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Barr only candidate focused on progress - Norwich, CT - Norwich Bulletin

Bob Barr is the only agent of change in the election.

Climate change dilemmas

Finance and risk managers say global warming will force them to change their business models

Mutual funds and climate change

Signs that climate change is becoming an issue for investors. Mutual funds are taking more notice of it.

Carbon principles

The big banks have brought in climate change principles to make companies more environmentally aware

How do you make people change?

By Jason D ScorseMany critics of economists contend that because people aren't rational, economics has little predictive power. This is wrong for two reasons. First, people act relatively rational in many (if not most) circumstances; second, the deviations from rationality are predictable. As one of my professors at Berkeley used to say, it's not ...

Top 10 big business risks for 2008

Climate change is now ranked as the biggest risk to business in 2008

climate change and banks

Climate change will transform the finance industry. How well prepared are the banks? And is it shaping up as the next sub-prime.

Climate change and companies

Further evidence that businesses and politicians are struggling to come up up with a way of dealing with climate change and the risk it presents to to society, and business. Warnings about big flows of refugees, strains on food and water and political instability but companies are doing little about it.

US business in the dark on climate change

How serious are private companies about saving the planet? Not very, according to a new global survey by accounting firm Grant Thornton. There is a big gap between US companies and the rest of the world when it comes to climate change.

Political Cortex: Is Barack Obama a True Agent of Change?

The Obama camp has yet to be fully vetted by the majority of the press that seems almost shy about interrupting what many have called a movement. Those that have done their homework and posed legitimate questions about policy, relationships and other issues have often been met with arrogant, evasive and dismissive shrugs and a fiercely protective network of supporters who shoot down critiques of the anointed beacon of change.

Redesigning Holland To Deal With Global Warming

With the exception of the major highways, it feels like you can't drive more than a mile or so in the Netherlands without running into water. It could be the sea; it could be a river; it could be a canal.

HumorFreak - Colbert vs. South Park Change

Stephen Colbert and South Park catch a strange theme during the Democratic debate. Change!

Greenwash and the US Chamber of Commerce campaign

The US might be dragged kicking and screaming to the table at climate change talks in Bali but the US Chamber of Commerce has launched a television advertising campaign to stop the fight against global warming.

Business worried about climate change

Business executives are now more worried about climate change than consumers.

Climate change changes

Like globalisation and information technology, climate change is transforming business, society, politics, workplaces, careers and management. In fact, it might in the end have an even bigger impact that IT and global forces.