Amanda Reaume

Companies can get stuck in an endless cycle of office equipment and technology upgrades.
Every five or so years, they invest in better, faster, higher-tech and more environmentally friendly systems. But this continual process of replacing old office gear can have a big impact on the environment. Around 8.5 million tons of office furniture and tech get dumped into landfills each year.
Much of the waste goes overseas and pollutes landfills, potentially leaching out toxic chemicals like lead, me...

Climate change and pollution obviously have a big impact on public health. But can we actually leverage climate mitigation strategies to have positive effects for both the environment and human health?
That’s the question that Forum for the Future, in collaboration with Walgreen Boots Alliance, GSK Consumer Healthcare and Bupa, has been exploring. Their findings are out in a new Report ‘Driving Co-Benefits for Climate and Health – How private sector action can accelerate progress’, published ...

The legal industry is ripe for tech disruption.
That’s partly because the field is rife with paperwork, whether it’s the records that first-year attorneys and other staffers need to search for discovery or the hard copies of legal documents that many firms are legally required, or think it’s critical, to keep. All that paperwork represents costs—the cost of the work hours needed to search through, organize and file all that documentation, as well as the cost of physical storage space itself. ...

Paperwork is a challenge for all teachers. For some — such as special education teachers, who are responsible for a particularly large amount of documentation — paperwork can become overwhelming.
One reason for this is that teachers’ work is heavily legislated — and legislation leads to a need for bureaucratic record-keeping. Federal education initiatives such as the Common Core Standards have increased the accountability requirements for nearly all public school educators. The federal Indivi...