A movement to improve five categories (energy efficiency, thermal comfort, visual comfort, acoustics, and indoor air quality) at schools around the nation to create a better and more healthy environment for teachers and students.
“Importantly, most of these courses focus NOT on non-profit, mission based
organizations BUT on how business models can be adapted in ways that produce
companies that intentionally strive to achieve positive financial, social and
environmental results,” Aspen said.
I thought this was interesting and meshed well with Abraham Verghesse's talk about the value of touch. I really liked how Whitehouse notes the benefits of touch to both parents and the fetus's ultimate health and development.
While I can see the logic behind someone losing assistance if they find a way to raise money, I don't believe that this woman would have tried to sell her home (a roof over her head which is a necessity, especially for someone so ill).
He said, 'Everybody asks my opinion about things because they think I know something. All I really know is how to make a lot of money.' See, this guy wasn't fooled by his money. That's the key.
Excellent article on what money means to you. If you are wealthy, it doesn't neccesarily mean that you are very knowledgeable. This article provides the morals between money.
"You should be looking for the joy, the struggle, and the challenge of work. What you bring forth from your own guts and heart. The happiness of hard work. No amount of money can buy that. Those are things of the spirit." And yet doesn't the reward in this lie in the amount of compensation that is received for the efforts put in?
Article talking about people with more money spend more money. But, I can see this true that even though people with more money than they ever will need still go broke.
Article about the CEO of Solyndra who resigned. Solyndra recently received 535 million in federal aid but at the end of August they declared bankruptcy leaving thousands jobless. Another example of what the taxpayers dollars are being used for.