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New Ways to Stay Connected to Businesses

How can we stay in touch with businesses after the COVID19 pandemic? New tools Google has provided businesses to help stay connected to consumers. How to help support businesses after the pandemic. We cannot deny that businesses have been severely impacted by COVID19. With that being said, Google has come out with a series of […]

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New Tools For Working Remotely

How can teams productively and efficiently work from home? New tools created to help people working remotely. Six new companies making way and what they have to offer. Traditionally, employees are connected through their work that is being done at a desk in a cubicle or office and meetings that are being held in conference […]

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Hotel Technology Trends

 What can we expect as hotels start opening back up? New practices in the hospitality industry. Cleanliness and sterilization of rooms What the future looks like post-COVID19. Hospitality businesses in the United States are slowly beginning to open up. Along with that also comes the restrictions and subject to follow SOPs.  Hotels have, slowly, started […]

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Wildlife at Risk: COVID19

 Endangered species and poaching are a problem that seems to have been forgotten about through this pandemic. Since travel restrictions and cancellations, international tourism has been hit hard, in turn, leaving the endangered species in even greater danger. Although there are debt relief and other assistance, we need to start thinking of other long-term ways […]

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Poaching Proceeds During the COVID19 Pandemic

There are many things that the pandemic has put a halt to, but poaching is not one of them. In fact, poaching has picked up in South Africa.  Land that is typically used by visitors and safari guides is being encroached on by poachers. Many elephants, rhinos, lions, and other African wildlife are being pushed […]

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Taking to the Sky for Supplies

Social distancing has become the new normal for us since the pandemic hit. Because of this, we have needed to find alternative ways to get deliveries and medical supplies to consumers other than your typical human contact delivery methods. Drone-based services are offering deliveries through the sky, which gives us the best of both worlds […]

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Mental Health Benefits of Getting Outside

It is easy to forget that we are living, breathing organisms – albeit, highly evolved ones – with intrinsic ties to the Earth and organic matter. The 21st-century brain is overstimulated by constant topics and multitasking requirements, keeping it in a constant state of processing, perception, and fight-or-flight reactivity. Technology, growing population density, and the […]

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Cities Made For People

What if cities were made for people? What if cities helped us to live longer? What if we saw a drop in respiratory disease because we stopped driving as much and we lived longer? Imagine cities without millions of cars on the roadways.  Build Cities for Bikes, Buses, and Feet—Not Cars, posted on Wired, really […]

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Technology and Coronavirus Testing

 How can technology be used for good, in times like these?  Little is yet to be known about COVID-19 because of a lack of widespread available testing and many other factors.  Our response to this infectious disease has two phases: containment and mitigation. Containment happens when initial cases begin to appear. Without the ability to […]

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Singapore was ready for COVID-19 – Are You?

As we look for solutions and how to better prepare for the potential, of future pandemics, Asia’s preparedness provides a good model for:  Implementing new health infrastructure, travel controls, and protocols for identifying sick individuals. Plenty of tests for everyone. Using their experiences with prior outbreaks to build a system—and then sustaining it How Singapore […]

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