Tag: social care
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November 25, 2009 10:49 AM EST --
After speaking about the benefits of doing your best to be an ethical shopper and buying locall y when you can, this can be confused with buying sustainably. Food sustainability is different in . . .
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November 25, 2009 10:56 AM EST --
Part four of the American Policy portion of the Climate Change Policy Series : Act America, act now, sooner than later. Climate change inaction stands to cost Americans trillions of dollars due . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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July 22, 2009 11:48 AM EDT --
It baffles me that so much attention is paid to where a wine comes from, how it was grown, aged, stored and this scrupulous attention to the like in what we eat has only begun to come about recently. . . .
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November 03, 2009 10:56 AM EST --
In an attempt to encourage sustainable investment, approximately 2.2 billion dollars were released by the United States treasury in new bonds. This move is being considered a great kick-start for the . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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July 17, 2009 11:10 AM EDT --
American baseball fans don't mind steroids. At least according to Sports Illustrated senior writer Frank Deford. In his NPR sports commentary this week , Deford describes baseball fans' seeming . . .
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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 . . .
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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. . . .
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July 23, 2009 10:23 AM EDT --
The idea of a 'border adjusted carbon tax' or import tax on carbon-intensive goods has been floated in various discussions since Kyoto. Such a tax would have two benefits to countries that are seeking . . .
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July 23, 2009 10:27 AM EDT --
Yesterday, NY Times columnist David Leonhardt argued that President Obama must convince Americans that the country's health care costs outweigh the benefits. After observing my grandmother struggle . . .
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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? - . . .
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August 10, 2009 11:40 AM EDT --
Today's post comes from JustMeans community member Christopher Cairns , who makes the case for appreciating all positions in the Niger Delta controversy in an attempt to find a solution.
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