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"The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged from it, who don't enjoy it, who don't get any real benefit from it." Ken Robinson - TED Video: http://ted.us1.list-ma ... 666a2
Northwestern Energy
Great Falls Development Authority
- NorthWestern Energy Seeking Carbon Offset Projects
Eligible conservation projects must either reduce carbon emissions or promote the incremental absorption of carbon from the atmosphere.
MEDA -Montana Economic Developers Association
- Great Falls Development Authority President Brett Doney: "Big business news coming to Great Falls, Montana in early 2014"
Doney said four big business announcements will be made in the first couple of months of 2014, two about expansions of existing primary sector businesses, one about a new primary sector business and another about a new major retail project.
Montana Business
- January 2014 MEDA Online News
Economic Development organizations that do not have a website or wish to have theirs updated at a minimal cost should contact the MEDA office ASAP for more information.
Careers
- White Sulphur Springs, Montana hospital says NextGen Healthcare Information Systems of Texas never installed health records system
White Sulphur Springs' hospital, the Mountainview Medical Center, is suing a health record system company, saying it didn't install $441,000 in electronic equipment as promised.
Government
- How to Interview Your Next Boss
On a job interview, you're interviewing your next boss as surely as he or she is interviewing you.
Other Economies
- Money on the table: Montana Department of Revenue allows Elderly Homeowner/Renter Tax Credit
The 2EC is essentially a refund on the property taxes you've paid based on your income, but it's also available to qualifying renters.
Regional Economic Development
- How Boulder, Colorado Became America's Startup Capital
An unlikely story of tree-huggers, commies, eggheads, and gold.
Connectivity & Communications
- Innovation Districts: The Next Big Urban Idea
This new model -- the Innovation District -- clusters leading-edge anchor institutions and cutting-edge innovative firms, connecting them with supporting and spin-off companies, business incubators, mixed-use housing, office, retail and 21st century urban amenities.
Non-Profit News
- Love blooms on dating website for farmers - FarmersOnly.com
"City folks just don't get it."
The Creative and Cultural Economy
- When Ben Affleck Wants to Change the World, He Calls Montana's Whitney Williams of williamsworks
For 10 years, Williams has run Seattle-based consulting firm williamsworks, helping brands and boldface names harness their fame, cash, and influence to do serious good. Still, asked what far-flung location she’d like to visit next, Williams thinks about it for a second and says firmly, “I want to go to Montana.”
Cool Stuff That's Coming
- The Book of Tree - Smoke Elser, the legendary wilderness cowboy, shares his thoughts on a lifetime in the wilderness and the future he imagines.
As part of our global campaign on re-imagining our connection to the natural world, here is the first in a series of videos to be released this next year.
Transportation
- Silicon Valley pioneer Rodney Perkins set to launch revolutionary hearing aids
Soundhawk's Bluetooth headset and associated smartphone app will help millions of people, including those who don't technically have hearing loss, in noisy environments such as restaurants.
- Ford's experimental car has solar panels on roof
Instead of shielding the vehicle from the sun, the structure uses lenses made of acrylic to concentrate sunlight on the car's roof, boosting the amount of electricity the solar cells generate. The cells recharge the battery.
- 54 Million Self-Driving Cars on the Road by 2035, Study Finds
By 2035, nearly 54 million autonomous vehicles will be in consumers' driveways worldwide and annual sales of the vehicles will reach almost 12 million
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