Posts Tagged ‘new york times’
Response to NY Times Op-Ed: “Is Banking Bad?”
Response to NY Times Op-Ed: "Is Banking Bad?" Kathleen Paylor, Founder and Chief Spiritual Officer, Conscious Capital, LLC Rarely do I find myself disagreeing with Nick Kristof, but I must make an exception in response to his New York Times January 18 Op-Ed, “Is Banking Bad?” Kristof is asking the wrong questions and, not surprisingly, [...]
Energy Efficiency works just fine. Debunking the naysayers.
“At last, a definitive confirmation of my de-bunking of the so-called “Jevons Paradox”, hat tip to Paul Ray, Hazel Henderson Editor Energy Efficiency Lives! Devastating Debunking of Rebound Effect and Breakthrough Institute Climate Progress: 12 Jan 2012 09:29 AM PST Our fact-checking revealed that empirical estimates of energy [...]
When and Why Foundations Should Blur the Line Between Profit-making and Charity
A recent New York Times article on program-related investing highlighted the $10 million equity stake the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation took in Liquidia Technologies. Some in the foundation world are concerned that the investment blurred the line between profit-making and charity. We and our Braintrust advisor Stephen Viederman say [...]
Press picking up on Climate Bond Standards: NYT today; FT; Economist
Press picking up on Climate Bond Standards: NYT today; FT; Economist Posted on 28. Nov, 2011 by Sean Kidney in blog New York Times / International Herald Tribune – http://goo.gl/ZEop9 The Financial Times – http://goo.gl/pTVWu The Economist – http://www.economist.com/node/21534810 Thanks to Sonia, Sophia and James. Click [...]
Naked Capitalism: How the Media Will Cover the Ohio Zoo Escape: Our Official Predictions and more…
Links 10/20/11 How the Media Will Cover the Ohio Zoo Escape: Our Official Predictions VFDaily Clash of Rights on a Brooklyn Bus New York Times. Yours truly would not cooperate. Fat Replaces Oil for F-16s as Biofuels Head to War Bloomberg. So we kill people more efficiently, via ethanol subsidies and then by shooting [...]
Eve Ensler | Occupy Wall Street: A “Work of Art”
Reader Supported News | 11 October 11 AM It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News **DONATIONS STOPPED ALL OF A SUDDEN: We were doing great, looked like we would finish, and then nothing. We only need 75 donations to finish. Guys!** Okay, I'll make a donation. Eve Ensler | Occupy Wall Street: A "Work of Art" Occupy Wall Street, [...]
BREAKING: Police Arresting Protesters on Brooklyn Bridge
Reader Supported News | 01 October 11 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News BREAKING: Police Arresting Protesters on Brooklyn Bridge Police arrest demonstrators affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement as they attempt to cross the Brooklyn Bridge. (photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images) By Colin Moynihan, The New York [...]
Sheila Bair’s resignation from FDIC
A publication from The New York Times Sheila Bair’s Bank Shot By JOE NOCERA Published: July 9, 2011 It was midmorning on a crisp June day, and Bair, the 57-year-old outgoing chairwoman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation — the federal agency that insures bank deposits and winds down failing banks — was sitting on a couch, [...]
Broadening Fiduciary Duty – Flexible Corp And Benefit Corp Explained
Editor's note: The New York Times is finally catching up with this story. See "A Scorecard for Companies with a Conscience" and "Ethical Businesses with a Better Bottom Line". BROADENING FIDUCIARY DUTY IN CALIFORNIA One proposal unleashes capital for impact investing and the other creates more accountability for corporate social [...]
5 Ways GE Plays the Tax Game
A publication of Propublica by Jeff Gerth, ProPublica, and Allan Sloan, Fortune GE is in a class by itself when it comes to paring its tax rate well below the top U.S. corporate rate of 35 percent – sometimes into the single digits – using an array of strategies that include hiring top tax experts from IRS and Treasury. A version of [...]
