januari 31st, 2009 by admin
Established in 1995, the Foundation’s purpose is to offer systemic approaches and solutions to the challenge of developing society in a sustainable way. The Foundation develops and supports the development of these solutions mainly in the areas of ecology, economy and work.
juli 23rd, 2010 by anders
This Bank is different: learn how.
juni 24th, 2010 by anders
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 [...]
juni 20th, 2010 by Stephenhinton
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. [...]
juni 15th, 2010 by anders
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. [...]
maj 18th, 2010 by Stephenhinton
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 [...]
maj 17th, 2010 by anders
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 [...]
april 15th, 2010 by anders
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 [...]
april 13th, 2010 by anders
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 [...]
februari 21st, 2010 by anders
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 [...]
december 3rd, 2009 by anders
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 [...]