Valuation and Cost of Green Buildings – RoGBC, July 7 2009
http://www.rogbc.org/en/valuation-and-cost-of-green-buildings...
Flax and industrial hemp for fibre
How many of us have the courage to plant new crops?
To place together people, financial resources, perseverance and total dedication is not handy to anybody. Plus that it is needed a business-driven man to catalyze permanently in a constructive way the new initiative.
What are you going to do when there is not a critical mass of market players, culture (information, disponibility), know-how, real agricultural machines, people/a current to support it.
I would like to invite you to get familiar with two new crops: flax and industrial hemp for fibre.
Too few people really know about it (hemp being a traditional crops in the early age of Romania). I have been involved in such a project i.e. industrial hemp for fibre (from prospecting markets to cropping and harvesting fibre and seed).
The information is availbale through website by courtesy of Romanian Ministry of Agriculture, Forests and Rural Development:
http://www.madr.ro/pages/page.php?self=01&sub=0104&var=010402&art=0408
This information is in Romanian, if you are interested please let me know and I will be...
Women in business
'In business, it pays to build on your strengths - both what you’re good at and what you’re passionate about – including your strengths and aptitudes as a woman. It also pays to brand yourself and market your accomplishments'.
'Compared to women, men wear a uniform to work. Women have an advantage because we have more “visual packaging tools.” We can employ a wide variety of clothing, color, accessories, hairstyles and make-up so it’s easier to stand out. And from a personal branding perspective, being noticed is important. Don’t mimic the male model – that’s so 20th century. Use the French women’s model: dress like a woman and accentuate your best features. If you don’t have the body of a fashion model, do something wonderful with your hair and clothing. Develop a distinctive look with a signature color, accessories and so on. Work on your posture and how you move'.
'Women have the social gene and an innate ability to build relationships...
EDITORIAL JULY 2009 – CREATIVITY AND NEXT GENERATIONS
I would like to invite you to click on the link below. You'll get in contact with Sir Ken Robinson’s message, which is about creativity, people, children, men and women, human evolution. A usefull message to all of us. Enjoy it!
http://www.personalitatealfa.com/blog/creativitatea-trasatura-de-personalitate-ce-iti-va-imbunatati-enorm-calitatea-vietii/...
Cooling the planet with crops
By carefully selecting which varieties of food crops to cultivate, much of Europe and North America could be cooled by up to 1°C during the summer growing season, say researchers from the University of Bristol. This is equivalent to an annual global cooling of over 0.1°C, almost 20% of the total global temperature increase since the Industrial Revolution.
The growing of crops already produces a cooling of the climate because they reflect more sunlight back into space, compared with natural vegetation. Different varieties of the same crop vary significantly in their solar reflectivity (called ‘albedo’), so selecting varieties that are more reflective will enhance this cooling effect. Since arable agriculture is a global industry, such cooling could be extensive.
To read more please go on http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2009/6091.html...
Prime Minister hopes Romania will become a strategic player of exporting grains and food
Romanian Ministry of Agriculture will finalize within next month the strategy about agriculture, where irrigation plays a key role' declared Emil Boc (tr. Prime Minister) at Calarasi, Romania.
'The Agricultural Ministry will soon implement this project. The core issue is Romania to become from an importer player to an agri-food exporter' declared Boc. He's been asked also if the previous - government project about drought control will still be of interest to be tested in Calarasi county.
The Prime Minister declared that 70% of all agri products and food consumed in Romania is imported knowing that this country can feed 80 million people....
AGRI CAREER AND ABILITIES
This article is written for those who really would like to follow a career in agriculture.
Who is interested to build up his/her agricultural career in Romania or elsewhere in the world?
In this industry we can find activities where people are involved physically and have to explore their visual or mechanical abilities. You are either focused on reaching real performances or you would like to use your experience and judgment to better understand the environment and how to interact with it. Usually people involved in farm activities are lonesome, ready to work in tough conditions and sometimes dangerous. So we discussed here about people who are physically-driven / motivated. Who do u recognize under this description? Either a farmer or a forestry man.
People who are business-driven are running the business as if is theirs, even if it is so or not. The responsibility and rewards for this type of career include all the risks affiliated to the failure of not fulfilling...
Feminine ethics and business.
‘We are going to have a better life when feminine ethics, which value much more cooperation than competition, will penetrate the public life’ – Sandra Pralong.
In public, professional or private lives, generally speaking women are more after the win-win situations where men are looking to prove ‘I am the best. I win and you loose’. Mrs Sandra Pralong, United Nations consultant, is coming to outline this in her recent interview in ‘Cariere’ - Romanian leadership journal.
In the same interview we find a very useful information for us women and for men too. United Nations provided an indicator of human development. In the top of high developed countries are Iceland (before the financial crisis), Norway, Canada, Australia, Holland, Sweden etc. Romania is on 62 out of around 180 countries. These countries have many women involved in the public life and in politics (Romania is on 70, after Republic of Moldavia when about women involved in politics).
Mrs Sandra Pralong finds an interesting...
Editorial May / June 2009 – Feminine Leadership
In March 2009, I attended a conference about Feminine Leadership in Bucharest, Romania. I am not a member of any politic view but I do appreciate a few written words of Princess Margaret of Romania:
‘The queens of Romania, Elisabeth, Maria, Elena and Ana, my mother, they are today serious examples to follow in life. They proved, for the last one and a half century, in times where men were in power, that inspiration, responsibility and the power of personal example may change the world for better’.
Princess Margaret of Romania also mentioned something very useful to us: she wishes all feminine personalities many opportunities to prove their talents and dedication. Each project managed by a woman to be followed by many others!
At the same conference I liked the show of Mrs. Stela Popescu – a true Lady of Romania, Sandra Pralong, Oana Pellea, Maria Grapini, Aurora Liiceanu, Dana Tudorache etc.
Mr Vasile Paun was the one to end up this conference with...
The woman in business – first part.
Women live in a world of men.
Women have different resources than men which together reunify a single whole.
Generally people are looking to reach their success outside their own entity when an essential element is given by their own wealth. The success is not placed somewhere, this is to be found in each of us. Such a truth I believe everyone discovered at a certain moment in their lives, as I also discovered quite soon and as also the great minds of this Earth maintained (i.e. Oprah Winfrey, Einstein, Jack M. Zufelt etc).
To win the respect of ourselves I believe it is the most important thing of our own identity. As also it is important our internal resources to find the right frame in the outside world and so to encourage our good evolution as people and business partners. The external environment tends to become as important as our internal set of resources or wealth.
For every man it is important to...