Archive for 2012
Bailout: the Dukes of Moral Hazard
official movie trailer http://vimeo.com/21449558 interview of movie makers by Dylan Ratigan of MSNBC http://www.realecontv.com/videos/banking-malfeasance/bailout-dylan-ratigan-interviews-the-movie-makers.html Fed up with corrupt “bail-out” banks trying to foreclose on them, five Chicagoans drive to Vegas with stacks of cash [...]
Occupy Wall Street Updates for the Week of May 23
Last weekend, scores of occupiers took buses from New York to Chicago to join thousands of people from the social justice movement, peace advocates, occupiers, students, and labor to face the forces of the self-appointed world police: NATO. The demonstrators protested the culture of militarism, war, and oppression pursued by NATO, by creatively [...]
Jamie Dimon And The Legitimacy Of The Federal Reserve System
Click for the article on the Baseline Scenario Posted: 24 May 2012 05:13 AM PDT By Simon Johnson There are two diametrically opposed views of how the largest financial companies in our economy operate. On the one hand, there are those like Charles Ferguson, director of the Academy Award-winning documentary “Inside Job” and author of [...]
Frank and Levin Call on Administration to Clarify Position on Capital Controls
WASHINGTON -- Congressman Barney Frank, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Financial Services, and Congressman Sander Levin, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Ways and Means, today released a letter to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, expressing concern over future U.S. free trade agreements if the very important subject of [...]
GEA International Showcase 2012 highlights U.S. leadership in Geothermal Global Market
Conference brings together record number of geothermal industry and policy leaders for dialogue on international business opportunities WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 24, 2012)—This week, more than 250 geothermal industry and policy leaders gathered in Washington D.C. for the GEA International Geothermal Energy Showcase 2012. Discussion focused on the [...]
Co-operative money and banking systems: Back to the Future
Pat Conaty - Co-operatives UK New attempts to introduce local money systems can be seen with every serious recession or depression over the past two centuries. The 1820s, 1840s, 1870s, 1890s, 1930s and 1980s all kicked off monetary reform action – sometimes just confined to the locality level but considered during the 1870s and 1930s at the [...]
News from Apple & BMW; Plus a look at Sustainability and Big Data from SAP’s Scott Bolick
How Big Data Will Help Achieve Sustainability Goals As we look at Big Data through the lens of energy and sustainable operations, the questions are obvious. How do we harness this data to run businesses more sustainably and profitably? How will this data explosion enable new strategies? What are the technology trends underpinning our ability to [...]
‘Dear Mr. UN Secretary-General …’ COMPETITION RESULTS
As part of the lead-up to Rio+20, The Living Rainforest invited children around the world to tell us what they think governments and world leaders should be doing to build a more sustainable future on planet Earth. We were delighted to receive 885 entries from 59 countries! First Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime trip to attend [...]
New ball games
So has EU policy to diversify gas supplies through the "Southern Corridor" become a failure now that it's clear that there will be no Nabucco pipeline running through Turkey? Nabucco, whose major shareholders are RWE of Germany and OMV of Austria, has long been seen as the flagship EU pipeline project in the Southern Corridor. It was meant to [...]
Earth Policy Release – Fukushima Meltdown Hastens Decline of Nuclear Power
On May 5, 2012, Japan shut down its Tomari 3 nuclear reactor on the northern island of Hokkaido for inspection, marking the first time in over 40 years that the country had not a single nuclear power plant generating electricity. The March 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown shattered public confidence in [...]
