Ideas ... Sustainability
Metrics
Sarkozy Urges GDP Rethink ... Global Footprint Network Comments on Stiglitz Report
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Open file 3851
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Environment
Climate Change
The Climate Reality Project
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Open file 3852
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Initiatives
Slow Money NYC
Slow Money 2012 Jubilation! ... about the activities of Slow Money in the New York area in 2012
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Open file 3853
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Metrics
Global Footprint Network
Global Footprint Network ... Advancing the Science of Sustainability since 2003
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Open file 3854
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Initiative
Global Footprint Network
Some descriptive material about the Global Footprint Network ... and initiative to deploy sustainability accounting
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Open file 3855
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Metrics
GFN Footprint Calculator
Global Footprint Network ... Footprint Calculator Frequently Asked Questions
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Open file 3856
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Country ... USA
Gun Control
American Gun Deaths to Exceed Traffic Fatalities by 2015
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Open file 3857
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Health
Influence of 'Big Pharma'
Doctors with links to drug companies influence treatment guidelines
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Open file 3858
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Arms Trade
Global destabilization
Thom Shanker, NYTimes ... U.S. Arms Sales Make Up Most of Global Market
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Open file 3859
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Country ... USA
Gun Control
Gun lobby leader calls for guns in schools ... Wayne LaPierre of the National Rifle Association says US should place armed officers in every educational facility.
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Open file 3860
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GOOD THINGS
Many, many good things
With so many good things ... good people, how come so much that is bad?
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Open file 3861
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BAD THINGS
Many, many bad things
With so many bad things ... it is surprising that there are any good things going on at all.
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Open file 3862
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Terms and Conditions
Progressive Insurance
Terms and Conditions
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Open file 3863
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Illegal Trade
Trade in human organs
AJE ... People & Power ... The Organ Traders ... An investigation into illegal human organ trading in Kosovo, Turkey and Israel, and the challenges facing law enforcers.
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Open file 3864
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Energy
Fracking
Matt Damon Exposes Fracking in the film 'Promised Land'
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Open file 3865
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Country ... USA
Bigotry
Murtaza Hussain ... Anti-Muslim violence spiralling out of control in America ...
Sen was pushed to death by a woman who 'hated Muslims', as anti-Muslim bigotry in the US sinks to violent new depths.
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Open file 3866
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Country ... India
Women's Rights
Rape of Draupadi: Why Indian democracy has failed women ... Indians pray to goddesses in temples, but 'abuse women in the domestic sphere', notes author.
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Open file 3867
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Country ... USA
Culture
Joshua A. Tucker ... Is Santa a Democrat or a Republican? ... A survey shows more people think that Santa Claus is a Democrat than a Republican.
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Open file 3868
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Country ... UK
Government finance and politics
Finally! Exposed! The Deficit Myth! So, David Cameron When Are You Going to Apologise?
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Open file 3869
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Country ... USA
The Lobby Industry
For outgoing lawmakers, connections mean chance to cash in
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Open file 3870
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Country ... USA
Media dysfunction
Danny Schechter ... Looking back at the news of 2012 ...
We hear about issues, not interests - the newscasts 'lack context, background, analysis and interpretation'.
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Open file 3871
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Organizations
Environment
Environment Defense Fund
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Open file 3872
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Country ... USA
Guns
Paul Rosenberg ... Locke and unload: Why the NRA doesn't understand rights ...
It's the exact inability of guns to secure our freedom that establishes the foundation for our civil government.
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Open file 3873
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People
Professor Richard D. Wolff
Professor Richard D. Wolff is an economist that has spent his career on the outside ... maybe he was right all along!
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Open file 3874
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Country ... USA
Economics
Inside Story Americas ... Has capitalism proven its durability? ... Richard Wolff and Cliff Hodges
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Open file 3875
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Capitalism
Kenneth Rogoff ... Is modern capitalism sustainable? ... Is there a viable option besides capitalism for today's world? Or is it possible to adjust the system to make it work?
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Open file 3876
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Country ... USA
Capitalism
Counting the Cost ... Is capitalism bankrupt? ...
With a worldwide financial crisis and an outraged 99 per cent, we ask if the free market is free enough.
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Open file 3877
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Economics
Capitalism
Michel Bauwens ... The $100bn Facebook question: Will capitalism survive 'value abundance'? ... Open-source software, shared innovation and crowd-sourced manufacturing threaten capitalism as we know it.
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Open file 3878
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Initiatives
Means of Exchange
Means of Exchange is a global initiative focusing on methods of economic self-sufficiency founded in 2012 by Ken Banks and his associates
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Open file 3879
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Alternative Currency
Deschutes Trade Exchange
I'll Trade You Mine If You Trade Me Yours ... Deschutes Trade Exchange offers alternative currency for local businesses ... founded by Thom Gates
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Open file 3880
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Alternative Currency
Rebuild21 in the UK
A YouTube video ... The Future of Finance, Rebuild21
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Open file 3881
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Environment
Corporatocracy Winning
ENVIRONMENT ... Why We Need a New Year's Revolution Against the Corporatocracy ...
Despite our best, often heroic efforts the New World Order of post-2012 is shaping up to be very difficult, indeed downright scary.
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Open file 3882
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Banking
Housing Bust
Payback time: Florida homeowners foreclosing on banks
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Open file 3883
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Country ... USA
Media
12 Unbelievably Awful Things Fox News Did This Year ...
Fox was clearly operating at the top of its capacity to distort and deceive.
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Open file 3884
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Alternative Currency
Exchange analysis
Design concept of community currency based on fuzzy network analysis
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Open file 3885
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Banking and Finance
Economy
Michael Hudson ... The Financial Elite's War Against the US Economy
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Open file 3886
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Religion
Moral leadership
Pope's new year address deplores rampant capitalism ... Pope Benedict XVI has condemned 'unregulated capitalism'
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Open file 3887
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Alternative Currency
A technology based system of exchange
LAUNCHING MEANS OF EXCHANGE
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Open file 3888
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People
Ken Banks
Video ... Ken Banks is emerging as a serial entrepreneur ... founder of SMSFrontline and now MeansOfExchange, an initiative to use technology to create 'valuadd'
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Open file 3889
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Finance
Investigating International Finance
Investigating International Finance - a four part series ... an initiative of the New Economics Foundation covering Tax Havens, Capital controls, Shadow Banking and Private Investment in the Developing World.
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Open file 3890
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Country ... UK
Economic dysfunction
James Meadway, NEF ... The worsening recession reveals chronic weakness
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Open file 3891
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Finance
Role of private indebtedness
Joshua Mellors on Austerity (for Dummies) ... an article that has a focus on private versus government debt without touching on how productivity changes the economic model
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Open file 3892
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ALTERNATIVE CURRENCIES
TimeBank
Timebanks - the modern bartering
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Open file 3893
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Initiatives
Collaborative Consumption
French share their way through recession ...
Collaborative consumption seen as a growing web powered economic model based on 'crowd sharing' ... from 'me' to 'oui'
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Open file 3894
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Alternative Currency
Fourth Corner Exchange
Fourth Corner Exchange is the Pacific Northwest (USA) chapter of the Life Currency Cooperative Exchange
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Open file 3895
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Alternative Currency
Initiatives
Information about several hundred alternative currency initiatives ... Type of Local Exchange System / Community / Country / Date of Registration
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Open file 3896
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Country ... CAR
Rebel Initiative
CAR rebels warned against capital takeover ...
The warning by multinational African force comes amid growing fear of a rebel attack on Bangui.
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Open file 3897
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Country ... CAR
Rebel Initiative
CAR rebels reject AU call for talks ...
Rebels say President Bozize 'never keeps his word' as they rebuff African Union appeal to enter unity government talks.
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Open file 3898
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Country ... CAR
Rebel Initiative
CAR seeks foreign help against rebels ...
President of Central African Republic appeals for help in fending off rebels who are advancing on the capital.
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Open file 3899
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Country ... CAR
Rebel Initiative
CAR rebels advance on another major town ...
Rebels waging offensive in Central African Republic seize town of Kaga-Bandoro, bringing them closer to the capital.
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Open file 3900
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