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Will this credit crisis stunt eco-efficiency?

October 18th, 2008 · No Comments

A friend asked me what my coach’s view was on this matter the other day. It’s a difficult call. It’s down to the individual again.
There are those people who sacrifice their spirit (and the spirit of their loved ones) for a lie that is mediocrity, by abdicating individual responsibility and allowing procedures and systems, media [...]

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Rudyard Kipling on the Credit Krunch

October 17th, 2008 · No Comments

“IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And [...]

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Should the EU’s emissions-cutting targets be eased because of the global crisis?

October 17th, 2008 · No Comments

Never ever. If we wait for better time or decide we can’t afford to make risky decisions we will become like a puddle on a carpet, we’ll get absorbed by our surroundings and trodden on through our own naive delusion to go back to a bygone era where life was easier.
The global crisis has come [...]

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Great work

October 5th, 2008 · No Comments

Just a public hurrah to some special people who did something big in order to make a difference in this world.
Well done Steve Clarke & the Silicone Comrades
Well done Jonathan Whitaker

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US bailout - 700Billion is a designer number.

October 1st, 2008 · No Comments

At last things are starting to make sense!
Why $700 billion? Why not $4.65 billion? Or $1.17 trillion?
Gus Faucher, director of macroeconomics at Moody’s Economy.com., said, “It’s a number that is designed to reassure the financial markets that the government is serious about getting the financial markets back into shape.”.
Yes, but is there any economic or [...]

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