It's long been understood that color can affect your mood, but what about your career choices? What do the colors you are drawn to say about your suitability for certain careers? The Color Career Counselor, a new online test offered by CareerBuilder, is the world's only validated color-based personality test that looks at the relationship between colors and career compatibility. More
Olympic Games Take the Gold in the Workplace
from CNET News
The Olympic Games in Beijing is proving to be a hit in the workplace. Traffic to Olympics-related Web sites is soaring. According to numbers released by Nielsen Online, more than 2 million people visited the video section of NBCOlympics.com on Monday, Aug. 11—the first full workday after the official opening of the games—up nearly 140 percent from Sunday, Aug. 10 when the site had about 858,000 visitors. Overall visits to the site increased 40 percent to 4.6 million compared with Sunday's 3.3 million.
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Giant Retailers Look to Sun for Energy Savings
from The New York Times
Retailers are typically obsessed with what to put under their roofs, not on them. Yet the nation’s biggest store chains are coming to see their immense, flat roofs as an untapped resource. More
Hope Over ‘Quick’ Bird Flu Test
from BBC
U.K. scientists say they are developing a portable testing machine that will detect cases of bird flu in two hours. Currently it takes about a week to identify the different flu strains because laboratory tests are needed. More
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Product Showcase: LogiSon Acoustic Network
 More than 70 percent of employees say they would be more productive if their workplace was quieter. The LogiSon Acoustic Network increases speech privacy and reduces disruptions by introducing a masking sound that makes conversations and noises more difficult, or impossible, to hear. It’s a cost-effective method of improving overall acoustic comfort. More info
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Relocation Blues: Coping When Your Job Moves You
from The Wall Street Journal
Executives and top performers often entertain job offers or promotions that require a move—and the higher up the ladder you get, the more likely you are to be moving with a spouse or family in tow. The transition to a new town can be just as difficult as adjusting to the new position. More
London Buildings: Grate Expectations
from Guardian.co.uk
Skyscrapers are architecture's sunflowers. Given a good, sunny financial climate, they will soar into the urban firmament, blossoming extravagantly, heady, ostentatious symbols of high rolling cities. But, when the financial climate is poor, they refuse to grow so very high; and sometimes they stay in the ground waiting for the good times to come again. More
Wind Power Begins to Gain on Solar in Midwest
from Cincinnati Enquirer
Wind power hasn't stirred much of a breeze in the United States, until now.
But as oil and natural gas prices rise, wind power—ranging from small individual turbines to large utility-scale wind farms—is gaining velocity. Suddenly, wind is prime time thanks to Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens' multimillion-dollar media campaign touting his US$14 billion wind project to reduce U.S. reliance on imported oil.
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Water Cooler Talk Keeps Organizational Culture Real
from Knowledge@W.P. Carey
It is a ritual in offices around the country: the morning meet-up. Although employees may have already clocked in and should theoretically be hard at work, they meander over to the coffee pot, fill up a cup and chat. Although they may have arrived at 8:30 a.m., they don't boot up their computers until 9:00 a.m. In many managers' eyes, such behavior is often filed under the heading of wasted time on the company's dime. Yet, the irony of the situation, says W. P. Carey Management Professor Blake Ashforth, is that these social butterflies may very well be adding value to the company. More
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Ohio Leads the United States in Advanced Energy Project Growth
from The Earth Times
A new report shows Ohio is No. 1 in the nation for renewable and advanced energy, bringing in more new facility projects than any other state between 2005 and 2007. Based on The Conway New Plant Report, which was featured in the July issue of SITE Selection magazine, Ohio led the nation with 350 facility projects in the renewable energy sector. The next closest state was Michigan, with 177, followed by Tennessee (150), Texas (142) and Alabama (133).
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Old Driving Habits Die Hard
from The Globe & Mail
Canadians have been slow to change their driving habits, in spite of higher gasoline prices. Statistics Canada reports that Canadians drove their vehicles 332 billion kilometres last year—5.2 percent more than in 2002. The number of vehicles on the road also rose 9.4 percent in six years and the agency reports that new motor vehicle sales in the first five months of this year have continued at a record pace. More
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It's long been understood that color can affect your mood, but what about your career choices? What do the colors you are drawn to say about your suitability for certain careers? The Color Career Counselor, a new online test offered by CareerBuilder, is the world's only validated color-based personality test that looks at the relationship between colors and career compatibility. More
