Initiative ... Country ... Belize
Sustainability Now
Initiative ... Country ... Belize ... Sustainability Now
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Open file 8901
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Political Systems
China and USA
Why do Chinese political leaders have engineering degrees whereas their American counterparts have law degrees?
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Open file 8902
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Energy ... Fracking
What chemicals are being used?
April 2013 Baker Hughes Goes Open Kimono on Fracking
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Open file 8903
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Ideas
Wallace R. Wood
Wallace R. Wood ... Diginomics ... Transformation of Money ... an Evolving Diginomic Lifestyle
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Open file 8904
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ECONOMICS
IMPACT OF VERY LOW MARGINAL COSTS
Jeremy Rifkin on the Rise of Anti-Capitalism and associated profit maximizing business behavior
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Open file 8905
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UNILEVER
SUSTAINABILITY
Waste reduction is central to Unilever’s sustainability strategy
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Open file 8906
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BRITISH PETROLEUM (BP)
BP IS WHAT KIND OF A FORCE?
Christine Bader: The Evolution of a Corporate Idealist (TED@NYC)
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Open file 8907
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PURPOSE
THE 'PROFIT WITH PURPOSE' BUSINESS
Purpose unclear ... One of the most baffling developments of 2014 was the emergence (at least in social enterprise policy-world) of the ‘Profit-with-Purpose’ business.
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Open file 8908
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ENERGY
IMPACT OF ENERGY PRICE CHANGES
Winners and losers of oil price plunge ... Inflation and strong dollar could curb global economic impact
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Open file 8909
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ACTORS
LEADING INNOVATORS
Leading innovators from across the country will be sharing their expertise on the big stage at Collaborate
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Open file 8910
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Books
Burgess Library
Images of Books in Burgess Library (many destroyed in house fire February 2012)
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Open file 8911
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Events
GreenBiz Forum
GreenBiz Forum 2015 ... Phoenix ... February 2015
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Open file 8912
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EMPTY
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Open file 8913
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Events
GreenBiz Forum 2015
Speakers ... GreenBiz Forum 2015 ... Feb 17 – 19, 2015 Phoenix, AZ, US
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Open file 8914
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Events
Collaborate 2015 - People
Events ... Collaborate 2015 - People ... Where Innovators in Entrepreneurship, Government, and Technology Converge ... Jan 23-24 ... Washington DC
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Open file 8915
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Infrastructure
New York / New Jersey
Governor Christie of NJ Endorses Tunnel Four Years After Killing Project
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Open file 8916
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USA ... New York State
Energy ... Fracking
The New York State DEC has announced that it will prohibit high-volume hydraulic fracturing activity in the state based on findings and recommendations in the DOH Public Health Review.
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Open file 8917
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Energy
Prices
Logistics industry voices concerns over oil prices
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Open file 8918
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Energy
Prices
January 2015 ... Ten Reasons Why a Severe Drop in Oil Prices is a Problem
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Open file 8919
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LinkedIn Dialog
Group ... Carbon Market Platform
Discussion ... Joost Kanen ... Does Oil price collapse impact Sustainable energy production?
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Open file 8920
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Food
Processed Foods
I Used to Be a Snob About Fake Meat. I Was Dead Wrong.
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Open file 8921
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Food
Antibiotics
Antibiotic Failure Will Kill 10 Million People a Year by 2050
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Open file 8922
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Ideas
Thomas Piketty
Piketty: 'The Myth Of National Sovereignty Helps Big Corporations Screw Us Over'
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Open file 8923
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Region ... Africa
Rebels and Violence
Man Surrenders To U.S. Forces Claiming To Be Top LRA Commander Dominic Ongwen
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Open file 8924
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Trade
Trade Agreements
Robert Reich ... Why the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Is a Pending Disaster
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Open file 8925
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Banking
US Federal Reserve Bank
Obama’s Choice for Fed Is a Nod to Smaller Banks
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Open file 8926
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NGOs
PERFORMANCE OF NGOs IN INDIA
Ever Mushrooming NGOs- Are They Really Helping Anyone?
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Open file 8927
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MANAGEMENT METRICS
PIVOT GOALS FOR SUSTAINABILITY
Pivot Goals is a project of Winston Eco-Strategies in partnership with Sustainserv, Inc.
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Open file 8928
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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
CSR is dead. So, what comes next?
“Carbon pricing is inevitable,” Bakker asserts, “Learn to love it.”
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Open file 8929
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Metrics
Comprehensive Business Value
A common standard for measuring the social value of businesses is years away
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Open file 8930
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DAVOS 2013
Peter Bakker ... Paul Polman ... and others
Did something change at Davos this year? Did we really see sustainable development issues on the agenda?
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Open file 8931
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davos 2013
Video
What Action2020 means for business and Planet Earth
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Open file 8932
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AUTOMOBILES
HYUNDAI / KIA
Hyundai Motor Group has outlined some ambitious investment plans even as sales growth at the Korean carmaker slows.
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Open file 8933
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PETROLEUM
The future for oil prices - VIDEO
Why have oil prices fallen so rapidly, and what role is US oil shale playing in this?
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Open file 8934
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Transportation
Hybrid Aircraft
Cambridge Engineering Department ... Watts up - aeroplanes go hybrid-electric
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Open file 8935
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SOME THOUGHTS
Joe Mondello
Is TVM an array of (7?) specific numbers? Is there an overarching 'Burgess Number?' A 'Burgess Constant?'
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Open file 8936
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IMPORTANT THINKERS
Jeremy Bentham (1748—1832)
A leading theorist in Anglo-American philosophy of law and one of the founders of utilitarianism,
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Open file 8937
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IMPORTANT THINKERS
John Stuart Mill (1806—1873)
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) profoundly influenced the shape of nineteenth century British thought and political discourse
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Open file 8938
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IMPORTANT THINKERS
Adam Smith (1723—1790)
Adam Smith is often identified as the father of modern capitalism. While accurate to some extent, this description is both overly simplistic and dangerously misleading.
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Open file 8939
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IMPORTANT THINKERS
John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946 )
So influential was John Maynard Keynes in the middle third of the twentieth century that an entire school of modern thought bears his name.
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Open file 8940
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IMPORTANT THINKERS
Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877-1959 )
A British economist, best known for his work in welfare economics.
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Open file 8941
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IMPORTANT THINKERS
Alfred Marshall (1842-1924 )
His specialty was microeconomics—the study of individual markets and industries, as opposed to the study of the whole economy.
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Open file 8942
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IMPORTANT THINKERS
Paul Anthony Samuelson (1915-2009 )
More than any other economist, Paul Samuelson raised the level of mathematical analysis in the field.
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Open file 8943
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IMPORTANT THINKERS
Joan Violet Robinson (1903-1983 )
Joan Robinson was arguably the only woman born before 1930 who can be considered a great economist. She was in the same league as others who received the Nobel Prize.
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Open file 8944
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IMPORTANT THINKERS
Milton Friedman (1912-2006 )
Milton Friedman was the twentieth century’s most prominent advocate of free markets. (TPB view: the unintended impact of Milton Friedman's ideas have been disastrous)
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Open file 8945
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CORPORATE ORGANIZATION
B-CORPS
B-Corps – How Business As a Force for Good Became More Than An Ideal
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Open file 8946
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MILITARY ACCOUNTABILITY
... the prison at Guantanamo in Cuba ...
Questioning the Powerful
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Open file 8947
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FINANCE SYSTEM REFORM
NEEDS TO SERVE SOCIETY, THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE ECONOMY
Civil society urges politicians to transform the finance system. Manifesto backed by 11 organisations calls on next government to create a finance system that serves society, the environment and the wider economy
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Open file 8948
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Ideas
Kenneth Rogoff
Do Economic Sanctions Work?
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Open file 8949
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Ideas
Mikhail Gorbachev
A New Cold War Order?
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Open file 8950
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