Canadians are getting poorer at an alarming rate The high cost of living is affecting Canadians’ ability to access healthy foodSylvain Charlebois, Troy MediaCanada appears to be a “trading-down” ... 04/19/2024 - 4:38 am | View Link
Revision Shows Better Performance of Economy, GDP Grew by 1.6% Y-o-Y in 2023 (2) Year-on-year growth of Slovakia's GDP in 2023 reached 1.6 percent in fixed prices after revision, the Statistics Office has reported. Originally, slower GDP growth of 1.1 percent was reported in early ... 04/18/2024 - 9:37 pm | View Link
Unemployment rate drops in Tennessee, holds steady in Georgia In neighboring Georgia, the unemployment rate last month stayed at 3.1% in March as a record number of Georgians were on the job after employment in the Peach State grew by 55,400 jobs over the past ... 04/18/2024 - 12:37 pm | View Link
Polish 2022 GDP growth rate revised up to 5.6%, 2023 expansion confirmed at 0.2% The Polish economy expanded by 0.2 percent in 2023, after growing 5.6 percent in 2022, the country’s statistics office said on Thursday, revising upward its previous estimate for 2022 by ... 04/18/2024 - 4:20 am | View Link
China’s economy grew 5.3% in first quarter, but property sector remains obstacle to recovery For the first three months of the year, China's gross domestic product rose 5.3 percent, the National Bureau of Statistics said. 04/16/2024 - 4:10 pm | View Link
In high-rises around the world, gashes and slashes are the hot new architectural trend.
Featuring dramatic cuts in the facade or portions of floor plates sliced away—a new kind of architectural detail is reshaping the exterior of high-rise towers on a global scale. Distinctive gashes are splitting the surface of new buildings with a kind of surgical intent.
Interest in Apple’s spatial computer has apparently fallen off a cliff too. Here’s why, and why Apple’s loss isn’t Meta’s gain
Earlier this month I started looking into whether anyone was buying the Apple Vision Pro after I noticed that social media discourse about Apple’s spatial computer seemed to have all but disappeared within weeks of its launch.
The three most common forms of toxic leadership create self-defeating cultures that stifle innovation, undermine trust, and destroy engagement.
Leadership is key to any successful organization. Leadership is not only responsible for the most critical organizational decisions, but also shaping the culture of the organization. As Peter Drucker famously noted, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” Drucker’s observation is difficult to dispute.
The 100% affordable apartment building is the first in the city to be permitted under a state law designed to streamline new construction.
Until recently, a strip of land near a transit station in San Francisco was an underused parking lot. Now it’s home to more than 100 affordable apartments.
Lead battery recycling is a crucial but dirty business. As a plant outside Los Angeles seeks to renew its operating permit, the community pushes back.
This story was originally published by Grist and Public Health Watch.
Seymourpowell’s Caroline Jacob on the power of biotech and how it can transform materials.
Biofabrication has been selling the promise of a harmless, resilient, and versatile alternative to traditional materials for nearly a decade, and yet the industry has never truly scaled. Efforts are often stymied by complex, labor-intensive, and expensive processes.