Local Businesses vs Chain Stores
Supporting your local businesses has more of a positive chain reaction than you might think. We wished we could say more but the image above says it all.
Stretching to Help a Social Cause:
A Proven Step Ahead of the Career Ladder
A study by Harvard has revealed that one of their secrets to getting promoted quickly is doing Stretch Assignments. This is done by getting out of your comfort zone and learning new things beyond what you know at present for you to learn and grow.
If this stretch assignment isn’t available within your company, you can try searching outside of it (with your boss’s approval of course J). Sharing your expertise and devoting some of your spare time for a start-up company who has a social cause (like supporting a business that provides parts of its profits directly to charity) will reflect a positive merit to your career path. You can share what you experienced to your company to provide innovative solutions that you believe will propel your company to greater heights!
UAE Ranks Third in World’s Biggest Ecological Footprint
Now before you think that this is another achievement by the UAE, unfortunately it isn’t. A study conducted by the Global Footprint Network shows that the UAE has scaled up the usage of natural resources. The good news is that the UAE hasn’t turned a blind eye to this problem and has several government and non-government entities who are making gradual yet substantial changes to amend the situation. This doesn’t mean that we should rest on our laurels though – we should find means to cooperate in our own ways to help preserve the beauty of Mother Earth.
Just Eat It: A Food Waste Documentary
If there’s one thing we can all agree on, it’s the fact that we all LOVE eating. Whether it is delicious food cooked from home or meals served at a posh restaurant, we enjoy every moment of savoring the flavours of each bite. But have we ever wondered what happens behind the scenes of “unwanted” food? The documentary “Just Eat It” shows how the filmmakers managed to survive a six-month ordeal feasting on discarded food from the grocery stores and from their friends and family’s fridges.
