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Grow your own jungle: easy exotic plants

Tropical gardening is all too often associated with expense and poor results. But choose your plants wisely and you can turn your patch into a slice of verdant jungle, says James Wong

16 Invasive Species Sold at Garden Centers You Should Never Buy

These 16 invasive species of plants are commonly sold at garden centers - beware of them and DO NOT buy them from your garden store!

Which Walton Are You?

Are you most like John-Boy or Grandpa? Mary Ellen or Olivia? Take the quiz and find out which Walton you are!

Mary Walton, the Woman Who Tamed Pollution

As bad as smoke and noise are now, they were much, much worse during the Industrial Revolution. Fortunately, an inventor named Mary Walton figured out a way to reduce

4 Lessons You Can Learn From the Founder of Walmart, Sam Walton

One day in the early 1960s, 44-year old Sam Walton founded his first department store in Bentonville, Arkansas a few years after being forced to let go of his first successful store for contract problems. Since this day, July 2nd, 1962, Walmart has grown to be the most successful retailer in the world (now is […]

Stopping lawn fertilizer use among ways to protect Sound

Stopping lawn fertilizer from entering it, are among the ways to protect Long Island Sound from environmental harm.

The Top 5 Best Lawn Fertilizers

Not all fertilizers are created equal. When it comes to caring for your greens, it's important to use the best lawn fertilizers. Here's our top five.

How To Target Your Customers Even When They're Not on Amazon

Find out how to use Amazon's demand-side platform to target your customers wherever they are online.

Walmart's quest for low-cost and environmentally friendly food

The retail giant is partnering with unlikely allies in a push for sustainable food production

The New Strategic Edge: Tapping Your Customers’ Personal Passions

To change buying behaviors, companies need to tap into their customers’ driving passions, argues Wolff Olins’s Sam Wilson. Zipcar, Nike, and Grameen Bank get it.

For Online to Really Matter in Education, We Need to Redefine Competency

In the early ‘90s, I could tell what someone thought about the Internet’s prospects for transforming higher education by listening to their vocabulary. If they used terms like “distance learning” or “distance education,” they’d probably been working in continuing education for some time and saw the Internet as simply the latest in a line of…

Why is Formaldehyde Used in Personal Care Products?

Formaldehyde is a recognized cancer-causing agent (carcinogen) by the National Cancer Institute and is in most of the products you buy and use for personal c...

5 Low-Cost Customer Appreciation Strategies

“There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down simply by spending his money somewhere else.” ~ Sam Walton (Founder of Walmart a…

Fertilizer and Mulch Dangers for Dogs.

During the spring and summer months you and your neighbors may be using plenty of fertilizer and mulch. Are these plant nutrients poisonous for dogs?

3 Customer Service Hacks Your Small Business Can Use

Great customer service isn’t just about keeping your customers satisfied. It’s about making them love you so much that they would never dream of going elsewhere. As Sam Walton, the founder of Walmart once said, “The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best but legendary." Some of [...]

Is It Southern Food, or Soul Food?

Two Southern cooks chew on questions of culture, identity and cuisine.

Personality test: Which Walton child are you?