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The Myths of Innovation by Scott Berkun
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-08-12 | Author:Scott Berkun [Scott Berkun]

Inheritance and tradition. The U.S. rejection of the metric system is tied to tradition: America already knew the English system, so why learn another? (See Space, metrics, and Thomas Jefferson ...
( Category: Sustainable Development August 2,2020 )
A Climate Policy Revolution by Roland Kupers
epub |eng | | Author:Roland Kupers

Locked In before You Know It The early success of Tesla illustrates how incumbent car companies are unlikely to succeed at electric cars. Sure, it may be too early to ...
( Category: Environmental Policy August 1,2020 )
Mining Capital by Michael Seeger
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Seeger

Many failed listings in mining Many junior mining companies listed on stock exchanges during the commodity boom phase. It was a period of easy access to mining capital. Many mining ...
( Category: Environmental Economics July 31,2020 )
General Equilibrium Foundation of Partial Equilibrium Analysis by Takashi Hayashi
epub |eng | | Author:Takashi Hayashi

Then, the set of Pareto-efficient allocations is depicted as in Fig. 4.8, which is a vertical line. This is because when equality of marginal rates of substitution between A and ...
( Category: Microeconomics July 30,2020 )
Blessed Unrest by Paul Hawken
epub |eng | 2007-05-09 | Author:Paul Hawken [Hawken, Paul]

Sustainable Agriculture (3,349): Sustainable agriculture and farming is the science, art, or practice of cultivating the soil, producing crops, and raising livestock that is economically viable, socially responsible, and ecologically ...
( Category: Environmental Policy July 27,2020 )
The Case for Climate Capitalism: Economic Solutions for a Planet in Crisis by Tom Rand
epub |eng | 2020-03-03 | Author:Tom Rand

* * * i — An externality is an unaccounted-for cost (or benefit) that hits a third party who didn’t choose to take on that cost (or benefit). Throwing out ...
( Category: Economic Policy July 27,2020 )
Investing DeMYSTiFieD by Paul Lim
epub |eng | 2011-07-14 | Author:Paul Lim

Fund Turnover A fund’s turnover rate refers to the speed with which its manager replaces stocks in his or her portfolio. A turnover rate of 100 percent, for example, would ...
( Category: Bonds July 25,2020 )
The Secret History of the War on Cancer by Devra Davis
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-04-20 | Author:Devra Davis

A Breast Cancer Fund poster, banned in San Francisco in January 2000.The superimposed mastectomy scar is that of the author’s friend Andrea Martin. 11 Doctoring Evidence You can observe a ...
( Category: Oncology July 25,2020 )
Your Water Footprint by Stephen Leahy
epub |eng | 2015-07-26 | Author:Stephen Leahy

The global average water footprint of whole cow’s milk is about 940 liters (248 gallons) for every kilogram (2 pounds). Butter derived from whole milk accounts for about 28% of ...
( Category: Natural Resources July 24,2020 )
Recovering Lost Species in the Modern Age: Histories of Longing and Belonging by Dolly Jorgensen
epub |eng | 2019-10-29 | Author:Dolly Jorgensen

Loss and grief for the pigeon were on Leopold’s mind. But his grieving was not for specific dead pigeons, individuals who had been trapped or shot or swatted down with ...
( Category: Environmentalism July 24,2020 )
AI Ethics by Mark Coeckelbergh
epub |eng | 2020-03-13 | Author:Mark Coeckelbergh [Coeckelbergh, Mark]

9 Bias and the Meaning of Life Bias Another problem that is both ethical and societal, and also specific to data science–based AI as opposed to other automation technologies, is ...
( Category: Intelligence & Semantics July 20,2020 )
Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development by Vandana Shiva
epub |eng | 2015-07-17 | Author:Vandana Shiva

TABLE 2 IRRI finances according to source (1961-1980) (U.S. dollars) In 1941, the Rockefeller Foundation established a research centre near Mexico City primarily devoted to plant breeding, that in 1961 ...
( Category: Environmental Policy July 18,2020 )
We Are the Economy by Kai Romhardt & Christine Welter & Teresa van Osdol & Thich Nhat Hanh
epub |eng | 2020-07-13 | Author:Kai Romhardt & Christine Welter & Teresa van Osdol & Thich Nhat Hanh

True Generosity Buddhist practice begins with the training of generosity. Generosity softens our ego-centeredness and connects us with our surroundings. The power of true generosity, meaning giving without the expectation ...
( Category: Zen Philosophy July 17,2020 )
The Joyful Environmentalist by Isabel Losada
epub |eng | | Author:Isabel Losada

My shoulders hurt and my thighs are bruised from the tom-tom drum banging against my legs. I stick plasters over blisters on my fingers, wash my hair and floss my ...
( Category: Climatology July 17,2020 )
The Power of And by R. Edward Freeman
epub |eng | 2020-06-02 | Author:R. Edward Freeman

Business Is Embedded in the Physical World: Societal Issues, Partnerships, and Institutional Failure Again The impact of pollution on the environment and its role in climate change comes into sharper ...
( Category: Ethics July 11,2020 )

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