Flextime Has Green Appeal
Flextime Has Green Appeal And Lures Younger Workers – washingtonpost.com
Firms looking at 4-day workweeks to cut costs, show environmental sensitivity, attract workers.
Flextime Has Green Appeal And Lures Younger Workers – washingtonpost.com
Firms looking at 4-day workweeks to cut costs, show environmental sensitivity, attract workers.
Energy crisis threatens U.S. survival, Gore says – CNN.com
“It is only a truly dysfunctional system that would buy into the perverse logic that the short-term answer to high gasoline prices is drilling for more oil 10 years from now,” Gore said.
From US News Washington Whispers:
In advance of a House hearing on the status of colony collapse disorder, the name given to the disappearing bee syndrome, some 21 House and Senate Democrats and Republicans will join Burt’s Bees and Häagen Dazs Wednesday at a conference to air the problems facing the bee. Right smack in the middle of National Pollinator Week, the event on Capitol Hill will feature lawmakers interested in the bee, like Sen. Hillary Clinton and House Agriculture Committee’s Rep. Dennis Cardoza, the nation’s bee man, the Agriculture Department’s Jeff Pettis, and supporters from Häagen Dazs and Burt’s Bees. Afterward, Häagen Dazs’s new vanilla honey bee ice cream will be served and Burt’s “Help Honey Bees” lip balm will be offered.
Air pollution interferes with the ability of bees and other insects to follow the scent of flowers to their source, undermining the essential process of pollination, a study by three University of Virginia researchers suggests.
via Washington Post