Meaningful Metrics
There is a lot of talk about measurement
The River of Myths by Hans Rosling | #BillsLetter ... but this is only a drop in the bucket, there is nothing that changes things systematically
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Country ... China
Political governance
CHINA RISES COMPANION | POLITICAL GOVERNANCE ... 'China Threat' or a 'Peaceful Rise of China'?
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Country ... USA
The State of the Union ... 2013
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S 2013 STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS — AS DELIVERED ... February 12, 2013
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Country ... USA
President Obama and the American People
President Obama Participates in a Fireside Hangout on Google+ ... February 14, 2013
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Impact Investing Infrastructure
The Social Impact Exchange
The Social Impact Exchange ... its organizational structure and its key people
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COUNTRY ... USA
LinkedIn Dialog
White House dialog on LinkedIn ... Ironically, Trickle Down Economics Trickled Down America's Future
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Country ... USA
Politics and the control of voters
Paul Rosenberg ... GOP attack on democracy exposes deeper flaws ... The GOP has ditched a scheme that would have elected Romney with a 47 percent vote - but a deeper rottenness remains.
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Poverty
Dialog related to MDGs
Responses to the question ... United Nations Millennium Campaign ... Tell us in one word: ________ is the key to eliminating poverty?
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International
World View ... Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky ... The paranoia of the superrich and superpowerful ...
From Pakistan to Mali, Washington's drones and special ops are blindly pushing the process of destabilisation forward.
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People
Susan Rice
What were the issues that caused Susan Rice to drop out of consideration to be US Secretary of State
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Dialog ... LinkedIn Conversation
Peter Burgess and Clif Carothers
A WhiteHouse.gov discussion group ... Ironically, Trickle Down Economics Trickled Down America's Future
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Microfinance
Using Alternative Currencies
Microfinance without the finance: the possibility of scrip-based development funding ... an academic paper by Jonathan Warner 2009
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Energy
Building Improvement for Energy Efficiency
Dialog on financing projects with Matt Patterson of the E&I Investment Group
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Energy
Energy Efficiency in Buildings
Some of the initiatives being promoted in the Commonwealth of Pensyulvania
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International
Does AID work?
The cost of aid ... We ask why aid, instead of liberating people from despair, is leading to less growth, more poverty and spiraling debt.
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People
Will Ruddick
Will Ruddick is based in Kenya and is looking for better ways to implement development assistance and exploring the use of community currency
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Wealth
The Richest People
10 Richest Indians of 2013 according to Forbes via SiliconIndia
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Food
Genetic Engineering
A piece about the GMO/Genetic Engineering issue, but what are the facts? ... The Mark Lynas Mythology, a GMO 'Conversion' Non-Story ... This piece and its associated comments maybe adds to the confusion.
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TO DO
Burgess
for February 2013
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MONEY, BANKING AND FINANCE
Alternative Currencies
The Complementary Currencies initiative of Koru Kenya
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Complementary Currencies
An Alternative Economy
Bill Ruddick ... Now people can create their own aid: Promoting aid effectiveness beyond vouchers, with complementary currencies
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MONEY, BANKING AND FINANCE
Alternative Currency
Bangla Pesa - Complementary Currency Program in Kenya
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MONEY, BANKING AND FINANCE
Community Currency
Community Forge in Switzerland ... 'We give Your Community a Place to Thrive'
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Banking ... USA
Regulation
Elizabeth Warren ... now Senator Warren ... grills bank regulators who have no answer for her simple question
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People
Will Ruddick
Will Ruddick
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Development Assistance
State, Progress and Performance
IRIN ... The use and abuse of humanitarian principle
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Energy
Sunpower investment
Warren Buffett's Solar Power Bet: MidAmerican Energy Holdings Buys [units of] SunPower Corp. For $2.5 Billion
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Big Print Brief
Invitation
Please Join Me To Deploy TVM Valuadd Accounting for Sustainability
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Big Print Brief
Invitation
Ask Me to Help with the Financing of Major Sustainability Initiatives.
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Big Print Brief
Invitation
Please Help Me to Establish an Alternative Currency for This Area
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Management
Business Plan Outline
A Business Plan Outline by Tim Berry
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ENERGY
Renewables ... Solar
Consider Residential Solar Leases Carefully
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Health
ACSH and Science
How objective? The Voice of the American Council on Science and Health ... Media items from the first half of 2012
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Economic Issues
The Underfunded Future
A listing of companies with their underfunded pension liabilities and the funded pension for the top executive
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Initiatives ... USA
Fix The Debt
Fix the Debt's Leadership ... the people who drive this initiative and their connections
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Economics
Contemporary Economic Thought
Dean Baker ... Fix the Debt's Fuzzy Math
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Economics
???
Thomas Geoghegan ... What Would Keynes Do?
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Economics
???
What Would Keynes Do? A Forum comprising Doug Henwood, Matt Yglesias and James K. Galbraith
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Economics
???
What Would Keynes Do? A Forum with Dean Baker, Alice Amsden and Louis Uchitelle
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Economics
Progress and Performance
A report by CEPR ... The Scorecard on Development: 25 Years of Diminished Progress
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Initiatives ... PRI
Principles for Responsible Investment
The UN backed Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) is another initiative that avoids the accounting aspect.
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Finance
Metrics for Banks
Leading banks commit to valuing natural capital
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Energy
Renewables ... Solar
The market size by region
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Energy
Solar ... Photovoltaic
The question of lease or buy of solar equipment
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Energy
Renewables ... Solar
Why German Solar Is So Much Cheaper Than U.S. Solar — Updated Study
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Finance
Impact Investing
Happy returns ... Money’s finding new ways to express it’s social side
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Energy
Renewable Energy ... Solar
Press Release: Report: U.S. Solar Market Spikes in Q2 2012, More than Doubling Q2 2011 Market Size
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Energy
Renewable Energy ... Solar
New Report: 3rd Quarter U.S. Solar Energy Growth Highlighted by PV, Record Residential Installs
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Energy
Renewable Energy
Solar Market Insight Report 2012 Q2
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Energy
Renewable Energy ... Solar
Solar Market Insight Report 2012 Q3
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