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Seven Problems a Recovery Won't Fix - Umair Haque - Harvard Business Review - 0 views

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    Recovery means "a return to a normal state of strength." So here's a question. Is recovery enough? Consider seven things that a mere "recovery" probably wouldn't fix...
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Seven Problems a Recovery Won't Fix - 2 views

feeds.harvardbusiness.org/..._problems_a_recovery_wont.html financialcollapse USA recession Shift in Global Power
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  • Tim Mansfield on 20 Jun 11
     
    "On both sides of an increasingly fractious political divide, there's a common belief underlying the debates: what we really need is more stimulus, spending, cutting, slashing, or [insert big idea here], and the economy will "recover" - hey, presto!! - and pop roaring back into life. Hence, like many, you're probably waiting for this so-called mysteriously reluctant non-recovering "recovery" - the one that always seems just around the corner, but when the corner's turned, has automagically disappeared yet again. (Want fries with that latest global "soft patch"?) Recovery means "a return to a normal state of strength." So here's a question. Is recovery enough? Consider seven things that a mere "recovery" probably wouldn't fix..."
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5000+ code for the future inner Adelaide - 0 views

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  • Gareth Priday on 19 Jun 11
     
    5000+ is asking for ideas to help redesign and renew inner Adelaide as a more cosmopolitan centre - a place where all kinds of people of will want to work, play, visit and live prosperous lives
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Global Crunch in Supplies of Key Fertilizer Could Threaten Food Supply and Raise Prices - 0 views

www.newswise.com/...n-food-supply-and-raise-prices Ecological tsunami
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    Global production of phosphorus fertilizer could peak and decline later this century, causing shortages and price spikes that jeopardize world food production, five major scientific societies warned today. The crisis will come at a time when Earth's population may surge past 9 billion.
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Iceland's Crowdsourced Constitution - A Lesson in Open Source Marketing | Social Media ... - 1 views

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    Iceland's Crowdsourced Constitution - A Lesson in Open Source Marketing
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» Augment Your Next Stroll Down Market Street - Long Views: The Long Now Blog - 1 views

blog.longnow.org/...next-stroll-down-market-street Augmented reality mobile networking
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    "Maarten Lens-FitzGerald got in touch recently to let us know that someone had created a layer within the Layar augmented reality platform that geo-tags a film shown by Rick Prelinger at his annual Lost Landscapes of San Francisco event."
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Facebook Loses Nearly 6 Million Users in U.S. in May - The Hollywood Reporter - 0 views

www.hollywoodreporter.com/...k-loses-6-million-users-200905 Future of Facebook facebook Cybernetic civilization
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    "From my experience, I get the sense that being on Facebook is not cool anymore," Hoglund said. "The early adopters and trend-setters are moving away. [But] these are also exactly the type of people brand advertisers want to reach; if they are leaving, it doesn't look good for Facebook."
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Facebook Sees Big Traffic Drops in US and Canada as It Nears 700 Million Users Worldwide - 0 views

www.insidefacebook.com/...rs-700-million-users-worldwide Cybernetic civilization Future of Facebook facebook
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  • Tim Mansfield on 15 Jun 11
     
    Why the drop? Most prominently, the United States lost nearly 6 million users, falling from 155.2 million at the start of May to 149.4 million at the end of it. This is the first time the country has lost users in the past year. Canada also fell significantly, by 1.52 million down to 16.6 million, although it has been fluctuating around that number for the past year. Meanwhile, the United Kingdom, Norway and Russia all posted losses of more than 100,000. If these countries - most of whom had adopted Facebook many years ago - had not lost users, and instead posted even small gains, Facebook would have had a much more typical month
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Asylum: Exit Australia - 0 views

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    Interactive video - trying to leave Australia and seek asylum
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Facebook and facial recognition - you've been tagged - 0 views

theconversation.edu.au/gnition-youve-been-tagged-1776 facebook panopticity
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  • Published: June 10, 2011 Facebook and facial recognition – you’ve been tagged Author David White Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of New South Wales Disclosure Statement David White is employed on an ARC Linkage Grant in collaboration with Australia Passports. Our goal is to ensure the content is not compromised in any way. We therefore ask all authors to disclose any potential conflicts of interest before publication. Re-publish We licence our articles under Creative Commons — attribution, no derivatives. Anyone can re-publish our content provided they follow some simple guidelines. Your Facebook snaps now come with a hidden catch. rishibando Around 2 million photographs are uploaded to Facebook each day. As of this week, every new image will be processed by automatic face recognition software, designed to identify the people in the photographs.
  • Gareth Priday on 14 Jun 11
     
    2 million photographs are uploaded to Facebook each day. As of this week, every new image will be processed by automatic face recognition software, designed to identify the people in the photographs. It's not the addition of this new function that has caused the creeping sense of unease, but the covert manner with which it has been activated
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C40 Shows How Cities Can Lead on Climate Change Solutions | World Resources Institute - 1 views

www.wri.org/...-lead-climate-change-solutions climate change urban sustainability Ecological tsunami
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  • On June 2nd, I had the pleasure of speaking at the C40 Summit in São Paulo, Brazil. The C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group consists of iconic cities from around the world committed to addressing climate change. Chaired by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the group has recently joined forces with the Clinton Climate Initiative’s Cities Program. Together, this partnership can have meaningful role in the fight against climate change.
  • jose ramos on 14 Jun 11
     
    "On June 2nd, I had the pleasure of speaking at the C40 Summit in São Paulo, Brazil. The C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group consists of iconic cities from around the world committed to addressing climate change. Chaired by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the group has recently joined forces with the Clinton Climate Initiative's Cities Program. Together, this partnership can have meaningful role in the fight against climate change."
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Building a sustainable city with its inhabitants (Malmo Sweden) - 0 views

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  • Gareth Priday on 10 Jun 11
     
    Examples of building sustainability with local involvement
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This Big City - ideas for our urban world - 0 views

thisbigcity.net Public science crowdsourcing
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    Wikicity - How citizens can improve their ciities
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Beyond our imagination: Fukushima and the problem of assessing risk | Bulletin of the A... - 0 views

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  • Gareth Priday on 10 Jun 11
     
    Limits of probabilistic models 1.4 years if nuclear power expands from today's 440 commercial power reactors to the 1,000
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OZCLIM - Climate Change Scenario Generator - 1 views

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  • Gareth Priday on 10 Jun 11
     
    OzClim provides a simple step-by-step option to help you generate and explore climate scenarios. There are also six scenarios in the examples section for rainfall and temperature for 2030.
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Richard Barnes' 'Animal Logic' at Portland's Blue Sky Gallery: The manufacturing of nat... - 1 views

www.oregonlive.com/...anufacturing_of_natural_h.html temporal navigation museums futures
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  • jose ramos on 10 Jun 11
     
    ""We want to demolish museums and libraries," the fevered Italian aesthetic revolutionary F.T. Marinetti declared in his 1909 Futurist Manifesto. "Museums, cemeteries!" Maybe so, maybe no. I'll vote no -- and so, I think, would photographer Richard Barnes, whose fascinating exhibit "Animal Logic," which documents the Smithsonian and other natural history museums as containers of imagined histories and outrageous dreams, is on view this month at Blue Sky Gallery. "
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Tina Gerhardt: UN Climate Negotiations: EU Ramps Up Renewables and Addresses Aviation E... - 0 views

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    "Presenting on the heels of Canada, which argued that it is difficult to achieve emissions reductions while continuing on a path of economic growth, the EU stated that, in fact, its own GDP has grown, by 40%+ percent between 1990-2009, while its emissions have been reduced by 16%. "So it is possible," said the EU's lead climate negotiator Artur Runge-Metzger, "to de-couple economic growth from increased emissions.""
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Turkey's June 12 Elections and Eurocentrism - 1 views

mwcnews.net/...11300-turkey-elections.html Shifts in global power
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    "The Economist leader headline in its June 4th issue is revealing: "The best way for Turks to promote democracy would be to vote against the ruling party." It reveals a mentality that has not shaken itself free from the paternalism and entitlements of the bygone colonialist days. What makes such an assertion so striking is that The Economist would know better than to advise American or Canadian or Israeli citizens how to vote. And it never did venture such an opinion on the eve of the election of such reactionary and militarist figures as George W. Bush, Stephen Harper, or Benjamin Netanyahu. Are the people of Turkey really so politically backward as to require guidance from this bastion of Western elite opinion so as to learn what is in their own best interest?"
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The Institute of Knowledge Transfer - http://www.ikt.org.uk - 0 views

www.ikt.org.uk knowledge innovation
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    "'The Institute of Knowledge Transfer exists for those who are professionally engaged in making the exchange of knowledge more effective. I want the Institute to be of equal value to everyone involved in the process; from the innovators, to those immersed in science and technology, to those within the creative arts. The Institute's agenda is to be set by its members; it is the members that give it life. As the first Institute of this kind in the world others will watch our evolution. With the help of those who have already joined us, the Institute is currently developing the services required by members. Mentoring is one example and is an important step in sharing the experiences of a new profession'. "
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Joseph Nye - Has economic power replaced military might? - 0 views

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  • jose ramos on 09 Jun 11
     
    "At the Cold War's end, some pundits proclaimed that "geo-economics" had replaced geopolitics. Economic power would become the key to success in world politics, a change that many people thought would usher in a world dominated by Japan and Germany."
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