Transport / Shipping
Types of Vessels
Different Types of Ship in the World Merchant Fleet
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Transparency by Mistake
The Paradise Papers
Bernie Sanders Warns of 'International Oligarchy' ... the leak of documents exposing offshore tax havens shows 'rapid movement' toward a group of billionaires controlling the global economy.
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Metrics
Impact Investing
Impact investing needs a common language The field of sustainable and impact investing has shown tremendous growth over the last few years. But many or most still on the sidelines
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Society
Social Impact
UPenn ... 5 Myths That Doom Social Enterprise to Fail ... At UPenn's Center for Social Impact Strategy, we're excited to see that social enterprise is on the rise.
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Metrics
Social Impact
Alan Pierce ... Why Measure Social Impact? Six Reasons For All Changemakers
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Taxation
Tax Avoidance / Paradise Papers
Owen Jones ... Tax avoidance may be legal but it’s bankrupting our social order
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Taxation
Tax Avoidance / Paradise Papers
Philip Goff ... Tax rogues like Bono are harming the world’s poorest people
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Metrics
Measuring Human Capital
This section provides an overview of the methodology used in the construction of the Human Capital Index.
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Event
Blockchain
Fordham Blockchain Event Agenda / November 10, 2017
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People / Technology
AL FRANKEN / Big Tech Companies
AL FRANKEN JUST GAVE THE SPEECH BIG TECH HAS BEEN DREADING
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People
Paul Freundlich
Celebrating six decades of Paul Freundlich's activism in support of sustainability, community and cooperation.
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The Trump Presidency
Worse and worse!
How Trump Is Laying the Groundwork to Fire Mueller If Things Get Too Hot for Him // Trump is prepared to provoke a constitutional crisis.
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ENVIRONMENT / Climate Change
Main Urban Centers Worldwide
5 of the World's Biggest Cities That Will Be Drowned and See Millions of Refugees // The UN is warning that we are now on course for 3C of global warming. This will ultimately redraw the map of the world.
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Climate Change / Flooding
USA / Miami
In Miami, battling sea level rise may mean surrendering land
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Emergency Response
Haiti / Puerto Rico
Lessons From Haiti for Puerto Rico: Charity Is a Poor Tool for Rebuilding a Country // Charitable aid solves immediate problems, but long-term recovery needs to address root problems, too.
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People: Karen Morris
Issue: Modern Slavery
Modern Slavery in Supply Chains
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The Trump Presidency
Accelerating Backwards
How Trump Is Quietly Dismantling the Architecture of Global Governance ... example of Azerbaijan
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Activism
Credo Petition
Tell Congress: No tax legislation without Paradise Papers investigation
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Economics: Inequality
Growing since Reagan and Thatcher!
US Inequality: The Economics of Nastiness ... Americans are systematically lulled into believing that inequality is an unalterable fact of life.
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Issue: Human Trafficking
SEX TRAFFICKING SURVIVOR TELLS HER STORY
Modern slavery victim tells harrowing tale as figures reveal almost half of those abused are sexually exploited ... Nearly half of the victims of modern slavery in the UK are sex workers.
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Human Trafficking
The corporate supply chain
Ex Met-Chief Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe says UK firms must end exploitation of slavery
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Wealth and Power
The Sackler family
EDUCATION ... The Super Wealthy Oxycontin Family Supports School Privatization With Tactics Similar to Those That Fueled the Opioid Epidemic
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People: Movers and Shakers
Canada 2017
FP Magazine presents its second annual Power List: 25 of the biggest, buzziest and most influential movers and shakers in Canada and beyond
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Inequality
The scale of this problem is bizarre!
Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Warren Buffett Own More Wealth Than the Entire Poorest Half of the US Population ... How can we get to a saner system?
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Sexual Harassment
Everywhere
For Women Restaurant Workers, Sexual Harassment Starts With the Day You're Hired
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Materials Research
Joint Institute for Advanced Materials (JIAM)
Advanced Functional Materials and Devices
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Country: Zimbabwe
End of the Mugabe era
'The situation has moved to another level': Zimbabwe army statement in full ... Military spokesman Maj Gen SB Moyo has addressed the nation after troops took over the state broadcaster ZBC.
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Country: Zimbabwe
End of the Mugabe era
Robert Mugabe in detention ... Army says it has taken temporary control to ‘target criminals’ around head of state, who sacked his vice-president last week
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Country: Zimbabwe
End of the Mugabe era
How Mugabe's reign over Zimbabwe became a byword for misrule ... Many blame him for the economic chaos and political repression, but the truth of his descent from freedom fighter to dictator is not so simple!
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Transparency / Accountability
Paradise Papers
Why do people care more about benefit ‘scroungers’ than billions lost to the rich? ... most British people prefer to focus on the perceived crimes of the poor. We must show how tax avoidance harms us all
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FinTech
Blockchain
What Is Blockchain?
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Events / People
New Metrics 2017 / Speakers
The Speakerss for New Metrics 2017
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People / Speakers
Wall Street Blockchain Alliance Summit 2017
Wall Street Blockchain Alliance (WSBA) Summiat November 14, 2017
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Transport / Trucking
Electric Trucks
Here Are Eight Things to Watch For in Tesla’s Big Rig Reveal
Elon Musk lifts the veil Thursday on an electric truck aimed at killing the diesel engine.
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Country: Zimbabwe
End of the Mugabe era?
Reuters reports that sources close to the talks said the 93-year-old president is resisting pressure from the military and the mediating priest to voluntarily resign ahead of the elections slated for next year.
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Common Sense
Rare!
Shelly Palmer ... Messy Desks Are Perfectly Optimized
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Transport / Long Haul Freight
Tesla Electric Semi
New $200,000 Tesla Roadster speeds in front of electric big-rig truck
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Transport / Long Haul Freight
Tesla Electric Big Rig
Tesla Semi, an electric big rig truck with 500-mile range, rolls into reality
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Transport / Long Haul Trucking
Tesla Enters Freight Hauling Trucking Business
Elon Musk finally showed off Tesla's new all-electric semi-truck design yesterday, aptly named the ‘Tesla Semi’. The Class 8 vehicle will have 500 miles of range and is more aerodynamic than a Bugatti Chiron
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Country: Zimbabwe
National Finances
Zimbabwe’s financial system is living on borrowed time - and borrowed money
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Region: Africa
Unhealthy growth
The ‘Africa rising story’ was based on faulty logic – here’s how to fix it
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Transport / Rail
Diesel Electrice History
English Electric DELTIC (DP1) Cab & engine room Guided Tour ... prototype engine from 1955
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Impact of Bexit
UK Fisheries Sector
NOT IN THE SAME BOAT ... THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF BREXIT ACROSS UK FISHING FLEETS
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The Trump Presidency
Dirty Money
The Trump Family Made Millions from Drug Cartels and the Russian Mafia in Panama City: Report ... Maybe we should start calling the president's Florida estate 'Mar-a-Narco.'
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Transport / Automobiles
Electric Cars (EVs)
Tesla is 'going out of business,' says former GM exec Bob Lutz
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Workplace Conditions
US Issues
Stop (Silently) Telling Your Female Co-Workers to Drink More
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History
The Crusades!
Why the Crusades were not a ‘clash of civilisations’
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Geopolitics
Understanding Russia
Stalingrad to El Alamein: what November 1942 tells us about today’s Russians – and the Brexit mindset
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Geopolitics
Afghanistan
Why Russia is back in Afghanistan
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EMPTY
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