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Larry Summers: the worst is yet to come
in Sox First, on July 12, 2009
...nothing else, Summers' words are a reminder about the dangers of getting too optimistic in this climate....
Carbon market bonanza for accountants
in Sox First, on July 10, 2009
...eek, we had reports that the Big Four accounting firms are beefing their expertise and setting up climate desks for their clients which include high polluting oil and gas producers, electricity gene...
What recession? Small arms trade is booming
in Sox First, on July 10, 2009
...p this decade in world exports of pistols, rifles, shotguns and other small arms. In this economic climate, there are few industries that would have enjoyed the same sort of growth....
G8 squibs it on climate change
in Sox First, on July 9, 2009
On the face of it, the news , the decision of the G8 leading industrial countries to try and limit global warming to just 2C (3.6F) above pre-industrial levels by 2050 is heartening. But look between the lines and you'll see it's nothing to get excited about. First, we don't know ...
Can the G8 solve climate change?
in Sox First, on July 6, 2009
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The G8 summit of world leaders is making a last ditch bid to come up with a solution on climate change in the lead up to Copenhagen at the end of this year and former British Prime Minister Tony...
ExxonMobil funds climate sceptics
in Sox First, on July 2, 2009
...dence that the world's biggest oil company has been pouring money into lobby groups campaigning against environmentalists and questioning whether global warming exists!... ...
Fascinating to read the report of scientists warning Congress about "climate alarmism". It's fascinating because the crew includes retired manager for strategic planning at ExxonMo...
Climate change: the lawyers' picnic
in Sox First, on June 27, 2009
...the courts for the years ahead. One thing for sure: litigation is going to reshape the politics of climate change. A report from insurer Swiss Re warns that climate change litigation is the new asb...
Dick Cheney's memoirs
in Sox First, on June 24, 2009
Can't wait to read it!! Associated Press reports that former puppet master and vice president Dick Cheney is writing his memoirs. According to that report, Cheney will be paid a cool $2 million for the book. Reading his spin on how he dragged the US into a destructive war will be fascinat...
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. mit „Clean Sea Award“ ausgezeichnet
in Kreuzfahrten, on June 22, 2009
...m Titel "From Crisis to Opportunity: Shipping's Role in the Fight against Climate Change". Bei der Konferenz diskutierten Reedereien, Cargo-Unternehmen und Vertreter von Behörden gemeins... ..."From Crisis to Opportunity: Shipping's Role in the Fight against Climate Change". Bei der Konferenz diskutierten Reedereien, Cargo-Unternehmen und Vertreter von Behörden gemeinsam über ...
Directors warned about greenwash
in Sox First, on June 22, 2009
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About two years ago, I did a blog entry predicting that climate change would become a big corporate governance issue. Directors can get into all sorts of trouble for failing in their duty of car...
Airline crisis strategy: screw customers and staff
in Sox First, on June 21, 2009
... possible to attract more passengers. All they're doing is putting people off. In this economic climate, it doesn't take much to make prospective customer think twice and then delay the purcha...
Yescalate Brings You Business Information and Customer Reviews
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on June 19, 2009
... © Ed Yourdon
In the current economic climate it's important to know whether you can trust local businesses in your community. But where do you go to find the good guys? And what do you do wh...
Climate change impacts
in Sox First, on June 18, 2009
...of 2009" now going before Congress, the Obama Administration has released a timely report on climate change , designed to warn Americans about the dangers of not acting. It's politically l...
Planes, trains & automobiles & climate change
in Sox First, on June 8, 2009
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Much has been said about using public transport to solve climate change. Basically, the argument goes that taking a train or bus produces fewer greenhouse gases than driving. But now a new study,...
Cutting Salaries
in Biz Plan Hacks, on June 6, 2009
...he right environment." Suddenly all those workshops on team building and webinars on corporate climate take on new meaning. Have you built an environment where cutting pay and keeping everyone wi...
Climate change and business costs
in Sox First, on June 3, 2009
How will an emissions trading scheme affect business? Company earnings could fall from less than 1% to 117% under a cap and trade, according to some new research released by not-for-profit Investor Responsibility Research Center Institute and Trucost, which analyzes environmental data, looks a...
Higher rents and sale prices for green buildings
in Sox First, on May 25, 2009
...g reason why it is important. Building owners can actually make money out of it in a tough economic climate. According to the study, buildings with a "green rating" command rental rates tha...
Employee disengagement in a recession
in Sox First, on May 21, 2009
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A key problem in this economic climate is working out how to keep your staff motivated and engaged. That's particularly hard at a time like this when money is scarce. It's a point examined...
US and China: the drug dealer-addict relationship
in Sox First, on May 20, 2009
...ould be pushed back. If China remained committed to a smokestack growth policy, the efforts to slow climate change would become all the more difficult. China's energy needs have already caused it ...
Military joins climate change battle
in Sox First, on May 19, 2009
... military types at the Center for Naval Analysis (CNA) putting out a report warning that ignoring climate change is a security risk. And part of the problem are those energy policies that have made ...
Corporate social responsibility and recession
in Sox First, on May 15, 2009
...erland has told Ethical Corporation magazine that cSR is actually a strategic opportunity in this climate because there is such an enormous amount of anti-corporate feeling in North America and Euro...
Climate change and health
in Sox First, on May 14, 2009
...ird flu and SARS. That seems to be a global trend. Now doctors are for the first time warning that climate change represents a massive health risk. An article published in Lancet warns that global ...
Do boycotts work?
in Sox First, on May 12, 2009
...Colombia and its depletion of groundwater resources in India, Esso for sabotaging efforts to battle climate change, Nestle for irresponsible marketing of baby milk formula, Starbucks for ripping off E...
Survey: Most Women Work Because They Have To
in Well Woman Blog, on May 8, 2009
...to . Additionally, almost half (48%) of working moms are more stressed due to the current economic climate and the majority (65%) are cutting their family budget.
Some further evidence that the econo...
Climate scientist sacked for talking
in Sox First, on May 1, 2009
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In an extraordinary development this week, a pioneering climate change scientist Jim Salinger has been sacked from his post in New Zealand. According to the New Zealand Herald , his great crime w...
Fox says no to Obama
in Sox First, on April 29, 2009
So Fox has announced it won't screen Barack Obama's prime time news conference and will instead screen the scheduled drama Lie To Me. Variety magazine says it's a matter of economics. It's financially based, and not political, it says. Still, it is the first time a network h...
Swine flu and markets
in Sox First, on April 28, 2009
So world markets have been hammered by the swine flu outbreak with airlines leading the charge. The New York Times reports that countries are now tightening their borders and the World Health Organisation has just upped its pandemic flu alert level. But how serious will it get? And what does...
Dangerous economic optimism
in Sox First, on April 24, 2009
While some say the global economy is going to pick up and the signs are looking good, the train is a long way down the track. In fact, the optimism might even be dangerous. Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff has told Reuters that the US, Britain, Spain and Ireland won't recover all their gr...
Cardboard coffins and green funerals
in Sox First, on April 22, 2009
...le embalming fluid to replace the formaldehyde. Green burials also tend to be cheaper which in this climate might be an added bonus. Still, this is all very new territory which means it's open to...
Climate change flood warning
in Sox First, on April 20, 2009
...cientists has warned that the world has only six years to act to avoid the damaging impact of the climate catastrophe. With the world still debating and no agreement on the best strategy, time is ru...
The long recession's impact
in Sox First, on April 17, 2009
...ooz & Company study of 1800 British consumers has found that most consumers think the economic climate will get worse before it gets better over the next six months. The study found that 63% of c...
IPOs: don't blame Sarbox
in Sox First, on April 15, 2009
...y on IPOs still continues almost seven years after it was introduced. Particularly in this economic climate. Last week, The Wall Street Journal was raising concerns about the Obama administration&#...
Recession squeezes jails
in Sox First, on April 14, 2009
...om the lobby group The Sentencing Project says , there isn't much alternative in this economic climate. "The fact is now in the recession reduced tax revenues coming in, all the other challe...
IDC Sez Linux Market Will Reach $35.5 Billion by 2013
in HackITLinux, on April 10, 2009
...se adoption of Linux on the client (desktop, laptop, etc.) 'as a direct result of the economic climate,'" writes CNET's Matt Asay .
More here from InformationWeek.
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Hard Questions for a Business Leader
in TJ's Weblog, on April 10, 2009
...me. He looks at five questions any business owner/manager needs to consider in the current economic climate. and they all have to do with employee relations. Your employees need you most when times ar...
The new consumer
in Sox First, on April 9, 2009
Last year, I did a blog entry looking at the way consumer patterns have changed in the recession. The earlier this year, I did a piece looking at thrift chic, the latest trend where people are embracing frugality and a new conservatism. The lessons of the 1930s taught us that when an economy...
Communities printing money
in Sox First, on April 7, 2009
... blog points out, more communities are expected to join the party for that very reason. "In a climate in which the bigger the business is, the less we trust it, exchanging with people you can se...
Clarifications on HP and Mark Hurd
in The CIO Weblog, on March 31, 2009
... inevitable, recession or no. People get laid off during mergers, regardless of the larger economic climate, and in any enterprise as large as HP you are going to have a background level of hiring and...
G20 protest meltdown
in Sox First, on March 28, 2009
London is bracing itself for the G20 protests with warnings from one of the organizers that there could be "real bankers hanging from lamp posts". Regardless of the hyperbole, it's another sign of how polarized the world has become in the wake of the financial meltdown with anti-ca...
Online connection boom
in Sox First, on March 27, 2009
There are lots of businesses that are cashing in on the recession and doing brilliantly. Not just pawnshops and discount stores but also alcohol, gaming and strangely enough, gardening supply specialists. Add to that the online dating business. Some businesses in that area have enjoyed double d...
How to Rent an Affordable Classic on Your Next Riviera Vacation
in Classical Drives, on March 25, 2009
...es, boats, French cuisine, great wines, elegant villas, exciting cars, glamorous women, a temperate climate. Of course, those dreams inevitably had me at the wheel of something exotic! When I finally ...
Sony Bets on Digital Cameras to Move Phones
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on March 20, 2009
...ced a 12-megapixle-camera phone but that one will not be coming to the US due to the rough economic climate....
Climate change: the worst case scenario is here
in Sox First, on March 16, 2009
...esting that we should not expect any deal to come out of Copenhagen at the end of this year to stop climate change. Now more alarmingly, we have the Copenhagen Climate Change Congress telling us th...
Climate change deniers on the increase
in Sox First, on March 13, 2009
...n scientists are meeting in Copenhagen to lay the foundations for some sort of global accord on the climate crisis. Economist Nicholas Stern has warned that the effects of global warming would be wo...
Climate change battle lost?
in Sox First, on March 9, 2009
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The chances of reaching a global accord on climate change are sinking fast, according to two leading climate scientists. The Times reports that Professor Kevin Anderson, director of the Tyndall ...
Oliver Wight launches fast track offerings for supply chain improvement
in Supplychainer, on February 28, 2009
...ol kit to drive continuous improvement, with a set of performance measures to benchmark improvement against.
... ...trading conditions.
CEO of Oliver Wight EAME, Les Brookes, says, "The current global economic climate is obviously putting increased pressure on businesses and making it ever more difficult for ...
Dumb money and the meltdown
in Sox First, on February 24, 2009
...Madoff and Stanford-that they could deliver steady, positive, market-beating returns in any type of climate, despite the manifest failure of virtually every other money manager to do so-were obviously...
E+Co receives award for the development in energy
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on February 14, 2009
...nce and offices in 10 locations, E+Co's innovative business model provides lasting solutions to climate change and poverty.
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Irish Minister bans climate change ads
in Sox First, on February 11, 2009
... northern Ireland's environment minister, Sammy Wilson, has banned ads urging people to fight climate change because he doesn't believe human beings have caused global warming. He has told t...
Climate change and fires
in Sox First, on February 9, 2009
...I am devastated by what we have seen and experienced here. But this is a sign of thing to come with climate change. Last year, the Bushfire Co-operative Research Centre issued a report identifyin...
AOL 宣布裁员 700 人
in Wangtam, on February 3, 2009
TC 消息 ， AOL CEO Randy Falco 上周在致全体员工的备忘录中表示，受经济衰退的影响，公司将裁员 700 人。
Falco 在备忘录中称公司将裁员 700 人，占员工总数的 10%。同时还将冻结 2009 年全年的加薪计划。"全球经济衰退已经影响到每一个角落，包括我们自己。" Falco 表示。
本月初， AOL 的母公司时代华纳其 2008 年的营收预期下调了 3.7 亿美元，这意味着其旗下 AOL 的广告营收同比下降了 18%，大约为 6400 万美元。
上周，Google 承认其于 2005 年收购 AOL 5% 股份已成为一笔亏本生...
Las Vegas To Dim Its Lights To Bring Attention To Climate Change
in Exclusive from our news room , on January 28, 2009
...off all unnecessary lighting for 1 hour as a symbolic measure to bring attention to the world's climate changes.
Here's the complete story .
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Schneider National gets best supplier award from P&G
in Supplychainer, on January 28, 2009
...n aiming to highlight the implications for shareholder value and commercial operations presented by climate change. The information Schneider provided to Procter & Gamble for the CDP's survey ...
ASTHMyths: Asthma Facts vs Myths
in Allergies, on January 28, 2009
...ck (manufacturer of Singulair ), to help patients separate fact from myths.
Will moving to a dry climate improve your asthma?
Can one outgrow asthma?
Can one help prevent asthma symptoms from occur...
PE Hub Interviews NVCA President Mark Heeson
in TJ's Weblog, on January 25, 2009
...ew examines a number of issues - ranging from legislative priorities to the need to improve the IPO climate.
Heeson says the NVCA plans to put its own ideas up for consideration as the new Obama Admi...
Global warming a last priority
in Sox First, on January 24, 2009
...tion. Global warming ranks as the last. It's perfectly understandable but failure to deal with climate change will have a catastrophic impact on the economy and business. The impact on the auto i...
Club Tester Unique in Golf
in Eagle Par Birdie, on January 15, 2009
...nbaum about the plans for Rankmark as the two men take the company forward in a very rocky economic climate.
Click the link below and allow several minutes for the download. The interview runs 13 min...
Looking to Start a Franchise? 2009 Trends...
in Biz Plan Hacks, on January 13, 2009
...g piece over at Small Business Trends on franchise trends in 2009. Joel sees the current market climate as actually benefitting the franchise scene. The gyrations of the stock market during the la...
A treaty for the Arctic?
in Sox First, on January 13, 2009
... yet to be asserted maritime claims over the vast Arctic Ocean and secondly, there is the impact of climate change. Over the last 150 years the average global temperature has risen by 0.76 degrees Cel...
Turning Up The Heat On Golf
in Eagle Par Birdie, on January 9, 2009
... of global warming on the recreational golf industry in North America. My comments were based on a climate study done by leading scientists and meteorologists using computer models.
It painted a gr...
Climate change chain of command
in Sox First, on January 5, 2009
...ion and regulatory burdens. But companies are still in the process of formulating the job to handle climate change. It is a critical point because global warming is not just an environmental issue, an...
Fantastical Feathers for Spring
in Busy with Style, on December 26, 2008
...oesn't want feathers on their outfits, fashion is once again reacting to the current economic climate. Looks tend to veer more toward fantasy at times like these and these are definitely fall in...
RFID to bring back Australian Rainforests to shape
in The RFID Weblog, on December 16, 2008
...internationally significant project. The WSN will allow us to measure environmental conditions from climate change to soil moisture and water flow, and see the impact on plants and species. There is a...
PCAOB to auditors: turn up the heat
in Sox First, on December 9, 2008
...The PCAOB has put out a report telling auditors what to watch out for, pointing out this economic climate will increase risk and make their work more difficult. Stuff to watch out for include the ad...
An alternative power source....
in The Gadgets Weblog, on November 30, 2008
...economy in ruins, oil slowly running out, and the earth slowly threatening to kill us all with some climate change; it's important that we innovate with a new method of providing energy to the wor...
Obama's to-do list
in Sox First, on November 7, 2008
...m Islamist terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, along with the threat of climate change. How is going to spend the $700 billion bailout package and how the hell will it be ...
Hot, Flat and Crowded - Thomas Friedman
in Sox First, on November 3, 2008
...st powerful innovation engine ever created, the world cannot address the big problems of the Energy-Climate era - quickly and at scale - without America, its president, its government, its industry, i...
Knit Hats for the Winter
in Busy with Style, on October 29, 2008
... If you live in a particularly chilly climate, hats are a necessity during the winter. I love hats; I wish more people would wear hats outside of the baseball cap/knit ski hat choices.
This is a ...
EMI lose overall, yet win digitally...
in Digital Music - The Future, on October 27, 2008
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With the current economic climate spelling doom and gloom for everyone around the world, it is no suprise to see EMI suffering huge losses this year, over £750million (1.2~billion USD). Physical ...
Microsoft unveils Azure cloud
in The CIO Weblog, on October 27, 2008
... all or are relying on third parties to develop. One stop shopping is no bad thing in this economic climate.
Pricing and plans have not been announced yet....
