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Streamlining Carbon Data Collection
Gaby McDonald | February 24, 2009Current business systems are financially focused and are not designed to handle non-financial data with accuracy.
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Let’s Splash Cash on Elvis
sally.rose | February 23, 2009The best way to express our gratitude to volunteer services would be to ease some of their burden by not relying on them so heavily.
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The Long Term Homelessness Problem
MikeM | February 23, 2009The cost to the state of establishing permanently homeless people in homes may be less than the cost of leaving them on the streets. Most recently, a pilot program in Los Angeles has reported tentative success.
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Forget the Carbon Economy
Peter.Droege | February 22, 2009Instead of wasting time with an impossibly complex and ultimately hopeless carbon trade regime, let us swiftly implement a 100 per cent renewable energy system.
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Nationalism VS Patriotism
Hani Montan | February 19, 2009Assimilation of migrant parents into society is an essential step towards the elimination of conflict with their children. Children want to belong and be part of society, rather than be isolated by antagonism.
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Shopping around for “natural” beauty
Catherine Fritz-Kalish | February 18, 2009We need standards to ensure that words like" natural" have a clear meaning. The personal care industry should follow the lead of food labelling requirements.
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Are We All Keynesians Again?
Robert Carling | February 18, 2009The stimulus measures adopted in late 2008 and early 2009 are excessive and largely of the wrong kind. It would have been better to accelerate desirable structural changes, such as permanent tax reform, which improve incentives for individuals and businesses.
The unfolding global economic debacle has led many governments, including our own, to reach into their policy toolkits for fiscal stimulus measures. In doing so, they have revived fiscal policy as a counter-cyclical tool, which was so much in vogue until the early 1970s that Richard Nixon famously declared ‘We are all Keynesians now.’
Are we all Keynesians again? At first sight, fiscal pump priming might appear to have a lot going for it in current conditions: inflation is receding; spare capacity is increasing, at least in the major developed economies; and the crisis in the banking system is weakening conventional monetary policy.
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A Spirit of Generosity – Now More Than Ever
socialclubs | February 18, 2009Now more than ever, we need a spirit of generosity in our society.
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The IT skills shortage we have to have
Douglascomms | February 17, 2009Why fall over ourselves attempting to make IT look sexy for young people, while systematically excluding those who actually want to work?
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Why is Carbon Capture and Storage Needed?
Graeme.Puxty | February 17, 2009To meet our future energy needs in a cleaner way, we will need a mix of technologies, not just one.
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The Impact on Voluntary Action under an Emissions Trading Scheme
Chris.Doherty | February 16, 2009People voluntarily reduce their carbon footprint because they want to see a net reduction of emissions; it's important carbon trading scheme doesn't undermine this effect.
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Another (V) day, another dollar
alison gordon | February 12, 2009After doing a quick scan of people's general reaction to the words "Valentine's Day", one would have to say it's a mixed lot, at best.
