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July 15, 2009 10:53 AM EDT -- A couple months ago, Sara  wrote a great post about water privatization , and it got me thinking more about bottled water. You see, a few weeks ago, my friends and I took a trip to Istanbul for . . . more
August 04, 2009 10:25 AM EDT -- In last Friday's Wall Street Journal, a cancer patient wrote an impassioned entreaty to American health reformers . Her message: the system ain't broke so don't fix it. She places particular emphasis . . . more
July 14, 2009 09:34 AM EDT -- I watched replays of today's Tour de France stage with a skeptical eye. Seeing the riders outrace pace cars up the Pyrenees made me wonder how many of the riders were taking steroids. These thoughts . . . more
July 10, 2009 10:05 AM EDT -- Climate change deniers have frequently pointed to regional weather patterns to provide irrefutable evidence against climate change. Back in January Gerald Warner of the Telegraph, for example, was quick . . . more
October 09, 2009 10:18 AM EDT -- Climate change experts have documented an increase in the intensity of North Atlantic tropical cyclone. Predictions are being made that the rise in temperature will increase the intensity of hurricanes . . . more
July 13, 2009 08:37 AM EDT -- How should your company be using social media to engage your customers, employees, activists, and other stakeholders online?  What are the best tools, platforms?  Should you be on Facebook, . . . more
July 17, 2009 11:06 AM EDT -- Today, some great news greeted me in the pages of the Guardian: the UK has halved its plastic bag consumption simply because consumers have said no . From 2007 to 2009, plastic bag use has been . . . more
July 20, 2009 10:01 AM EDT -- This week the UK government announced that it would move forward with its plans to create four new 'eco-towns'. The details of these towns are fuzzy but the general idea is that these towns will be . . . more
August 04, 2009 10:24 AM EDT -- A few people have asked me what I, as an ethical consumer, think about the Cash for Clunkers program. This extremely popular program allows individuals to receive a federal subsidy when they trade in . . . more
August 28, 2009 12:10 PM EDT -- The other day I was chatting with a friend about how well the Economist has been covering climate change and particularly the international elements. He was surprised because, "it was an environmental . . . more
October 07, 2009 11:14 AM EDT -- If the UK government wants to increase food production in the coming 20 to 30 years, it will have to stop soil erosion. Every year, over 2 million tons of topsoil gets eroded from forests and farms due . . . more
July 16, 2009 10:33 AM EDT -- This post comes from JustMeans member  Christopher Cairns . When looking at unethical investing it's often difficult to trace responsibility down the chain. A recent Wall Street Journal piece . . . more
July 16, 2009 10:36 AM EDT -- In  previous blogs I have discussed the importance of fairness and the fine line between preaching and teaching in the lead-up to Copenhagen. I was recently in Dubai and found myself grappling . . . more
July 21, 2009 10:18 AM EDT -- The Dragon's Den is a BBC venture capital pitch contest-- originally from Japan --that will soon be adapted to US TV as The Shark Tank . As this recent Guardian article notes , last year on the BBC . . . more
July 22, 2009 11:50 AM EDT -- The weekend Financial Times has a fascinating article for anyone interested in the technology of social change: how termite structures are shaping the future of print-on-demand sustainable architecture. . . . more
August 04, 2009 10:20 AM EDT -- The Financial Times has published a profile of how MIT is incorporating field work into classes on international development: Global health delivery is an emerging field that looks at how healthcare . . . more
August 05, 2009 12:02 PM EDT -- By now, we should all know that the Chinese character for 'crises' entails both 'danger' and 'opportunity'. And , thus, that the Financial Crisis was an 'opportunity'.  An opportunity for what? - . . . more
August 06, 2009 11:53 AM EDT -- I just got back to the U.S. after close to ten months away, so visits to all-American favorites like Trader Joes and Starbucks have been in order.  Perhaps this explains my recent fascination with . . . more
August 06, 2009 11:56 AM EDT -- Oddly enough, our extremely legalistic world finds a vast majority of investment professionals facing this predicament:  They need the United Nations to help convince them (and their clients) . . . more
August 11, 2009 10:28 AM EDT -- Bring up low-carbon lifestyle choices for consumers, and skeptics will roll their eyes. There's no way one grain of sand can turn the catastrophic hourglass around, right? How about 80 million grains . . . more
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