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The government may force General Motors and Chrysler into bankruptcy to assure the taxpayers get back their $17.4 billion in bailout loans.

The car companies, of course, say such a move would destroy them.

Bankruptcy may be necessary, because, as Bloomberg points

A Crash Campaign

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SUMMARY and INTRODUCTION

1. The objective is to get proposals for monetary reform - national and international - included in the Agenda for the G20

An estimated 26 million poor rural Chinese are now without jobs after pinning their hopes on the once-booming manufacturing sector, where work has dried up due to the global economic slowdown, a government advisory body said.

The figure was released one day after Beijing warned of

February 03, 2009 'Raw Story' -- -California, the eighth largest economy in the world, is broke.

'People are going to be hurt starting today,' said Hallye Jordan, speaking on behalf of the state Controller. 'There's no money.'

Since state legislators failed to meet an end

Just more Keynsianism in the works, health of banks getting worse despite injections, Why not just let them fail and prosecute their officers for fraud? no end to the bailouts, insane acts of economics, Davos a bust, the world will eventually move away from the dollar

As hard as

Greenpeace briefing 26 May 08
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Exxon finally admits that its funding of climate sceptic think tanks is detrimental to action on climate change

Tuesday 27 May 2008 -- For the very first time, ExxonMobil has admitted that the

The search is on for the most inspiring, female-led ethical business of 2007. Triodos Bank has joined forces with Eve magazine to launch the second Women in Ethical Business Awards (WEBA).

The awards aim to celebrate the women behind some of the most inspiring, ethical businesses in the

Environmentalists are calling for increased air taxes to curb the number of cheap flights, but the airline industry says this would be counterproductive.

Background:

Air travel contributes some 3-3.5% of global carbon dioxide emissions. Although this is a tiny

The world cannot afford to wait before tackling climate change, the UK prime minister has warned. A report by economist Sir Nicholas Stern suggests that global warming could shrink the global economy by 20%.

But taking action now would cost just 1% of global gross domestic product,

The World Development Movement has bought new office premises with the help of a loan from charity banking specialists, Triodos. The money means WDM have moved from their 15 year home in Brixton, to more modern space in The Oval, South-West London.

The NGO campaigns on a variety of

Environmentalists have pointed the finger at the Commission for telling Luxembourg that the guaranteed price it pays in support of renewable energies is creating market distortions.

Background:

A pending case between the Commission and Luxembourg relating to state aid

Can eco-friendly products and services, such as shade-grown coffee or green electricity, actually be bad for the environment? Possibly, says one economist.

'Green markets are expanding in many sectors,' says Matthew Kotchen at the University of California, Santa Barbara. For

Triodos Bank has won a Major Commendation in the prestigious Business Commitment to the Environment (BCE) Awards. The Award recognises the Bank's groundbreaking approach to finance, which provides practical ways to make money benefit people and planet. It was presented to UK Managing Director

EU finance ministers have agreed to add district heating to the list of sectors eligible for a reduced 5.5% VAT rate.

The agreement was struck on 1 February after Poland lifted its veto, thereby extending current reduced VAT rates in labour intensive industries until the end of 2010

On October 25, 2005, the Japanese Ministry of the Environment unveiled its plan on a new environmental tax, also known as a carbon tax, to curb global warming . The new tax is to be levied on carbon contained in various fossil fuels such as coal and oil. The ministry plans to introduce the tax

News From Peter Challen

Towards Formulating a Legal Case against the Bank of England, the Treasury and/or the Government

The enclosed letter formulates our objectives to be achieved by using the law. It is addressed to Peter Roderick, who used to work for Friends of the

The wind energy industry in Europe faces barriers that are caused by distortions in continental electricity markets, concludes a report from the European Wind Energy Association.

'The capacity of the European power systems to absorb significant amount of wind power is determined

The Commission plans to scrap car registration charges in favour of a harmonised EU road tax scheme that would take account of vehicles' CO2 emissions. If adopted, the proposal could make cleaner cars more attractive to consumers.

The proposal to harmonise car taxes in the EU dates

The search is on for the most inspiring, female-led ethical business in the UK. Triodos Bank has joined forces with Eve magazine to launch the inaugural Women in Ethical Business Awards (WEBA).

The awards aim to celebrate the women behind some of the most inspiring, ethical businesses in

Abolition of tariffs, subsidies and domestic support programs would boost global welfare by nearly $300 billion per year by 2015, says a new World Bank research study, Agricultural Trade Reform and the Doha Development Agenda. Close to two-thirds of these gains would come from agricultural

The 2005 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics (in Memory of Alfred Nobel) was recently announced. The winners, Robert Aumann of Hebrew University in Israel and Thomas Schelling of the University of Maryland, USA are mathematicians and game theorists. The economics profession has adopted methods

Customers Reap Rewards for Triodos Bank's Ethical Approach

Can a bank be better for your business? A recent survey of Triodos Bank's business and charity customers suggests that it can. According to Triodos their customers believe that the association with the ethical bank brings direct

Socially responsible investing (SRI) is showing signs of being memetic in other words, spreading like a cultural virus. Specifically, traditional 'mainstream' investors are starting to integrate social and environmental considerations into fundamental analysis of companies. Take, for example,

The government support mechanism for renewable energies in Britain is too expensive and poorly targeted, according to a government committee.

'The Renewables Obligation is currently at least four times more expensive than the other means of reducing CO2 currently used in the UK,

Plans are in the pipeline to overhaul a scheme that forces energy producers to market electricity from renewable sources.

Energy Minister, Malcolm Wicks, has outlined options to improve the effectiveness of the Renewables Obligation (RO).

The RO ensures all electricity

Homes, transport and industry would all need to become carbon neutral to meet Government targets for 2050 if pollution from planes is allowed to continue to undermine plans to cut emissions.

These are the findings of Manchester University's Tyndall Centre for Climate

Future demand for food, feed, fibres and fuels may well be secured via renewable resources and new biological processes, said a conference on the EU's development towards becoming a bio-economy.

A bio-based economy is one that relies on renewable resources and new biological

A UK compromise deal on REACH would allow some exemptions and introduce lighter data requirements for small volume chemicals to ease the burden on SMEs. Small businesses hail the proposal to make data sharing mandatory.

The proposal to register and control some 30,000 chemical

This was the claim of an economic study released by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) at the UN's World Summit this week.

The report, Environmental Wealth for Poverty Reduction was prepared by David Pearce of University College London and compares the

U.N. officials said Wednesday that many of the problems world leaders are working to tackle at this week's U.N. summit can be solved by providing clean water and basic sanitation for the billions suffering without such services.

The officials urged leaders to focus on reaching the

Triodos Bank, which celebrates its tenth anniversary in the UK this year, believes figures released today show that UK consumer's approach to money is changing. In the first six months of the year, the ethical finance pioneers' balance sheet grew by 12% to over £750 million, reflecting mounting

New York has just become the first state to require that all schools use safer, non-toxic cleaning products. Passage of New York's pioneering legislation -- similar to laws in Washington State that require all school and public buildings to 'go green' -- was driven by mounting concerns that

Investment in the UK's renewable energy market is being restrained by the slow pace of development, market analysts have warned.

A new set of indices developed by Ernst & Young, the Near-Term Index, looks at market attractiveness over a two year period. It shows that the UK is

Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward, one of the 23 wards comprising Metropolitan Tokyo, will launch a pilot program from July 2005 to issue a community currency named 'Chiyoda Volunteer Ticket.' It is specially designed for use in the ward, with the aim of fostering community welfare.

Under the

A new research paper from Newcastle Business School looking at the economics of fair trade concludes that fair trade is an effective mechanism for raising labour standards among producers and their families in the developing world.

KLD Research & Analytics, Inc. has announced the launch of the KLD Global Climate 100 Index, the first global index focused on solutions to climate change.

KLD created the Global Climate 100 Index in response to growing demand from institutions and individuals for investment

In late 1918, Rudolf Steiner said that with the Treaty of Versailles world historic responsibility passed to the Anglo-American peoples. Ever since, in both theory and practice, the Anglo-Saxon approach has dominated economic affairs and any endeavour to bring Steiner's ideas into modern debates

An online database has been launched to list 200 lending groups that provide finance to the renewable energy and energy efficiency sector around the world.

The Sustainable Energy Finance Initiative says its 'Sustainable Energy Finance Directory' provides financiers with the support

San Francisco, which has long prided itself on environmentally friendly policies, is debating whether it should become the first U.S. city to tax grocery bags to encourage recycling.

On Tuesday, the city's Department of the Environment will vote on whether to recommend a 17 cent fee

A company that profits while doing harm to the community is likely to suffer in the long run. Yet the mainstream financial community has so far placed little emphasis on social, environmental, and ethical issues in its investment decisions. This can be changed, as the new report released by