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Peter Gordon said that although he will now be a full-time history professor, he still hopes to “sustain strong ties to social studies...
...left behind. According to WWF, each person should currently have an average footprint of 1.8 hectares, the rough equivalent of two soccer fields, for the supply of his or her needs. But WWF estimates that the average stomping ground is currently around 2.2 hectares, 21% more than is sustainable. "Footprinting is a snapshot," says Rob Holdway, the WEEE Man project director whose consultancy, Giraffe Innovation, provides businesses with advice on WEEE compliance. "We now need 1.2 earths to sustain our lifestyles. If everyone on the planet lived like people in Europe, we would need three planets to support the global...
This leads to a fundamental problem for oil companies: the world thirsts for oil and there is not enough in other countries to sustain worldwide demand. So, oil companies have no choice but to deal with these regimes. It would be hard to establish a code of ethical investment for all oil companies. After all, if some regime is too sordid or controversial for a publicly listed U.S. oil company, there are plenty of other national oil companies in countries that do not care much for human rights and are willing to make a quick buck without competition. Boycotts...
...conflicting signals all come at a time when the U.S. is depending more than ever on foreign money to sustain growth. For Greenspan and his colleagues at the Fed, which has been gradually raising interest rates over the past year, the quandary is whether to quicken the pace or take a break. "You don't know exactly when to stop," says economist Mark Zandi of Economy.com "If history is any guide, they...
...then, can we supply the energy needed to create economic prosperity where it does not yet exist, and to sustain prosperity where it does, without wrecking the climate? Continuing with energy “business as usual” will not do. A scenario in the middle of the range considered by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in terms of economic growth, energy-efficiency improvements, and reduction in fossil-fuel dependence during the 21st century ends up with nearly three times the pre-industrial atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration by 2100—a trajectory that seems likely to have...