Trash to Treasure - Ron Krueger - NSW Business Chamber

If ever the saying ’where there’ s muck there’s brass’ befits an organisation, it applies to Reverse Garbage - a 35 year old business that takes waste and creatively turns it back into useful everyday items. There’s no end to the organisation’s ingenuity and inventiveness - bicycle tyres fashioned into belts, computer parts turned into funky jewellery and lampshades, recycled plastic moulded into stylish handbags that would not look out of place in a designer store and kiddies’ juice poppers made into neat little purses. These are just a few of hundreds of designs that allow artists to embellish their creativity on a contract basis with the organisation.

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Online Video the Fastest-Growing Medium.

“Having gone from zero to mass market globally in three short years, online video is the fastest-growing media platform in history, according to a new report from social media research consultancy Trendstream and research firm Lightspeed. In one week in January, 97 million Americans viewed a streaming clip online — as many as are tuning into any major broadcast network — according to a recent survey of 1,000 U.S. active Web users ages 16-65.

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A Cultural Fix for Risk Management Failure

How to create a culture that combines healthy risk taking with effective risk management. Want to buy a pile of second mortgages with a loan-to-equity value of 99 to 1, and scant documentation on borrower qualifications? (By the way, those borrowers might not live in the homes they’re mortgaging.) And, sure, it’s possible the borrowers are lying about their income and job status. (But who cares?) Today, even considering such a package seems ridiculous. Yet most of these loans, part of

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100 Excellent Online Tools to Feed Your Creativity

Many experts say that creativity is not necessarily something you have or don’t have, but that can be nurtured and developed. If you are searching for ways to feed your creativity, then take a look at these online tools. From tools that help you organize, plan, and brainstorm to tools that inspire through writing prompts and creative photos to tools that work to develop the creative mind, you will find plenty of inspiration in this list.

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Margaret Wertheim leads a project to re-create the creatures of the coral reefs

Margaret Wertheim leads a project to re-create the creatures of the coral reefs using a crochet technique invented by a mathematician -- celebrating the amazements of the reef, and deep-diving into the hyperbolic geometry underlying coral creation.