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TVM Dialog List 1179
8901 - 8950
A listing of the TVM Dialog in date uploaded / date modified order
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Initiative ... Country ... Belize
Sustainability Now

Initiative ... Country ... Belize ... Sustainability Now
Open file 8901
Political Systems
China and USA

Why do Chinese political leaders have engineering degrees whereas their American counterparts have law degrees?
Open file 8902
Energy ... Fracking
What chemicals are being used?

April 2013 Baker Hughes Goes Open Kimono on Fracking
Open file 8903
Ideas
Wallace R. Wood

Wallace R. Wood ... Diginomics ... Transformation of Money ... an Evolving Diginomic Lifestyle
Open file 8904
ECONOMICS
IMPACT OF VERY LOW MARGINAL COSTS

Jeremy Rifkin on the Rise of Anti-Capitalism and associated profit maximizing business behavior
Open file 8905
UNILEVER
SUSTAINABILITY

Waste reduction is central to Unilever’s sustainability strategy
Open file 8906
BRITISH PETROLEUM (BP)
BP IS WHAT KIND OF A FORCE?

Christine Bader: The Evolution of a Corporate Idealist (TED@NYC)
Open file 8907
PURPOSE
THE 'PROFIT WITH PURPOSE' BUSINESS

Purpose unclear ... One of the most baffling developments of 2014 was the emergence (at least in social enterprise policy-world) of the ‘Profit-with-Purpose’ business.
Open file 8908
ENERGY
IMPACT OF ENERGY PRICE CHANGES

Winners and losers of oil price plunge ... Inflation and strong dollar could curb global economic impact
Open file 8909
ACTORS
LEADING INNOVATORS

Leading innovators from across the country will be sharing their expertise on the big stage at Collaborate
Open file 8910
Books
Burgess Library

Images of Books in Burgess Library (many destroyed in house fire February 2012)
Open file 8911
Events
GreenBiz Forum

GreenBiz Forum 2015 ... Phoenix ... February 2015
Open file 8912
EMPTY Open file 8913
Events
GreenBiz Forum 2015

Speakers ... GreenBiz Forum 2015 ... Feb 17 – 19, 2015 Phoenix, AZ, US
Open file 8914
Events
Collaborate 2015 - People

Events ... Collaborate 2015 - People ... Where Innovators in Entrepreneurship, Government, and Technology Converge ... Jan 23-24 ... Washington DC
Open file 8915
Infrastructure
New York / New Jersey

Governor Christie of NJ Endorses Tunnel Four Years After Killing Project
Open file 8916
USA ... New York State
Energy ... Fracking

The New York State DEC has announced that it will prohibit high-volume hydraulic fracturing activity in the state based on findings and recommendations in the DOH Public Health Review.
Open file 8917
Energy
Prices

Logistics industry voices concerns over oil prices
Open file 8918
Energy
Prices

January 2015 ... Ten Reasons Why a Severe Drop in Oil Prices is a Problem
Open file 8919
LinkedIn Dialog
Group ... Carbon Market Platform

Discussion ... Joost Kanen ... Does Oil price collapse impact Sustainable energy production?
Open file 8920
Food
Processed Foods

I Used to Be a Snob About Fake Meat. I Was Dead Wrong.
Open file 8921
Food
Antibiotics

Antibiotic Failure Will Kill 10 Million People a Year by 2050
Open file 8922
Ideas
Thomas Piketty

Piketty: 'The Myth Of National Sovereignty Helps Big Corporations Screw Us Over'
Open file 8923
Region ... Africa
Rebels and Violence

Man Surrenders To U.S. Forces Claiming To Be Top LRA Commander Dominic Ongwen
Open file 8924
Trade
Trade Agreements

Robert Reich ... Why the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Is a Pending Disaster
Open file 8925
Banking
US Federal Reserve Bank

Obama’s Choice for Fed Is a Nod to Smaller Banks
Open file 8926
NGOs
PERFORMANCE OF NGOs IN INDIA

Ever Mushrooming NGOs- Are They Really Helping Anyone?
Open file 8927
MANAGEMENT METRICS
PIVOT GOALS FOR SUSTAINABILITY

Pivot Goals is a project of Winston Eco-Strategies in partnership with Sustainserv, Inc.
Open file 8928
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
CSR is dead. So, what comes next?

“Carbon pricing is inevitable,” Bakker asserts, “Learn to love it.”
Open file 8929
Metrics
Comprehensive Business Value

A common standard for measuring the social value of businesses is years away
Open file 8930
DAVOS 2013
Peter Bakker ... Paul Polman ... and others

Did something change at Davos this year? Did we really see sustainable development issues on the agenda?
Open file 8931
davos 2013
Video

What Action2020 means for business and Planet Earth
Open file 8932
AUTOMOBILES
HYUNDAI / KIA

Hyundai Motor Group has outlined some ambitious investment plans even as sales growth at the Korean carmaker slows.
Open file 8933
PETROLEUM
The future for oil prices - VIDEO

Why have oil prices fallen so rapidly, and what role is US oil shale playing in this?
Open file 8934
Transportation
Hybrid Aircraft

Cambridge Engineering Department ... Watts up - aeroplanes go hybrid-electric
Open file 8935
SOME THOUGHTS
Joe Mondello

Is TVM an array of (7?) specific numbers? Is there an overarching 'Burgess Number?' A 'Burgess Constant?'
Open file 8936
IMPORTANT THINKERS
Jeremy Bentham (1748—1832)

A leading theorist in Anglo-American philosophy of law and one of the founders of utilitarianism,
Open file 8937
IMPORTANT THINKERS
John Stuart Mill (1806—1873)

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) profoundly influenced the shape of nineteenth century British thought and political discourse
Open file 8938
IMPORTANT THINKERS
Adam Smith (1723—1790)

Adam Smith is often identified as the father of modern capitalism. While accurate to some extent, this description is both overly simplistic and dangerously misleading.
Open file 8939
IMPORTANT THINKERS
John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946 )

So influential was John Maynard Keynes in the middle third of the twentieth century that an entire school of modern thought bears his name.
Open file 8940
IMPORTANT THINKERS
Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877-1959 )

A British economist, best known for his work in welfare economics.
Open file 8941
IMPORTANT THINKERS
Alfred Marshall (1842-1924 )

His specialty was microeconomics—the study of individual markets and industries, as opposed to the study of the whole economy.
Open file 8942
IMPORTANT THINKERS
Paul Anthony Samuelson (1915-2009 )

More than any other economist, Paul Samuelson raised the level of mathematical analysis in the field.
Open file 8943
IMPORTANT THINKERS
Joan Violet Robinson (1903-1983 )

Joan Robinson was arguably the only woman born before 1930 who can be considered a great economist. She was in the same league as others who received the Nobel Prize.
Open file 8944
IMPORTANT THINKERS
Milton Friedman (1912-2006 )

Milton Friedman was the twentieth century’s most prominent advocate of free markets. (TPB view: the unintended impact of Milton Friedman's ideas have been disastrous)
Open file 8945
CORPORATE ORGANIZATION
B-CORPS

B-Corps – How Business As a Force for Good Became More Than An Ideal
Open file 8946
MILITARY ACCOUNTABILITY
... the prison at Guantanamo in Cuba ...

Questioning the Powerful
Open file 8947
FINANCE SYSTEM REFORM
NEEDS TO SERVE SOCIETY, THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE ECONOMY

Civil society urges politicians to transform the finance system. Manifesto backed by 11 organisations calls on next government to create a finance system that serves society, the environment and the wider economy
Open file 8948
Ideas
Kenneth Rogoff

Do Economic Sanctions Work?
Open file 8949
Ideas
Mikhail Gorbachev

A New Cold War Order?
Open file 8950
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