Coworking - shares risk and offers support

Coworking provides a way for the mobile workforce to gather, support each other, and grow without having to commit to pricey private office space. Although coworking spaces tend to flourish in urban centers where independent professionals are the norm, new facilities are popping up all over the world.

But how can you know that there’s enough demand for a coworking space in your town without personally polling each and every remote worker or freelancer in a 20 mile radius? Three space owners share their ideas for gauging interest, and knowing when both you and your community are ready for a shared work space.

Continue »

Military Goes Green - Saves Lives

The military is "going green" not just to save the environment, but to save soldier's lives.

Their efforts are based in part on a recent study from 2007 data that found that the U.S. military loses one person, killed or wounded, for every 24 fuel convoys it runs in Afghanistan. Today, there are hundreds and hundreds of these convoys needed to supply truck fuel — to run air-conditioners and power diesel generators — to remote bases all over Afghanistan.

Continue »