billion by 2015. Commercial green building is expected to grow by 18.1% annually during the [...]

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Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Breath

June 23, 2010

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Thanks to Zero Waste BC for producing this great video on what Metro Vancouver’s Solid Waste Management Plan has in the works for us. Get a humourous POV on what is and isn’t the facts about Metro’s waste plan.

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3. Innovation policy: inventing a better world

June 7, 2010

by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General

Innovation must be harnessed to tackle global problems effectively and efficiently. Innovation in green technologies, for example, can help us fight climate change without sacrificing growth. But getting solutions to market will require the right incentives to spur innovation and development. Fortunately, there is evidence that innovation in climate change mitigation [...]

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2. Changing change: innovation is evolving

June 6, 2010

by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General

Innovation is a core condition to the competitiveness of businesses. We have seen business expenditures on R&D steadily increase over time, with some countries like Israel, Japan, Korea and Finland making big strides as business R&D exceeds 2.5% of their respective GDPs.
As innovation becomes central to the modern firm, pressure mounts [...]

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1. Innovation: A Key Driver of Growth

June 5, 2010

Innovation in a Global Economy

A presentation by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General, delivered at the International Economic Forum of the Americas on June 8, 2009 in Montreal, Canada

Innovation and globalisation have lately been blamed for the severe financial and economic crisis that we are experiencing. This misses the point. Both forces have produced immense wealth and social [...]

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Homes for Haiti – Miami company pledges prefab shelter

Haiti Tent Shelters

Habitat for Humanity Continues to Improve Haiti Shelter Options

Need For Shelter In Haiti & Presidential Election

Law Enforcement as a Revenue Generator?

Report: U.S. Green Building Market Will Balloon to $173.5 Billion by 2015

Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Breath

3. Innovation policy: inventing a better world

2. Changing change: innovation is evolving

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