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July 11 2012
A Core Curriculum To Create Engaged Entrepreneurs

A Core Curriculum To Create Engaged Entrepreneurs

Written by: Cathy Davidson

It’s time to transform the focus, mission, and rhetoric of liberal arts and combine its focus on cross-disciplinary critical thinking with real world experience. Here’s one proposal.

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6 Cost-Effective Changes Every Organization Can Make To Become More Sustainable

6 Cost-Effective Changes Every Organization Can Make To Become More Sustainable

Written by: Bob Doppelt

All it requires is setting ambitious goals and implementing them--which is what every successful company should be doing anyway.

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The Rail Bike Lets You Glide Along City Trolley Rails

The Rail Bike Lets You Glide Along City Trolley Rails

Those metal grooves in the road can be pesky for bikers, but not if you have this special bike, which lets you glide around as if you were on your own private light-rail. Heads up for approaching trains, though.

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Why There’s Hope For Widespread Electric Vehicle Adoption By 2020

Why There’s Hope For Widespread Electric Vehicle Adoption By 2020

I have just one word for you: batteries.

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Can This Portable Solar Charger Create African Electricity Entrepreneurs?

Can This Portable Solar Charger Create African Electricity Entrepreneurs?

The Fenix solar charger is far more expensive than most similar solutions to lack of power in the developing world. That’s because the idea is that once you buy it, you sell charges to everyone else.

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FarmHopping Saves Small Farms By Letting You Take Control Of Them

FarmHopping Saves Small Farms By Letting You Take Control Of Them

Like Farmville? Well, now you can (for a small fee) play with a real-life farm in Bulgaria. Are you ready to feed real sheep online?

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Hummingbird: An Educational Robotics Kit Designed To Get Girls Into Engineering

Hummingbird: An Educational Robotics Kit Designed To Get Girls Into Engineering

Though it turns out the kit--which shows that engineering can be a creative and artistic endeavor--helps teach and inspire anyone who didn’t think they wanted to make robots or learn about programming.

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