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Yesterday, the Swedish National Institute of Economic Research issued a forecast of growth of 3.7% to 2012. In a manner rather atypical for the newspaper, SVD today slams into the Institute with an article heavily criticising them for measuring the wrong things. “They measure the trees but forget to assess the woods” says reporter Jacob [...]
We are delighted to welcome Mr. Gianfranco Fiorio to the Board.
Raised in a background of technology and business, Mr. Fiorio has extensive experience in sales, marketing, and management of private companies. Within the last 30 years, he has directed companies in the areas of aviation, real estate, mining, technology, and import-export into profitability. [...]
One highlight of the recent Transition Network conference in Devon was the talk by Stoneleigh called ” Making Sense of the Financial Crisis in the Era of Peak Oil”, which you can hear in full here. Stoneleigh is one of two editors of the ‘Automatic Earth’ blog, and her talk was stark. [...]
Not many saw the fall of the Berlin wall coming. Not many foresaw the collapse of the Soviet Union. And so gleeful were the celebrations of the triumph of liberalism and capitalism over communism that few bothered to study what actually happened and why.
Yale School of Management senior faculty fellow Bruce Judson makes the [...]
At the end of April, the British think tank, nef (the new economics foundation) launched its manifesto on banking. This Manifesto calls for root and branch reform to control the banks and re-building the system in which they operate.
Nef calls for a credible plan to re-engineer the financial system so that it becomes [...]
Billed as “an international conference on the role of the media in the financial crisis” - the European Journalism Center invited Bernard A. Lietaer, Research Fellow, University of California to present his ideas in money systems. He asks why journalists do not question the monopoly on bank debt money. This system he likens this [...]
A recent study of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, in Stanford, California, looks at an alternative style of carbon accounting — one that assigns CO2 emissions to the consumers responsible for them.
“Instead of looking at carbon dioxide emissions only in terms of what is released inside our borders, we also looked at [...]
Top climate scientist, Dr, James Hansen of the NASA, is perhaps best known for bringing global warming to the world’s attention in the 1980s, when he first testified before Congress.to sound the alarm on global warming some 20 years ago. Dr Hansen new book is called ” Storms of my Grandchildren”.
Right now, the policy being [...]
As reported in New Scientist. NASA’s James Hansen (One of the scientists who raised the alarm on climate change) believes we have come to a point where we cannot compromise with climate. Echoing the ideas put forward by this Foundation, he calls for increasingly high fees on emissions until they abate. He claims the present [...]