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Sweden is paying people to fix their belongings instead of throwing them away
To combat its”throwaway consumer culture’, Sweden has announced tax breaks on repairs to clothes, bicycles, fridges and washing machines. On bikes and clothes, VAT has been reduced from 25% to 12% and on white goods consumers can claim back income tax due on the person doing the work. The incentives are intended to reduce the […]
Bright Thought of the Day
I’m reading Evolved Enterprise – How to Re-think, Re-imagine, and Re-invent Your Business by Yanik Silver and just saw this quote. It’s so perfect for a concept I’ve been teaching for the last decade: The Real Power Comes from Putting Others in the Spotlight I work with influencers, entrepreneurs, and authors who want to make a […]
Man-Made Rainbow Trapped Inside This Gallery Is Made Of 1000s Of Colored Threads
The Great Gallery of Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, is usually filled with classic art pieces that date back decades and even hundreds of years back. But now it’s been refreshed by this gorgeous man-made rainbow placed right in the middle of it. The artist behind it is Gabriel Dawe, a Mexican-born creator who specializes […]
Blockchain technology is coming to the solar panels on your roof
Where there’s a market with creaking infrastructure to be disrupted, blockchain technology will disrupt it. At least that’s what some proponents of blockchain tech, which shares many of the same principles underpinning bitcoin, are hoping to do with the energy sector. While blockchain tech has taken high-finance by storm, with advocates touting it for everything […]
Patient data API pivotal to DeepMind’s push into UK’s NHS
DeepMind Health’s inaugural collaboration with the U.K.’s National Health Service (NHS), initially focused on building an app for helping early detection of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI), was relaunched earlier today — under a new information-sharing agreement with the Royal Free NHS Trust, and a broader scope for the collaboration. The agreement lasts until at least […]
5 TED Talks Every Business Owner Needs to Watch
When you’re running a small business, the last thing you need is to waste time watching videos online. That is, unless those videos might help your bottom line. In the days leading up to Small Business Saturday, the shopping holiday that encourages people to shop or dine at local independent businesses, entrepreneurs should take the time to re-examine their hiring strategies, set […]
Giving Patients an Active Role in Their Health Care
As payment and care delivery models shift in the United States from episodic, fee-for-service care toward population health and value-based reimbursement, health care leaders are focused more than ever on patient engagement as a key to driving down costs and improving outcomes. And yet, as so many of us know who have attempted to manage […]
Tesla powers a whole island with solar to show off its energy chops
Tesla completed its $2.6 billion acquisition of SolarCity this week, and, to celebrate, the company has announced a major solar energy project: wiring up the whole island of Ta’u in American Samoa. Previously, the island ran on diesel generators, but over the past year Tesla has installed a microgrid of solar energy panels and batteries that […]
Platio turns sidewalks into solar collectors
Platio is a new company from Hungary dedicated to putting solar panels just about everywhere. They’re starting with sidewalks. Founded by a team of engineers and architects the system uses solid solar panels overlaid on plastic backing that ensures the panels won’t break when stepped on or rolled over and that each panel connects with […]