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May
11
2010

THE BIG SHORT – HOW WALL STREET DESTROYED MAIN STREET

Post by JimQ | TheBurningPlatform.com in Economy | Posted on 10th May 2010

Day after day, bankers have been paraded before Congressional committees regarding their role in the financial crisis which brought the financial system to the edge of the abyss on September 18,2008. Every one has claimed that they were not responsible in any way [...]

Apr
24
2010

Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity

TED2006 | Filmed February 2006 | Posted June 2006
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.

Source: http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html

Apr
21
2010

Those Bricks Barrick Gold Dropped on Publishers

The huge mining corporation’s legal actions against two small book presses — what do they say about our democracy?
By Philip Resnick | TheTyee.ca | April 21, 2010
Barrick Gold is a giant in the world of Canadian mining corporations, and its founder and chair, Peter Munk, has revelled in media attention for his philanthropy. For example, [...]

Apr
10
2010

A Weak Constitution?

POSTED BY ROGER VALDEZ | Sightline Daily – SPECIAL SERIES: GAME CHANGERS #07 | April 05, 2010
Solving big problems might mean giving up some cherished myths.
Now that the health care proposal has been approved by Congress and signed into law, some people are feeling pretty happy I suppose. Much of the angst and anger about [...]

Apr
8
2010

Building a Green Economy

By PAUL KRUGMAN | The New York Times Magazine | April 05, 2010
If you listen to climate scientists — and despite the relentless campaign to discredit their work, you should — it is long past time to do something about emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. If we continue with business as usual, [...]

Apr
5
2010

How Green Is My iPad?

By DANIEL GOLEMAN and GREGORY NORRIS | Opinion – The New York Times | April 04, 2010
With e-readers like Apple’s new iPad and Amazon’s Kindle touting their vast libraries of digital titles, some bookworms are bound to wonder if tomes-on-paper will one day become quaint relics. But the question also arises, which is more environmentally [...]

Mar
12
2010

Smarten Up or Die

‘Ecological Intelligence’: Do humans have what it takes to survive?
By Daniel Goleman | TheTyee.ca | March 11, 2010
[Editor's note: The following is excerpted from the new book Ecological Intelligence by Daniel Goleman, published by Broadway Business, an imprint of The Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc. Reprinted with permission. Copyright © 2010 [...]

Mar
3
2010

Credible information sources: One man’s guide

Struggling print and online media often skip the substance. That leaves information consumers struggling to assemble our own sources of reliable reporting and analysis.
By Ted Van Dyk | Crosscut.com | March 03, 2010
President Obama is disclosing his end-game strategy for his health-care legislative proposals. Like so many political events, his announcement is provoking a flood [...]

Mar
2
2010

The O.J. tactic: Climate change skeptics sound like Simpson’s lawyers: If the winter glove won’t fit, you must acquit

By Bill McKibben – Guest Columnist | OregonLive.com | March 02, 2010, 5:00AM

In recent years, every major scientific body in the world has produced reports confirming the peril of climate change. All 15 of the warmest years on record have come in the last two decades. And Earth’s major natural systems are all showing undeniable [...]

Feb
22
2010

What’s in a name? When the issue is “climate change,” plenty, linguist says

by Robert McClure | Dateline Earth as reported on Investigate WEST | February 22nd, 2010
It’s been apparent for some time that the public is not understanding the potential magnitude of the threat of climate change. The percentage of Americans saying it’s even taking place was recently measured at 57 percent, down 14 points since October [...]