Metrics
BMI (Body Mass Index)
Why BMI Is a Big Fat Scam ... Body mass index is used to sell weight loss drugs, set insurance premiums, and counsel patients. There's just one little problem.
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Open file 8251
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USA ... Politics
Climate Change
Conservatives Want to Wipe Out Coal Rules…Over a Typo ...
A federal appeals court took a red pen to Obamacare. The president's signature environmental achievement could be next.
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Open file 8252
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Physical Capital ... Infrastructure
Energy ... Climate Change
An Overlooked Contributor to Climate Change: Leaky Pipes
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Open file 8253
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Issues
Taxation ... Inversion
Burger King Mulls Tim Hortons Deal in Tax-Saving Canada Move
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Open file 8254
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Events
New Metrics 14
New Metrics 14 ... Speaker List
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Open file 8255
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Health
Ebola
What Should Scare Us Most About Ebola? ... How wars and climate change affect the health of all the world’s people ... By Laurie Garrett
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Open file 8256
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Country - Ukraine
Background facts
Ukraine ... how big and what economy
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Open file 8257
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Economy
Structure of the Workforce (USA)
A slideshare presentation about the structure of the workforce in the United States
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Open file 8258
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Ideas
Kenneth Rogoff
The Exaggerated Death of Inflation
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Open file 8259
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Ideas
Joss Tantram
What’s the point of capitalism?
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Open file 8260
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Metrics
SASB Questionaire for Meat, Poultry and Dairy Industry
Working paper for SASB Questionaire for Meat, Poultry and Dairy Industry
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Open file 8261
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Health ... Malaria
Event ... Discussion 140911
Live Q&A: prevention or cure, what’s the best approach in malaria control? ...
Is attacking the mosquito or curing the patient the best way to manage this disease? Join our debate on 11 September, 1-3pm
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Open file 8262
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Ideas
Gar Alperovitz ... Natalie Robinson
Eureka! What We Must Do: A Review of Gar Alperovitz’s “What Then Must We Do?”
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Open file 8263
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International Finance
Jubilee ... USA Network
Stop vulture funds and transform the global financial system ... A/68/L.57
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Open file 8264
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Ideas
Tarek Rizk
Invisible Hand versus Squeaky Wheel ...
Getting beyond short-term thinking to understand what drives corporations and what threatens the health of our financial system.
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Open file 8265
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LinkedIn Discussion
Group: The Purpose of the Corporation
Discussion: A new piece on combatting short-termism in The Aspen Journal of Ideas. Full disclosure, my colleague Rebecca Darr, and I contributed to the piece.
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Open file 8266
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Issues
IRIN
Some links to IRIN reporting on issues around the world
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Open file 8267
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LinkedIn Discussion
Group: Impact Investing Forum
Discussion: The Supply Chains of the Future: How strategic supply chain investment could transform the garment industry
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Open file 8268
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Organizations
ABS
ABS Opens Office in Beijing
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Open file 8269
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Companies
Jaguar Land Rover
Jaguar Land Rover on Trend with huge energy savings thanks to building energy management system (BEMS)
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Open file 8270
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Companies
Jaguar Land Rover
Jaguar Land Rover aims to create opportunities for 12 million people by 2020. But what does that mean? JLR will work with LBG (the London Benchmarking Group) to work out a consistent measurement methodology to accurately report the number of lives improved throughout the program.
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Open file 8271
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Companies
Jaguar Land Rover unit of Tata
Big Interview: Jonathan Garrett ... director of sustainability at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR).
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Open file 8272
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Companies
adidas Group
adidas Group | Case Study ... How the adidas Group prioritizes investments in energy efficiency
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Open file 8273
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Initiatives
Architecture 2030
Architects pledge to phase out carbon in the built environment by 2050 ... Architecture 2030, a not-for-profit organisation focused on climate impacts of the built environment
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Open file 8274
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Initiatives
Interbrand’s 2014 Best Global Green Brands
Ford ranked top global green brand for 2014 as carmakers race ahead
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Open file 8275
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Energy
Transportation
Wirelessly charged hybrid buses roll into London
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Open file 8276
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Company
Coca Cola
Coca-Cola rapped for using too much water
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Open file 8277
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Waste
Plastic
Choking the Oceans With Plastic
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Open file 8278
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Taxation
Tax dodges
Tax Dodge Used by Bain Shifts U.S. Companies Abroad
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Open file 8279
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Housing
Affordable Housing
'Poor Doors' Are Only the Tip of the Affordable Housing Iceberg ...
The controversial practice has everyone up in arms, but there are much more pressing housing policies that need to be changed.
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Open file 8280
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Food
Toxins in the food chain
Tea Time Might Be Over, Once World Wakes Up to Amount of Pesticides Inside Each Cup ... A new report released by Greenpeace reveals high toxin levels in tea from China and India.
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Open file 8281
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Companies
Purpose
Opportunist shareholders must embrace commitment ... Nothing in economics is more important than how companies should be managed
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Open file 8282
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Waste
Plastics
Clara Salina ... Reducing plastic waste through barcode control: 60 year old material has already fully polluted our Planet
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Open file 8283
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Inititative
Planwise
Expert Interview with Vincent Turner on Financial Planning Tools for Mint
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Open file 8284
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People
GOCHA GOGUADZE
LinkedIn information
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Open file 8285
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Impact Investing
Green Bonds
Green Bonds Merge Investor Goals ... When it comes to investing in the environment, it’s getting easier to be green.
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Open file 8286
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Initiatives
Tau Investment Management
The Supply Chains of the Future: How Tau Investment Management is using strategic supply chain investment to transform the garment industry
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Open file 8287
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Sector
Apparel
Unfilled Rana Plaza Fund Exposes Fashion’s Lack of Accountability
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Open file 8288
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Ideas
Fareed Zakaria
Fareed Zakaria's Is Plagued by More Than Plagiarism—He and Other Pundits Suffer from Arrogance ... Zakaria showed his true character in his outburst on 'Charlie Rose.'
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Open file 8289
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Economy
State of the Economy in USA
New Poll: Americans Are More Cynical and Anxious About the Economy than Ever ... A whopping 71 percent think the recession’s impact has permanently dragged down the economy.
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Open file 8290
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Ideas
Fareed Zakaria
Fareed Zakaria’s Problem — And Ours (8/18/11)... a contrarian view of Fareed Zakaria mot in line with my own views
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Open file 8291
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Initiative
B-Team
‘Big egos’ and inaction: whatever happened to the B Team? ...
Critics say Richard Branson’s sustainability initiative has made no real progress one year after launch, Jo Confino calls for fewer press releases and more fist banging
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Open file 8292
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LinkedIn Dialog
Group: DuPont Sustainable Solutions
Discussion: Reflections on Sustainability at the DuPont Executive Forum
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Open file 8293
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Metrics
GDP
Time has come for new indicators besides GDP
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Open file 8294
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Metrics
NIPA / GDP
GDP: One of the Great Inventions of the 20th Century
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Open file 8295
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Metrics
Beyond GDP
GDP 2.0: The Inclusive Wealth Index and Beyond
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Open file 8296
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Metrics
Beyond GDP
A New Balance Sheet for Nations: Launch of Sustainability Index that Looks Beyond GDP ... Growth Masks Fact that Natural Resources Facing Rapid Depletion in 19 out of 20 Countries Assessed
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Open file 8297
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Companies
Portugal ... Espirito Santo
Special Report: The billion-dollar fall of the house of Espirito Santo
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Open file 8298
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Media
Misinformation
NEW: 90% of scientists agree on man-made climate change – but only 11% of the public knows this
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Open file 8299
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Companies
Coca Cola
NEW: Coca-Cola has been named a “shameless and unethical company.” But why? ... The beverage giant abandons bottling plant after using too much water.
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Open file 8300
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