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Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Converging forces make the clean energy transition seem inevitable, but will local hurdles to siting wind and solar projects be the unexpected headwind blocking billions in new investment? Data shows the public, including communities hosting wind and solar projects, approve of renewables and want more of them. Yet fossil-aligned groups are sowing dissent and stalling progress. Renewable energy is winning on cost as well as consumer preference – it’s more popular among Americans than kittens, after all. And the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) supplies the long-term policy certainty wind and solar developers have sought for decades. That’s good news for our climate and economy. Meeting the United States’ greenhouse gas reduction targets requires hitting 50% clean energy by 2030 and it could create millions of new jobs by the end of the decade. While the clean energy transition appears unstoppable, the speed with … [Read more...] about Fossil-Fuel Funded Opposition Is Blocking America’s Clean Energy Transition. Permitting Reform Can Help.

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin After years of speculation, Apple has finally confirmed that it will follow the European Union’s new law requiring all smartphones with a physical port to use USB-C. But it may come with a twist. Speaking at the Wall Street Journal's Tech Live event , Greg Joswiak, Apple's vice president of worldwide marketing, was the person to confirm that Apple will follow new European Union law mandating the use of USB-C on all smartphones sold in its member countries from autumn 2024. But that might not be the end of the Lighting port on iPhones worldwide. Responding to a question from The WSJ’s Joanna Stern, Joswiak refused to answer whether Apple will transition all iPhones to USB-C worldwide — something that had been assumed due to the added production line complexity any split would introduce. He was also blunt about time scale, stating: “the Europeans are the ones dictating timing for European customers.” … [Read more...] about Apple Confirms iPhones Will Follow New EU USB-C Law, But Doubts Remain Internationally

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Last month, New York City was the latest city to adopt a wage transparency law as a means to overcome the wage discrimination problem, which has women earning less than men in particular jobs and over their professional careers (see my previous Forbes article on this issue). Many are saying this new law may not solve the problem and it fails to get to the root cause. In my latest interview with leading employment lawyer Tracey I. Levy , we dive into this issue. Ruth Gotian: Pay inequality is nothing new, but it seems to have gotten a new voice. What led to this? Tracey Levy: For more than 50 years, going back to the original federal Equal Pay Act, governments, civil rights activists, economists, and thought leaders have tried to solve the pay gap problem. Today, the average white woman earns 83 cents for every dollar her white male counterpart earns, and the discrepancy becomes notably greater when racial … [Read more...] about New Wage Transparency Law Has Overlooked Problems

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin At a time when US lawmakers are increasingly limiting the rights of women and underrepresented minorities across a range of issues, the EU is going in the opposite direction: the European Parliament recently passed a law requiring publicly-traded companies to have at least 40 percent of non-executive director posts, or one-third of all director posts, filled by women by July 2026. The Women on Boards Directive that was adopted on November 22 had initially been proposed in 2012, but had been tabled by the Council of the European Union in November of 2012 due to objections from some member states. The inability to move the Directive forward spurred the creation of European Women on Boards (EWOB), a Brussels-based not-for-profit organization whose aim is to increase gender diversity in C-suite and board roles throughout Europe. “Ten years after the first proposal, the Women on Boards Directive has finally been adopted. … [Read more...] about EU Law Set To Increase Gender Diversity On Company Boards

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Senators Dick Durbin and Chuck Grassley wrote a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland on November 16, 2022 expressing their ongoing concern of the implementation of the First Step ACT (FSA). They expressed three main areas of concern; 1) the lack of communication to the inmate population about the FSA needs assessment and its implications, 2) concern over the Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) unilateral decision to implement an 18-month rule restricting FSA credits and 3) the underutilization of a warden’s discretion to award and apply FSA credits to those with Medium and High PATTERN scores. Perhaps by chance, the BOP issued a long-awaited program statement shortly after the Durbin/Grassley letter on Friday, November 18, 2022 accompanied by the press release which went to the entire BOP inmate population. That press release and program statement directly addressed the issue of the miscommunication of the FSA needs assessment … [Read more...] about First Step Act Delays Continue In The Bureau Of Prisons And People Are Locked Up Beyond What The Law States

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Joshua Weiss is a negotiation expert and author, as well as the director and creator of the Master of Science degree in Leadership and Negotiation at Bay Path University. He also runs a project called the Global Negotiation Initiative through Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation. Weiss joined Negotiate Anything to share his best advice for overcoming common barriers to negotiation success. The Power of Stories With over 25 years of experience in negotiation, Weiss’s most successful conversations often come down to one thing: effective storytelling. “Most people can relate to stories,” he shared. “As kids, that’s what we remember.” According to Weiss, sharing stories can help negotiators explore other possibilities when they find themselves stuck in the process. “Not only are stories valuable for learning, but they are valuable in the heat of negotiation to recall a lesson or recall a way that you … [Read more...] about Overcoming Barriers To Negotiation Success: The Power Of Stories, Curiosity And Persistence

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin The pandemic drove unprecedented change in the workplace, and in the process, brought into the spotlight – largely for the first time in the work environment – a critically overlooked population of employees: Caregivers. Remote work and lack of access to caregiving services like in-person school and in-home medical care created new situations in which employees had to care for their loved ones while working full-time. Meanwhile, the breakdown of barriers between employees' personal and professional lives allowed organizations to fully understand just how much caregiving impacts the lives of employees and how critical supporting these employees can be to the infrastructure of a successful, productive business. But the reality is that caregiving was approaching a crisis state before the world even learned the term ‘COVID-19’. Between 2010 and 2020, the number of people over age 55 grew by 27% , 20 times larger than the growth … [Read more...] about The Employee Engagement Killer No One Is Talking About: How Organizations Can Support Employee Caregivers

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin More celebrities are publicly admitting that they’ve had some work done . Regarding her breast augmentation in 2015, rapper Iggy Azalea said it felt better not to have secrets. She said, "I love them so much I had to talk about them...I'd feel better not to have some secret. It's much freer to say it, and then you don't have to worry someone will dig it up," However, it wasn’t always this way. A lot of shame has been attached to celebrities admitting that they weren’t entirely natural. Supermodel Bella Hadid had previously been vocal about not getting any plastic surgeries despite rumors of rhinoplasty, lip fillers, and botox. However, in a recent Vogue interview , she admitted to having a nose job at 14, which she regrets. But Hadid isn’t the only one. Kylie Jenner had denied rumors of getting lip fillers before she finally opened up. The brand owner regretted initially lying, saying she would have been honest and … [Read more...] about Ending The Stigma; Celebrities Are Becoming More Outspoken About Plastic Surgery

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Martin Birch, CEO and president of ibml , has 20 years of experience as a global leader in the intelligent information management industry. We’ve all read the headlines touting the benefits of digitizing your business. But it’s time to set aside the hype and talk about what is really going on in our organizations. Companies are, by and large, in the early stages of becoming truly digital. Digitization includes fully adopting artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, investing in tech, and converting all existing information into digital formats. Over the last few years, the pandemic drove significant change that inspired businesses to begin their digital transformations. This had to happen to support the new remote workforce, and IT departments particularly felt the brunt of this change. Many other IT projects were pushed to the back burner, so IT teams could focus all of their effort on transforming … [Read more...] about AI Is Powerless Without HI: Why Human Intelligence Is Irreplaceable

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin David Malcolm is President of Cal West Apartments and a community leader in San Diego with over five decades of work experience. You’ll often find a requirement on job descriptions to read “bachelor’s degree (or higher).” But should this be a requirement? Or should you seek good candidates by casting a wider net? As a business leader, you want to attract and retain talent that will benefit the enterprise. Sometimes that talent will lack such initials as B.A., B.S., M.A., M.S. or Ph.D. To avoid missing opportunities, I strongly believe you should consider hiring people without a traditional, four-year college degree. Fear Missing Out Imagine hiring the next Ralph Lauren, Steve Madden, Coco Chanel, Steve Jobs, Oprah Winfrey, Ted Turner or James Cameron. None of them had a college degree, but they brought an awful lot to the table. When it comes to talent, you should have a fear of missing out. Some … [Read more...] about Why You Should Hire Candidates Without A College Degree