Archive for September, 2010
Washington Rules – America’s Path to Permanent War by Andrew J. Bacevich, Metropolitan Books 2010
Review by Alan F Kay, Ethical Markets Advisory Board. A US Army officer highly regarded in military circles as well as a professor of history and international relations, Andrew J. Bacevich evolved over time -- emerging as an honest, intelligent, entrancing and enticing writer and book author. Chapters in this book come to a close as [...]
The Power of Enough – a teleclass with Vicki Robin
MONEY, HAPPINESS & ENOUGH Announcing the new Fall Teleclasses with Vicki Robin Greetings! Vicki Robin here, coauthor of the bestseller Your Money or Your Life, inviting you to join me for my 5-week teleclass: How Much is Enough? Of Anything? And How do we Know? The teleclass starts on September 13, 5:15-6:30 PM PST and we'll cover [...]
Fiscal Austerity and “Third World America”
By Simon Johnson My testimony to the Senate Budget Committee on these issues is available here: http://baselinescenario.com/2010/08/05/its-hard-to-take-the-fiscal-hawks-seriously/. There are three main views of the financial crisis and recession of 2008-9. In the first two views, the debate over the fiscal deficit is quite separate from what [...]
GoSolarUSA sponsors development of charging device
31 August 2010 DEALS NEWS GoSolarUSA sponsors development of charging device Electric vehicle battery developer ReVolt secures $6.8m from US authorities Ameresco acquires energy services company Quantum Cleantech Invest partially exits SiC Processing Doughty Hanson buys shares in Sustainable Energy Technologies Click here to [...]
Barclays Burma Scandal Shows Need to Tighten Sanctions
INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION ITUC OnLine 113/240810 Barclays Burma Scandal Shows Need to Tighten Sanctions Brussels, 24 August 2010 (ITUC OnLine): The announcement that Barclay’s Bank has agreed with the US Department of Justice to pay a $298m fine for breaching sanctions on Burma and other countries shows yet again that [...]
News from ShoreBank
Dear Friends, I am writing to thank you for your loyalty to ShoreBank, your continued business and your commitment to community development. ShoreBank was fortunate to have the enthusiastic support of the SVN community for 37 years. On Friday, Urban Partnership Bank acquired from the FDIC substantially all of the assets, deposits and certain [...]
A Global Shift to Renewable Energy
www.earthpolicy.org/index.php?/book_bytes/2010/pb4ch05_ss1 By Lester R. Brown Earth Policy Release Book Byte August 24, 2010 As fossil fuel prices rise, as oil insecurity deepens, and as concerns about climate change cast a shadow over the future of coal, a new energy economy is emerging. The old energy economy, fueled by oil, coal, and [...]
An Awakening
An Awakening by Ben Bingham It is not news that we live in crisis times. Financial markets seem to be crumbling, governments cannot sell bonds to secure funds for basic operations, not to mention infrastructure, 10% and more of the able workers in well to do nations are unable to earn a living. On a seemingly separate level, [...]
