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Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing: Information Sharing: Connecting the Dots at the Federal, State, and Local Levels, July 23, 2008 See also related GAO Report, Information Sharing Environment: Definition of the Results to Be Achieved in Improving Terrorism-Related Information Sharing Is Needed to Guide Implementation and Assess Progress, GAO-08-492, June 25, …
Project for Excellence in Journalism: “Meet the American daily newspaper of 2008. It has fewer pages than three years ago, the paper stock is thinner, and the stories are shorter. There is less foreign and national news, less space devoted to science, the arts, features and a range of specialized subjects. Business coverage is either …
News release: “A new collaborative study by World Resources Institute and other researchers finds that much of the worlds deforestation is isolated in a handful of hotspots, not spread out over many nations and many locations. In fact, this study showed that over half the worlds deforestation (in this study only clear-cut are monitored) is …
News release: “Coral reefs are a vital part of the Caribbeans marine environment, and are integral to the economies of many of the regions small island states. World Resources Institutes economic valuation methodology can help decision-makers in the region better understand the enormous economic value the reef provides and use this data to make better-informed …
News release: “IBM and the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), a collaboration of 385 institutional investors with a combined asset base of $57 trillion, have undertaken an extensive joint research project into carbon management practices and compiled a Best Practice Guide. The joint CDP and IBM project is one of the most detailed research projects into …
“Research released…by instant messaging experts, ProcessOne, revealed that 72% of UK businesses have banned the use of public instant messaging (IM) software, such as MSN, AIM and Yahoo!, because of security fears. These fears include the ability for employees to download the software without the IT departments knowledge and potentially use it to send confidential …
CNN: “Gore called on the country to produce all of its electricity from renewable and carbon-free sources in 10 years, a goal he compared to President Kennedy’s challenge for the country to put a man on the moon in the 1960s.” A Generational Challenge to Repower America (as prepared) D.A.R. Constitution Hall, Washington, D.C., July …
Council on Foreign Relations Task Force Report: Confronting Climate Change – A Strategy for U.S. Foreign Policy, June 2008– “Against the backdrop of increasing attention to energy and climate change in the presidential campaigns, recent failure of the Senate to advance the Lieberman-Warner climate bill, and preparations for this summers G8 summit, a CFR-sponsored Independent …
News release: “Almost three out of five new middle-class retirees will outlive their financial assets if they attempt to maintain their pre-retirement standard of living, according to a new study conducted by Ernst & Young LLP on behalf of Americans for Secure Retirement. The study also finds that middle-income Americans entering retirement now will have …
“Todays tech-savvy world demands tech-savvy government. Increasingly connected citizens and stakeholders are asking governments to deliver services more rapidly and efficiently. Yet the public service bureaucracies that form the governmental backbone often take a conservative approach to adopting the latest Internet-based technologies to accelerate service delivery. On June 3, 2008, Deloitte and the National Academy …
News release: “The nation is in the throes of a housing downturn that is shaping up to be the worst in a generation, finds The State of the Nations Housing 2008 Report issued today by the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University. While the falloff in housing starts, new home sales, and existing …
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: “Chinas economy will surpass that of the United States by 2035 and be twice its size by midcentury, a new report by Albert Keidel concludes. Chinas rapid growth is driven by domestic demandnot exportsand will sustain high single-digit growth rates well into this century. In Chinas Economic RiseFact and Fiction, …
