February 4, 2008. Eco-Economy Indicators are the twelve trends the Earth Policy Institute tracks to measure progress in building an eco-economy. Ice melting is one of the most visible indicators of climate change. ICE MELT ACCELERATES AROUND THE WORLD Frances C. Moore With atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations at new record …
iShift E-zine: Inst. of Noetic Sciences
Stephen Dinan / This month marks the beginning of a year of Living Deeply for IONS! Living Deeply is not only our most recent book release, synthesizing ten years of frontier research, it is also a DVD, a new teleseminar series, tour events, retreats and e-learning. We are also taking …
Green Apple Cleaners is turning the Big Apple green
(CSRwire) New York, NY – January 31, 2008 – New York State has filed lawsuits against at least three companies for groundwater and soil contamination that they attribute to perc, the dry cleaning chemical perchloroethylene (PCE) used by over 90% of all drycleaners. In California and recently proposed in New …
Chapter 2: We Mustn’t Try to Find Our Paradigms in Conventional Forms, Be They Eastern or Western
Right Livelihood, Right Politics. The court-jester role. Beyond ego and identity needs. Recomposting human values and contributing to evolutionary potential. The evolutionary way: breaking into the infinite. “New worlds on Earth, new worlds in space.” Internal empowerment and modes of interior existence. Jean: I would like to ask Hazel a …
Women Hold Up Half the Sky
“For the past three centuries, our culture has consistently favored the yang over the yin energies, and that our economic, social and political structures reflect and reinforce this imbalance,” writes Barbara Spraker in “Women Hold Up Half the Sky,” accepted free great reading for celebrating today’s Chinese New Year.
Integrity in Science Watch – February 4, 2008
NEJM Reviewer with Conflicts Leaked Damaging Study to Drug Firm A peer-reviewer for the New England Journal of Medicine leaked a confidential and unpublished research article to the pharmaceutical company whose drug was the subject of the article, Nature magazine (subscription required) reported. Steven M. Haffner, a professor of internal …
WHY ETHANOL PRODUCTION WILL DRIVE WORLD FOOD PRICES EVEN HIGHER IN 2008
by Lester R. Brown. We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history. The United States, in a misguided effort to reduce its oil insecurity by converting grain into fuel for cars, is generating global food insecurity on a scale never seen before. Read More…
Policy Innovations
COMMENTARY: Bad Spell on Wall Street. By David Dapice. Like the sorcerer’s apprentice, the U.S. financial system has created things it does not understand and cannot easily control. INNOVATIONS: Green Stimulus. By Dean Baker. Recession could open the door for stimulus that is both progressive and climate-friendly, especially if targeted …
From Business Acumen to Arts to Aviation: Solutions Tap the Power of Young Men
January 18, 2008. With less than one week to go, a global competition hosted by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Ashoka’s Changemakers.net has uncovered some of the most innovative ideas for helping young men overcome risks. Read more…
Women’s Business Center Leader Named to Council
Sandy Bartow, Executive Director of the Jacksonville Women’s Business Center (JWBC) in Jacksonville, FL, has been appointed to a three-year term on the National Women’s Business Council. The JWBC, a program of the Jacksonville Chamber Foundation, delivers mentoring, training, networking and consulting programs and services to over 1,000 clients. Previously, …