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 | Amazon rainforest damage surges 67% in 2008
[01.04.09]
The area of rainforest in the process of being deforested — razed but not yet cleared — surged in the Brazilian Amazon during 2008, according to new figures released by Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE). The announcement comes ...
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 | Trying to make reusable a requirement in Texas
[01.04.09]
Now Sen. Leticia Van de Putte, D-San Antonio, has filed Senate Bill 338 for the upcoming Texas legislative session, which would require businesses that provide customers with plastic checkout bags to also offer for sale a reusable bag as an ...
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 | The Real Price of Gold
[12.31.08]
Like many of his Inca ancestors, Juan Apaza is possessed by gold. Descending into an icy tunnel 17,000 feet up in the Peruvian Andes, the 44-year-old miner stuffs a wad of coca leaves into his mouth to brace himself for the inevitable hunger and ...
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 | John Abrams, The Company We Keep
[12.31.08]
This video is an interview with John Abrams, founder of South Mountain Company, and author of The Company We Keep. There is a revolution going on in corporate America, and social entrepreneurship is leading the way.
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 | Leaving Platform That Elevated AIDS Fight
[12.30.08]
Dr. Peter Piot, the only head of the United Nations AIDS program in its 13-year history, is retiring on Wednesday. He is credited as the person most responsible for making heads of state understand the political, economic and social ramifications of ...
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 | Competition gone bezerk
[12.26.08]
“Companies [today] are competing with everyone from everywhere for everything.” So say the authors of Globality, a new book about the latest phase of globalization. The Economist quotes those words approvingly in it most recent report on ...
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 | Dim Christmas spirits in Detroit
[12.21.08]
But the holiday lights - the ones people have bothered to put out - seem dimmer than usual, reflecting the mood of the few folks you see at the department stores normally packed wall-to-wall in the final days before the holidays begin.
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 | Working for Scrooge?
[12.21.08]
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) states that “everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests” (Article 23, Section 4).
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