U.S. PUBLIC OPINION POLL: GREAT CONCERN ABOUT AMERICAN REPUTATION IN WORLD: WORLD LEARNING & ASPEN INSTITUTE: 28/01/2009 (MaximsNews Network). Read more…
World Social Forum Global Day of Action
FOCUS ON TRADE NUMBER 136, JANUARY 2008. Part 1. Saturday 26 January is the World Social Forum Global Day of Action. (http://www.wsf2008.net/). More than 600 actions and events are being planned on or close to the day, in every continent; they range from defening housing rights in Omsk in Siberia …
Planet 2025 News Update
2008-01-21 – International – CSR CSR, just good business Corporate social responsibility, once a do-gooding sideshow, is now seen as mainstream. But as yet too few companies are doing it well, says Daniel Franklin. In the lobby at the London headquarte ..continue… 2008-01-21 – International – products_services Winter Sports In …
French President Aims to Ban GM Maize
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has announced that France will invoke an EU safeguard clause enabling it to suspend the marketing and growth on its territory of a genetically modified (GM) crop that has EU-wide authorisation. Read more…
Wikinomics
Wikinomics by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams, Penguin Group, 2006 The best roadmap to the emerging economy of sharing and common paths to innovation. I will recommend and refer to Tapscott’s book and insights in my own writing. A must read. — Hazel Henderson, editor-in-chief
Chapter 1: How do You Find a Paradigm for an Emergent?
Barbara Marx Hubbard: So let’s begin, then, at the beginning. We’re all here right now because of some things that Jean had said to me the last time we talked, which has been several months now. You were talking, Jean, about feminine consciousness, and the fact that it has gone …
The Art Center Summit: Systems, Cities & Sustainable Mobility
February 6-7, 2008 at Art Center College of Design. ENVIRONMENTALIST, ENTREPRENEUR, JOURNALIST AND AUTHOR PAUL HAWKEN TO BE KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Environmental Finance Publications
Clean energy investment tops $100 billion in 2007 10 January: New investment in clean energy companies and assets hit $117 billion last year, up 35% on 2006’s $86.5 billion, according to analysts New Energy Finance. More… SSE acquires Airtricity for €1.8 billion 10 January: UK electricity and gas utility Scottish …
European Federation of Employee Share Ownership Newsletter
Dec. 2007. Compared with a set of 14 European countries, employee share ownership seems low in Austria. We made a presentation last month in Vienna on invitation of Vice-Chancellor Wilhelm Molderer and Minister of Economics and Labour Martin Bartenstein, comparing employee share ownership in 14 European countries. This is based …
UN: US DRAG ON WORLD ECONOMY
by KHALIL HAMDANI. UNITED NATIONS – / MaximsNews Network / – 12 January 2007 — The latest UN global outlook sees economic downturn in the US as the major drag on the world economy in 2008, lowering world GDP growth by 8 per cent or, in the worst scenario, by …