Historical scholarship on business-environment interactions has largely sidestepped the study of corporate innovations that had both economic and environmental benefits. This issue is examined through late-nineteenth-century initiatives sponsored by the British Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, whose aim was to document and promote the creation of profitable by-products out of polluting industrial waste and emissions. A case is made that the individuals involved in this effort not only anticipated concepts and debates now at the heart of the modern sustainable development literature, but also that their work questions some fundamental premises of this discourse.
PRESQUE ISLE At the University of Maine at Presque Isle, Wisdom of St. Agatha rallied from an 11-point halftime deficit to defeat Greater Houlton Christian Academy 47-40 in boys basketball action Thursday night. Nathan Boynton led the Pioneers with 14 points. Curtis Picard scored nine of his 10 points in the second half while Kyle Daigle had all eight of his points in the second half.
Photos by Sue Vorenberg/The Columbian M. Knapp and his family lie buried near the western edge of Fisher Cemetery. Knapp and his wife, Rachel Fisher Knapp, were pioneers in east Vancouver. The cemetery was established on land donated by William Simmons, who named it for his wife, Rachel Knapps sister Ann Jemima Fisher Simmons.
Grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will help attract top-notch professionals for careers in public education leadership positions OAKLAND, Calif., May 12, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Education Pioneers, a national network of leaders and entrepreneurs committed to improving leadership within public education, but outside the classroom, today announced it received a $7.6 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant will allow Education Pioneers to attract and develop more than 500 professionals, many of whom are specifically trained in data and analysis, to work in school districts, public charter organizations and state departments of education. This is the largest grant Education Pioneers has received in its eight years of operation. This award showc...
Maggie Dunbar recorded 16 assists and six kills as University High School's volleyball team extended its Corn Belt Conference winning streak to 59 with a 25-8, 25-17 victory at Pontiac on Thursday night. Logan Walling and Bailey Nichol added five kills apiece for the Pioneers (4-0, 2-0). Emily White paced Pontiac (1-4. 0-2) with four assists while Alex Brown had three kills.
Senior forward Mia Hartung scored 11 points to lead a balanced attack as the University High School girls basketball team defeated Olympia, 50-15, in a Corn Belt Conference basketball game Thursday night in Normal. Destiny Ramsey added 10 points and a team-high nine rebounds for the Pioneers, who improved to 13-11 overall and 9-2 in league play.
Pioneers of Financial Economics Volume 2: Twentieth-Century Contributions, edited by Geoffrey Poitras with Franck Jovanovic, is reviewed.
Marcus LoVett Jr. scored a game-high 34 points, including a 3- pointer at the end of regulation, to lead the Providence boys' basketball team to an 83-78 overtime victory in an out-of-bracket game at the National Prep Classic in Santa Maria. LoVett sank three 3-pointers and was 15 of 19 from the free- throw line. He scored eight of Providence's 13 points in the extra period, contributing to the Pioneers' second straight overtime win after delivering a school-record 57 points Saturday against St. Joseph of Santa Maria.
[Edwin P. Kilroe] wasn't satisfied. He wanted [MARCUS GARVEY] stopped and attempted to asassinate him by sending "hit man" George Tyler. Tyler informed Garvey upon arriving at his Negro World office that Kilroe and sent him. He pulled out a gun then and shot Garvey four times, wounding him badly but not killing him. She was bom into slavery in Dorchester County, Maryland. [HARRIET TUBMAN] grew up under the constant sting of her masters' whips, eventually suffering severe head trauma at the hands of an irate slave owner who threw a heavy weight at another slave but ended up hitting her instead. After escaping from captivity, Harriet Tubman made thirteen missions to rescue over seventy slaves using the-network of antislavery activists and sale houses known as the Underground Railroad. Slo...
Kansas came into being through the blood, sweat and tears of some courageous folks -- men and women who were determined to conquer the wilderness and the ideals of our expanding country. As we celebrate Kansas' sesquicentennial during a period of constitutional challenge and national struggle, I would like to reflect on the lives of Mr. A.G. Patrick and Mr. John Wesley Roberts, my great-grandfathers and Kansas pioneers, frontier newspapermen and political rabble-rousers during the mid-1800s.
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