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• Are the Copenhagen climate talks failing?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  In the last few days it has seemed like the only thing everyone can agree on in Copenhagen is that time is running out. The heads of state start arriving today and descend in full force on Thursday. Negotiators say they don’t want their leaders arguing over the placement of a comma or a set of brackets, and so ...
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• Coke says green strategy will win business

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Having an integrated clean technology strategy will be a big part of winning business in the 21st century, a Coca-Cola executive told Reuters.com on Monday, and its investments in refrigeration will likely have the biggest impact on that strategy long-term. The worlds biggest soft drinks maker has hooked up with ...
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• Solar power mounts in Canada

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Solar power is heating up in the northern reaches of Canada, a country not exactly known for its sunny rays and warm weather. The industry has seen a heap of news from the region this week. US. solar heavyweight First Solar and Canadian pipeline company Enbridge announced that they are quadrupling the size of a ...
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• What a difference a year has made for Obama

  
  When Falls the Coliseum — Authority: 509
  It’s been just over a year since then-candidate Obama mocked Ayn Rand and attacked the core of libertarian philosophy, but it seems his attitudes have changed a bit since assuming the mantle of President.   Obama on The Virtue of Selfishness   At 1:35 into the vid, candidate Obama attacks John McCain and ...
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• The answer could be blowing in the wind

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Well into the first week of the U.N. Conference on Climate Change, the haves and have nots of the world are still divided over who should pay for the cleanup of the planet. Poor countries want rich countries to cough up more ambitious goals for emissions cuts and developing technologies. From emerging wind and ...
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• JohnsonDiversey exec sees CO2 reductions good for businesses

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Some businesses in the United States will have to reinvent themselves as the Obama administration moves to lower greenhouse gas emissions, but theyll be better off in the long run, Pedro Chidichimo, president of JohnsonDiversey EMA, told Reuters.com on Thursday. Despite the inevitable short-term pain, Chidichimo said ...
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• Shopping spree

  
  kinky ... garden ... preau — Authority: 99
  It’s funny how my life divided into two major pieces; one belongs to drama series and the other fits in this shopping-spree scandal. This is crazy, every time I put my hand into any sum of money, I can’t stop thinking what to buy and what to have. Mostly clothes and shoes, though. Or handbags, occasionally. But ...
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• Africans protest COP15, say “process manipulated”

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  In the most heated protest of these early days at COP15 in Copenhagen, African representatives accused the political leaders of the developed world of hijacking the conference to the detriment of developing nations. The marchers said the process of the talks had been manipulated by the developed worlds political ...
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• Youth get in bed together on Lennon anniversary

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  It was 29 years ago today that a lone gunman assassinated John Lennon and the anniversary was the spur behind a youth "bed in" at the COP15 conference center. Socres of young folks from around the world used the day to remember Lennons famous bed-in protest of the Vietnam War and to put their own spin on it. They ...
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• Thank you, EPA: U.S. solar companies

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Many businesses chafed on Monday at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s declaration that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health. But executives at the two largest U.S. solar power companies took a shine to the statement, which clears the way for federal regulation and came as a global climate ...
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• Fossil of the Day Award: And the winner is…

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The UN Conference on Climate Change is a weighty gathering of serious folks looking for a way to cut carbon emissions. Its also a great place to bring some much-needed humor and along the way hammer a few perceived laggers in the fight against global warming. Enter the Fossil of the Day Awards, a tongue-in-cheek ...
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• Icebergs, Copenhagen hot topics in Southern Ocean

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The Southern Ocean is toying with us, like some killer whale tossing its prey before devouring it. The small French research ship l’Astrolabe is being battered by 55 kmh (35 mph) winds and tossed like a cork in icy, three metre (9 feet) waves. Many onboard have retreated to the safety of their bunks where, ...
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• One guy’s thoughts on libertarianism. Pt.1

  
  When Falls the Coliseum — Authority: 509
  Here in the rural South, I’m often asked “Why are you a libertarian?” or “What makes you a libertarian?” when I mention to others what political persuasion I hold.  Living in a State that went McCain by seven points, I am often surrounded by Republicans who seem to think that libertarians are just another ...
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• US media plays up Indian PM’s Washington visit to the hilt (Part-III)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  By Smita PrakashWashington, Nov.26 (ANI): In his article for the Huffington Post, Indian-American motivational speaker and management guru Deepak Chopra, who attended the State Dinner as one the guests, says: “I never expected to see so many faces of modern India as I saw Tuesday night. The White House’s state ...
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• Greenhouse is for the Birds

  
  Bleeding edge blog — Authority: 134
  The urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is portrayed as dubious science today. There are Pros and Cons. Serious scientists with long list of credentials duking it out. And a religious war has erupted between the right to Life – virtuous Climate scientists and the Death eaters – Climate change denying ...
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• Enterprise, Community and Complexity

  
  Enterprise and Entrepreneurship in the Community — Authority: 99
  Enterprise, community and complexity.  Slippery words.  So slippery that I wonder what can be meaningfully written about them.  But I will have a go. Having worked on these ideas for many years I hold my beliefs tentatively.  But they offer the possibility of a very different direction for both promoting ...
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• Rise of China no threat for India: Tharoor

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  New Delhi, Nov 22 (IANS) Noting that India does not view the rise of China as a threat, Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor Sunday said the two countries cannot afford to have a relationship of “antagonism”.“The government of India does not view China or China’s development as a threat of any ...
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• Rants – Self Interest & Office Politics

  
  The Lycan Times ???? — Authority: 109
  Being on the desktop support team means at times I will form negative impression about some users or even dislike them. As time goes by I learn not to be angry with users and to provide support according to their computer proficiency – e.g. for some who do not understand certain computer terms, simply go to the desk ...
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• 410. Translating the euphemisms

  
  Judging Crimes — Authority: 106
  In my former life as a first amendment lawyer (well, as a low-level associate who glommed onto as much first amendment work as I could sniff out) I would, at least once a week, read these words or an excerpt from them: T hus we consider this case against the background of a profound national commitment to the ...
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• Real Leaders Are Fair

  
  Leadership Turn — Authority: 468
  Is your company fair? Is fairness part of your MAP ? Are you fair to your people? How often have you heard (or said), “That’s not fair!” People accept that life isn’t fair—more or less. Whereas you can’t walk away from life, but it’s relatively easy to walk away from a company or manager you perceive ...
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