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6 Stocks Cashing In On The $30 Trillion Impact Investing Trend

Impact Investing.That’s what they’re calling it… And it’s a movement that has grown by over 600% in the past decade. In fact, there are over $30 trillion in assets under management in portfolios with a focus on sustainable investments…and the revolution is showing no sign of slowing anytime soon.To say…

bubmagMarch 31, 2020

Solar Storm

Voyager 2 flew through a giant magnetic gas bubble during Uranus flyby

Monday, March 30th 2020, 6:10 pm - Decades-old data from Voyager 2 has revealed something new about the solar system's oddball planet When NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew past Uranus in January of 1986, it gave us our first up-close look at the distant ice giant. Now, over three decades…

bubmagMarch 31, 2020

Aral Sea

How the Mongols Crushed Russia at the Battle of Kalkha River

A tumultuous discussion raged in the hall of Mstislav III “The Old” Romanovich, the Grand Prince of Kiev, in March 1223. An embassy of Turkic-speaking Polovtsian nomads humbly stood before the throne of the Russian prince. The embassy had arrived earlier in the day bearing rich gifts that included a bounty…

bubmagMarch 31, 2020

Plastic Pollution

Seven Simple Ways To Reduce Your Plastic Footprint

Getty Plastic bottles, carry bags, six-pack rings, plastic straws, disposable cutlery and styrofoam takeout containers—plastic products like these are so ubiquitous that we barely even notice them, let alone think of the damage they are doing to the environment. Over 300 million tons of plastic is produced every year, 50%…

bubmagMarch 30, 2020

NOAA

Ticker: Some must wait for unemployment; NOAA suspends observer rules

Gov. Charlie Baker urged Massachusetts residents including gig workers and the self-employed not to seek aid through the existing state portal unless they qualify for unemployment insurance under the existing, prerelief package system. “If you attempt to apply for them now, you won’t be able to get through the system…

bubmagMarch 30, 2020

Maduro

Maduro should take U.S. offer to negotiate his exit from Venezuela, Trump official says

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bubmagMarch 30, 2020

Elon Musk

Medtronic is sharing its portable ventilator design specifications and code for free to all

Healthcare and biomedical engineering company Medtronic was in the news recently because Tesla CEO Elon Musk had discussions with the company about the automaker’s potential plans to build ventilator hardware in order to address the COVID-19 crisis. Today it’s doing something potentially far more impactful. Medtronic is making available to…

bubmagMarch 30, 2020

Little Italy

11 new developments will bring more than a thousand affordable units to Chicago

Eleven new developments bringing a combined 1,083 units of affordable housing to Chicago’s North, South, and West sides are moving forward after being selected by the city to receive Low-Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC). Officials choose projects based on revised criteria from the Department of Housing, which was re-established as…

bubmagMarch 30, 2020

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

What Uncertainty Teaches

Source: SvetaZi/Shutterstock Living in the time of COVID-19 gives all of us a strong and clear taste of uncertainty. Our welfare is on the line and we are trapped at home with our questions, our vulnerabilities, and the vulnerabilities of others. Even in the midst of doing all we can…

bubmagMarch 30, 2020

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

What Uncertainty Teaches

Source: SvetaZi/Shutterstock Living in the time of COVID-19 gives all of us a strong and clear taste of uncertainty. Our welfare is on the line and we are trapped at home with our questions, our vulnerabilities, and the vulnerabilities of others. Even in the midst of doing all we can…

bubmagMarch 30, 2020

6 Stocks Cashing In On The $30 Trillion Impact Investing Trend

Voyager 2 flew through a giant magnetic gas bubble during Uranus flyby

How the Mongols Crushed Russia at the Battle of Kalkha River

Seven Simple Ways To Reduce Your Plastic Footprint

Ticker: Some must wait for unemployment; NOAA suspends observer rules

Maduro should take U.S. offer to negotiate his exit from Venezuela, Trump official says

Medtronic is sharing its portable ventilator design specifications and code for free to all

11 new developments will bring more than a thousand affordable units to Chicago

What Uncertainty Teaches

What Uncertainty Teaches

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