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As an advocate of green living and environmental preservation, I’m also an advocate of new form based zoning laws that address the destructive effects of urban sprawl.

Which is why I’m excited about the U.S. Green Building Council of Alabama’s seminar on SmartCode, a model-transect based development code that helps developers create compact cities or communities that minimize cars, traffic, and pollution while supporting pedestrian and bicycle traffic. SmartCode is intended for local calibration to individual neighborhoods or communities, is meant to keep towns and developments compact and rural lands open, and could be put to good use right here in our own piece of the world.

The seminar will feature Faulkner Law Professor Chad Emerson, who is also a published author on land planning law, and will take place on Sept. 21 from 11:30-1:00 in Montgomery. To register, please visit http://www.usgbcofal.org/event.php?cn=136.

Doors and school security go hand in hand, as every teacher, administrator, and PTA parent knows. Doors must be strong, durable, and reliable in order to keep schools physically safe, and Special-Lite doors have long met these key requirements. But Special-Lite goes a step further by manufacturing doors that protect students from the unseen risk of harmful emission.

For instance, Special-Lite doors were the first exterior entrance products to be GreenGuard Certified through the Greenguard Environmental Institute (GEI), which means they were the first to seriously address the impact that doors can have on indoor air quality.

Because doors can emit volatile organic compounds such as formaldehyde and phthalates, Special-Lite took action and eliminated the issue with its GreenGuard Certified doors. Special-Lite doors have stood up to rigorous testing, including GEI’s Children & Schools Standard, and have created a product that is safe for all, and especially for children. Special-Lite’s attention to safety, in every sense of the word, makes it a great choice for schools.

Social media is changing business, fundamentally. Everything from communication to personal interactions and the very culture of organizations is shifting as a result, making social media potentially the biggest change in business communication since the introduction of mass media. In this video from Radian6, Marcel Lebrun riffs on the new notions of how the medium and the message are working together more powerfully than ever before.

You need to learn to say “no” to find true career satisfaction, Amber Riviere writes. Don’t be afraid of turning down work that doesn’t fuel your passion, feels wrong in your gut or is draining you emotionally. “It’s just as important to turn away the wrong opportunities as it is to jump on the right ones,” she writes. Web Worker Daily