An investigation will be held into suspicions that the Harper government illegally registered greenhouses gas emissions with the enforcement branch of the UN Kyoto Protocol.
This revelation means that Canada might be barred from the right to trade carbon dioxide in a global market. Greece was suspended for similar reasons last month, the first such state [...]
A luxury/horror of my work is that I read about a dozen newspapers a day. I’ve discovered that these headlines could be from any indiscriminate period and are repeated weekly as if it was new news.
“Greenhouse gas emissions reach record highs”
“Climate change is occurring more quickly than expected”
“Price of oil reaches record high”
“Income inequality [...]
Loretta Napoleoni, Italian economist and Fulbright Scholar, has a new book that’s piqued my interest. Her appearance on Democracy Now this week finished with me very interested in her book. [Full Transcript] Napoleoni defined rogue economics at the start of her interview with Amy Goodman:
Rogue economics is a sort of umbrella under which we find [...]
This is the second of a series of posts on free culture and podcasting. I’ll be pulling out some of my favourite podcasts for discussion and highlighting some of the best podcasting available in the commons. [One: Canada's Robert J. Sawyer on TVO's Big Ideas]
Free Culture Podcasts: Two
Linda McQuaig on Canadian Voices 3: Holding the [...]
[Globalization and Robots Edition]
Lessons from the 1000 years of history of trade and war - “One striking feature of today’s international economy is that, as in the 19th century, regions with very different factor endowments are being drawn into closer contact with each other, as what used to be known as the Third World opens [...]
Wired on coffee for The Enlightenment, and drugs and body enhancements for the second Enlightenment.
UN Data opens up to the public - Massive database now available online
Treasury Dept confiscates domain names of Brit travel agent who booked Cuba tours - Appears the Wikileaks seizure might have been only the first of many attacks on global [...]