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Climate-change deniers are in retreat – The Washington Post

BySustainMe

Climate-change deniers are in retreat – The Washington Post: It will be nice to move past the non-debate about is there global warming, and move off into the real debate. We are all living unsustainable lives with non-sustainable business models. What is our plan to move toward sustainability. Singly and collectively? The argument that it doesn’t do any good for us to do something if China and India continue consuming is sad and ironic. For…

Smart tech solution to save the rain forest.

BySustainMe

Topher White: What can save the rainforest? Your used cell phone #TED : http://on.ted.com/q0TOb This is a great solution to illegal loggers. Very cool solution. The importance of rainforest deforestation may be overstated with the stats. It may not be more important than anything else… But there are several ways to look at it. Very, very important though.

Another massive meltoff of Antarctic glacier. Really ugly likely outcomes.

BySustainMe

The melting of Antarctica was already really bad. It just got worse. http://wapo.st/19rU1xp Wow. Another area, like the west of antartcica, could result in massive ice melt from the ocean side up! Each shelf/sheet could add about 10 feet to ocean rise, maybe 25% more for the northern hemisphere. Ouch!

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Don’t Confuse Sustainability with CSR | Ivey Business Journal

BySustainMe

Don’t Confuse Sustainability with CSR | Ivey Business Journal: Definition of sustainability — essentially not imposing additional costs on the future — is quite different from Corporate Social Responsibility, which looks at balancing the needs of all current constituents. This is a very cool article that addresses the key issues that differentiate sustainability from CSR. Even though sustainability is overused and frequently missuses, it is a better term to use and a better utopia to aim for. “It is time…

Rise of the Rest – Entrepreneur Tour. 5 Cities at a time.

ByBizMan

World Stock Markets: Steve Case from AOL fame is one of the judges going round hitting up start-up business ideas, 5 cities at a time. The south of USA is next. Revolution, Google for Entrepreneurs, and UP Global This UP Global initiative is an interesting approach by Google ventures and others to identify and fund new venture ideas. A very cool approach to jump starting innovation anywhere and everywhere around the world. That the winner…

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Do Cryptocurrencies Such as Bitcoin Have a Future? – WSJ – Crappy currencies

ByBizMan

Do Cryptocurrencies Such as Bitcoin Have a Future? – WSJ: This is a good discussion about bitcoin, a cryptocurrency. At the current exchange rate, $261 US equals about 1 bitcoin, or 1 USD equals .003 BTC. During the Great Recession all countries worked hard to devalue their own currencies. A great way to stimulate the domestic economy is to reduce the value of the currency such that exports are stimulated. All right, not a great…