The Mobile Workforce, Gross National Trash data, and more

• American City & County reports on a new study by ICMA on the costs of workforce mobility. See ICMA's March 2009 issue of ICMA Management Perspective for the article, "Mobile Workforce Management."
  


• Docuticker.com points to the Energy Information Administration's Annual Energy Outlook, which "presents projections and analysis of US energy supply, demand, and prices through 2030."
  


• Another post from Docuticker takes you to a new report by the National Institute on Money in State Politics. According to this report, five major communications companies contributed almost $28M between 2001-2007 to state candidates, ballot measures, etc. Virginia apparently received almost $1.5M during that time period. See the report,
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• Greenbiz.com reports on a new report by the McKinsey Global Institute that warns of another oil shortage as soon as 2010. See "Averting the next energy crisis: The demand challenge" for more.
  


• Another Greenbiz.com item comes from Joel Makower, author of Strategies for the Green Economy, who examines recent data on what he has coined Gross National Trash - the percentage of non-industrial waste (municipal solid waste) in our landfills.
  


• Government Technology reports on the Top 50 Government Innovations for 2009 that were just announced by the John F. Kennedy School of Government's Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard .
  


• Global Kids is holding an online forum in a few weeks called FOCUS: Cross-Generational Voices on Digital Media and Society, which will look at online ethics and life online - it's open to parents, educators, and teens.
  
  
• Wired has a Reuters story on new research "that shows surfing the Internet for fun during office hours increases productivity."