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Eurosif’s 2012 Procurement Report: What Investors Must Know About Sustainability Supply Chains
By: Aman Singh Post: 2012-04-12
Cyber War and Peace
The world is only just beginning to see glimpses of cyber war – in the denial-of-service attacks that accompanied the conventional war in Georgia in 2008, or the recent sabotage of Iranian centrifuges...
The Trouble with Libertarian Paternalism
By exploiting behavioral quirks, libertarian paternalists would nudge people into making decisions that are good for them, even while individuals have complete freedom to change their mind. The proble...
Reversing Europe’s Renationalization
At the onset of the euro crisis, a eurozone breakup was inconceivable: assets and liabilities were so intermingled that a breakup would have led to an uncontrollable meltdown. But, as the crisis has p...
Who’s Afraid of Europe’s Human-Rights Court?
At a time when Europe's ongoing debt crisis is fracturing public faith in the continent’s political and economic institutions, European leaders should strengthen as many unifying symbols as they can. ...
Don’t Follow America on Health Care
With the US Supreme Court set to begin considering the Affordable Care Act (the massive health-care reform derided by opponents as “Obamacare”), it is worth noting that the number of Americans without...
“Terrorists” at Home
America's new National Defense Authorization Act, also known as the “Homeland Battlefield Bill,” to detain anyone, including Americans, indefinitely, without charge or trial, anywhere at any time, for...
Eurosif’s 2012 Procurement Report: What Investors Must Know About Sustainability Supply Chains
The report discusses supply chain management and sourcing materials from an investor’s perspective regarding environmental and labor issues in particular and their compliance with international laws, ...
The Field Guide to Investing in a Resilient Economy
Evergreen is a way forward for a great diversity of communities -- not merely those in inner cities -- to build resiliency and to redefine wealth through hands-on ownership of capital, a more creative...
The Field Guide to Investing in a Resilient Economy
Our global economy now operates in a precarious state of social and ecological fragility, reflected in a rising wealth gap and growing ecological “overshoot” as we use up the earth’s finite resources ...
We’ve Hit the Limits of a Finite Earth
Hit the limits? Hmm…I’m not sure, not when each day the sun provides the earth with a daily dose of energy 15,000 times greater than the energy humans currently use. But the biggest drawback of the “w...
CO2 Emissions: Frontiers of Sky-High Protectionism?
A new controversy has emerged between the EU and several of its main trade partners since the Union decided to include in its CO2 emission-control scheme all flights to and from its territory. The EU'...
Ready, Set, Re-Frame! A Conversation with Frances Moore Lappé about EcoMind
I took the quiz -- have you? It’s the EcoMind Quiz devised by Frances Moore Lappé to go with her new book, EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We Want .
The quiz tests your assumptio...
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