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Business
Make Your Exit Strategy
The Principium Group has introduced a new education program to help green industry business owners create an exit plan. Green Exit University is way for landscapers to not only create an exit strategy, but it teaches them how to execute that exit strategy.
May 22, 2013
Business
Driving Courses to Help Prevent Roadway Accidents
A new program has been designed to help educate drivers on the road. NexTraq has released Online Driver Education Courses, which are powered by I DRIVE SAFELY.
May 15, 2013
Design-Build
Do Your Homework When It Comes to Plants
I thought I knew what I was doing in my backyard as I planted a few Impatiens, Snap Dragons and Lantana. But I was wrong. I wrote an article about how Downy mildew is attacking Impatiens all across the country, and the attack isn’t being reduced by any stretch of the imagination.
April 26, 2013
Business
Stihl Hosts High School Summer Camp
Stihl Inc. is trying to train potential employees well before they hit the job market. The Virginia Beach, Virginia, maker of power tools runs an annual summer camp in which area high school students turn raw materials into finished goods. All told, 40 high school students from grades nine through 12 participated in Stihl’s camp in 2012.
March 11, 2013
Business
Bayer CropScience to Launch Plant Health Research, Education Program
Environmental Science, a division of Bayer CropScience LP, will launch Healthy Turf, Healthy Tomorrow, a multi-faceted program aimed at advancing plant health research and education for superintendents to help ensure the health of their courses – and the industry – for the future.
February 20, 2013
Business
Stihl Sponsors Scholarship for State Park Employees
STIHL Inc. sponsored the National Association of State Park Directors Leadership School at the Oglebay National Training Center in West Virginia.
February 11, 2013
Business
Ariens Offers Model to Bridge Skills Gap
Over the years, I’ve spent considerable time writing and reporting on the manufacturing skills gap. It remains a topic of concern for the industrial sector in Wisconsin as business, education and political leaders continue to work to develop solutions to a problem that stems from manufacturers struggling to fill open jobs while thousands of unemployed workers search for employment but don’t have the necessary skills to make them immediately viable candidates.
December 28, 2012
Business
Cornell Puts Lawn in Library
It’s increasingly popular for college and university libraries to soothe the savage undergraduate at finals time by providing a dose of contact with nature. Therapy dogs are a common choice, but the Cornell University Library went a more unusual route, installing a ”green sward” which remained there through December 14.
December 20, 2012
Business
Botanical Garden
Officials with the Oklahoma Centennial Botanical Garden unveiled their 25-year master plan to the public Wednesday, offering a vision of what the 170-acre site could become.
December 19, 2012
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