Are the latest workplace productivity trends sustainable |

While many employers are concerned about the skills gap in this country, there's another gap growing in today's workplace: a performance gap. According to a 2013 workplace survey, workplace performance has gone down 6 percent since 2008, due largely to a decrease in employee focus. Perhaps that's why some employers are taking some unconventional measures to increase workplace productivity and re-engage their teams. But are they sustainable? Behavior and Productivity Management

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Targeting Adult Asthma Where It Hits Hardest |

Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx takes a comprehensive approach, combining lifestyle and medical advice, and has reduced emergency room visits and hospitalizations. There are 19 million adults in America with asthma, but the disease is not distributed evenly across the country.

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Food Prices Surge As Drought Exacts A High Toll On Crops

Surging prices for food staples from coffee to meat to vegetables are driving up the cost of groceries in the U.S., pinching consumers and companies that are still grappling with a sluggish economic recovery. Read more:

In spite of American ingenuity the repairs to infrastructure, in the face of global climate change are barely sufficient.

A massive explosion tore through East Harlem in New York City, leveling two five-story buildings filled with apartments. Most people don’t even know when these pipelines need replacing, and there are no beautiful renderings of the result. According to a report by the Center for an Urban Future released just this week, “many critical components are past their useful life and highly susceptible to breaks and malfunctions.” It’s not until something terrible happens--like hurricanes or explosions--that basic repair projects to shore up infrastructure become a top priority. It’s not just a problem in Manhattan, New York. It’s a problem all over the country, and the world. Story Continues:

Why Facts Matter: Science Is Not an Opinion |
~Jeff Schweitzer [Scientist and former White House Senior Policy Analyst; Ph.D. in marine biology/neurophysiology]

Climate Change Denying Koch Brothers Are Deemed a Threat to National Security

It is generally expected and hoped that a country’s national security is not threatened by domestic traitors who deliberately jeopardize their homeland for monetary rewards. It hardly matters how powerful and efficient a nation’s military is when its mandate to defend the country is undermined from within the government due to the machinations of the country’s domestic enemies. One of the greatest assets protecting America’s national security is its intelligence community and military that spends a great deal of their time identifying and assessing threats to national security and evaluating terrorism threats at home and abroad. Recently, the Department of Defense identified a major threat to America’s national security and in doing so exposed domestic enemies intent on reinforcing the threat with millions of dollars for propaganda, blatant lies, and diversion.
The nation’s enemies are a familiar cult led by the Koch brothers who, with their foot soldiers in the Republican Party, teabagger movement, and evangelical Christians, are working in concert to enable terrorism and threaten America’s national security in the pursuit of power and money.
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50 State Plan For Renewable Energy

Stanford University scientist Mark Jacobson has developed a 50-state roadmap for transforming the United States from dependence on fossil fuels to 100 percent renewable energy by 2050. He unveiled the plan at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Chicago. “Drastic problems require drastic and immediate solutions,” said Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering. “Our new roadmap is designed to provide each state a first step toward a renewable future.” Hover over each state to see projected energy mix * CLICK HERE FOR THE INTERACTIVE MAP * Read More: