Day archives: January 23rd, 2010

Connecting and Giving: A Report on How Mid-life and Older Americans Spend Their Time, Make Connections and Build Communities

AARP – Connecting and Giving: A Report on How Mid-life and Older Americans Spend Their Time, Make Connections and Build Communities, January 2010. “Key findings of the August 2009 telephone survey revealed that: The nature of civic engagement is changing, becoming more personal and more secular. Mid-life and older Americans are less likely to join …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

Interior OID Finds That Capture of Endangered Jaguar Was Intentional

News release: “[January 21, 2010] the Interior Department’s Inspector General office released a report concluding that the last known wild jaguar in the United States, dubbed “Macho B,” who was captured and killed last year in Arizona, had been intentionally caught by employees of the Arizona Game and Fish Department in a snare. This directly …

Subjects: Government Documents

Sixty Corporations Begin Measuring Emissions from Products and Supply Chains

World Resources Institute: “On January 20th, sixty corporations begin measuring the greenhouse gas emissions of their products and supply chains by road testing a new global framework that is part of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Initiative. Developed by the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), the two new …

Subjects: Knowledge Management