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Monday, 09 November 2009 |
 School furniture maker Sagus International has won a 2009 Outstanding Partnership Award from the Chicago Public Schools for the company’s donations that transformed classrooms in two very different schools into model 21st century learning environments.
Not only did Sagus’s generosity improve the learning environments at those two schools, it also served as the pilot program on which Sagus based its remarkable weekend makeover of embattled South Carolina school, J.V. Martin Junior High – a school dubbed by President Obama in his first State of the Union Speech as an example of what’s wrong in American education today. In a stunning act of kindness, Sagus President and CEO Darryl Rosser, moved by the speech, visited the school, mobilized his company and suppliers, to deliver a $250,000 makeover of the crumbling school over a single weekend. (Watch the inspiring 20/20 report on YouTube )
The previous year in Chicago, Rosser showed his passion for boosting student achievement by investing about $100,000 to transform two schools, an effort that earned high praise from Arne Duncan, now the U.S. Secretary of Education. Duncan called the partnership a model of public-private collaboration.
Said Mr. Rosser, “We strongly believe that better classroom environments will result in improved educational outcomes.”
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Read more... [Generous CEO Transforms Decaying Classrooms -- and Students]
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Thursday, 05 November 2009 |
 In the last week, several economic indicators and corporate profit reports provided good news for the US and UK as further evidence that the recession is over -- at least on paper.
- The U.S. manufacturing sector grew in October for the third consecutive month and at a faster rate than expected, according to an industry report released on Monday. The October reading was the highest since April 2006, according to the Institute for Supply Management (ISM).
- The ISM report also said its employment index jumped for the manufacturing industry to 53.1 in October, its strongest showing since April 2006. The employment index has not been above the 50 mark since July 2008, when it was at 51. (Reuters)
- General Motors Co. reported its first monthly sales increase in nearly two years on Tuesday; Ford also racked up big gains in October, without help from incentives or the Cash for Clunkers program, providing further evidence that the U.S. economy appears to be on the mend. (Detroit News) -- Thanks to Brian Williams for sending the link!
- U.S. factory goods orders rose in September more than expected, with orders climbing 0.9%, the Commerce Department said Tuesday, the fifth increase in six months. Durable goods climbed more than first thought, up 1.4%. Durables are expensive goods made to last at least three years, such as refrigerators. (WS Journal)
- U.K. manufacturing output rose at its fastest pace for seven years on a month-to-month basis in September, beating market expectations. (WS Journal)
- A report on pending sales of existing homes showed the number of contracts to buy previously owned homes in the U.S. rose in September for an eighth straight month, up 6.1 percent after a 6.4 percent gain in August, the National Association of Realtors said on Monday. (Bloomberg)
- As featured last week on GNN, the US gross domestic product has jumped by an annualized rate of 3.5 percent over the past three months, which means the economy is expanding at a healthy rate once again.
The country is still losing jobs, but at a slower rate for each of the last seven months. (It is expected that job growth will lag well behind economic growth.)
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Thursday, 29 October 2009 |
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 The economy grew at a 3.5 percent pace in the third quarter, the
best showing in two years, fueled by government-supported spending on
cars and homes.
The Commerce Department's report Thursday
delivered the strongest signal yet that the economy entered a new,
though fragile, phase of recovery and that the worst recession since
the 1930s has ended.
(Good news, with nice graph, at NPR)
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Tuesday, 27 October 2009 |
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Upstart carmaker Fisker Automotive on Tuesday said it will purchase a used General Motors auto plant in Wilmington, Del., to begin producing a plug-in hybrid sedan.
Starting in late 2012, the facility will be used to manufacture a plug-in hybrid that the company expects will cost almost $40,000 after
federal tax credits. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and Delaware Gov.
Jack Markell were scheduled to speak at an announcement ceremony this morning.
(Continue reading the Green Tech blog at CNet)
Image, right, shows Fisker sports car, the Karma
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Monday, 26 October 2009 |
 The International Telecommunication Union has given its stamp of approval to a new energy-efficient universal phone charger that will be compatible with all future phones made by every mobile phone manufacturer, regardless of make and model.
The new Universal Charging Solution (UCS) uses a Micro-USB plug that will fit all future phones regardless of the make and model (some phones already use this standard). The standardization, announced last week, will dramatically cut the number of chargers produced each year -- 51,000 tons annually are mostly discarded into landfills. Chargers will become an option when buying a phone rather than a necessity, cutting down on packaging size and shipping weights, and carbon emmisions in the process.
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Read more... [Environment-Friendly Universal Phone Charger Approved]
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