Initiatives
The New York Collaboration Cafe
Rachel McCullough-Sanden, Spencer Chiimbwe, and Christopher Macrae talking about The Collaboration Cafe ... 2008
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Initiatives
Social Business
Yunus at Lehman College. City University of New York ... August 2008 ... promoting social business
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Initiatives
Social Business
Muhammad Yunus discusses poverty at Elon University and how social business works
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PR and Spin
Marketing and Brands all about the organization
This white paper NewsCred_BrandsAsPublishers_WhitePaper_2012 tells the story of successful brand engagement with Social Media ... but ignores the issue of Social Impact
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Money and Banking
More bad news for the banking sector
This time from Barclays ... but bad news does not bother these big money finance institutions very much since they have control of the whole edifice of the money profit capitalist market economy
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Taxation
Sorting fact from fiction
10 Most Profitable U.S. Corporations Paid Average Tax Rate Of Just 9 Percent Last Year: Report
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Country ... USA
Politics 2012 ... Analysing Obama's track record
Inside Story ... Cornel West and Paul Street weigh up Obama's achievements and shortcomings as we ask if he should get a second term. Surprisingly superficial and unrealistic!
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Planet ... the Ecosystem
Strategy to make Ecocide illegal
Strategy for Making Ecocide the 5th Crime Against Peace
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Planet ... the Ecosystem
Introduction to Ecocide
TEDxExeter - Polly Higgins - Ecocide, the 5th Crime Against Peace
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Banking
The profit incentive running wild
Are banks being discouraged from wrongdoing? ...
Inside Story discusses Wells Fargo and the effects of discriminatory lending practices in the banking industry.
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Ecocide
Man-made crisis of the Aral Sea
AJE World ... People of the Lake ...
The drying-up of the Aral Sea was an environmental and human tragedy, but can Kazakhstan undo this man-made disaster?
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Ecocide
Making amends
AJE Earthrise ... Aral Sea Reborn ...
The World Bank and the Kazakh government spend millions of dollars to re-fill the sea and help revive its ecosystems.
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Planet ... the Ecosystem
Introduction to Ecocide
Louise Kulbick reports back from Rio+20 Earth Summit
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People ... Entrepreneurs
41 Female Founders Every Entrepreneur Should Know
The Female Founders Series is presented by American Express OPEN
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Economics
The failure of Republican economics
Paul Rosenberg ...
Those clinging to Bush-era ideologies and illusions show they simply do not understand economics.
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Social Media
Chat face to face, wherever you are
Google+ expands its functionality ... again
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Health
Vision Quest ... India Eye Care
India's Aravind Eye Care System has restored the sight of millions, including those who cannot afford it.
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Metrics
The Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI)
The Genuine Progress Indicator - A Principled Approach to Economics ... The Pembina Institute ...
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Education
A whole education for life
Crisis of future of universities ... a dialog that originated with NY Collaboration Cafe
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Metrics
Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI)
Maryland's Genuine Progress Indicator
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Metrics
Some of the existing Indicators of Social Well-Being
Happy Planet Index ... Gross National Happiness ... Subjective Measures of Human Wellness
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Metrics
Metrics for Community Sustainability
Elements of 'sustainable' used by the Sustanable New Jersey initiative
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Education
New thinking about education is vital
Taddy Blecher ... The force behind SA's free varsity
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Country ... USA
Politics 2012
What Romney's lies are trying to hide ...
Romney's lifetime in predatory finance is allegedly centred on 'destroying the American dream'.
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Employment
Massive reform is needed
Dan Rather ... Friday Movie Night - U.S. Workers Fired, Replaced with Foreign Guest Workers
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Banking
A threat to the offshore empire?
American dollars pouring into London accounts hides money from tax authorities and encourages transnational crime.
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Banking
The third British Empire
Dan Hind ... London is considered the 'capital of capitalism' allowing foreign billionaires to stash tax free income offshore.
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Banking
Banking ... The last province of the empire
Dan Hind ...
London's status as a hub of unfettered international finance makes it uniquely adaptable, and uniquely vulnerable.
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Money and Banking
What caused the financial meltdown of 2007/2008
Against mainstream accounts, Peter Gowan argues that the origins of the global financial crisis lie in the dynamics of the New Wall Street System ... CRISIS IN THE HEARTLAND ... Consequences of the New Wall Street System
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Sport
Lessons from the Olympics
Danny Schechter ... Global inequalities are on parade at the Olympic Games, but few want to discuss them.
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Sport
Olympic spirit abounds in London
As the 2012 Games near the halfway point, crowds in the British capital are well and truly imbued with Olympic spirit.
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Initiatives ... Socieal Impact Bonds
Betting on public good?
AJStream examines private investment in public services through social impact bonds.
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Companies ... Shell
Energy, Pollution, Risk and Profit
Walking the waters and bringing Shell ashore ...
How to bring the major oil companies ashore and halt the destruction of our oceans.
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Energy
WikiLeaks: A battle to 'carve up' the Arctic
AJE Features ... Resource wars are possible as global warming melts polar ice - opening new areas to oil exploitation, cables indicate.
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Country ... USA
Politics 2012 ... Ugliest ever!
Tax cheat, felon, murderer: meet Mitt Romney, if Barack Obama's backers are to be believed ...
This US presidential campaign is the ugliest ever, with Barack Obama's backers calling Mitt Romney a tax cheat, a felon and a murderer - and Republicans hitting back. Politics is the loser, says Mark McKinnon.
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Metrics
You can manage what you measure
Making Measurement More Than an Add-on ... Jacob discusses the concept of ‘embedded measurement,’ an intentionally integrative approach to measurement
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Technology
Google Developers
Google I/O 2012 - Use What You Know: HTML and JavaScript in Apps Script
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Country ... USA
Politics 2012 ... Republican policy
Paul Ryan: My Plan to Save America
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Metrics
Measuring ... the approach of the Corporate Philanthropy community
Measuring Social Impact, Business Benefits, and Investor Returns
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Social Finance
An asset class for double bottom line
What is Social Finance? ... a simple explanation by
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Value Analysis
Value Chain Analysis
This value chain analysis is a business school perspective and centered on the performance of the corporate business ... this value chain does not cover impact on society
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Racism
Still a factor in public policy amd media
The Top Ten Differences Between White and Non-White Terrorists ... Not all terrorism is created equal.
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Country ... USA
Politics 2012 ... Paul Ryan picked to run on Romney ticket
Romney's Veep Pick: Paul Ryan, Koch Ally and 'Right-Wing Social Engineer' ...
In making the risky choice of picking Rep. Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney seals the deal on the Koch brothers' takeover of the Republican Party.
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Country ... Israel
The enemy within? ... democracy is incredibly difficult to get right!
The Cafe ...
Israel has always felt under siege, but its internal problems could be more damaging than any external threat.
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Media
Fox News ... hardly media!
8 Crazy Fox Freakouts About the Olympics ...
Most people consider the Olympics a celebration of athletic prowess, but for the folks at Fox News, they're a source of endless outrage.
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Companies ... Goldman Sachs
Still an anti-social operation
Justice Dept. Ends Investigation Into Goldman Sachs Mortgage Abuses Without Pressing Charges
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Country ... Bangladesh
Missing in Action
A political crisis is engulfing Bangladesh as opposition party members disappear under mysterious circumstances.
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Country ... Bangladesh
Disappearances roil Bangladesh opposition
Protests threatened if security forces fail to explain alleged abduction of opposition leader.
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Country ... Pakistan
Conversation with Pakistan's foreign minister
August 2012 ... Talk to Al Jazeera ... Hina Rabbani Khar: Forging new ties ...
Pakistan's foreign minister says the country will determine what is in its best interests, not what makes it popular.
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Country ... Nigeria
Banking
Nigeria: Banking On Rencap, Citibank
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