What is the Silver Tsunami and How Do You Deal with It?
People are living longer across the board. While very few will tell you this is a bad thing, it does present challenges in the world’s economies. As a large population of older people age out of the workforce, more and more employers are feeling the sting of filling vacancies. If…
How Much Financial Illiteracy Costs Americans
Financial literacy may be one of modern life’s most valuable skill sets. Unfortunately, as essential as it may be, financial skills are taught in very few public schools. With an absence of school instruction, most people who are not taught by a family member or seek information out will find…
How to Promote Electric Vehicle Adoption
As the realities of climate change show themselves more and more, it is important for us as a society to make what changes we can to mitigate the damage we do to our environment. Reducing the emissions from vehicles, large and small, is one way we can make a difference.…
Strategies for Sustainable Behavior Change
The power of habit is incredible. Many of us act, dress and interact the way we did in grade school, well into adulthood. In fact, most of our habits, both good and bad, are instilled in us by age 9. Once we’ve developed those habits, it can be very difficult…
What Is Civic Engagement?
Relationships take work. That’s true of business relationships, friendships, marriages and so forth. To keep a relationship healthy, it takes active participation in that relationship. And that is as true of a relationship with your community and society at large as it is between two people. Civic engagement is about…
What Is Civic Participation?
To operate successfully, a society requires active participation from its citizenry. That participation can come in many forms. In fact, many people actively participate in their communities without even realizing that they are doing something special. Civic Participation is most often defined as the act of individuals and communities becoming…
EV Adoption Rates and Things That Will Accelerate It
Electric vehicles are still somewhat new to the auto world, and there are some barriers that have slowed adoption rates. These new vehicles were expensive and had short ranges, and there weren’t a lot of charging locations. If you lived in the country, it may have been hard to justify…
The State of EV Adoption and Factors for Quicker Endorsement
Electric vehicles are going to be a big part of our lives in the near future. Not only are they necessary to protect the planet, but also in helping us move on from finite fuel sources. With EVs playing that kind of role in our future lives, you’d think EV…
Why is community involvement important?
We have very different relationships with our communities than we did just a half century ago. Prior to globalization, our communities more or less began and ended in our hometowns or immediate neighborhoods. We knew the people in our communities, and we helped each other out. Community involvement was assumed.…










