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Global warming -- Lessons from the present financial crisis

Published on: Apr 06, 2009 by Mridu Verma

Last updated on: Apr 06, 2009

Keywords: climate change, financial crisis; toxic assets, global warming, greenhouse gases

Categories: Soil

Thomas Friedman in his article Our excesses are toxic to markets and Mother Nature says, "It's now obvious that the reason we're experiencing a simultaneous meltdown in the financial system and the climate system is because we have been mispricing risk in both arenas — producing a huge excess of toxic assets and toxic air that now threatens the stability of the whole planet."

Economic experts have been opining that toxic assets accumulated by the banks have been one of the key factors ...
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The Greenhouse

Published on: Mar 26, 2009 by ian russell

Last updated on: Mar 26, 2009

Keywords: allotments, carbon, charcoal, compost, ecology, economics, greenhouse, greenhouse gases, recycle

Categories: Society, Soil

Tales from the Allotment

Late March

It's been ten weeks since I was last formally employed in exchange for money and I've settled into a routine so naturally, I can't quite believe it. My biggest fear now is having to go back to work, something that will have to be considered in due course unless providence shines its light upon me for the rest of my working life. For the first time in thirty years of working for a living I realise what ''working for yourself'' and ''being your own ...
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