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2011 Food Crisis, Urban Gardening, Social Systems
Dear friends, Food is basic. Lester Brown — founder of both the Worldwatch Institute and the Earth Policy Institute, author of over 50 books on environmental issues, recipient of 26 honorary degrees and a MacArthur Fellowship, and (according to the Washington Post) “one of the world’s most influential thinkers” — has just published a cogent …
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DELIBERATION: Jim Turner Dissects Paul Krugman
Jim Turner, #2 to Ralph Nader in the day, is co-author of VOICE OF THE PEOPLE–The Transpartisan Imperative in American Life. This is his contribution to the current dialog. My view is that Krugman’s article — Paul Krugman / We fundamentally disagree America is divided by two very different views of government Saturday, January 15, …
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Facebook Peaking; People not the Site, Matter Most
Facebook hype will fade By Douglas Rushkoff, Special to CNN All signs for Facebook appear to be pointing up. Mark Zuckerberg is Time’s Man of the Year, the movie about him seems likely to be an Oscar winner, and now Goldman Sachs is raising $1.5 billion from its favorite investors on behalf of the social …
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Journal: Microcosm of US Failure in Afghan Development
More wasted money….. Program to modernize Afghan justice system yields little so far MORE FROM MCCLATCHY McClatchy’s November investigation of contracting in Afghanistan Military bans two U.S. firms from Afghan contracting Contractor Louis Berger settles in Afghan overbilling probe Follow Afghanistan developments at McClatchy’s Checkpoint Kabul See Also: Reference: Quadrennial Diplomacy & Development Review Graphic: …
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Economics of Happiness: Going Local
the Economics of Happiness A film by Helena Norberg-Hodge, Steven Gorelick & John Page ‘Going local’ is a powerful strategy to help repair our fractured world – our ecosystems, our societies and our selves. Far from the old institutions of power, people are starting to forge a very different future… FeaturingVandana Shiva, Bill McKibben, David …
Review: Business War Games–How Large, Small, and New Companies Can Vastly Improve Their Strategies and Outmaneuver the Competition
Ben Gilad Core Reference Introducing Hindsight Games January 11, 2011 Not a single one of the other reviews mentions “hindsight games” which come at the end in Chapter 12, where Ben Gilad, whom I know and admire, properly lists Helen Ho and Matthew J. Morgan as the authors. At the age of 58 with 30+ …
