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BP: Taking Us “Beyond Petroleum”?
A Practical Visionary Perspective © 2010 by Corinne McLaughlin When BP changed its name from “British Petroleum” to “Beyond Petroleum” some years ago to promote its new division for renewable energy, did the company have any idea about the dramatic role it would later play? Did BP realize what it would mean today when its earlier [...]
A special message from the ScienceCheerleader. We did it!
Guest blog from Darlene Cavalier, the Science Cheerleader Score three for the public! We did it! Two years ago this month, ScienceCheerleader.com launched with three goals: 1) help increase adult science literacy (see Brain Makeover). 2) raise the ranks of citizen scientists and create a shared space for researchers and the public to [...]
IN PRAISE OF ELISE BOULDING
BY Hazel Henderson The world has lost a great soul with the passing of Dr. Elise Boulding. Brilliant sociologist, author of many books that helped change and direct my own life, Dr Boulding should have won the Nobel Peace Prize, as so many people around the world had nominated her for her worldwide work for peace. Elise Boulding shared [...]
Pressure from civil society for Financial Transaction Tax: 150,000 signatures from European Citizens to G20 in Toronto
One hundred fifty thousand signatures from European citizens in favor of a Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) will be handed over to the G20 summit in Toronto, June 26-27, 2010. The signatures are the result of a campaign of NGOs in several European countries which started in February this year. Many signed petitions or a letter requesting the [...]
COEXISTing with GDP: Action enables us to overcome divisions and find solutions
Excerpt from guest blogger Pippa Bartolotti from COEXIST, an ever growing group of people and organisations who believe that true and lasting Peace can only be sustained when economic, social and environmental justice have been achieved. Among other things, prisons are included in GDP (Gross Domestic Product). Of course prison itself doesn’t [...]
Need for a National Economic Strategy
Thank you to guest blogger Fred Branfman, who promoted "Investment Economics" and a national economic strategy when directing Rebuild America, whose advisors included Lawrence Summers and Nobel Laureates Robert Solow and Paul Krugman. Successful investor Steve Eysman is only partially correct when saying in Michael Lewis’s The Big Short, [...]
White House Knew Magnitude of Oil “Leak” Within a Day
The Center for Public Integrity disseminates information in a non-partisan manner, priding themselves on investigative journalism in the public interest. See the scoop link for the full story on the timeline from BP explosion to White House action. Among a host of distressing information is the evident lack of certainty as to whether oil was [...]
Congratulations to Martha Shaw, CEO of EarthAdvertising, our friend and colleague in advertising
Earth Advertising’s CEO Martha Shaw and 28 others are first graduating class of Clean Tech Exec at NYU Poly. (New York, NY) - May 20, 2010. The inaugural class of NYU Polytechnic Institute’s Clean Tech Exec Program graduated this week after presentations of Applied Projects by each member of this select group of New York State’s clean [...]
Transforming Finance Bibliography
Transforming Finance main page BIBLIOGRAPHY 2010, The Community Land Trust Reader, Davis, John E., ed., Lincoln Institute of Land Policy 2009, "People Sharing Resources: Toward a New Multilateralism of the Global Commons," Quilligan, James B., Kosmos 2009, Saving Kyoto, Chichilnisky, Graciela and Sheeran, Kristen, New Holland [...]
Reviving the Office of Technology Assessment
Ethical Markets correspondent Melanie Feliciano attended the "Reinventing Technology Assessment" meeting in DC. Her report was edited by Rosalinda Sanquiche. The April 28, 2010, meeting REINVENTING TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC, addressed revisiting the need for an OTA – Office of Technology Assessment [...]
