Monday, November 30, 2015

Breakthrough Energy Coalitions - we need to see and monitor many!

Breakthrough Energy Coalition




A lot will follow from ‪#‎COP21‬ this coming week/month from govts, institutions, business and citizens. Heres an interesting list of names in red down the right hand side of the 2nd link! Lets see what unfolds from all quarters in the coming years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhgIY-Vghj4 see the names in here> http://www.breakthroughenergycoalition.com/en/ Elon Musk is one noticeable missing name, he is doing an amazing amount in this area. I bet there will be plenty of unknowns who make huge impacts on the road to 2030 with climate change and renewable and sustainable energy supply and demand!

Thursday, November 26, 2015

What Muslims think of Islamic State | The Economist

Tagged here for future reference!




What Muslims think of Islamic State | The Economist

When R&D budgets are morphed into M&A budgets!

Ive posted on this issue before #R&D #M&A

corporate mgmt. vs entrepreneurs, incompetence vs inconvenience, bloat vs risk, Bubble vs Innovation etc etc




Big Pharma has become addicted to an illusion — FT.com

Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Li-Fi to extend the Wi-Fi abcent IOT world

Harald Haas: A breakthrough new kind of wireless Internet | TED Talk | TED.com




That with WhiteSpace and FreeVolt offers huge possibilities so I will revisit this post in 5-10yrs times!

Want to Save Lives? You Need a Map of What's Doing Us In | WIRED

Still one my favourite visualisations - Untimely deaths!!




Want to Save Lives? You Need a Map of What's Doing Us In | WIRED

Friday, November 20, 2015

Development resource flows - Other official flows (OOF) - OECD Data







Development resource flows - Other official flows (OOF) - OECD Data

Data Revolution Group

Its the only way!




Measurement, evidence, facts to drive debate and decisions!




Data Revolution Group http://unstats.un.org/sdgs/




http://unstats.un.org/sdgs/

Thursday, November 19, 2015

China inclusion in IMF currency basket not just symbolic — FT.com

Watching the renminbi and including it looks increasingly important!




China inclusion in IMF currency basket not just symbolic — FT.com

Ending Blowback Terrorism by Jeffrey D. Sachs - Project Syndicate

So difficult to get to the truth, the correlation, the cause and the effect, but we need to!




Ending Blowback Terrorism by Jeffrey D. Sachs - Project Syndicate

"

The UN framework should include an immediate end to the insurgency against Assad that the US, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey have pursued; a Syrian cease-fire; a UN-mandated military force to confront ISIS; and a political transition in Syria dictated not by the US, but by a UN consensus to support a non-violent political reconstruction.
Finally, the long-term solution to regional instability lies in sustainable development. The entire Middle East is beset not only by wars but also by deepening development failures: intensifying fresh water stress, desertification, high youth unemployment, poor educational systems, and other serious blockages.
More wars – especially CIA-backed, Western-led wars – will solve nothing. By contrast, a surge of investment in education, health, renewable energy, agriculture, and infrastructure, financed both from within the region and globally, is the real key to building a more stable future for the Middle East and the world.

Read more at https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/islamic-state-blowback-terrorism-by-jeffrey-d-sachs-2015-11#oGOPE0LtyiYVWSz4.99"

Friday, November 13, 2015

How Wealthy People Protect Their Money - The Atlantic

http://Transparencyinternational.org.uk  and https://www.globalwitness.org/ how much do they investigate and comment on such stories and issues like the Cook Islands trusts?




How Wealthy People Protect Their Money - The Atlantic

Keynes v Hayek: Two economic giants go head to head - BBC News

Revisiting now an interesting debate from 2011 tells us a lot I think!




Keynes v Hayek: Two economic giants go head to head - BBC News

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Giving What We Can | Jonathan Courtney | TEDxLSHTM - YouTube

Effective Altruism talk, explains well the intent and impact!




Giving What We Can | Jonathan Courtney | TEDxLSHTM - YouTube

Victoria Chick - Joan Robertson two eminent female economists

Just thought it interesting to note:




Victoria Chick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia




and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Robinson




and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavia_Hill




having heard about them on http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06nnqq9

Wednesday, November 04, 2015

World Food Day 2015: 15 or 150 Years to end child malnutrition? | Generation Nutrition

The foundation of the stepping stone of aid toward trade is the fact that good nutrition supports improvements in helath interventions that help educational interventions that then help people lift themselves out of poverty, removing dependency, creating shared values and building important partnership for the future sustainability of the plane and us all. This entry hit the sweet spot very well as does the infographic within:




World Food Day 2015: 15 or 150 Years to end child malnutrition? | Generation Nutrition

Tuesday, November 03, 2015

A proven way to reduce poverty - The Boston Globe

In the rich and the poor world, one world!




This

A proven way to reduce poverty - The Boston Globe

and this

http://effective-altruism.com/ea/p8/the_triumph_of_humanity_chart/