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...private banks didn't feature on environmentalists' hit lists; activists focused on large corporate polluters in the oil and timber industries. Over time, though, green groups have realized that one effective way to halt destructive practices is to take on the institutions that bankroll them. "The private financial sector, more than any other, has the ability to begin the ecological U-turn modern society so desperately needs," says Ilyse Hogue, director of the global finance campaign at Rainforest Action Network (ran), which led the fight against JPMorgan Chase. Yet even as they have publicly confronted big financial institutions, green groups...
...price will probably turn off consumers unless mobile operators subsidize it. IDC analyst Paolo Pescatore wonders if the show was a "last gasp" effort to regain hipness. Nokia lost market share a year ago, but although it's been scratching back lately, growth in the handset sector is skidding. Ollila predicted Nokia will sell 40 million music phones this year, but for Nokia to win the music mantle, it's got to out-cool and underprice Apple. - By Mark Halper...
...Kennedy School of Government (KSG) announced yesterday that it had received a $15 million gift dedicated to fostering cooperation between private businesses and the public sector, marking one of the five largest donations to the school in its 27-year history...
...central changes going on in the world is that the public’s business is being done not only by the public sector, but also by the nonprofit and private sector,” Ellwood said. “I think that the work of the Center for Business and Government is absolutely vital and central to the mission of the Kennedy School and to advancing the public interest around the world...
...upgrade and expand the national electric grid so that power generated in a farmer’s field in North Dakota can be made available to consumers far removed. Excess power could be used to generate hydrogen which could substitute at least partially for oil in the transportation sector. And we should think seriously about a new generation of nuclear power plants with appropriate planning to deal with issues of safety and waste...