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A Little More Election Stuff
I was just looking at the results of the various Ballot Measures that were also voted on, in particular, gay marriage. The Arizona and Florida electorates have voted to ban gay marriage, and Arkansasians (what does one call people from Arkansas?) to ban un-married couples from adopting. The rather well-publicised ‘Prop. 8’ in California hasn’t…
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Huuuui!
WNYC’s ‘The Takeaway’ radio show used their Friday episode to ask listeners for alternative terms to “economic turmoil”. Well, I’m getting fed up of hearing “credit crunch” in almost every news broadcast. My choice up to now has been “financial turmoil”, but I particularly liked one callers suggestion of “huuuui!”, though it sounds better on…
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Proper Accounting
I quite like that the environmental movement is so broad that there is room for everyone from senior executives at places like Deutsche Bank to grassroots activists, making their surrounding communities better places. While the word ‘holistic’ has plenty enough connotations to prevent me using it very much, it does quite aptly describe the movement.
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A Change On Climate Change?
Tomorrow, probably to little fanfare, the EP will do something that it should be really good at. It will legislate on climate change. I say it should be really good at it, because environmental issues, which rarely respect national borders, are one of the things that the EU could almost have been designed to tackle.
A passion for communicating
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Making the complicated simple
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Open systems
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