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...level. Cohesion is all about everyday interactions, in the supermarket or on the playground." Successful, long-lasting integration takes place in community clubs and children's play groups, bake sales and block parties. Programs don't have to be big or expensive; Kotler says Education Bradford runs its twinning scheme "on a shoestring." "This isn't woolly liberal multiculturalism," she says. "Yes, it's about respecting difference, but it's also about discovering what it means to live together and feeling O.K. with a sense of multiple identity." Because the only way for Europe to get over its identity crisis...
...initiative, on Feb. 9 Labor premiers and chief ministers agreed to implement a national system of carbon trading from 2010-with or without the federal government. Carbon trading is already happening in Australia's suburbs and towns. For instance, in New South Wales, the Greenhouse Gas Abatement Scheme imposes annual reduction targets on electricity retailers; other companies that carry out work to reduce greenhouse gases (by installing energy-efficient light globes and water-saving showerheads or planting trees) can create so-called "abatement certificates." Polluters can buy these to offset their own emissions. Since 2003, about 37 million tons have...
...business? Will these potentially valuable carbon permits be given away or sold at auction? What will be the balance between gdp growth and the environment? Will politicians continue to undermine an open market? In N.S.W., for example, the state government has granted BlueScope an exemption from its carbon trading scheme or any future carbon tax to help establish a new steel plant at Port Kembla...
...today's levels). The Task Group is now taking submissions from the community and will report to the P.M. by the end of May. "Given the scale of the challenge faced," the group says in its issues paper, "there is no room for complacency." A local emissions-trading scheme is coming. Move over scientists, politicians and lobbyists-and make way for good market economics...
...Universities to rival the savings of their American counterparts. Under the plan, every two pounds donated to a university by alumni, philanthropists or businesses will be matched by one pound from public funds, up to £2 million ($3.9 million). British government and higher education officials hope the scheme will entice universities to more aggressively solicit donations from private sources, including alumni—largely considered an untapped resource. Presently, even elite schools in Britain rely heavily upon the government for their funding. In developing a new model for higher education funding, British officials have taken U.S. state universities?...