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“Right now we are using the atmosphere as a free garbage can.” Dr. Steven Running, University of Montana Nobel Peace Prize Winner
“Missoula snowfall is down 22.7 inches from what it was 50 years ago,” Running said. “It implies that in 50 years, we won’t get any snowfall in Missoula at all.” - "Climate change hits close to home" http://www.matr.net/ar ... .html
Boomtown Institute
Come Home Montana
- The Agurban from Boomtown Institute - Rural America at a Glance
Counties dependent on mining or manufacturing switched from net migration losses to net migration gains during the past 5 years.
Come Home Washington
- Montana Career Opportunity - Sr. Financial Analyst - REC Silicon
This position works cross-functionally and at all levels across the organization. Responsible and active role in budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis and reporting of operational and financial parameters of the facility, for developing cost standards, monitoring cash flow and reporting plant inventory.
- Montana Career Opportunity - Software Developer - Energy Laboratories
Job Duties include developing software applications, Web Services and other systems to aid in ever increasing demand to streamline our processes.
Funding and Building your Business
- The surf's up in Forks, Wash.
But what has lately been dawning on Forks is the realization that its own isolation (60 miles west of Port Angeles, the nearest real city) and proximity both to the uncut forest and mountains of the Olympic National Park, as well as to the big breaking swell of the Pacific along deserted beaches, may actually be worth more than horizontal Douglas firs.
Education
- Startups hoping to reach maturity
Everywhere I go lately, I meet someone starting a company targeting the older population.
- Bootstrap Montana Issues First Loan
The program increases the level of employment in the state, brings new sales revenue into the state and increases the competitiveness of Montana companies.
- Looking for Smart Money: Preparation, Patience are Keys to Success for Angels and Entrepreneurs
The entrepreneur should learn about the importance of preparation from the study and see that the “smart money” investor is a much better partner to have involved in their new business.
- Would You Give This Kid $500,000?
With more venture capital available than ever, even grade-schoolers can get a piece of the action.
- Seven Simple Co-Founder Insights. Important Questions Startup Co-Founders Should Ask Each Other
So, which insights and ideas do you have on picking co-founders?
- How to Name a Name
By the way, I wish someone would create—hopefully it’s available already, and I don’t know about it—a site where I could enter a word in English and simultaneously get the translation in several languages like Japanese, Hawaiian, Hebrew, French, German, Spanish, and Latin.
- Tech companies welcome software written by outsiders
Their goal: boosting sales by increasing the number of games and other applications that run on a single device.
- Companies go green to please workers
An October survey by McLean, Va.-based Jobfox found 5% of professionals are seeking a career change with a company that is environmentally friendly, making it 18th on the list of top career-related choices.
University TechTransfer
- He propels his pupils to appreciate science
"I just happen to have a little liquid nitrogen with me," the teacher says with a grin.
Connectivity & Communications
- Stanford University developing peninsula luxury hotel to serve venture capital market
Stanford University is building an ultra-luxury hotel on Sand Hill Road that's designed to attract high-rolling venture capitalists who can plunk down $400 or more a night.
Cool Stuff That's Coming
- Craigslist or Crimeslist? Popular online classifieds home to thieves, con artists, prostitution
Craigslist Chief Executive Officer and programmer Jim Buckmaster says the vast majority of the transactions over the Web sites are legal, and that his organization works with law enforcement agencies to curtail any criminal activities.
Montana Business
- Torvalds On Where Linux Is Headed In 2008
The creator of Linux is excited about solid-state drives, expects progress in graphics and wireless networking, and says the operating system is strong in virtualization despite his personal lack of interest in the area.
- Never Say Die
The hedge fund set has joined the quest, and some big money and names are betting on a "cure" for aging.
Montana Economic Development
- Education ‘exports’
In Montana, higher education amounted to a $20 million export in the last academic year, according to NAFSA: The Association of International Educators.
- New Ideas Grow at Forsyth, Montana based Spanwell, Inc.
Industrial cleaning challenge? Hazardous job-site? Visit http://www.spanwell.com to see the entire line of Spanwell industrial products.
- Climate change hits close to home
“Missoula snowfall is down 22.7 inches from what it was 50 years ago,” Running said. “It implies that in 50 years, we won’t get any snowfall in Missoula at all.”
North Dakota Business and Economic Development
- Finding economic strengths in the Flathead. Mike Strotheide, the new president and chief executive officer of Montana West Economic Development sees great promise in valley progress
“Economic development is hugely competitive. The world, as you know, is getting flatter by the day,” Mike Strotheide said. “Our competition is not just the next state over. It’s several countries over.”
- Big Sky Economic Development Trust Fund (BSTF) Program Funding Available for local governments to create new qualifying jobs for Montana residents.
The Montana Department of Commerce, BSTF Program will accept applications through December 31, 2007 to be considered in the next quarterly application cycle.
Wyoming Business
- Can aging North Dakota resist change amid immigration debate?
"We simply don't have enough workers."
Non-Profit News
- Virtual school, literal learning in Wyoming
"It's greatly based on parents working with their child all day."
Energy
- Donate to the Montana-based Business Capitalization Program
This business capitalization effort is a free community service by the Center for Social Capital.
- Methow Valley Arts is Partnering with Stone Soup to Reach Broader Markets
The new look better reflects Stone Soup’s goal of creating new economic opportunities that benefit working rural families and minimize impacts to the landscape.
Transportation
- Governors Announce Groundbreaking Energy Efficiency Partnership with Climate Savers Computing Initiative
"The average desktop PC currently wastes half of the power it receives."
- The 5 Stages of Climate Grief by Dr. Steven Running - University of Montana
I recently took a fresh look at the widely recognized concepts on the "5 stages of grief" that Elizabeth Kubler-Ross defined back in the 1970s to summarize how people deal differentially with shocking news, such as being informed that they have terminal cancer. It seems that these stages of grief provide a very good analogy to how people are now reacting to the global warming topic, so I have formulated my "5 Stages of Climate Grief" as follows.
Montana Education Excellence
- A Coming Future When Cars Are Not Privately Owned. Ford Chairman Says New Fuels Are Developing Too Slowly
''If we don't end up with cellulosic ethanol quickly, we are going to hit the wall on ethanol.''
- Infectious enthusiasm - MSU scientists discover new microbes in Yellowstone
“This is, first and foremost, fun for us,” Douglas said. “It's a blast.”
- Montana's shrinking schools: Statewide student decline takes extra toll on rural communities
While public school enrollment statewide has fallen 12 percent in the last two decades, the rate of decline is at least twice as fast in the rural counties north and east of Great Falls.
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