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Occupy Wall Street

October 14, 2011 rickpace1Leave a comment

I’ve followed the Occupy Wall Street activities and have heard several of them speak to NPR reporters. They seem particularly well-spoken about their concerns…and their frustrations.

I certainly understand their frustration….and I share their concern about the unfairness in our political economy. Unfortunately, I don’t think there are any ‘big’ solutions to the problem…other than motivating/educating a LOT of people to change their consumption patterns and their political instincts.

I read a David Brooks editorial and he thinks the real solutions cannot be simplified to the 99% versus the 1%…..I agree. He also thinks real solutions are often seen as boring…..I also agree. Real solutions are thoughtful, complex and subtle…and don’t accommodate today’s sound bites.

Robert Reich’s Question to Hank Paulson

September 29, 2011 rickpace1Leave a comment

I was listening to a speech that Robert Reich gave last week at Dartmouth College. The speaker, during the question and answer period, gets to record for the next speaker in the series a question…to be the first question the next speaker answers.

The next speaker in the series was to be Hank Paulson.

Reich had two questions…the first of which was a question about Paulson’s handling of the bank failures and bailout…the second question was:

Whether the social benefits of Wall Street exceed the social costs?

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September 29, 2011 rickpace1Leave a comment

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Director	:	Luc Besson
Release	:	July 20, 2017
Production Company	:	EuropaCorp
Language	:	en
Runtime	:	137 min.
Genre	:	Science Fiction, Action, Adventure.

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‘Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets’ is good movie tell story about In the 28th century, Valerian and Laureline are special operatives charged with keeping order throughout the human territories. On assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two undertake a mission to Alpha, an ever-expanding metropolis where species from across the universe have converged over centuries to share knowledge, intelligence, and cultures. At the center of Alpha is a mysterious dark force which threatens the peaceful existence of the City of a Thousand Planets, and Valerian and Laureline must race to identify the menace and safeguard not just Alpha, but the future of the universe. This movie have genre Science Fiction, Action, Adventure and have 137 minutes runtime.

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Dane DeHaan as Valerian, Herbie Hancock as Defence Minister, Clive Owen as Commander Arün Filitt, Ethan Hawke as Jolly the Pimp, Rihanna as Bubble, Cara Delevingne as Laureline.

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The Director of this movie is Luc Besson. The movie Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is produced by EuropaCorp and released in July 20, 2017.

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Does Facebook really care about you?

September 23, 2011 rickpace11 Comment

This article makes the wonderfully succinct point that Facebook users are ‘working for’ Facebook. In essence, Facebook’s business model is to extract marketing knowledge from your usage…then sell it.

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Our Environmental Finance Information Meter is Struggling

September 6, 2011 rickpace1Leave a comment

I have noticed that since we restarted our EcoAsset Weblog in May of this year that the amount of meaningful new information on environmental finance seems very thin in comparison to 2008-2009. (Note to self…we also could just have our head in the sand)

It struck me over the weekend that we are much less likely to publish information/article/etc. on environmental finance in 2011 than in 2009. I think several things are going on:

1) The U. S. economy is in difficulty, and this obviously impacts ecofinance.
2) Ecosystem service market efforts, particularly public initiatives, are having a difficult time.
3) Many of the private deals and corporate planning for environmental impacts on business models do not see much media…so it is hard to guess the activity level.
4) A significant amount of political opposition to well established environmental knowledge and action.
5) The our concentration of wealth leaves only the ‘big deals’ possible. The small ‘support needed from the middle class public’ deals flounder because so is the middle class floundering.

What to expect?

Governmentally, don’t expect much…I notice a lot of reorganization at USDA NRCS…hopefully we just manage to ‘keep our thumb in the dike of natural disaster recovery’.

In terms of private and corporate wealth, there is a ton of capital on the sidelines…and a good bit of it is real (look at the cash in lots of corporate balance sheets…corporations with stable durable product/service and capable management). Google becomes more and more an ‘environmental’ company…so will many others…they will find it a logical decision of creating a durable company.

Clean Energy 2030…Google Earth Engine

August 3, 2011 rickpace1Leave a comment

In 2008 Google.org proposed a plan to reduce dirty energy dependence by 2030. The plan has been updated.

The Plan

Recently, Google.org has created an app for Google Earth called ‘Google Earth Engine’ using 25 years of satellite image data to be analyzed for forest cover change in tropical forest. There plan is for the data to serve as a basis for REDD carbon market analysis.

Google.org

I bring these up because – after watching America’s Congressional and Executive bodies make a mess of the discussion on both ‘paying for their already eaten pizza’ as well as future budget discussions – it seems the likelihood of our leadership being ‘leaders’ on meaningful issues is slim. It amazed me that they 1) made a crisis, 2) were unable to rationally discuss solutions, 3) …after three weeks of this ‘fiddling’… passed any budgetary decisions to a ‘commission’.

I defer energy discussions for term limit discussions. Congress should not be a career!

Environmental and Social Issues at Shareholder Meetings

August 2, 2011 rickpace1Leave a comment

Environmental and social issues were at the top of shareholders’ attention during the 2011 proxy season, according to Ernst & Young (E&Y).

About 40% of all resolutions that proceeded to a vote revolved around environmental and social issues, up from 31% last year, marking the second year in a row that these resolutions comprised the largest portion of shareholder proposals that came to a vote, according to the consultancy firm’s 2011 proxy season update.

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Global Water

June 16, 2011 rickpace1Leave a comment

A report from Brown Advisory, a Baltimore money management firm, on global water and the business of global water.

Report

Getting by Without the Middle Class

June 13, 2011February 16, 2020 rickpace1Leave a comment

Perhaps U.S. business is learning to get by just fine, thank you, without middle-class U.S. consumers. And while that may be good news for chief executives and shareholders, it could be the beginning of a new and socially wrenching political logic that leaves the great American middle behind.
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The $147 Million per Year Story

June 7, 2011 rickpace1Leave a comment

On February 18, Republicans in the House of Representatives defeated an obscure amendment to the House Appropriations bill by a 2-to-1 margin. The Kind Amendment would have eliminated $147 million dollars that the federal government pays every year directly to Brazilian cotton farmers. In an era of nationwide belt tightening, with funding for things like education and the U.S. Farm Bill on the chopping block, defending payments to Brazilian farmers may seem curious.

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