Wellness
You are what you eat and drink
It’s official: soda tax offers “net good” to society
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Climate Crisis
Corporate Impact
BP Investors Back Climate-Change Proposal Amid Activist Pressure
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Initiatives
Social Enterprise UK
Front and Centre - Putting Social Value at the Heart of Inclusive Growth
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Events: New York June 3rd 2019)
Technology Salon NYC
Join us for the next Technology Salon NYC ... Will Digital Identities Support or Control Us? Technology Salon New York City - June 3 - RSVP Now
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Technology
Overlap between 5G communications and meteorology
CALL 'EM BEFORE THE STORM ... 5G networks could throw weather forecasting into chaos
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Climate Crisis
Area Resiliance
Louisiana has a new plan to prevent flood disasters
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The Trump Presidency
The swamp is bigger than just the politicians
Avenatti indicted for allegedly defrauding Stormy Daniels
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EVENTS / PEOPLE
IIRC
Speakers at the IIRC London Conference in May 2019
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Media / Climate Crisis
Failures of Communication
By Bill Moyers ... What if Reporters Covered the Climate Crisis Like Edward R. Murrow Covered the Start of World War II? ... The new Covering Climate Now project will help media “tell the story so people get it.”
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US Foreign Policy
Not all it's souped up to be
Don’t Let Russiagate Fool You—America Is Still the Ultimate Election-Meddler ... Outrage over Russia’s interference in the 2016 elections obscures the fact that America has been doing the same to other countries for decades.
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US Politics
New York Politics
Working Families Party ... AOC endorses Tiffany Cabán! for District Attorney of Queens, NY
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American Heroes
John Lewis
New Navy Ship Will Be Named After Civil Rights Icon John Lewis
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Linkedin Dialog
Tim Worstall
Mark Carney's Right, Not Everyone Benefits From Free Trade And Globalisation - The Semi-Rich Don't
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Linkedin Dialog
Raz Godelnik
About Amazon
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World Economic Forum
Socio-enviro-economic progress
Productivity ... Industrial Revolution 4.0
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Materials
Insulation
Glavel could replace plastic foam below grade ... Going foam-free is getting easier and more affordable.
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Climate Crisis
Some talk ... no action
Why is there such a disconnect between climate reality and climate action?
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Corporate Irresponsibility
Exxon re Climate Change
Exxon Predicted 2019’s Ominous CO2 Milestone in 1982
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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Analysis by IPBES ... May 2019
Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) ... Media Release: Nature’s Dangerous Decline ‘Unprecedented’; Species Extinction Rates ‘Accelerating’
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Natural Capital
Decades of abuse is catching up
CONSERVATION ... Everything Is Fucked, Major New Extinction Report Finds
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British Industry
Steel Industry
Prem Sikka: British Steel crisis shows dangers of private equity ... Greybull Capital has been associated with a string of bankruptcies but is financially healthy itself.
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EVENTS: Saw Creek
Memorial Day BBQ
Memorial Day BBQ ... Sunday, May 26th at noon
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Technology: Computers
IBM Mainframes
IBM Reinvents the Z Mainframe—Again
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UK Politices
Theresa May
Theresa May is to step down on 7 June after nearly three years as prime minister. ... Theresa May's political career in pictures
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Transport / Urban Mobility
Electric Buses
The bus wars are over. Electricity — and China — won. ... China has 421,000 electric buses. The United States has 300.
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Country: UK
State of Industry
Prem Sikka ... Steel industry ... The British Steel scandal is a corporate disaster entirely made in the UK
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People ... Ultra Rich
Philip Green
Sir Philip Green ... Topshop owner Philip Green plans to close 23 stores in Arcadia rescue ... Group, which has 566 UK and Irish stores, is asking for rent cuts to help save the business
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Country: UK
Brexit
VIDEO: Inside Brexit: How Britain lost Europe
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Infrastructure
Public-Private Partnerships
Public-Private Partnerships Will Never Solve America’s Infrastructure Crisis
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People / Politics
Stuart Eizenstat
The Weapons Industry Lobbyist Advising Joe Biden ...
Stuart Eizenstat has worked as a powerful political advisor, as well as a corporate lobbyist for the oil and arms industries.
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Country: Yemen
For Yemen destruction ... For some others profits
Here’s Exactly Who’s Profiting from the War on Yemen ... And how the U.S. could stop weapon sales if it wanted to.
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Company: Amazon
Impact on Climate
3 takeaways from that failed Amazon employee shareholder resolution on the climate crisis
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Region: Middle East / Saudi Arabia
Logistics
King Abdullah Port in Saudi Arabia is now ranked 83 in the list of the 100 largest container ports in the world
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Region: Middle East / UAE
Industrial Development
Chinese manufacturing giant poised for AED36-billion KIZAD investment ...
Under the agreement, the two entities are looking into a possible 15-year, three-phase plan to develop 7.6 square kilometres of land at KIZAD.
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USA Politics
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
Pelosi uses Trump to her advantage ... President Trump’s escalated attacks on Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) are proving to be just the gift she needed to unify her caucus.
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Corporate Misbehavior
Natural Fruit in Thailand
Anti-Slavery Activism ... 10 Million Baht ($313,000) Defamation Judgment Upheld Against Andy Hall in connection with FinnWatch study
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US Universities
Admissions Scandal
Chinese teenager Sherry Guo’s parents paid US$1.2 million to get her into Yale. So why haven’t they been charged in US college admissions scandal?
Admissions consultant William ‘Rick’ Singer wrote fake application describing Guo as a top-notch soccer player and bribed US coach to submit it
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Events
Saw Creek PA
Memorial-Day-flag-ceremony 2019
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Events
Saw Creek PA
SawCreek Governance ... Meet the candidates event
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Technology
Passenger Rail
Why This Train Is The Envy Of The World: The Shinkansen Story
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Technology
Passenger Rail
VIDEO ... EUROSTAR, Standard Premier, LONDON TO PARIS at 186mph!
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Geopolitics
Cold War ... Berlin Airlift
What if the Soviet Union had shot down the planes during the Berlin Airlift?
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Technology
Passenger Rail
VIDEO ... BRAND NEW! LNER class 800 'Azuma' - Hitachi | First Day of Passenger Service! 15/05/2019
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Technology
Passenger Rail
The First Ever LNER AZUMA On Serivce At Peterborough 15/05/19
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Technology
Passenger Rail
VIDEO - GWR Class 800 | Paignton To Exeter ST Davids (STANDARD CLASS) *TRIP REPORT*
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Technology
Passenger Rail
BRITAIN’S BEST TRAIN: The GWR Pullman service “Royal Duchy” - London to Cornwall
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Country UK
Her Majesty the Queen
Royal Train, with HM the Queen, arrives at Cardiff. June 7th 2016
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Climate Technology
Rocky Mountain Institute
Live Climate Discussion: Sir Richard Branson, Amory Lovins, Jules Kortenhorst and Marty Pickett
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Climate Technology
Rocky Mountain Institute
Live Climate Discussion: Sir Richard Branson, Amory Lovins, Jules Kortenhorst and Marty Pickett
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Event
Webinar organized by BeWasteWise
Marine Plastic Pollution – Sources, Forces and Courses of Action
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