Dairy farmer Michael Cains remembers clearly the wet and stormy night that he decided to install renewable energy to improve his power reliability. Key points: – Farmers are experimenting with all types of renewable technology – Some are trading renewable energy with neighbours – Solar is popular, but systems using woodchips and straw as biomass…
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‘Quiet Quitting’ Isn’t New, but It Does Feel Different This Time
It’s not just a “Gen Z thing.” A form of quiet quitting has been happening for decades.But in this case, the pandemic further changed our relationship to work.Is quiet quitting truly a trend? A man sits on a bench in a New York City subway station and reflects on “quiet quitting.” He says in the…
J&J continues to sell talc-based baby powder in India, despite discontinuing in U.S. and Canada – The Hindu
India is a part of the pharmaceutical giant Johnson and Johnson’s (J&J) “worldwide portfolio assessment and commercial decision to transition to an all cornstarch-based baby powder portfolio.’’ In its statement the Company said that as a result of this transition, talc-based Johnson’s baby powder will be discontinued globally in 2023. The announcement earlier this month…
Mandela Barnes called anti-lockdown demonstrators ‘selfish,’ praised Black Lives Matter protests for unity
Wisconsin Lt.Gov.Mandela Barnes, a Democrat running to represent the Badger State in the Senate, quickly changed his tune on protests in 2020, from condemning COVID-19 lockdown protests to praising Black Lives Matter protests.In March 2020, Wisconsin Democrat Gov.Tony Evers’ administration implemented strict COVID-19 restrictions that prohibited non-essential travel and required non-essential businesses and operations to…
Indian economy’s mixed signals
[indianexpress.com.] In a few days from now, the GDP estimates for the first quarter of the ongoing financial year will be released.The Reserve Bank of India has pegged growth for the quarter at 16.2 per cent in its most recent update.For the full year, it expects the economy to grow at 7.2 per cent, marginally…
It’s not just inflation. People aren’t visiting clothing stores like they used to because they’re sick of loungewear.
As many segments of the economy roar back from pandemic-driven slumps, consumers still aren’t returning to stores like they used to.Sluggish traffic continues to dog apparel retailers, which are now sitting on large piles of inventory that they have to discount in order to sell.Walmart Inc.and Nordstrom Inc.are among major companies that have announced plans…
It’s not just inflation. People aren’t visiting clothing stores like they used to because they’re sick of loungewear. – MarketWatch
As many segments of the economy roar back from pandemic-driven slumps, consumers still aren’t returning to stores like they used to. Sluggish traffic continues to dog apparel retailers, which are now sitting on large piles of inventory that they have to discount in order to sell.Walmart Inc.WMT, +0.67% and Nordstrom Inc.JWN, -0.81% are among major…
Truth Social faces financial peril as worry about Trump’s future grows
Former president Donald Trump’s Truth Social website is facing financial challenges as its traffic remains puny and the company that is scheduled to acquire it expresses fear that his legal troubles could lead to a decline in his popularity.Get the full experience.Choose your plan ArrowRight Six months after its high-profile launch, the site — a…
Barbie honors Madam C.J. Walker with doll in ‘Inspiring Women’ series
A new doll from Barbie’s inspiring women series honors Madam C.J.Walker , whose hair-care business made her the first documented self-made female millionaire.”As a pioneer in entrepreneurship, philanthropy and activism, creating the blueprint for the self-made American businesswoman and innovators of the twentieth century, Madam C.J.Walker is an embodiment of our Barbie Inspiring Women series,”…
NDTV | The outlier in a noisy television news space
Merely hours after a Fitch Group unit, CreditSights, came up with a report that called the Adani Group “deeply overleveraged” and that the group’s “overly ambitious debt-funded growth plans could… spiral into a massive debt trap”, the Adani Group, in an unrelated press release, said it had made a bid to take over NDTV by…