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Apartment Communities Setting Science-Based Targets and Making Deep Cuts in Emissions and Waste
Mark Delisi is the Vice President of Corporate Responsibility at AvalonBay Communities. In this position, he leads all Corporate Responsibility initiatives, including strategic philanthropy, environmental sustainability, responsible supply chain, and public reporting.
“In short, because …
$1 Invested in Resilience Can Save $4–7 in Post-Disaster Costs.
Stephen Jordan is the CEO of the Institute for Sustainable Development, an organization that works with communities and businesses to recover from past disasters and to anticipate and prepare for future threats and opportunities. Stephen is an internationally recognized expert in sustainability,…
How to Green the World
Our world is defined as much by what we forget, as what we remember. The billions of memories lost to time distort our perceptions with their absence. Add a healthy dose of lies and half-truths, and the past becomes a murky place, the truth almost indecipherable.
It isn’t just a problem …
We need a new MONIAC: Visualizing the Flow of Money to Design a Sustainable Future
Since its advent in the 1970s, the personal computer has dramatically enhanced society’s collective ability to understand the natural and man-made systems of our world. The ability to capture and share information has been a key driver for progress. With the recent development of cloud computing…
BYOD policy and business VPN: what do they have in common?
A BYOD policy means as stated — bring your own device (or laptop). We usually see that companies provide employees with PC’s and sometimes even work phones, but as freelancing and remote work is becoming the new normal, office staff tends to shy away from company-provided technology stating it t…
6 tips on how to make an Uber like app
As Uber continues to generate loss as a public company, the sharing economy is getting into more and more areas of our lives. Many entrepreneurs or yet-to-be entrepreneurs want to use Uber’s experience and build an app based on well-developed, market-verified concept. Naturally, it comes to the …
An open letter to Stewart Butterfield: Why Slack will never replace email.
Don’t take my word for it — look at trends like digital minimalism, and viral articles on burnout from the pressure that tech places on us to optimize everything. Terms like “cognitive fitness” and “workism” are coming into the zeitgeist, because they’re a real problem for people.
Plus, …
How will Blockchain Impact the Future?
Blockchain is one of the recent groundbreaking technologies that took the world by storm. It is labeled as one of history’s greatest inventions, and it should be because very soon we will start noticing it’s disruptive; yet amazing effects. It is headed towards mass adoption and it is now bound …
Why AI Will Take Over for Contract Review and Contract Management
Contracts are like the engines of businesses, driving growth and containing mission- and business-critical obligations and opportunities for organizations. But still, firms continue to struggle to do something that sounds so simple: connecting contracts to business value. Just take a look at the…
Why Verasity Video Player integrates into BrightCove
When you watch your favorite content on a video player it is likely that it will be powered by one of the 10 video player platforms that dominate video streaming. These include Vimeo, JW Player, Brightcove, Video.js, Kaltura and others. Most of these platforms are business to business and theref…
Saving Billions: How Blockchain Is Changing Marketing & Advertising
Blockchain is a truly transformative technology in terms of ensuring transparency in nearly every sector of the economy. As the records of DLT (distributed ledger technology) transactions are kept on a public register, hiding or altering any of them unilaterally is next to impossible. This techn…
How I Went From Being a Lifer at McDonald’s to Making 6 Figures at an Investment Firm, Overnight
I started at McDonald’s when I was 17 years old in the hopes of saving up and buying a car. Sadly, this was just about my only significant financial goal for the next 10 years of my life. I did what most young men seem to do today, live life by the minute. I watched tons of shows and put thousan…
Society Is Made Of Narrative. Realizing This Is Awakening From The Matrix.
In the movie The Matrix, humans are imprisoned in a virtual world by a powerful artificial intelligence system in a dystopian future. What they take to be reality is actually a computer program that has been jacked into their brains to keep them in a comatose state. They live their whole lives i…
AT&T funded democrats in California just “eviscerated” the best net neutrality bill in the country
Breaking: in an unprecedented move, the California Assembly’s Committee on Communications and Conveyance just bucked standard procedure…