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3 Reasons for Implementing Sustainability Goals
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3 Reasons for Implementing Sustainability Goals

Implementing sustainability goals can be beneficial for your business in three ways. Firstly, it increases innovation and collaboration by delivering innovative solutions to global issues such as climate change, water and food crises, poverty, conflict, and inequality. Secondly, working towards a sustainable business model can enhance how customers perceive your company and products or services. Lastly, sustainable practices can enable risk management by mitigating environmental, social, and governance risks, making life easier for you and your business. The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide powerful goals for improving our world by laying out where we must go and how to get there. All companies, regardless of their industry or size, can contribute to SDG.

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Nichelle Nichols  (a.k.a Lt. Nyota Uhura )
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Nichelle Nichols (a.k.a Lt. Nyota Uhura )

Star Trek and Star Wars fans can agree that Nichelle Nichols in the role of Lt. Nyota Uhura impacted history. However, many people do not realize that Ms. Nichols continued to impact history and space exploration even when Star Trek ended. She volunteered from 1977 - 2015 with NASA to both promote its programs and help recruit diverse astronauts.

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Project Design: Help Files Template
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Project Design: Help Files Template

Creating amazing user documentation for a Project is critical to the project's success. With good user documentation, a tool becomes easier to use, increases the chance of mass adaption and citation, reduces the support burden for the developer, creates raving fans, and increases the professional feel of the project. All these benefits can lead to increase funding and opportunities for the developers and happy users.

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silence of our Friends
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silence of our Friends

"In the end, we will not remember the words of our enemies but the silence of our FRIENDS." said Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. . Using the Do No Harm Checklist can help ensure your Data Visualizations and Analysis are friends to all.

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Update: Resources (R / Health & Science)
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Update: Resources (R / Health & Science)

Updated: R / Science & Health

The Resource Page was updated this weekend. First, in the R section, numerous links were added to the tools and training subsection. In the Science and Health section, several links from the Ocean Health Index are now included.

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Who Can Reduce The Plastic Crisis?
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Who Can Reduce The Plastic Crisis?

The top 20 producers in 2019 of single-use plastic items make 50 % of all items globally. The top 100 producers account for 90 % of the products produced. Single-use Plastic (SUP) is 98 % manufactured from fossil fuels and accounts for 1/3 of the plastic made. This use of virgin plastic means more pollution in the environment, less recycling, and more waste. A small group of people can change the world better if they move away from single-use plastics to produce their products.

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Nurses' Salaries - Best and Worst in US
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Nurses' Salaries - Best and Worst in US

Like the cost of living, nursing median salaries are different in different states. The national median salary average is $74,313, according to the Registered Nursing Labor Stats (1998-2020). Eleven states have a higher than average nursing salary, while thirteen states below the average wage for Nurses. Twenty-six state the salaries are within +/- 10 % of the national average.

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