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...world heats up again--this time far more rapidly--the question repeats: Who wins and who loses? Climate models are notoriously useless at predicting local effects of global change. But a massive new Canadian research project, ArcticNet, may provide some early answers about the connections among warming, melting, ecosystem reorganization and human response. And the results may be the best indicator the world will get about what to expect elsewhere. The Arctic will show the earliest and most severe signs of global warming--with Canadian calculations predicting a rise in mean temperature of more than 4 degrees Celsius between...
...without corrective measures "will be hazardous to life, property and the environment." The order comes in the midst of renewed Congressional fighting over oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, with supporters insisting that oil companies will be able to drill for oil without damaging the sensitive arctic ecosystem...
...media is coming. Contrary to some utopian (or is that dystopian?) claims, it is not likely to kill off today’s mass media, though traditional media’s business models are under ferocious attack. Rather, grassroots efforts will be an essential part of an emerging media ecosystem, which includes the world of “old media” but also transforms it into more of a conversation and less of a lecture. This new media age is not simply democratization of the production of information; the democratization of access is at least as valuable...
Larsen sees the crackdown as a way of targeting the problem without going after the workers directly--an acceptable solution for the sensitive political ecosystem of the Hamptons. Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy, who mainly oversees the more working-class communities west of the Hamptons, takes a more direct approach. Levy, a Democrat, has initiated sting operations on local contractors and helped towns bust lawbreaking landlords. His police also forcibly removed day laborers from a Farmingville 7-Eleven parking lot. Levy says the voters in his county appreciate his strong arm. "There's a tremendous disconnect between the public...
...environment with respect.The future founders, chairmen, and chief executive officers here on campus would do well to learn a little from Chouinard. Companies do not have to be all about lower marginal costs and higher profits—they can also be about their people and the ecosystem. And if Chouinard’s business model ever sounds dubious or runs contrary to what you learned in Ec 10, just open your closet and take a long look at your Patagonia fleece jacket.Unfortunately, Chouinard’s nuggets of entrepreneurial wisdom are buried within 260 long pages of hackneyed stories...