Barb Feldman

"Before Mom learned to drive..." A picture book for babies and toddlers to beginning readers. A story about the pleasure of growing up and of learning new skills -- at any age.

Before the kilometre-long Deh Cho Bridge opened, NWT's North Slave communities including Yellowknife often endured days- or even weeks-long disruptions during winter freeze-up and spring break-up. Crossing the river was hazardous or impossible and any supplies would have to be flown in.

Make Your Own Jewelry Book and Box and Butterfly Bangles and Ladybug Beads (both Reader's Digest Press, 1994 and 1996) sold more than 50,000 copies. I proposed concepts; designed projects; wrote instruction booklets; designed or sourced kit components; produced jewelry prototypes for photography.

Three years ago teacher Tracy Wheeler-Anderson started Naosap Harvest in her small community of Cranberry Portage, 800 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg, Manitoba. She is now shipping organic lake-grown wild rice to gourmet restaurants and appreciative consumers around the world.

With "Uprising," EllisDon takes the suggestion box global, revolutionizing how the construction industry finds solutions for some of its biggest challenges.

The popularity of BYOD ("bring your own device") is growing. Organizations are beginning to recognize the benefits of increased employee flexibility, mobility and productivity when they allow and even encourage employees to use their own laptops, tablets, and smartphones for work.