It’s called Project Oxygen. Beginning in 2008, Google researchers wanted to understand what makes a manager great at Google. Here’s what they found. Project Oxygen Google sought to identify the common threads among Google’s highest performing managers. Based on internal research, Google then applied its findings to its manager development programs. Over time, Google found
Facebook Twitter Email Food Forest Movement Finds Fertile Ground in the Midwest BY RACHEL DOVEY | AUGUST 27, 2018 Facebook Twitter Email The Freeway Food Forest in San Francisco. (Credit: Zoey Kroll) As others are doing in Seattle and Philadelphia, the small city of Davenport is addressing local food insecurity with a regenerative, seven-layer garden,
Why Street Trees are so Essential for our Cities Posted in Akron, Dorwart, Top Story and Jun 12, 2018 Street trees are often taken for granted and overlooked. But in Akron, Ohio, they’re a mainstay of the urban landscape. Named a 2015 Tree City USA by the Arbor Day Foundation, Akron received the designation due
Tree Mortality in the Sierra Nevada http://www.sierranevada.ca.gov/our-region/tree-mortality/tree-mortality THE PROBLEM California is experiencing tree die-off at an unprecedented scale, and the Sierra Nevada Region has been hit extremely hard. 129 million trees have died across the state due to drought and bark beetles since 2010, and 85 percent of those dead trees are in the Sierra.
Lawns Are an Ecological Disaster Friday 10:00am Neil Tyson often conjectures that maybe aliens have concluded humans aren’t intelligent enough to contact. He’s probably referring to our capacity for war, but lawns may display our talent for fruitless carnage even better. Americans devote 70 hours, annually, to pushing petrol-powered spinning death blades over aggressively pointless
