Unsustainability
Shipping / Logistics
World Agrees to Cut Shipping Emissions 50 Percent by 2050 ...
The new IMO agreement to shrink shipping’s climate impact is a first. Island states facing sea level rise say it's still too weak.
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Initiatives
ACAUS
ACAUS 2018 AGM Business Meeting
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International Development
World Bank performance
'The Elephant in the Room': New World Bank Report Only Confirms Its Complicity In Sucking Resource-Rich African Nations Dry
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EVENTS / New America NYC
In collaboration with Columbia University
4/24/2018: Digital Democracy: What the World's First Big Data Project Tells Us About the Future of Identity
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Money
Monetary Policy
Why is the value of the American dollar decreasing?
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Religion
Building Bridges
Pope Francis meeting with Buddhist monks
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Management Book
New-Radical Management by Steven French
New-Radical Management ... A revolution in management theory
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Cambridge University
The Modernization of Ancient Traditions
UK's first female bomb disposal expert becomes University Marshal
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Climate Change / Ice Melt
The impact on Ocean Currents
Atlantic ‘conveyor belt’ has slowed by 15% since mid-20th century
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Connections
Cambridge / Africa ... Pauline Essah is Cambridge-Africa programme manager and a senior member of Hughes Hall.
This African scientist is making enduring connections between Cambridge and Africa
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Deforestation / PepsiCo
Customer Facing Companies
Add this to PepsiCo’s conflict palm oil file: we’ve just released a report that ties the snack food giant to massive-scale deforestation in Indonesia.
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Deforestation
Customer Facing Companies
Pepsico, Unilever and Nestlé accused of complicity in illegal rainforest destruction
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Energy Industry / Climate Change
A big part of the problem
Boulder Sues Exxon Over Climate Change: Wildfires, Droughts and Water Are a Few Reasons Why
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Impact Investing
INSEAD Case Study / Credit Suisse
ECONOMICS & FINANCE ... Building an Impact Investing Business that Makes a Real Difference ... How one of the world’s largest asset managers is experimenting with a unique impact investing model |
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Impact Investment
OpenPath Investments / Open Village
Impact Investing: Making Money More | Gino Borges | TEDxUniversityofNevada
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Money
Monetary Policy
Why is the value of the American dollar decreasing?
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Personal Development
Self Improvement
Do These 5 Emotionally Intelligent Things Within 5 Minutes Of Meeting Someone ... Being instantly likable isn’t rocket science, but this checklist takes practice to master in the short space of a first impression.
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Waste / Packaging
Can Online Retail Solve Its Packaging Problem? ...
A new wave of reusable packaging companies are trying to mitigate the waste from the billions of online purchases made each year. But it’s an uphill battle.
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Natural Capital ... Oceans
Ecological degradation
TED / Jeremy Jackson ... Mission Blue Voyage ... How we wrecked the ocean
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Natural Capital / Oceans
Dead Zones: Gulf of Mexico
Nancy Rabalais ... TEDWomen 2017 ... The 'dead zone' of the Gulf of Mexico
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Natural Capital / Oceans
Changing Chmistry
Triona McGrath ... TEDxFulbrightDublin | February 2016 ... How pollution is changing the ocean's chemistry
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Energy / Canadian Tar Sands
Pipeline Transmission
Canada’s Struggling to Build Oil Pipelines, and That’s Starting to Hurt the Industry
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Activism / Micah White
Better ways to protest
Micah White, PhD ... DEMOSCOIN ... revolution on blockchain ... thinking about making change
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Cars
Bugatti
Video ... 1500HP Bugatti Chiron - World's Fastest Car Full Documentary
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Technology
Jet engines
Video ... how to build a jumbo jet engine
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Technology
Jet engines
Video ... The History of Jet Engines documentary
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People
Barbara Bush
‘The first lady of the greatest generation’: Barbara Bush honored for her humor and warmth at funeral in Houston
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People
Lynn Stout
VALUE INVESTING ... Lynn Stout, RIP, Sparred With Charlie Munger ... Charlie Munger met his match in Lynn Stout.
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People
Lynn Stout
Lynn A. Stout (1957-2018): Mourning the Loss of an Amazing Colleague . . . .
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Initiative
Ocean Cleanup
There Is an Area of Plastic in the Ocean That’s Three Times the Size of France. This 23-Year-Old Thinks He Can Clean It Up. Good luck.
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Pollution
Ocean lastic
How 5 Large Mega-Gyres Helped Create a “Galaxy of Garbage” in the Pacific ... And it’s growing.
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Activism
Micah White
A co-founder of the OWS movement ... writing ... thinking ... using activist cryptocurrency
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Unsustainability
Earth Day 2018
Earth Day Apr 21, 2018 ... Google Doodle ... a short vidoe talk by Jane Goodall
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Investment
Fund Management
The Student Managed Investment Fund That Has Outperformed The Market Since 1998
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Existential Risk
Climate Change
Sinking Cities Saved by Resilient Regions
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Blockchain / Ethereum
The nature of its ecosystem
A hacker stole $31M of Ether — how it happened, and what it means for Ethereum ... Yesterday, a hacker pulled off the second biggest heist in the history of digital currencies.
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People / Michael Cohen
Trump's personal lawyer
Michael Cohen’s Other Woe: Mounting Unpaid Taxes on New York Cabs ... New York state says $174,000 is past due from taxi companies ... Trump’s longtime lawyer says bill isn’t his responsibility
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Executive Pay
Alphabet / Google
Google CEO Pichai Set to Cash In $380 Million Award This Week ... He received restricted shares in 2014, before his promotion ... Sundar Pichai got two more nine-figure stock grants since then
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Sustainability Initiatives
US State Level
New York State Aims for New, Ambitious Energy Goals
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Sporting Greats
Fanny Blankers-Koen
LONDON OLYMPICS 1948 ... THE INCREDIBLE DOMINANCE OF FANNY BLANKERS-KOEN
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Burgess Paper
from 2002
Africa's Economic Future ... A paper prepared by Peter Burgess and Kirimi Kaberia for presentation at the INR Roundtable on Africa's Economic Future in Washington in April 2002.
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Technology / Silicon Valley Companies
HUGE ... FOOLISH
Facebook & Co.: How to Stop Surveillance Capitalism ... Facebook, Google & Co. are the new quasi-royal sovereigns.
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Region: Europe
The Brexit Challenge
Britain’s Confused Soul in the Age of Brexit ... Britain appears to be abandoning core virtues – its ability to be ruthlessly wedded to a realistic pragmatism and its relentless pursuit of its own commercial advantage.
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KENYA
POLITICS AND FAMILY DYNASTIES
Kenyan president and opposition leader meet in bid to heal divisions ... Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga declare plan to resolve country’s ethnic and political differences
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SUSTAINABILITY
TRANSITIONING TO GREEN
A slideshare presentation by Bill Russell on sustainability 2015
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Event ... Skytop Strategies
Impact Investing
Event May 3 2018 ... Skytop Strategies ... Impact Investing ... in Washington DC at the OMNI HOTEL
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Women's Issues
The Cosbie Case
The Galvanizing Shock of the Bill Cosby Verdict
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THE TRUMP SAGA
THE RUSSIAN CONNECTION
Why the Russian Lawyer from the Trump Tower Meeting Suddenly Changed Her Story ... Natalia Veselnitskaya originally said that she was simply a private attorney. She admits she has ties to the Kremlin.
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Company Behavior
Always gamed in favor of the company
UBS whistleblower told he doesn't get protection from firing
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US POLITICS
RIGGING THE SYSTEM
Rural and small town America have taken some of the hardest hits. More and more Americans understand that the economy has been rigged against them.
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