Managing Without Growth: Slower by Design, not Disaster 100 Feet full movie by Peter Victor (Edward Elgar Publishing 2008) 260pp. including bibliography and index Review by Derek Paul Hundreds if not thousands of intellectuals across the world have by now come to their own conclusion that continued economic growth on …
Results and Analysis of the Social Auditor Standards Survey
Social Auditor Standards The survey and its analysis as presented in this report were conducted by Bettina Brunner, Verité consultant, with oversight by Shawn MacDonald, Verité’s Senior Advisor. They thank the following for their support: Dan Viederman, Verité Executive Director; Lydia Long, Verité’s Director of Programs; Debra Hertz, Verité Grants …
Be Part of the Stimulus Package: Visit Clean Edge Jobs
February 17, 2009 Times are tough. Every day we hear about new layoffs, plant closures, and dismal sales and revenue reports. And while clean tech isn’t immune from the impacts of a depressed economy, there are reasons to be hopeful.
ToYou from NewEnergyNews: February 17, 2009
– COAL MAY RUN OUT SOONER RATHER THAN LATER, WIND AND SUN WON’T – MORE NEWS 2-17 (TEXAS SUN BOOM?; HERE COME THE PLUG-INS; SO CAROLINA SEES JOBS IN WIND; WINNING WAVE ENERGY DESIGN) YESTERDAY: – PRESIDENT’S NEW POLICY TOUCHES GREATNESS SEEKING OCEAN POWER – MORE NEWS, 2-16 (10 LA …
The Capital Homestead Act
The Capital Homestead Act is a comprehensive national economic strategy for empowering every American citizen, including the poorest of the poor, with the means to acquire, control and enjoy the fruits of productive corporate assets. Read more…
Reprivatization After Paulson
The Baseline Scenario Posted: 16 Feb 2009 08:46 PM PST The worst possible way to nationalize would be to assume responsibility for the liabilities of banks, at the same time as not putting in place adequate oversight and failing to ensure that the taxpayer gets any upside. Even worse, we …
Make bankers accountable for the mess! They got rich HIDING RISK and put INNOCENT people in this mess.
February 18, 2009 Join the “two horsemen” (Nouriel and Nassim) in extracting justice for the small guy. Mission Statement: At Davos 2009, one of the 2 horsemen was quoted as saying that people like Robert Rubin, who received over $100 million serving as chairman of New York-based Citigroup Inc.’s executive …
GreenerComputing News :: Enabling a Green, Virtual Data Center; a Green IT Pop-Quiz and More…
A Note from the Editor By Preston Gralla How much do you really know about Green IT? Do you know, for example, what percent of server reduction an enterprise can expect to gain from virtualization? How about which devices have the overall highest power consumption: storage devices, high-end servers, mid-range …
The “Good Bank” Proposal
Posted: 17 Feb 2009 12:23 PM PST There has been a small but increasing amount of attention being given to the “good bank” idea: instead of creating a government entity to buy toxic assets from existin banks – or nationalizing existing banks, removing their toxic assets, and then reprivatize them …
Can Green Jobs Be Good Jobs?
By Jeremy Brecher The Nation – February 16, 2009 At the first Good Jobs, Green Jobs conference, held in Pittsburgh a year ago, advocates of green energy bemoaned their inability to get a modest renewable-energy tax credit through Congress over the opposition of the Bush administration.