Initiatives
Corporate Eco Forum /
40 global companies aim to spur corporate action with new online platform linking nature with business benefits
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Open file 8301
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Initiative
Chris Macrae and Global Connections
People involved with Chris Macrae's LinkedIn project to build Global Connections
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Open file 8302
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Ideas
Jeremy Rickin
The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism
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Open file 8303
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Action Petitions
Tell the USDA:
'People have a right to know if their food contains the potentially harmful beef additive, lean finely textured beef, commonly known as 'pink slime.' The USDA must require mandatory labeling of all products containing pink slime meant for human consumption.'
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Open file 8304
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Food
Pink slime manufacturing
The safety of beef processing is questioned ... an article from 2009
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Open file 8305
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Country ... USA
Race Relations
The Seamy Underbelly Of Ferguson Starts To Appear(Updated)
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Open file 8306
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Issues
Employment
Shocking Picture of What Life Will Look Like When You Can't Afford to Retire ... Will you be ready for the life of a nomad, permanently in search of temporary work?
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Open file 8307
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Policing
The Deciding Force Project
Police-Provoked Violence At Protests Is As Predictable As It Is Avoidable, New Research Finds ... A study of 1000s of incidents during Occupy reveals how violence erupts. ... Nick Adams and Steven Rosenfeld
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Open file 8308
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Society
Race and Poverty
Bob Herbert: Ferguson Just the Latest in Long Line Of Racist Fueled Tragedies ...
We are moving backwards because of the persistence of racism and a relaxation of the fight against it.
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Open file 8309
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Society
Homelessness ... Poverty ... Mental Health
Stephen Lurie ... Homelessness Persists—Can New Attention By Powerful People Make A Dent? ... Getting politicians to address homelessness is hard, but new tactics appear to be making inroads.
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Open file 8310
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People
Rupak Agarwal
Rupak Agarwal ... LinkedIn info
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Open file 8311
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Supply Chain
Labor relations
200 years after abolition, slavery still a major issue in today’s supply chains
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Open file 8312
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Metrics
Various Initiatives
When Measuring Social Impact, We Need To Move Beyond Counting
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Open file 8313
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Initiatives
ANDE
About ANDE's Metrics Work ... Metrics and Impact
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Open file 8314
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Initiatives
IDinsight
IDinsight ... part of a larger ecosystem working towards improving the world.
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Open file 8315
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Ideas
Namoi Klein and others
international Economics for Ecology conference in Sumy ... Capitalism, Climate & Cold War: This Changes Everything
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Open file 8316
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Economics
Some history
Text ... The Commanding Heights Storyline provides a complete netcast of the six-hour television program as originally broadcast -- in three two-hour episodes. The episodes are subdivided into chapters, captioned, and enhanced with additional interactive content not available on television.
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Open file 8317
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Ideas
Martin Wolf
Martin Wolf’s book ‘The Shifts and the Shocks’ ... Review by Joseph Stiglitz
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Open file 8318
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Metrics
Development of analysis framework
List of topics used for dialog / discussion by IFFD (International Federation for Family Development)
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Open file 8319
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Event
Unite For Sight
Unite for Sight conference on global health at Yale University New Haven CT ... Saturday, March 28 - Sunday, March 29, 2015 ... List of panels and presenters
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Open file 8320
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Ideas
Jerry L. Hatfield
Introduction to a book by Jerry Hatfield about ecosystems and how they relate to the real and financial economies
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Open file 8321
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Emergency Aid
Very inefficient
In the first instalment of our new Brutus column, Arthur Wood reports on a new piece of work on 'Resiliency' for the Rockefeller Foundation.
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Open file 8322
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Events
2ND ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE REPORTING 3.0 PLATFORM
The International Multi-Stakeholder Platform for the “Future of Sustainability Reporting” ... October 6/7, 2014 ... Berlin ... Speakers and Panels
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Open file 8323
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Ideas
Ton van Schaik
Ton van Schaik on Piketty's book and thesis ... Inequality is rising. Or is it?
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Open file 8324
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Iniitatives
iRevolution
Google Already Developing UAV’s for Disaster Response
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Open file 8325
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Events
Microfinance in the Middle East
AlHuda Centre of Islamic Banking and Economics provides speaking opportunities to Islamic Financial Professionals/Academician etc,
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Open file 8326
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Product
Water
Water as the Oil of the 21st Century ... Water, water everywhere … and nowhere.
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Open file 8327
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Geopolitics
Ukraine and China
Ukraine’s China Option ... Should Poroshenko visit Beijing, as Richard Nixon once did?
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Open file 8328
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Issues
Food
Changing global diets is vital to reducing climate change
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Open file 8329
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Metrics
The SASB initiative
SASB MEAT, POULTRY, & DAIRY INDUSTRY SURVEY
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Open file 8330
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Events
Innovation Forum
Innovation Forum ... London UK October 28-29 2014
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Open file 8331
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Ideas
Mike Townsend
Growth - the real elephant in the room?
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Open file 8332
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SPARE
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Open file 8333
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Corporate Behavior
Maximizing Stockholder Value
The Financial Times Slams 'The World's Dumbest Idea'
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Open file 8334
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Agriculture
Pesticides
Canadian beekeepers sue Bayer and Syngenta over neonicotinoid pesticides ... Class action lawsuit seeks $400 million in damages
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Open file 8335
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Agriculture
Pesticides
Bee researchers raise more warning flags about neonicotinoid pesticides ... Neonicotinoid build-up is contributing to collapse of colonies, researchers say. Not everyone agrees
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Open file 8336
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LinkedIn Dialog
Group: Toronto Sustainability Speaker Series
Discussion: According to Naomi Klein....you can't fight climate change without fighting capitalism' Do you agree? http://inthesetimes.com/article/17079/this_changes_everything_naomi_klein_lessons
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Open file 8337
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LinkedIn Dialog
Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL)
Canadian beekeepers sue crop pesticide makers for $400 million. ... Jae Mather ... Non-Executive Director Newform Energy
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Open file 8338
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LinkedIn Dialog
Group ... The B Team
Discussion ... Have we really managed to decouple economic growth from energy use - or is it time to get more scientific? ... Mike Townsend ...Founder & CEO Earthshine
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Open file 8339
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Africa
Agriculture
Agriculture: The Unemployment Solution ... Unemployment in africa is on a high.
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Open file 8340
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Ideas
Linda Scott
Third Good Reason: Better Governance ... Getting more women to the top of business leadership is an objective that should be as important to all of us as putting more females into political office.
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Open file 8341
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Action ... Petitions
Change.org
Get women's economic empowerment on the priority list. ... Petitioning UN Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals
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Open file 8342
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Products
Electronic Gadgets
NEW: Greenpeace applauds Apple for its green products
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Open file 8343
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Initiative
Roundtable for Product Social Metrics
The Handbook for Product Social Impact Assessment
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Open file 8344
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Metrics
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
SimaPro 8 | Introduction to LCA ...
The Introduction to LCA Manual explains the basic theory of LCA. Download the free manual.
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Open file 8345
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Ideas
Amy Larkin
Why developed countries should subsidize a global price on carbon ...
The industrial world got rich while shifting the costs of pollution onto developing countries. Now it’s time to pay, writes Amy Larkin
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Open file 8346
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Ideas
Amy Larkin
The cost of cancer: why health impacts belong on company balance sheets ...
Amy Larkin: It’s not always so good when the GDP goes up. When bad health makes money, it’s time to change the equation
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Open file 8347
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Data
Data for Emergency Response
Disaster Information Management is NOT a Technical Problem
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Open file 8348
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Issues
Energy and Climate Change
Global Expansion of Fossil Fuel Transport, Drilling Underway as UN Climate Summit Approaches
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Open file 8349
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Human Capital
Human Trafficking
UK stalls on supply chain slavery
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Open file 8350
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