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- an approach to capitalism in which protection of the earth's resources is a strategic priority
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- A Road Map for Natural Capitalism
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- Articles 2007-11-07
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- Rocky Mountain institute CEO to discuss "Natural Capitalism and Energy Security".
- M2 PRESSWIRE-19 October 2001-YALE UNIVERSITY: Rocky Mountain institute CEO to discuss "Natural Capitalism and Energy Security" C1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:18102001 New Haven, Conn. -- Amory B. Lovins, co-chief executive officer of the Rocky Mountain Institute, will discuss, "Natural...
- Research articles 2001-10-19
- Living in a natural world
- Natural Capitalism: The Next Industrial Revolution by Paul Hawken, Amory B Lovins and L Hunter Lovins (Earthscan, #18.99) Natural capitalism: could a big idea come any bigger? This is the latest idea from the American blue-sky technologists Amory and Hunter Lovins, in collaboration with German environmental policy guru Ernest von...
- Research articles 1999-11-07
- The Weekend American Capitalism Died
- Markham Lee submits: The first thing I thought of when I heard of the Government takeover of the Mortgage GSEs was: "is American style capitalism dead?" Can we claim to have a free market, lightly regulated economic system when our government steps in with taxpayer funds no less to back-stop...
- External links 2008-09-09
- Close-ups of capitalism gone awry
- THE SHOCK DOCTRINE: THE RISE OF DISASTER CAPITALISM By Naomi Klein Metropolitan Books, 576 pages, $27.50 SUPERCAPITALISM: THE TRANSFORMATION OF BUSINESS, DEMOCRACY, AND EVERYDAY LIFE By Robert B. Reich Alfred A. Knopf, 288 pages, $25 [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] If world politics of the last...
- Research articles 2008-05-16
- What is the Future of Innovation?
- In tough economic times, should you innovate? "Yes!" was the unanimous message from the speakers at the Australian innovation conference, InnoFuture 2008. Key messages from Day 1: Increase your return on imagination --- give people time to think. (Tom Wujec, Canada) Increase granularity...
- Blog posts 2008-09-14
- Cows, capitalism, and cover-ups: The politics and economics of mad cow disease
- Abstract The world changed in 1986 when Mad Cow Disease showed up in cattle and began to kill human beings too. The destructive consequences of Mad Cow Disease have little to do with natural processes, and everything to do with social process, with how the meat and diary industries, driven...
- Research articles 2001-01-01
- Karma Strikes Investment Banks
- Finally, proof that Karma exists. Wall Street's investment banks have had a sweet deal, a free ride, for decades. Now they’re finally getting what’s coming to them. In every major corporate fraud story --- Enron, WorldCom, Refco, you name it --- at least one investment bank was complicit. Ten...
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- Do Business in Russia? Think Again
- CEOs are constantly barraged with pitches about the best places for direct foreign investment or trade. These include BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, Indian and China). While Russia has a promising, fast-growing economy, the authoritarian policies of the Vladimir Putin regime are enough to give pause. ...
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- Rejecting United's loan bid is a risky proposition.(United Airlines)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
- Just as nature abhors a vacuum, capitalism can't stand a lack of leadership. If competition doesn't kill a rudderless company, the natural tendency toward chaos will. What we see now with United Airlines is a little of both. Some would say, so...
- Research articles 2002-07-08
- Drumbeat: December 5, 2009
- The energy space-time continuum, a big picture-portrait. Not a pretty one. The nations set to gather soon in Copenhagen are on a twisting, misty, potholed road in a car with one rickety headlight and hardly any white lines to drive by. The truth is, humanity...
- News items 2009-12-07
- Do Markets Have Morals?
- I think markets have blind spots, along with a certain caustic wit. But the Templeton Foundation has been funding research into what you might call the two sides of Adam Smith, melding the free-market capitalism of "The Wealth of Nations" with the moral philosophy of its predecessor, "The Theory...
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- On Risk Aversion
- Felix Salmon submits: I've been thinking a bit more about the downside of risk aversion, which is something that Steve Waldman brought up yesterday and which I then applied to the ARS fiasco, among other things. The problem is that it's entirely natural, even when it isn't a good...
- External links 2008-08-08
- Price-Gouging: The Only State Regulation on Hotel Rates?
- Raising rates for hotel rooms isn't just arbitrary, it's the American Way -- capitalism as it's meant to be. When there's an increase in demand, prices rise naturally because supply is generally stable, right? But while raising rates significantly during conventions or the Big Game is common, doing so in disaster areas can...
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- The Race to the Top
- Sun-splashed and blanketed with golf courses, Boca Grande, Fla., is a natural habitat for that most elite breed of American capitalism: members of the old boys' network. On a single day last spring, you could spot an intimate gathering of these Masters of the Universe flown down from the north:...
- Research articles 2002-01-28
- windfalls after the storm, The
- THE SHERLOCK DOCTRINE: THE RISE OF DISASTER CAPITALISM by Naomi Klen Allen Lane, £25, pp. 558, ISBN 9780713998993 £20 (plus £x. xx p&p) 0870 429 6655 By the time The Shock Doctrine lands on your desk, it's hard not to feel suspicious. Seven years after her bestselling No Logo,...
- Research articles 2007-10-20
- Recession is Only the Beginning | BTalk Australia
- (18min 54) Professor Steve Keen says the Aussie economy has a long way to fall yet. The current situation is the work of neoclassical economists who didn’t understand the importance of controlling debt, which is now over $2 trillion. He points to the RBA, whose decision not to lower interest...
- Blog posts 2009-03-09
- Virent Energy, Shell Poised for Second-Gen Biofuels Race
- Now that the dust kicked up over the Environmental Protection Agency's proposed rules for the biofuels industry has settled just a little bit, it's worth taking a look at Virent Energy Systems and Royal Dutch Shell, companies well-positioned in the advanced biofuels race. The EPA released this week its draft regulations requiring biofuels to...
- Blog posts 2009-05-07
- What's Next: 4 Big Predictions for the U.S. Economy
- The global landscape has changed for good. Here are our biggest predictions for after the shakeout — plus suggestions for what you should do about them. ...
- Articles 2009-06-22
- Why 'say on pay' won't work
- NEW YORK Fortune -- Waiting for investors to slam the breaks on runaway executive pay? Don't hold your breath. Although Congress may give shareholders more of a say on pay soon, big money managers seem content to keep their mouths shut. Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd, D.-Conn., unveiled a...
- News items 2009-11-17
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