People & Planet - UK student action on world poverty, human rights and the environment RUCHI - Rural Centre for Human Interests EU finance and sustainable development Banking & Finance Reforming our financial system to make it safer, more sustainable, and socially useful. More Community Currencies Exploring alternative currencies. Jobs & Industrial Strategy Addressing structural imbalances in the UK labour market. Local Economies The benefits of flourishing local economies More Macroeconomics Creating a new macroeconomic strategy. Monetary Policy Improving understanding of how money is created and allocated. Social Return on Investment Measuring a broader concept of value.
Thoughts About Think Tanks: Are They Biased? Click 2x What Is a Think Tank? We've all heard of think tanks, but many people don't know exactly what think tanks do and what their influence is over public opinion and policies. A think tank is an organization that conducts research and attempts to influence public policy in many different areas including business and finance, economics, education, fiscal policy, defense, security, technology, science, foreign affairs, health and science and political strategy. Are Think Tanks Biased? All think tanks promote themselves as being non-partisan, but beware – that doesn't mean that they are non-biased. But are any think tanks really unbiased? Because of the enormous power and influence held by think tanks, the public needs to be made aware of any obvious bias of a think tank, and also the bias that is most likely occurring from the funding behind the think tank. If you want to check out think tank bias for yourself, there's a handy data base to do so. A Closer Look Behind the Scenes
Home of TEEB Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice - Australian Human Rights Commission The position of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner was created by the federal parliament in December 1992 – a response to the findings of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and the National Inquiry into Racist Violence. It was also a response to the extreme social and economic disadvantage faced by Indigenous Australians. Social justice is about making sure that every Australian – Indigenous and non-Indigenous – has choices about how they live and the means to make those choices. The Commission's role includes reviewing the impact of laws and policies on Indigenous peoples, reporting on Indigenous social justice and native title issues and promoting an Indigenous perspective on issues. This work is led by Mick Gooda, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner.
EU Financial Reforms From January 2010 on, a consortium of six European non governmental organisations is working on the development impact of the financial crisis and of the current financial reforms in a joint project, “Towards a Global Finance System at the Service of Sustainable Development”. The project is co-funded by the European Union. The financial crisis originated in developed countries but also affects heavily emerging economies and developing countries. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are under threat because poverty and unemployment increase dramatically as a result of the crisis. The EU should ensure that European rescue and stimulus packages remain coherent with development concerns, EU development policy and MDGs. In order to tackle the causes of the crisis and to reach a more sustainable economic development, new regulation and supervisory measures for the financial markets should be implemented at the EU and global level. Project Objectives > EU Financial Reforms News
Zeitgeist 3 : Moving Forward ~ Documentary Film "Zeitgeist 3: Moving Forward", by director Peter Joseph, is a feature length documentary film which will present a case for a much needed transition out of the current socioeconomic monetary paradigm which governs the entire world society. This subject matter will transcend the issues of cultural relativism and traditional ideology and move to relate the core, empirical "life ground" attributes of human and social survival, extrapolating those immutable natural laws into a new sustainable social paradigm called a "Resource-Based Economy". On January 15th, 2011, "Zeitgeist: Moving Forward" was released theatrically to sold out crowds in 60 countries; 31 languages; 295 cities and 341 Venues. It has been noted as the largest non-profit independent film release in history. A Free DVD Torrent of the full 2 hr and 42 min film in 30 languages is also made available through the main website [below], with instructions on how one can download and burn the movie to DVD themselves. Related Posts :
AgriCultures Network The Missing Dimension: How European Financial Reforms Ignore Developing Countries and Sustainability by Myriam Vander Stichele affiliation not provided to SSRNOctober 2, 2011 Abstract: On the eve of the G20 Summit in Cannes, SOMO has analysed the European Union’s financial reform process, agreed on by the G20, in its new report The missing dimension. How European financial reforms ignore developing countries and sustainability. SOMO concludes that the EU’s financial reforms have been not only much too slow and too weak – aggravating the debt and bank problems in the Eurozone. Number of Pages in PDF File: 46 Keywords: G20 Summit in Cannes, European Union’s financial reform process, The missing dimension, bank problems in the Eurozone, financial sector, lack of reform of food derivative markets, food prices working papers series Suggested Citation Vander Stichele, Myriam, The Missing Dimension: How European Financial Reforms Ignore Developing Countries and Sustainability (October 2, 2011).
The Problem with “Zeitgeist” The Zeitgeist Movement is now ubiquitous. Everywhere I turn, I hear alienated youth having dialogue about this phenomenon, and I opened a local free newspaper recently to find an article about college dropouts who drive a bus around the country promoting the movement’s ideas. There is a of course a great irony in this movement: “Zeitgeist” has all but replaced the fringe-groups discussing September 11th being an inside-job and other irrelevant “conspiracies” (of course the conspiracy industry is reluctant to acknowledge the two greatest public conspiracies: capital and the State). In other words, the anti-political fiction du-jour has had quite the metamorphosis. Alex Jones, one of the entrepreneurs of the conspiracy industry and proponents of “New World Order” “theory” (if ever a word was so bastardized), has been dethroned by Peter Joseph and his hypothetical technological utopia. Joseph, too, has drastically changed his tune. “Zeitgeist” has changed this, however. References