Ships and Shipping
Container Ships
VIDEO ... OOCL ATLANTA : Le Navire Le Plus Gigantèsque Au Monde ( Documentaire )
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Financing Cities
City ... Detroit
JPMorgan Chase Commits $5 Million to Detroit’s New $30 Million Strategic Neighborhood Fund
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Place ... Detroit
Projects for Progress for Detroit
INVEST DETROIT ... Representative Projects ... Recent case studies of projects completed through Invest Detroit financing.
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Knowledge
A fundamental enabler of progress
Bill Gates ... Science is the Great Giver
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People ... Alan Greenspan
Book review ... The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan by Sebastian Mallaby
Verdict on Greenspan: Guilty, But Not as Charged ... As Fed Chairman, Greenspan utterly failed to limit leverage and bubbles, and this failure magnified financial fragility.
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Infrastructure
Airport Constraints
Heathrow expansion addresses a sliver of EU airport capacity crunch
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Air Transport
Noteworthy Planes ... BRISTOL BRABAZON AIRLINER
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Energy
Renewables
Half a million solar panels were installed every day in 2015.
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Sustainability / Circular Economy
The Circulars ... Winners and Finalists for 2016
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Sustainability / Circular Economy
The Circulars ... Winners and Finalists for 2015
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Event ... MIT Enterprise Forum
Turning Traditional Transactional Business Models Inside-Out
Nov 16 2016 Time: 5:15 PM - 7:30 PM at Chadbourne & Parke LLP, 1301 6th Avenue New York
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Transportation
Electric Vehicles
RMI ... Driving Integration: Regulatory Responses to Electric Vehicle Growth
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Initiative ... Global Good Fund
Board of Advisors
Names, photos and brief background
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Carbon
Incentivizing Carbon Conservation
Pricing Carbon: Tax vs. Cap and Trad
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Planetary Boundaries
Global Footpring
Video ... Let's reduce our global footprint
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Technology ... Rail Transport
Locomotives
GE Evolution Series Tier 4 Locomotive
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Transport ... Rail
USA Cargo
Video ... New Tier 4 Engines and Why the Police Stopped Q194, CSX Railfanning Carlton - Athens GA, 11/15/2015
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Professions ... Architects
The American Institute of Architects, California Council (AIACC)
Questions of Ethics ... Ethics for Architects: Introductory Comments
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Initiatives - RMI
RMI ... 10xE Principles
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USA ... Energy
Electric Power Generation
Interactive Google Earth Map ... Updated Interactive Map of U.S. Power Plants
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Impact Investing
Water ... Water Security Fund
The Best Way To Invest In Water? Interview With Thomas Schumann Founder Of Water Security Fund
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Food / Agriculture
Production of Beef
It Does Not Take 7 kg Of Grain To Make 1 kg Of Beef: Be Very Careful With Your Statistics
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PERSONAL HEALTH
Pharmaceuticals
Six 'Miracle' Drugs Big Pharma Now Regrets ... With big pharma, first they promote it, then they discover the risks.
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QUALITY OF LIFE ... FOOD
Avocados
Will Eating Avocados Make Me Fat?
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QUALITY OF LIFE ... FOOD
Mushrooms
Are Mushrooms Good for You? Although they aren’t really vegetables, mushrooms can be a valuable addition to your diet.
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Initiatives
The Black List
Building Bridges over WBAI Radio, 99.5FM with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash Mon., October 31, 7 – 9 pm EST
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Progressive Policy
State level initiatives
ACTIVISM
Three Ground-Breaking Progressive Initiatives That Are Under the Radar This Election
State governments lead the charge for a progressive future on big pharma, criminal justice, and much more.
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The Invasion of Iraq in 2003
Revisited
LOCAL PEACE ECONOMY ... Testimony to the US Tribunal on Iraq by Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire ... The invasion was carried out on the basis of a lie.
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Greed over Good
Example of the Prevailing Systemic Dysfunction
WORLD ...
There Is an Epidemic of Assassinations Targeting Human Rights Defenders in Latin America ...
New Oxfam report finds expansion of extractive industries is tied to rise of killings in Latin America.
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Initiatives ... Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Air Pollution Initiatives of the US Government
Navigation to various Air Pollution Initiatives of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of the US Government
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Industry ... Oil and Gas
2016 Mega Merger
Baker Hughes And GE: A Potential contemplating a Mega-Deal In The Oil Service Space
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USA - Election 2016
October Surprise!
Hilary Clinton's e-Mail Saga ... Federal Bureau of Investigation / JamesComey / Harry Reid
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Country ... UK
Post BREXIT confusion
David Blanchflower opines: Mark Carney is what stands between Britain and economic chaos ...
Brexiteers with little grasp of economics are lining up to undermine Carney. Theresa May should ignore them and do everything she can to keep him
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Industry
Pulp and Paper in Canada
Paper trail: The decline of Canada’s forestry industry
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Policy Choices
Employment - Wages
Living wage ... Opinion ... The living wage is finally catching on. Now fair pay must become the norm
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Policy Choices
Employment - Wages
Minimum wage ... Opinion ... I’m paying my staff a real living wage – not George Osborne’s version
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The 2008 Financial Crisis
Banking ... Bear Stearns
The Fall of Bear Stearns: A Quickie Guide
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USA - Election 2016
Explaining Donald Trump
This is the hollowed-out heart of America: pain, rage and Donald Trump
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World Shipping
Economic Woes of the Container Shipping Industry
UASC, Hapag-Lloyd seek EU nod for deal with concessions ... UASC is majority-owned by the government of Qatar ... Hapag-Lloyd merger reveals UASC’s huge net losses
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EVENT ... Impact Hub Mew York
Thursday, November 3, 2016 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM (EDT)
Corporate Innovation for Impact: Unique Partnerships for Developing Markets SOCAP 365
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International Trade
Trade Agreements
Free Trade’s Bleak Outlook ... Canada and the European Union stifled resistance from Wallonia -- the French-speaking part of Belgium -- and signed their Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement.
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