It's not just people who make first impressions. Offices do, too. Make sure yours is working for you, not against you.
Read More »Tag Archives: plant
Feed SubscriptionFukushima U.S. Responds to Lessons Learned
A year ago today, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake rocked Northern Japan. In the wake of this earthquake, a massive tsunami would flatten the Northern Tohoku region , killing nearly 20,000 people and knocking out power to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
Read More »Plant Movement from Climate Change Revealed in Interactive Map
The interactive USDA Plant Hardiness Map allows users to view the plants most likely to thrive in any U.S.
Read More »Nuclear Reactor Approved in U.S. for First Time Since 1978
Years of shifting and smoothing Georgia red clay paid off today, as the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) voted to allow construction of two new nuclear reactors
Read More »Japan Says Stricken Nuclear Power Plant in Cold Shutdown
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan declared its tsunami-stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant to be in cold shutdown on Friday, taking a major step to resolving the world's worst nuclear crisis in 25 years but some critics questioned whether the plant was really under control. [More]
Read More »How Strong Leaders Build Trust
What makes your employees feel vulnerable and skeptical--and how to overcome it to build a higher-performing organization. Years ago I was one of a handful of people hired to help turn around a family owned and operated manufacturing plant that had just been sold to an investment group
Read More »Fukushima’s Reactor Cores Still Too Hot to Open
On March 11, a magnitude-9.0 earthquake struck off the coast of Sendai in Japan, knocking out power at the nearby Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
Read More »East Coast Quake Rattled Nuclear Plant’s Waste Casks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The earthquake that shook the East Coast last week rattled casks holding radioactive nuclear waste at a Virginia plant, moving them as much as 4.5 inches from their original position, the plant's operator said. The 5.8-magnitude quake shifted 25 casks, each 16 feet tall and weighing 115 tons, on a concrete pad at Dominion Resources Inc's North Anna nuclear plant.
Read More »Video: Going vegan goes more mainstream
Former President Bill Clinton revealed how veganism has helped him lose weight and be healthier. Nutritionist Tanya Zuckerbrot speaks to "The Early Show" about the plant-based diet.
Read More »How Many Species on Earth? 8.7 Million Give or Take
By David Fogarty SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Scientists have yet to discover, or classify, about 90 percent of the plant and animal species on Earth, which is estimated to be home to just under 9 million species, a study says. [More]
Read More »Sequencing The Marijuana Genome To Cure Disease, Get You Less High
Medicinal Genomics has just finished sequencing the cannabis genome.
Read More »A Pre-Fab Bamboo Bicycle, Grown From The Ground In Bike Shape
The Ajiro--a concept from Australia--would come from the Earth fully formed. Is this the first step for a sustainable manufacturing economy?
Read More »Molten Salt And Rocket Science To Make Solar Work At Night
A very hot solution to that pesky solar energy problem known as sunset. Solar power: works great when the sun is out. It works less great when the sun isn't out, which happens every night, as you may have noticed
Read More »Many U.S. Nuclear Plants Ill-Prepared to Handle Simultaneous Threats
On April 26, Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff did a safety "walkdown" of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant on southern California's coast, part of NRC inspections of all U.S. reactors that were triggered by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster in Japan. The NRC's inspection report, released Friday, did not flag the plant's owner, Pacific Gas & Electric Co.
Read More »The Japan nuclear crisis at Fukushima: A video summary
On March 11, a powerful earthquake set off a tsunam i that swamped the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant , cutting off power and causing nuclear fuel rods to overheat and melt.
Read More »