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Press release: “An insidious new generation of tobacco products is threatening efforts to reduce tobacco use in the United States, warns a new report issued February 20, 2008, by a coalition of public health organizations [American Cancer Society, the American Heart Association, the American Lung Association and the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids] …Tobacco use …
Briefing of the Working Group on the Health of the U.S. Space Industrial Base and the Impact of Export Controls, February 20, 2008 (63 pages, PDF): “The briefing summarizes the work of an independent Working Group, co-chaired by Mr. Tom Young (former EVP, Lockheed Martin Corporation), Dr. William Ballhaus (The Aerospace Corporation) and Mr. Pierre …
Press release: “Nearly 50 leading U.S. and European institutional investors managing over $1.75 trillion in assets…released a climate change action plan at the United Nations that will boost investments in energy efficiency and clean energy technologies and require tougher scrutiny of carbon-intensive investments that may pose long-term financial risks. Additionally, European investors managing $6.5 trillion …
“The Pew Institute for Ocean Science…announced the 2008 recipients of the Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation, the preeminent fellowship in support of ocean conservation. The five awardees will each receive $150,000 to conduct innovative three-year projects that are urgently needed to improve coral reef health, sustain fisheries, and enhance the effectiveness of marine protected areas. …
Comptroller General Commends Treasury – OMB Citizen’s Guide, February 14, 2008: “The Department of the Treasury and the Office of Management and Budget today issued the first-ever Citizens Guide highlighting certain important short and long-term financial information in the 2007 Financial Report of the United States Government. The U.S. Government Accountability Office, which audits the …
The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press: “Public views of the U.S. economy, already quite negative, have plummeted since January. Just 17% currently rate the nation’s economy as excellent or good, down from 26% last month. The percentage of Americans rating the economy as “poor” has increased even more dramatically, from 28% …
Press release: “Leading investors today published disclosure guidelines for the electric utilities sector which will make it easier for investors to assess and compare the risks and opportunities posed by climate change and climate policy to individual companies. The Global Climate Disclosure Framework for Electric Utilities captures those climate change issues that are relevant specifically …
FSF Working Group on Market and Institutional Resilience Interim Report to the G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors, February 5, 2008: ” Since the Working Groups preliminary report in October, we have continued to sharpen our analysis of the causes of recent events and the appropriate responses to them. This interim report discusses the …
Countering Insurgency in the Muslim World – Rethinking U.S. Priorities and Capabilities, by: David C. Gompert, John Gordon, IV, Adam Grissom, David R. Frelinger, Seth G. Jones, Martin C. Libicki, Edward O’Connell, Brooke K. Stearns, Robert E. Hunter. “This research brief summarizes a RAND report that analyzes insurgencies such as those in Afghanistan and Iraq …
New York Times: Pushing Paper Out the Door, by Hannah Fairfield “A paperless world isnt automatically a boon for the environment, though. While these digital toys reduce dependence on one resource, they increase it on another: energy. Some devices are always plugged in, eating electricity even when not in use, and gobbling huge amounts of …
“The Committee for Economic Development (CED)…released a new report Harnessing Openness to Transform American Health Care (94 pages, PDF) that focuses on how to improve health care by giving people more access to information and making the information more responsive to their contributions. The report touches on the entire production system for health …
Google Book Search: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly, 1/1/2008, By Dian Schaffhauser, Campus Technology. “Forget everything you believe about Google’s book digitization project. Once you get past the freakishly high numbers bandied about, the two-dozen-plus distinguished institutions that have signed on, the legal paranoia and the ultra-ultra-secret processes and technologies involved-you’ll find that …
