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Fifth-Grader’s Petition Prompts Jamba Juice to Ditch Styrofoam0
- Green Products
- August 31, 2012
10-year-old Mia Hansen was visiting a Jamba Juice when she noticed the abundance of Styrofoam cups doled out with every drink order. She started a petition on Change.org saying "Styrofoam takes so long to break down into the Earth. In the ocean, several animals think that this product is food, so when they go to
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- Green Initiatives
- August 31, 2012
10-year-old Mia Hansen was visiting a Jamba Juice when she noticed the abundance of Styrofoam cups doled out with every drink order. She started a petition on Change.org saying "Styrofoam takes so long to break down into the Earth. In the ocean, several animals think that this product is food, so when they go to
READ MOREFifth-Grader’s Petition Prompts Jamba Juice to Ditch Styrofoam0
- Environmental Well-Being
- August 31, 2012
10-year-old Mia Hansen was visiting a Jamba Juice when she noticed the abundance of Styrofoam cups doled out with every drink order. She started a petition on Change.org saying "Styrofoam takes so long to break down into the Earth. In the ocean, several animals think that this product is food, so when they go to
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Managing Emotions in the Workplace: Do Positive and Negative Attitudes Drive Performance?0
- Financial & Workplace Well-Being
- August 31, 2012
Employees' moods, emotions, and overall dispositions have an impact on job performance, decision making, creativity, turnover, teamwork, negotiations and leadership. Sigal Barsade, a Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania management professor who studies the influence of emotions on the workplace, explains, "Positive people cognitively process more efficiently and more appropriately. If you're in a
READ MOREThe Power of a Grandmother’s Heart0
- Making a Positive Difference
- August 31, 2012
Diane Latiker, 54, took it upon herself to start a nonprofit community in her Chicago South Side living room for kids living amidst rampant gang violence. The program, Kids Off The Block, has grown since 2003 to become a successful mentoring site and a safe haven for Chicago's youth, serving 300 children last year. Latiker,
READ MOREChanging Our Tune on Exercise0
- Health & Healing
- August 31, 2012
Desperate to find ways to get people to exercise, psychologists and researchers believe they've found a new approach that will be more effective than the promise of future health benefits has been for most people. Jane Brody points to experts who now recommend marketing physical exercise like you would a consumer product: "portray physical activity
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