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Economic Times, October 26, 2014
 -▶ INDIA GOVERNMENT MAKES CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY SPENDING MANDATORY FOR PUBLIC SECTOR COMPANIES http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2014-10-26/news/55446744_1_unspent-csr-amount-csr-rules-csr-activities

Agora, February 08, 2015
 -▶  CSR LAW IN INDIA.  INTERVIEW WITH NAMRATA RANA AND UTKARSH MAJAMUDAR  http://agorarsc.org/csr-law-in-india-interview-with-namrata-rana-and-utkarsh-majamudar/

Quartz, January 05, 2015
 -▶  DEAR INDIAN CORPORATE: HERE IS WHY YOU NEED TO TAKE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY SERIOUSLY - MORSI'S REVERSAL  Whether compliance-driven or responsibility-driven, can CSR be transformational in India? Critics argue mandatory CSR is oxymoronic, and a bad idea at a time when economic growth driven by the private sector has been ostensibly pulling millions out of poverty.  http://qz.com/321040/dear-indian-corporate-here-is-why-you-need-to-take-social-responsibility-seriously/

August 20, 2013 GreenBiz

 -▶  INDIA IS THE FIRST COUNTRY TO PASS A CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY LAW  requiring larger companies to spend 2 percent of each year's profit on those kinds of initiatives. The law kicks in for companies with a profit of at least $80 million over the past three years....  The law requires large Indian firms to spend a portion of their profits on sustainability initiatives, such as solar panels. http://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2013/08/20/india-passes-worlds-first-corporate-responsibility-law

CSRWire, December 02, 2014
 -▶  INDIA REQUIRES FOREIGN COMPANIES TO INVEST IN CSR  http://www.csrwire.com/press_releases/37552-India-Requires-Foreign-Companies-to-Invest-in-CSR

Forbes, April 18, 2014
 -▶  CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY :  SHOULD IT BE LAW? 

India is the first country to have corporate social responsibility (CSR ) legislation, mandating that companies give 2% of their net profits to charitable causes. Innovative?  Perhaps on a policy level.  But some small-medium size enterprises within India have already embedded social impact into their company ethos.

The new CSR law is a massive 294-page act that requires companies to set up a CSR board committee, allocate 2% of net profits in the last three years to CSR, and be reviewed at the end of each financial year by the board’s director to ensure compliance... http://www.forbes.com/sites/eshachhabra/2014/04/18/corporate-social-responsibility-should-it-be-a-law/

ICSRWire, April 04, 2014
 -▶  THE BIRTH OF A NEW ECOSYSTEM:  INDIA'S MANDATORY CSR RULE BECOMES A REALITY. India’s new CSR law, which requires a mandatory spend of two percent of net profits went into effect this week.
     It is estimated that $3 billion of capital will be generated annually through the money spent by 16,000 companies on CSR. The Companies Act mandates CSR activities for both Indian companies and foreign companies registered in India. In addition, the new rule also requires involvement of senior level staff as well as mandatory disclosure of these activities and the creation of: http://www.csrwire.com/blog/posts/1290-the-birth-of-a-new-ecosystem-india-s-mandatory-csr-rule-becomes-a-reality

 -▶  HANDBOOK ON CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN INDIA https://www.pwc.in/en_IN/in/assets/pdfs/publications/2013/handbook-on-corporate-social-responsibility-in-india.pdf

September 11, 2013 Washington Post
 -▶  INDIA MANDATES 2% IN CHARITABLE GIVING BY CORPORATIONS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/india-mandates-increase-in-charitable-giving-by-corporations-critics-fear-government-control/2013/09/10/e556d53a-157d-11e3-961c-f22d3aaf19ab_story.html

The Climate Group

-▶  INDIAN BUSINESSES MUST SPEND 2% OF THEIR EARNINGS ON SOCIAL WELFARE http://www.theclimategroup.org/what-we-do/news-and-blogs/indian-businesses-must-spend-2-of-their-earnings-on-csr/

August 22, 2013 DA
 -▶  INDIA'S CSR BILL SPENDING WILL MAINLY GO ON EDUCATION, CHILDREN AND WOMEN http://www.dnaindia.com/money/1878110/interview-csr-spend-will-mainly-go-on-education-children-and-women

Albright stonebridge Group
 -▶  CSR IN INDIA: MAKING CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY MANDATORY http://www.albrightstonebridge.com/csr_12-06/

Michael and Suzan Foundation, April 03, 2014
 -▶  INDIA'S NEW CSR ACT: WHAT COMPANIES AND NON-PROFITS CAN DO TO MAXIMIZE IMPACT http://www.msdf.org/blog/2014/04/indias-new-csr-act-companies-non-profits-can-maximize-impact/

                                                            WATCH
VANDANA SHIVA ON CAPITALISM, SUSTAINABILITY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-YC5bSQhxk

TriplePundit, December 16th, 2013
 -▶  INDIAN GOVERNMENT COMMITS TO CSR WITH COMPANIES ACT. This legislation requires companies to take action, make investments, and report against a number of metrics related to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). PwC India has now released a Handbook on Corporate Social Responsibility in India, providing guidelines to help industry to comply with the regulation http://www.triplepundit.com/2013/12/indian-government-commits-csr-companies-act/

 September 13, 2013 CSRWire
 -▶  HOW CORPORATE INDIA CAN LEVERAGE A MANDATORY CSR BILL TO SHIFT GEARS FOR THE LONG TERM http://www.csrwire.com/blog/posts/1014-how-corporate-india-can-leverage-a-mandatory-csr-bill-to-shift-gears-for-the-long-term

May 20, 2013 Stanford Social Innovation Review
 -▶  MANDATORY CSR IN INDIA: A BAD PROPOSAL http://www.ssireview.org/blog/entry/mandatory_csr_in_india_a_bad_proposal

 -▶  BHOPAL:  WORLD'S WORST INDUSTRIAL DISASTER, 30 YEARS LATER: POISONING 500,000+ KILLING 10,000+ WHO'S RESPONSIBLE?  http://sco.lt/5p9S0P

 -▶ INDIA: 8,200 FARMERS SUICIDE: GMO PESTICIDES, GMO SEEDS,  http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/2409815369/india-8-200-farmers-suicide-maharashtra-state-revokes-monsanto-s-cotton-seed-license

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 -▶ SHOULD COMPANIES COMPENSATE SOCIETY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION FROM WHICH THEY PROFIT?  http://sco.lt/5x2tqz

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                    WHAT IS CORPORATE "SOCIAL" RESPONSIBILITY?

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                                       WATCH REPORT (26:03)
                             Made In Germany - Deutche Welles
            WHAT IS SOCIAL AND SUSTAINABLE RESPONSIBILITY?
         http://www.dw.de/program/made-in-germany/s-3066-9798

The Guardian - Social Impact Hub - September 24, 2013

▶  BUSINESSES CANNOT AVOID INVOLVEMENT IN CULTURAL, SOCIAL AND MORAL ISSUES http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/business-confront-cultural-social-moral-issues

▶  WHY SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY SHOULD BE PART OF EVERY BUSINESS http://sco.lt/4tfKhV

June 26, 2013 Stanford Center for Social Innovation
▶  CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IS ESSENTIAL TO ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/corporate-social-responsibility-essential-environmental-sustainability

Sustainable Business.com, April 15, 2014
 -▶  EUROPE PASSES HISTORIC LAW:  BIG CORPORATIONS MUST REPORT ON SUSTAINABILITY. This is a historic day in Europe, where a new law will require its biggest companies to include sustainability factors as part of their annual financial report. In a 599-55 vote, the European Parliament passed the law, which applies to publicly-traded with more than 500 employees. They must address "policies, risks and results" in relation to "social, environmental and human rights impact, diversity and anti-corruption policies" in their annual report. http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/25651

Guardian Sustanable Business, February 28, 2014
 -▶  EU TO FORCE LARGE COMPANIES TO REPORT ON ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL IMPACTS http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/eu-reform-listed-companies-report-environmental-social-impact

FastCoExist, April 30, 2014
-▶  ARE THE 613 LARGEST U.S. PUBLIC COMPANIES ACTUALLY WORKING ON SUSTAINABILITY http://www.fastcoexist.com/3029698/are-the-613-largest-us-public-companies-actually-working-on-sustainability?partner=newsletter

 The Time of India, December 13, 2013
-▶  NEW TRENDS WILL EMERGE IN CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY PROGRAMMES http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/New-trends-will-emerge-in-corporate-social-responsibility-programmes-experts-say/articleshow/27310402.cms

                                       BEYOND GDP:  VIDEO REPORT

                           THE SEARCH FOR A NEW ECONOMIC SYSTEM

                                    -- THIS TIME WITH MEANING

                                                 http://sco.lt/8HZxrN

  ▶ HOW A SENSE OF SACRED CAN HELP SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS - RESTORING VALUES  http://www.scoop.it/t/environmental-and-human-health/p/3994926408/how-a-sense-of-sacred-can-help-sustainable-business-restoring-values

 -▶  ECONOMIC SUCCESS ALONE IS NOT ENOUGH TO IMPROVE OUR WELL-BEING http://sco.lt/5T6cfh

THE PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP:

PRIVATIZING EVERYTHING

http://sco.lt/8iO36X

▶  WHY CHOOSING NATURE WILL ONLY ADVANCE HUMAN SOCIETIES http://sco.lt/76Gtij

"That's the standard technique of privatization :  defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital"...Noam Chomsky

                                                   ANIMATED VIDEO
                               'OUTSOURCING AMERICA EXPOSED'
Across the country, for-profit companies are engaged in a hostile takeover of our schools, roads, prisons, drinking water — even government itself. In this animated video created by Mark Fiore for the Center for Media and Democracy’s “Outsourcing America Exposed” project, Outsourcing Eddie shows us the many ways in which America is for sale... http://billmoyers.com/2013/09/30/outsourcing-america-exposed/

Salon May 5, 2015
▶  AMERICA IS AN AYN RANDIAN DYSTOPIA THE FIVE STEP PROCESS THAT IS PRIVATIZING THE COUNTRY TO OBLIVION http://www.salon.com/2015/05/05/america_is_an_ayn_randian_dystopia_the_five_step_process_that_is_privatizing_the_country_to_oblivion_partner/

The Ecologist, April 17, 2015
▶  TTIP WON'T STOP PUBLIC SERVICES BEING RUN FOR ORDINARY PEOPLE?  TELL THAT TO ARGENTINA http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/2834004/ttip_wont_stop_public_services_being_run_for_ordinary_people_tell_that_to_argentina.html

Guardian April 08, 2014, George Monbiot

-▶ HOW HAVE THESE CORPORATIONS COLONIZED OUR PUBLIC LIFE? Power is shifting: to places in which we have no voice or vote. Domestic policies are forged by special advisers and spin doctors, by panels and advisory committees stuffed with lobbyists http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/08/corporations-public-life-unilever

Institute for Policy Studies, March 18, 2015
▶ PRIVATIZING PUBLIC SERVICES. The taxes we pay should bankroll quality public services, not corporations and overpaid CEOs
http://www.ips-dc.org/privatizing-public-services/

Nation of Change, June 09, 2014
-▶ “RACE TO THE BOTTOM:  HOW OUTSOURCING PUBLIC SERVICES REWARDS CORPORATIONS AND PUNISHES THE MIDDLE CLASS" . When a government “contracts out” – privatizes – one of its services, that is supposed to save taxpayers money. A new study finds that privatization not only costs governments more than it saves, it has forced millions of people into lives of poverty. According to the study by In The Public Interest called Race to the Bottom: How Outsourcing Public Services Rewards Corporations and Punishes the Middle Class,” privatization of government services “contributes to the decline of the middle class and the rise in poverty-level jobs, thereby exacerbating growing economic inequality.” http://www.nationofchange.org/how-government-contracting-out-drives-costs-pushes-down-workers-1402324444

Truthout, December 11, 2013

-▶  WHEN OUTSOURCING PUBLIC SERVICES TO PRIVATE COMPANIES GOES WRONG http://truth-out.org/news/item/20546-when-outsourcing-public-services-to-private-companies-goes-wrong

Naked Capitalism, January 3, 2014
▶   NEW REPORT HOW OUTSOURCING STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT SERVICES IS ABOUT LOOTING http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/01/quelle-surprise-new-report-show-outsourcing-government-services-looting.html

Bank Watch

-▶  OVERPRICED AND UNDERWRITTEN: THE HIDDEN COST OF PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS http://bankwatch.org/public-private-partnerships

Truthout, December 30, 2014
-▶ AUTHORITARIANISM AND THE ASSAULT ON PUBLIC EDUCATION As public schools are privatized, succumbing to corporate interests, critical thought and agency are erased, and education emphasizes market values rather than democratic ideals... http://truth-out.org/news/item/28272-barbarians-at-the-gates-authoritarianism-and-the-assault-on-public-education

                  THE CORPORATE TAKEOVER OF PUBLIC EDUCATION

                                  A BILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY

                AND THE TRILLION DOLLAR STUDENT LOAN SCANDAL

                                             http://sco.lt/5mVKiX

May 9, 2013 ThinkProgress
-▶ USA PRIVATE PRISON PROFITS SKYROCKET, AS EXECUTIVES ASSURE INVESTORS OF 'GROWING OFFENDER POPULATION" http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/05/09/1990331/private-prison-profits-skyrocket-as-executives-assure-investors-of-growing-offender-population/?mobile=nc

                                            PRIVATIZING PRISONS

                               JAILING AMERICANS FOR PROFIT

                                 THE RISE OF THE BILLION DOLLAR

                               PRIVATE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

                                                http://sco.lt/6bHg3N

 University of Greenwich, November 14, 2014
-▶ REPORT IDENTIFIES GLOBAL TREND TO REVERSE THE PRIVATISATION OF WATER  - Articles [Research stories] http://www2.gre.ac.uk/research/news/articles/a3010-report-identifies-global-trend-to-reverse-the-privatisation-of-water

 August 7, 2013 Project Syndicate, Brahma Chellaney

-▶  THE BATTLE FOR WATER http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/why-water-is-becoming-the-new-oil-by-brahma-chellaney

                                            WATER PRIVATIZATION

                                ESCALATING AT ALARMING RATE

                                   THE LEGAL RIGHT TO WATER

                                               http://sco.lt/5LfKCn

 Truthout, December 13, 2014 By Richard D. Wolff
-▶ GOING BEYOND PRIVATE VERSUS PUBLIC : THE MYTH http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/27838-going-beyond-private-versus-public

Common Dreams, February 20, 2014

▶ CORPORATE FACES BEHIND PRIVATIZED PUBLIC SERVICES PAID BY YOUR TAX DOLLARS. America's Highest Paid Government Workers, a group of private corporate executives across the country have increasingly pushed for the privatization of public services while maneuvering high-paying contracts with the government "and then pay themselves and other executives eye-popping salaries with your tax dollars." http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/02/20-5

▶ FULL PDF REPORT: "EXPOSED:  AMERICA'S HIGHEST PAID "GOVERNMENT" WORKERS  http://www.prwatch.org/files/americas_highest_paid_government_workers.pdf

                                   Moyers and Company,

                                       December 12, 2013
▶ US GOVERNMENT PAYS CONTRACTORS TWICE AS MUCH AS CIVIL SERVANTS FOR THE SAME WORK - WITH YOUR TAX DOLLARS

http://billmoyers.com/2013/12/12/ripoff-us-government-pays-contractors-twice-as-much-as-civil-servants-for-the-same-work/

July 1, 2013 Huffington Post Politics

-▶  PUBLIC INTEREST GROUP CHALLENGES PRIVATIZATION OF LOCAL, STATE GOVERNMENT SERVICES http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/01/afscme-public-interest-privatization_n_3530817.html

Common Dreams, May 16, 2014
▶   PRIVATIZATION IS THE PROBLEM, NOT THE SOLUTION. The solution to the crisis of the day, or decade, is a freedom-sounding word called "privatization." This, the free-marketeers tell us, will solve our problems. Furthermore, the crises being addressed are often manufactured for the express purpose of rolling out a parasitical regime of corporatization that profits from calamity, even as its "host," the public, is fleeced. http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/16-7

                                                    EXPOSE

               Corporate Accountability International, December 05, 2014
                             BEHIND THE WORLD BANK'S SPIN 

                              PUBLIC/PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS

How the World Bank uses Ponzi-style marketing to promote PPPs around the globe. https://www.stopcorporateabuse.org/blog/behind-world-banks-spin

OpenDemocracy, March 06, 2014
▶   FAIL AND PROSPER: HOW PRIVATISATION REALLY WORKS http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/clare-sambrook/fail-and-prosper-how-privatisation-really-works#comment-1324203888

 Truthout, January 15, 2014

▶  BANKRUPTING GOVERNMENTS SO PRIVATIZATION CAN MOVE IN . There is a gross imbalance of power and knowledge between private finance and contractors on one side of the deal and government officials who were elected to represent the public on the other side. http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/21132-infrastructure-101-the-evolution-of-building-big-things-part-2-adverse-events-and-privatization-consultants

PART 1 - ADVERSE EVENTS AND PRIVATIZATION CONSULTANTS

http://truth-out.org/news/item/21093-infrastructure-101-the-evolution-of-building-big-things-part-1

Guardian Development, April 29, 2014
▶   HOW SILVER-TONGUED MULTINATIONALS CAN WIN TRUST Fat cat gets the cream? Civil society nervousness about engagement with multinationals is often based on bitter experience. The increasing emphasis placed by some on the role of "the private sector" is a growing source of tension in global development debates. http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2014/apr/29/multinationals-business-global-development-regulation

 Alternet, March 10, 2013

-▶  5 WAYS PRIVATIZATION IS POISONING AMERICA http://www.alternet.org/economy/5-ways-privatization-poisoning-america

Alertnet, September 29, 2013
-▶  5 INDUSTRIES THAT ARE MERCILESSLY ROBBING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE http://www.alternet.org/economy/5-industries-are-mercilessly-robbing-american-people

Truthout, December 22, 2014
-▶ THE PRIVATIZATION OF INFRASTRUCTURE IS COSTING US ALL:  Innovations or Hucksterism? Three Little-Known Infrastructure Privatization Problems http://truth-out.org/news/item/28142-innovations-or-hucksterism-three-little-known-infrastructure-privatization-problems

Common Dreams, September 17, 2012

-▶ SELLING OFF OUR COMMONS - THE PRIVATE/PUBLIC PARTNERSHIP FACADE http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/09/17-0

Oxfam GB, April 02, 2015
▶ RISKY INVESTMENT AND HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES: "DOES THE WORLD BANK THINK THIS IS DEVELOPMENT? http://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/blog/2015/04/risky-investment-and-human-rights-abuses

The Atlantic, April 23, 2014
▶   THE PRIVATIZATION BACKLASH http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/04/city-state-governments-privatization-contracting-backlash/361016/

 Moyers & Company, April 23, 2014
▶   BACKLASH AGAINST PRIVATIZATION IS GROWING IN STATES AND CITIES ACROSS THE USA http://billmoyers.com/2014/04/23/backlash-against-privatization-is-growing-in-states-and-cities-across-the-us/

BBC News, November 3, 2013

-▶  IS THE TIDE TURNING AGAINST PRIVATISATION?  GERMAN CALL TO 'UNDO' ENERGY PRIVATISATION AMID BERLIN VOTE http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24763311

The Guardian, November 12, 2014
-▶ HAMBURG AT FOREFRONT OF GLOBAL DRIVE TO REVERSE PRIVATISATION OF CITY SERVICES How to build a fairer city German municipality to buy back utility grids after referendum vote to end private ownership of gas and electricity networks http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/nov/12/hamburg-global-reverse-privatisation-city-services

The Guardian, August 22, 2013

▶   U.K. PRIVATISING THE RAILWAYS WAS A DISASTER.  IT'S TIME TO RE-NATIONALISE http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/22/privatising-railways-disaster-renationalise-labour

Corporate Watch,
-▶ ENERGY, RAIL AND WATER PRIVATISATION COSTS UK HOUSEHOLDS MORE EACH YEAR  http://www.corporatewatch.org/news/2014/dec/08/energy-rail-and-water-privatisation-costs-uk-households-%C2%A3250-year

                                                  INFOGRAPH

http://weownit.org.uk/privatisation-failing/cost-privatised-living

Working In These Times, November 18, 2014
 -▶  POSTAL WORKERS PUSH BACK AGAINST PRIVATIZATION AND POST OFFICE CLOSURES http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/17380/postal_workers

 Liberal Beef, March 02, 2014
-▶ DISMANTLING THE POST OFFICE AND AMERICANA: CORPORATOCRACY http://liberalbeef.com/2014/03/02/dismantling-post-office-americana-corporatocracy/

Campaign For America's Future, June 24, 2014
-▶ A SECRET PLAN TO CLOSE SOCIAL SECURITY'S OFFICES AND OUTSOURCE (PRIVATIZE) IT WORK http://ourfuture.org/20140624/a-secret-plan-to-close-social-securitys-offices-and-outsource-its-work

April 4, 3013 Rooflines
-▶  6 REASONS TO BE WARY OF PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS http://www.rooflines.org/3173/6_reasons_to_be_wary_of_public-private_partnerships/

March 13, 2013 Governing - The States and Localities

-▶  WHEN PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS ARE A BAD IDEA http://www.governing.com/blogs/bfc/col-public-private-partnership-cincinnati-parking-lease.html

 Campaign For America's Future, May 19, 2014
-▶ THE PRIVATIZATION SCAM:  FIVE GOVERNMENT OUTSOURCING HORROR STORIES http://ourfuture.org/20140519/the-privatization-scam-5-horror-stories-of-govt-outsourcing-to-greedy

Truthout, December 07, 2014
- ▶ ENCLOSING THE AQUATIC COMMONS IN BRAZIL - AQUACULTURE: THE PARTITIONING OF BRAZIL'S OCEAN AND RIVERS THREATENS SMALL-SCALE FISHING FAMILIES. The federal government has implemented a plan for privatizing water resources that can then be used by private companies for fish farming, and its objective is to produce 20 million tons of fish annually through aquaculture. Privatizing the water in this way enables companies to intensively produce one type of fish in an area, without the fish having to compete with other species for food and space. Raising fish through aquaculture, however, requires the use of countless chemicals and has led to the displacement of small-scale fishermen and women. http://truth-out.org/news/item/27824-the-partitioning-of-brazil-s-ocean-and-rivers-threatens-small-scale-fishing-families

                                           EXPLOSIVE REPORT: 

▶ 'ALEC' PROVIDE CORPORATIONS AND STATE LEGISLATURES PLATFORM FOR US-WIDE ASSAULT ON EDUCATION, HEALTHCARE, INCOME TAX AND ENVIRONMENT

Conservative groups and State Legislatures across the US are planning a co-ordinated assault against public sector rights and services in the key areas of education, healthcare, income tax, workers' compensation and the environment, documents obtained by the Guardian reveal.  http://sco.lt/6dyHEf

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

-▶  CANADA: THE PROBLEM WITH PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS
Economic Crisis Exposes the High Costs and Risks of P3s  http://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/monitor/problem-public-private-partnerships

Naked Capitalism, December 28, 2014
-▶ DON QUIONES: HOW THE TRADE IN SERVICES AGREEMENT LETS BIG BROTHER GO GLOBAL. If signed, the treaty would affect all services ranging from electronic transactions and data flow, to veterinary and architecture services. It would almost certainly open the floodgates to the final wave of privatization of public services, including the provision of healthcare, education and water. Meanwhile, already privatized companies would be prevented from a re-transfer to the public sector by a so-called barring “ratchet clause” – even if the privatization failed. 

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/12

/don-quijones-trade-services-agreement-lets-big-brother-go-global.html

                           Jan 25, 2013 World Economic Forum

                         WORLD BECOMING "UNGOVERNABLE" -

GLOBAL CORPORATIONS ARE REPLACING THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENTS  http://www.weforum.org/news/world-becoming-ungovernable-says-peres

 UNDP, December 09, 2013
-▶  ANTI-CORRUPTION: Corruption undermines human development and democracy. It reduces access to public services by diverting public resources for private gain. When public money is stolen for private gain, it means fewer resources to build schools, hospitals, roads and water treatment facilities. When foreign aid is diverted into private bank accounts, major infrastructure projects come to a halt. Corruption enables fake or substandard medicines to be dumped on the market, and hazardous waste to be dumped in landfill sites and in oceans. The vulnerable suffer first and worst." http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/ourwork/democraticgovernance/focus_areas/focus_anti-corruption/

-▶ WALL STREET, CORPORATIONS BUYING UP AMERICAN, FOREIGN FARMLAND, THREATENING FUTURE OF U.S. AND WORLD AGRICULTURE http://sco.lt/8mcmbR

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                         MEDICAL PRIVATIZATION - A SCANDAL

                                                   HOSPICE, INC

           HOW DYING BECAME A MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY
                             The Huffington Post, June 19, 2014
                   http://projects.huffingtonpost.com/hospice-inc

 Nation of Change June 26, 2014
-▶ THE BUSINESS OF DYING:  MEDICARE FRAUD WITHIN THE BILLION-DOLLAR CORPORATE PRIVATIZED HOSPICE INDUSTRY http://www.nationofchange.org/medicare-fraud-within-billion-dollar-hospice-industry-1403795053

Common Dreams, December 27, 2013
-▶  INVESTIGATION REVEALS RAMPANT FRAUD BY PRIVATIZED HOSPICE GROUPS http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/27-4

Washington Post, December 25, 2013
▶ PRIVATE HOSPICE CORPORATIONS DRAINING BILLIONS FROM MEDICARE http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/medicare-rules-create-a-booming-business-in-hospice-care-for-people-who-arent-dying/2013/12/26/4ff75bbe-68c9-11e3-ae56-22de072140a2_story.html?wpisrc=al_excl

                                      THE BUSINESS OF DYING                                        

                                     SERIES The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/business/collection/business-of-dying/

                                                      WATCH

                 "LIFE AND DEATH IN FOR-PROFIT ASSISTED LIVING"

                                     FRONTLINE PBS INVESTIGATION

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/life-and-death-in-assisted-living/

Truthout, November 30, 2013
-▶  PRIVATIZATION AND THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT http://truth-out.org/news/item/20126-privatization-and-the-affordable-care-act

4bitNEWS, October 19, 2014
 -▶  PRIVATIZING NHS HEALTHCARE -- LESSONS FROM AUSTRALIA http://4bitnews.com/uk/privatising-nhs-healthcare-lessons-australia/

                                                 VIDEO REPORT
                                            DW.DE June, 08, 2013
                         THE GERMAN PRIVATIZATION OF HOSPITALS

More and more hospitals in Germany are being privatized and have to be run at a profit. It's a balancing act for doctors and nurses: they are supposed to care for patients, but also to keep time and costs to a minimum. Made in Germany reports on the cost pressures German hospitals face. .. http://www.dw.de/made-in-germany-the-business-magazine-2013-08-06/e-16953561-9798

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                                   PRIVATIZATION ON A ROLL

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-▶  WORLD BANK AND UN REDD CARBON OFFSET SCHEME 'COMPLICIT' IN PRIVATIZATION GENOCIDAL LAND GRABS http://sco.lt/65afqb

               Truthout, November 29, 2012

-▶  THE PRIVATIZATION OF US FOREIGN POLICY:  ON THE AUCTION BLOCK=Lobbying for foreign interests is a half billion dollar industry in the U.S. http://truth-out.org/news/item/13031-the-privatization-of-us-foreign-policy-an-interview-with-the-author-of-the-foreign-policy-auction

TruthOut, October 18, 2013

-▶  FOOD STAMP OUTRAGE HIGHLIGHTS PROBLEMS WITH PRIVATIZATION OF PUBLIC SERVICES http://truth-out.org/news/item/19481-food-stamp-outage-highlights-problems-with-privatization-of-public-services

The Guardian, May 16, 2014
▶   UK: PRIVATISING CHILD PROTECTION SERVICES. Experts sound alarm over proposal to outsource children's services to private firms. Child protection services too important to be privatised http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/may/16/privatise-child-protection-services-department-for-education-proposes

 Huffington Post UK, July 03, 2014
-▶  UK IS PRIVATIZING IT'S PROBATION SERVICE http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/07/03/chris-grayling-probation-drawn-from-a-hat_n_5554340.html?utm_hp_ref=uk

Guardian, July 05, 2014
-▶ BRITAIN'S PRIVATE FINANCE INITIATIVE (PFI) IS A DEBT TIME BOMB AND  WILL ULTIMATELY COST TAX PAYERS  £300bn

"We're sitting on a PFI debt time bomb, and the sheer scale of the burden paints a seriously grim picture for the future of our public services." The 717 PFI contracts currently under way across the UK are funding new schools, hospitals and other public facilities with a total capital value of £54.7bn, but the overall ultimate cost will reach £301bn by the time they have been paid off over the coming decades. http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2012/jul/05/pfi-cost-300b

                                               VIDEO REPORT

                                   The Real News, April 29, 2014

BALTIMORE RESIDENTS & WORKER VOICE OUTRAGE OVER PLANS TO PRIVATIZE PUBLIC HOUSING

1/2 VIDEO http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11793

2/2 VIDEO http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11793

PND Philanthropy Digest, March 18, 2014
-▶ BILLIONAIRES PRIVATIZING U.S. SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH: "The practice of science in the twenty-first century is becoming shaped less by national priorities or by peer-review groups and more by the particular preferences of individuals with huge amounts of money." http://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/billionaires-privatizing-u.s.-scientific-research

The Guardian, March 12, 2014

-▶ THE TRUTH ABOUT LOBBYING:  10 WAYS BUSINESS CONTROLS GOVERNMENTS. Whether facing down a threat to profits from a corporate tax hike, or pushing for market opportunities – such as government privatisations – lobbying has become another way of making money. Here are the 10 key steps that lobbying businesses will follow to bend government to their will. http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/mar/12/lobbying-10-ways-corprations-influence-government

 Too Much, October 5, 2013

-▶  AFTER THE SHUTDOWN, MAYBE A LITTLE EQUALITY? THE NO-MAN'S LAND BETWEEN THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTOR http://toomuchonline.org/after-the-shutdown-maybe-a-little-equality/

Union Solidarity International, April 07, 2014
-▶ PRIVATISATION - YOU KNOW IT MAKES SENSE! https://usilive.org/privatisation-you-know-it-makes-sense/

Alternet, May 15, 2014
▶   THE PRIVATIZATION SCAM:  5 HORROR STORIES OF GOVERNMENT OUTSOURCING TO PRIVATE COMPANIES

For decades we’ve been subjected to constant propaganda that government is inefficient and bureaucratic and expensive. We’re told that the answer is to “privatize,” or “outsource” government functions to private businesses and they will do things more efficiently and everyone comes out ahead...http://www.alternet.org/economy/privatization-scam-5-horror-stories-govt-outsourcing-greedy-private-companies

 Truthout, December 23, 2013

-▶  PRIVATE FEDERAL CONTRACTORS COST TAXPAYERS TWICE AS MUCH AS CIVIL SERVANTS http://truth-out.org/news/item/20811-private-federal-contractors-cost-taxpayers-twice-as-much-as-civil-servants

Alternet, October 22, 2012
-▶  SIX REASONS PRIVATIZATION OFTEN ENDS IN DISASTER http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/6-reasons-privatization-often-ends-disaster?akid=11062.237541.q0ywcF&rd=1&src=newsletter912615&t=9

 Common Dreams, August 13, 2012
-▶  FIVE WAYS PRIVATIZATION DEGRADES AMERICA http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/08/13-1

                                                  WATCH

                                       "THE LOCUST EFFECT"

                 Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence

 Gary Haugen and Victor Boutros's "The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence" focuses on the central role of violence in perpetuating poverty, and shows that if any headway is to be made, this issue has to become a top priority for policymakers. Simply put, if people aren't safe, nothing else matters. Shipping grain to the poor, helping them vote, or assisting their efforts to start a farm is irrelevant. Whatever material improvements we provide will simply wash away in the face of the corrupt police forces, out-of-control, armies, private militias, organized criminals, and — not least — failed justice systems that plague poor countries.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY0FRy4JLYo

 ▶   "The Locust Effect"

UNCOVERING THE HIDDEN PLAGUE THE WORLD HAS MISSED. Far below the headlines, a plague of hidden, everyday violence —
like rape, trafficking, and police brutality — is devastating the
developing world and undermining our efforts to end poverty. http://www.thelocusteffect.com/

                                                    WATCH (56:27)
                            STEALING AFRICA: WHY POVERTY?

                                   HOW MUCH PROFIT IS FAIR?
                  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNYemuiAOfU

▶ NEOLIBERALIZING NATURE AND PRIVATIZING THE AIR - IF WE CAN'T MAKE MONEY OFF IT, IT HAS NO VALUE http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life/p/3992906780/neoliberalizing-nature-and-privatizing-the-air-if-we-can-t-make-money-off-it-it-has-no-value

 Truthout, January 29, 2014

▶ THE STEALTH PRIVATIZATION OF PENNSYLVANIA'S BRIDGES  Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett's administration has decided to sign a 40-year contract to privatize the state's crumbling bridges, but there has been little to no media coverage of the deal and what it will mean for two generations of Pennsylvanians http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/21513-the-stealth-privatization-of-pennsylvanias-bridges

                                               VIDEO REPORT

                           RETURN OF DEBTORS' PRISON IN USA :

                             IMPOVERISHED JAILED FOR PROFIT

                        INABILITY TO PAY FINES AND OLD DEBTS

                                             http://sco.lt/8k4fh3

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                                                THE COMMONS

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September 13, 2013 CSRWire Talkback, Francesca Rheannon

-▶  THE TRAGEDY OF THE MARKET, THE PROMISE OF THE COMMONS http://www.csrwire.com/blog/posts/1013-the-tragedy-of-the-market-the-promise-of-the-commons

                             THE STORY OF THE COMMONS

                               YES Magazine, March 16, 2012

                            INTERVIEW WITH ANNIE LEONARD

http://www.yesmagazine.org/happiness/the-story-of-the-commons

Sustainable Business, January 15, 2014

▶ PRIVATIZATION OF WATER, FIRST ISSUE FOR EU CITIZENS INITIATIVE  http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/25440

 June 3, 2013 Forest News
-▶   WHO OWNS THE RIGHTS TO THE WORLD'S COMMON RESOURCES? http://blog.cifor.org/16672/qa-who-owns-the-rights-to-the-worlds-common-resources/#.Ub6-u-swOic

 CSRwire Talkback -

-▶  OUR INVISIBLE ECOLOGICAL COMMONS http://csrwiretalkback.tumblr.com/post/2147520326/our-invisible-ecological-commons

Guardian, November 27, 2013
-▶ PUTTING A PRICE ON NATURE WOULD BE DISASTROUS  http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2013/nov/27/price-nature-markets-natural-capital

-▶  THE DARK SIDE OF THE 'GREEN ECONOMY' - THE WHOLESALE PRIVATIZATION OF NATURE http://sco.lt/7hix0r

▶ SLEEPWALKING TO EXTINCTION: CAPITALISM AND THE CONSUMER ECONOMY http://sco.lt/9EPNkf

                                    CORPORATIZING OUR FOOD

                                       ▶  FARM-AGEDDON    -▶

No birds. No bees. Our countryside laid waste. And billions of animals that never see a blade of grass http://sco.lt/7ztQbB

Guardian Environment, March 28, 2014
 -▶  THICH NHAT HANH:  IS MINDFULNESS BEING CORRUPTED BY BUSINESS AND FINANCE? http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/thich-nhat-hanh-mindfulness-google-tech

Guardian Environment, March 14, 2014

▶  NASA-FUNDED STUDY: INDUSTRIAL CIVILISATION HEADED FOR 'IRREVERSIBLE COLLAPSE'? Nafeez Ahmed:

Natural and social scientists develop new model of how 'perfect storm' of crises could unravel global system...A new study sponsored by Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center has highlighted the prospect that global industrial civilisation could collapse in coming decades due to unsustainable resource exploitation and increasingly unequal wealth distribution.http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/mar/14/nasa-civilisation-irreversible-collapse-study-scientists

 The Ecologist, December 30, 2013
 ▶  THE MOST URGENT PROBLEM WE FACE - ENVIRONMENTAL COLLAPSE http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/2215830

The Independent, March 18, 2014
LEAKED UN IPCC REPORT:  GLOBAL WARMING WILL CAUSE WIDESPREAD CONFLICT, DISPLACE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE AND DEVASTATE THE GLOBAL ECONOMY http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/official-prophecy-of-doom-global-warming-will-cause-widespread-conflict-displace-millions-of-people-and-devastate-the-global-economy-9198171.html

Guardian Environment, March 18, 2014
▶  THE GLOBAL TRANSITION TIPPING POINT HAS ARRIVED: VIVE LA REVOLUTION. What we are seeing, as I've argued in detail before, are escalating, interconnected symptoms of the unsustainability of the global system in its current form. While the available evidence suggests that business-as-usual is likely to guarantee worst-case scenarios, simultaneously humanity faces an unprecedented opportunity to create a civilisational form that is in harmony with our environment, and ourselves. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/mar/18/transition-tipping-point-revolution-doom

Guardian Environment, March 18, 2014
▶  CLIMATE CHANGE IS PUTTING WORLD AT RISK OF IRREVERSIBLE CHANGES, SCIENTIST WARN. The world is at growing risk of “abrupt, unpredictable and potentially irreversible changes” because of a warming climate, America’s premier scientific society warned on Tuesday.
    In a rare intervention into a policy debate, the American Association for the Advancement of Science urged Americans to act swiftly to reduce greenhouse gas emissions – and lower the risks of leaving a climate catastrophe for future generations... http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/18/climate-change-world-risk-irreversible-changes-scientists-aaas

The Ecologist, March 22, 2013
Thich Nhat Hanh:

▶  IN 100 YEARS HUMAN LIFE ON PLANET EARTH MAY HAVE ENDED http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/1291786/thich_nhat_hanh_in_100_years_there_may_be_no_more_humans_on_planet_earth.html

                           FULL VIDEO OF JOHN KERRY SPEECH

                      POWERFUL ADDRESS FROM INDONESIA

          "Climate Change Is The Greatest Challenge of Our Generation"

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivers remarks on climate change from Jakarta, Indonesia on February 16, 2014. A transcript can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-yDzHApXiw&feature=youtu.be

 FULL TRANSCIPT http://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2014/02/221704.htm

▶  WHY CHOOSING NATURE WILL ONLY ADVANCE HUMAN SOCIETIES http://sco.lt/76Gtij

 -▶ THE EVOLUTION OF BUSINESS: HOW A NEW BUSINESS ERA INSPIRED BY NATURE, NOT GREED, CAN BENEFIT US ALL  http://sco.lt/6XU6Kn

 -▶ LOOTING THE VERY FOUNDATIONS OF LIFE: CORPORATE FINANCIALIZATION OF NATURE: A RECIPE FOR DISASTER http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/10/13

  -▶ OUR INDUSTRIAL, WESTERN AGRICULTURAL FOOD SYSTEM IS DESTROYING THE EARTH AND OUR HEALTH http://sco.lt/63qRl3

 -▶ THE LOSS OF OCEAN SPECIES IS STAGGERING http://sco.lt/61gcWf

                                                      WATCH
                              PBS Newshour, March 19, 2014
RISING SEAS: SOUTH FLORIDA CONSIDERS INVESTMENT AGAINST RISING SEAS http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/south-florida-rising-sea-levels/

▶  UNPRECEDENTED STUDY:  THREATENING OUR OWN EXTINCTION WITH LOSS OF BIOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY http://sco.lt/64XtcP

▶ ENOUGHNESS:  WESTERN THOUGHT vs INDIGENOUS PHILOSOPHY http://sco.lt/6EFbPt

 -▶ ERADICATING ECOCIDE: WHY BUSINESS LEADERS MUST STEP UP TO THE CHALLENGE http://sco.lt/56vkOH

                           AN URGENT MEMO TO THE WORLD http://thenaturaleye.wordpress.com/2012/07/12/an-urgent-memo-to-the-world/

▶  THE SIXTH MASS EXTINCTION IS UPON US http://sco.lt/4ywB3h

                                                  WATCH

                                              FILM: ***"HOME"

                    An Exquisite Dedication To the Stewards of Our Planet

      http://thenaturaleye.wordpress.com/2011/03/26/home-an-exquisite-story-of-our-world/

                                   WATER IN THE ANTHROPOCENE

                                               The Water Crisis

                                            http://sco.lt/53HMPJ

PICKING UP THE CORPORATE TAB

The Guardian, March 17, 2014
▶ TOXIC TRAIL:  HOW A LANDMARK SUPERFUND CLEANUP PROGRAM LEAVES ITS OWN TOXIC LEGACY.

Below some of the world’s most expensive real estate, in the heart of Silicon Valley, pipes and pumps suck thousands of gallons of contaminated water every hour from vast underground toxic pools.

Giant industrial filters trap droplets of dangerous chemicals at the surface, all in the hope of making the water drinkable again and protecting the workers of tech giants such as Google and Symantec from toxic vapors. Often the original mess is almost untreatable. In Silicon Valley’s case, it would take 700 years of continuous treatment to make the groundwater drinkable. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2014/mar/-sp-toxic-waste-silicon-valley-trail

BIODIVERSITY IS LIFE http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life

CLIMATE CHANGE WILL IMPACT US ALL: http://www.scoop.it/t/changingplanet

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY http://www.scoop.it/t/environmental-and-human-health

OUR OCEANS NEED US http://www.scoop.it/t/our-oceans-need-us

▶  "WE HAVE FIVE MINUTES BEFORE MIDNIGHT" - IPCC REPORT, UN CHIEF SCIENTIST URGES ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE http://sco.lt/7C0zyb

Guardian Environment, George Monbiot: May09, 2014

WHY WE COULDN'T CARE LESS ABOUT THE NATURAL WORLD: The richer we are and the more we consume, the more self-centred and careless of the lives of others we appear to become. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2014/may/09/why-we-couldnt-care-less-about-the-natural-world

                                                        WATCH

                                         "RIGHTS OF NATURE"

                                            Dr Vandana Shiva

                           2014 Tribunal President Statement

                                          http://sco.lt/6qeJU1

 Environment News Service, May 20, 2014
-▶ DETERIORATING ENVIRONMENT THREATENS HUMAN HEALTH WORLDWIDE http://ens-newswire.com/2014/05/20/deteriorating-environment-threatens-human-health-worldwide/

Guardian Sustainable Business, May 16, 2014
-▶ MORE BIG COMPANIES SAY THEY'RE CONCERNED ABOUT CLIMATE RISKS. Many US companies report they're already seeing significant climate-change impacts to their business operations, according to a new report by sustainability non-profit CDP http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/blog/climate-change-business-risks-costs-natural-disasters-cdp

 ▶  UN: THE ERA OF EVER-LASTING PRODUCTION BASED ON MAXIMIZING PROFITS HAS REACHED ITS LIMITS http://sco.lt/6C3RoH

 June 26, 2013 Stanford Center for Social Innovation
▶  CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IS ESSENTIAL TO ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/corporate-social-responsibility-essential-environmental-sustainability

 September 28, 2006 Yale Global

-▶  MAN AND HIS ENDANGERED HOME - OUR PURSUIT OF GROWTH AND LUXURY MAY LEAVE US HOMELESS  http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/man-and-his-endangered-home

                                                   VIDEO (3:31)
                                       Grassroots International
PUTTING PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES BEFORE CORPORATE INTERESTS http://www.grassrootsonline.org/issues/resource-rights

Stanford Social Innovation Review, December 10, 2012
- ▶  THE FIRST RULE OF CORPORATE "SOCIAL" RESPONSIBILITY IS:  DO NO HARM. What corporations do to society is far more important than what corporations can do for society. http://www.ssireview.org/blog/entry/the_first_rule_of_corporate_social_responsibility_is_not_what_you_think

Takepart, May 16, 2014
- ▶ TO SAVE ENDANGERED SPECIES, EVERYONE HAS A ROLE TO PLAY . One-fourth of Earth’s species could be driven to extinction by 2050, just as a result of climate change. That’s not even counting the ones threatened by habitat eradication, toxins, and other plagues we have wrought on those with whom we share our home.
Solving these problems will take a global village. Every sector has some role to play, including the private sector, which has until recently been cast primarily as the problem, not part of the solution. http://www.takepart.com/article/2014/05/16/endangered-species-day-everyone-has-role-pla

                          AN URGENT MEMO TO THE WORLD

                                       The Natural Eye Project

http://thenaturaleye.wordpress.com/2012/07/12/an-urgent-memo-to-the-world/

-▶ UN BIODIVERSITY REPORT CALLS FOR GLOBAL ACTION TO PREVENT DESTRUCTION OF NATURE http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/may/21/un-biodiversity-economic-report

                                                      WATCH
                  "INSIDE THE GARBAGE OF THE WORLD" (80 min)
We're living on a beautiful planet and as a human race we've been here for thousands of years. Our planet didn't need to be protected; life was flourishing on its own, with its own agenda. However for the past 100 years we've made a tremendous impact with our footprint due to the growth of world population and the industrialization of our everyday life. Economy, profit and capitalization became more important than respecting our planet and an ancient knowledge to advance a new way of life. http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/inside-garbage-world/

Common Dreams, May 06, 2014

-▶ HUMANITY'S DESTRUCTION OF EARTH'S CLIMATE IN NINETY SECONDS . Data visualization that compresses thousands of years of historic atmospheric data presents frightening prospects for humanity's future... http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/06

Live Science, February 10, 2014
- ▶  LAST TIME, IT TOOK 60,000 YEARS TO KILL NEARLY EVERYTHING ON EARTH: WE'RE DOING IT IN 250 YEARS http://www.livescience.com/43245-permian-mass-extinction-duration.html

▶  EXTINCTION CRISIS - WE HAVE DISAPPEARED HALF OF THE WORLD'S WILD ANIMALS IN 40 YEARS: ECOLOGICAL ARMAGEDDON http://sco.lt/8fK5eT

-▶ FINANCIALIZING NATURE COULD BANKRUPT US ALL.  OLD ECONOMICS OR SUSTAINING POLICY? http://sco.lt/8fNIET

                                                       WATCH:

                                                "UNWASTED" -

                          THE FUTURE OF BUSINESS ON EARTH

                                 Beyond Recycling - Documentary

                                            http://sco.lt/6Gg2m9

 ▶  WHY CHOOSING NATURE WILL ONLY ADVANCE HUMAN SOCIETIES http://sco.lt/76Gtij

 ▶  THE EVOLUTION OF BUSINESS: HOW A NEW BUSINESS ERA INSPIRED BY NATURE, NOT GREED, CAN BENEFIT US ALL  http://sco.lt/6XU6Kn

                                               VIDEO REPORT:

        IS GDP THE WRONG YARDSTICK FOR MEASURING PROSPERITY?

                              Quantifying unpriceable prosperity

                                          http://sco.lt/6dDcvZ

 ▶  HEALTHY ECOSYSTEMS, HEALTHY PLANET:  HOW BIODIVERSITY COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE http://sco.lt/7Uk10D

Mongabay, May 08, 2014
NEW HOLISTIC 'ONE HEALTH' CONNECTS HUMANS, ANIMALS AND ECOSYSTEMS.  Recently, the dilemma of human–wildlife conflict has created great opportunity to solve some of the world’s most pressing problems for both people and ecosystems. The emerging holistic “One Health” movement explicitly recognizes the inextricable connections between human, animal, and ecosystem health, and is leading not only to new scientific research but also to projects that help people rise out of poverty, improve their health, reduce conflicts with wildlife, and preserve ecosystems, such as Bwindi’s tropical montane forest. http://news.mongabay.com/2014/0501-nicole-sri-ehp-one-health.html

▶  BIODIVERSITY IS VITAL TO MAINTAINING ECOSYSTEMS AND HUMAN HEALTH http://sco.lt/4u4JhR

 ▶  MASSIVE DESERTIFICATION, EPIDEMIC ILLNESSES COMING WITH GLOBAL WARMING, MELTING WORLD http://sco.lt/5cPnrF

Australian Broadcasting Corporation, March 26, 2014
- ▶ ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT TO WORSEN OVER TIME AS RESOURCES BECOME HARDER TO REACH http://www.abc.net.au/environment/articles/2014/03/25/3970411.htm

▶  THE SIXTH MASS EXTINCTION IS UPON US http://sco.lt/4ywB3h

                                                ENOUGHNESS: 

                WESTERN THOUGHT vs INDIGENOUS PHILOSOPHY

                                           http://sco.lt/6EFbPt

 ▶  ERADICATING ECOCIDE: WHY BUSINESS LEADERS MUST STEP UP TO THE CHALLENGE  http://sco.lt/7ExcmX

 -▶ A DISASTER: TWO THIRDS LOSS OF TOP PREDATORS CAUSING GLOBAL ECOSYSTEM TO COLLAPSE http://sco.lt/8K1lJJ

▶  THE NEW CORPORATE COLONIALISM -- DESTRUCTION OF LIFE ALL IN THE NAME OF "GROWTH" http://sco.lt/6HLK77

                                                   WATCH

                                                   "HOME"

                                       Yann Arthus-Bertrand

                An Exquisite Dedication To the Stewards of Our Planet

                             Solutions For A Sustainable Planet

http://thenaturaleye.wordpress.com/2011/03/26/home-an-exquisite-story-of-our-world/

Just Means, December 13, 2013
-▶ THE B CORP REVOLUTION:  INVESTING FROM THE HEART http://www.justmeans.com/blogs/the-b-corp-revolution-investing-from-the-heart

The Center For Association Leadership, June 2012

-▶ BENEFIT CORPORATIONS:  A NEW FORMULA FOR SOCIAL CHANGE? http://www.asaecenter.org/Resources/ANowDetail.cfm?ItemNumber=179687

OpEd News, August 16, 2014
-▶ SHIFTING FROM A PATRIARCHAL TO AN EARTH CENTRIC PARADIGM http://www.opednews.com/articles/Shifting-from-a-Patriarcha-by-Anthony-J-Gerst-Earth-Policy-Institute_Existentialism_Gaia_Paradigm-Shifts-140816-107.html

-▶ PATAGONIA MAY BE THE WORLD'S MOST RESPONSIBLE COMPANY http://sco.lt/8Xb7xp

The New Yorker, August 04, 2014
-▶ CAN BENEFIT CORPORATIONS WORK? http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/04/companies-benefits

MIT Sloan Management Review, November 28, 2012
-▶ THE "BENEFIT CORPORATION" MOVEMENT. Balancing social good and financial gains  http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-benefit-corporation-movement/#.ULgKS4XZ03Y

 The Humanist, April 22, 2014

-▶ THE BENEFIT CORPORATION:  THE UNLIKELY HERO OF A SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY?

Imagine, if you will, a paradigm shift to a sustainable global economic system in which all corporations act as responsible global citizens. The unlikely hero at the center of this transformation? It’s the newest evolutionary form of a business firm—the benefit corporation. 

   The prevailing belief that corporations exist solely to maximize profit for shareholders is the single biggest impediment to creating a sustainable economic system. In the current paradigm, it is morally acceptable for corporations to externalize as many of the negative consequences of their behavior on society and the environment as is legally permissible. Corporations have no inherent social and environmental conscience.... http://thehumanist.com/magazine/may-june-2014/features/the-benefit-corporation

 Real News One, June 10, 2014

-▶ PUTTING THE ECONOMY BEFORE THE ENVIRONMENT IS ENVIRONMENTAL VANDALISM AND ECOCIDE http://realnewsone.com/2014/06/10/putting-the-economy-before-the-environment-is-environmental-vandalism/

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Alternet, August 22, 2014
HOW THE ULTRA-RICH .01% HAVE SUCKED UP EVEN MORE OF AMERICA'S WEALTH THAN YOU THINK http://www.alternet.org/economy/how-ultra-rich-01-have-sucked-even-more-americas-wealth-you-think

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Marketplace, May 16, 2014

-▶ HOW DO YOU RECONCILE SOCIAL MISSION WITH A BOTTOMLINE? DO YOU REALLY NEED A B CORPORATION? 
Lynn Stout, a professor of corporate and business law at Cornell Law School, says the purpose of a corporation, she wants to make clear, is not to maximize shareholder profits. "It turns out the purpose of the corporation is to do, and I’m taking this right from what the vast majority of corporate charters say," she says, "they say the purpose of the corporation is to do anything lawful.” Stout says we don't need benefit corporations. "I don’t think we do," she says, "if what you want to do is create legal space for managers to run companies in a socially responsible fashion.".. http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/cookie-factory-balances-profit-progress

Salon, February 04, 2014
-▶ MILLENIALS' BOLD NEW BUSINESS PLAN:  CORPORATIONS WITH A CONSCIENCE http://www.salon.com/2014/02/09/millennials_bold_new_business_plan_corporations_with_a_conscience/

-▶ THE GOOD OF FLEXIBLE PURPOSE CORPORATIONS:  THE NEW FLEX-C DESIGNATION http://sco.lt/5E2SGX

NationofChange, August 10, 2014
-▶ THE REBIRTH OF STAKEHOLDER vs SHAREHOLDER CAPITALISM? http://www.nationofchange.org/rebirth-stakeholder-capitalism-1407676367

 Harvard Business Review, May 15, 2014

- ▶ TAKING BUSINESS BACK FROM WALL STREET: THE DANGERS OF MANAGING COMPANIES FOR SHAREHOLDERS  http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/05/taking-business-back-from-wall-street/

 Guardian April 08, 2014, George Monbiot

-▶ HOW HAVE THESE CORPORATIONS COLONIZED OUR PUBLIC LIFE? Power is shifting: to places in which we have no voice or vote. Domestic policies are forged by special advisers and spin doctors, by panels and advisory committees stuffed with lobbyists http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/08/corporations-public-life-unilever

Environmental Leader, October 31, 2012

-▶ PROMINENT (AND PROFITABLE) CORPORATIONS TAKE ON 'B  CORP' CERTIFICATIONS http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/10/31/prominent-and-profitable-corporations-take-on-b-corp-certifications/

-▶ LAW FOR CHANGE - WILL BENEFIT CORPORATIONS BE CONSIDERED CHARITIES?  http://www.lawforchange.org/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&ID=5742

B LAB:  Voice of the B Corporation Community, July 22, 2014
-▶ B CORP'S BEST FOR THE WORLD 2014: B Lab unveiled the 2014 Best Businesses for Communities list. http://bestfortheworld.bcorporation.net/2014-best-for-the-world-community-honorees.html/

B LAB: Voice of the B Corporation Community
-▶ MEET THE 2014 BEST FOR THE B CORPORATION WORLD HONOREES http://www.bcorporation.net/blog/meet-the-2014-best-the-world-honorees

Guardian Sustainable Business, May 16, 2014
-▶ MORE BIG COMPANIES SAY THEY'RE CONCERNED ABOUT CLIMATE RISKS. Many US companies report they're already seeing significant climate-change impacts to their business operations, according to a new report by sustainability non-profit CDP http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/blog/climate-change-business-risks-costs-natural-disasters-cdp

▶  MONDRAGON: SPAIN'S GIANT CO-OPERATIVE: A GROWING ALTERNATIVE MODEL TO CAPITALISM http://sco.lt/79nTrF

Acumen Fund Blog

-▶ SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP & PHILANTHROPY:  SYNERGIES FOR CHANGE  http://blog.acumenfund.org/2012/11/06/social-entrepreneurship-philanthropy-synergies-for-change/

-▶ BUSINESS SHOULD CONTRIBUTE TO SOCIAL HEALTH AND WELL BEING OF THEIR LOCAL COMMUNITIES http://sco.lt/6W8ds1

                                                   VIDEO (3:31)
                                       Grassroots International
PUTTING PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES BEFORE CORPORATE INTERESTS http://www.grassrootsonline.org/issues/resource-rights

▶ MORALITY IS MISSING FROM THE DEBATE ABOUT SUSTAINABLE BEHAVIOUR  http://sco.lt/4sveFd

-▶THE SHARING ECONOMY:  OUR SUSTAINABLE FUTURE? http://sco.lt/54Sqjh

-▶ FINANCIALIZING NATURE COULD BANKRUPT US ALL.  OLD ECONOMICS OR SUSTAINING POLICY? http://sco.lt/8fNIET

Guardian Environment, George Monbiot: May09, 2014

-▶ WHY WE COULDN'T CARE LESS ABOUT THE NATURAL WORLD: The richer we are and the more we consume, the more self-centred and careless of the lives of others we appear to become. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2014/may/09/why-we-couldnt-care-less-about-the-natural-world

                                              VIDEO REPORT

                BEYOND GDP:  QUANTIFYING UNPRICEABLE PROSPERITY

                                         http://sco.lt/5h0D2H

                                    PRIVATIZING EVERYTHING: 

             THE PUBLIC-PRIVATE "PARTNERSHIP" IS STRANGLING US

                                            http://sco.lt/67XHiD

                                                    VIDEO

        "WHO PROFITS FROM POVERTY? DOING GOOD RESPONSIBLY

                                         http://sco.lt/6VZEDB

▶ INDIA MANDATES WORLD'S FIRST CORPORATE CHARITABLE GIVING LAW http://sco.lt/86m7If

▶ WHY SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY SHOULD BE PART OF EVERY BUSINESS http://sco.lt/4tfKhV

 ▶ THE COLLABORATIVE ECONOMY IS EXPLODING, AND BRANDS THAT IGNORE IT ARE OUT OF LUCK http://sco.lt/5QA4vJ

                                               A VIP READ:

THE ECONOMICS OF CURBING SPECULATION IN FOOD, WATER AND VITAL RESOURCES http://sco.lt/8YbdY1

 ▶  WHY CHOOSING NATURE WILL ONLY ADVANCE HUMAN SOCIETIES http://sco.lt/6odAoL

▶  THE EVOLUTION OF BUSINESS: HOW A NEW BUSINESS ERA INSPIRED BY NATURE, NOT GREED, CAN BENEFIT US ALL  http://sco.lt/6XU6Kn

-▶  TURNING COLLEGE STUDENTS INTO COMMODITIES : A TRILLION DOLLAR BUSINESS  http://sco.lt/60Twu1

 Upside, February 28, 2013
▶  A CORPORATION SHOULD BE MORE THAN A MONEY COW. We need a new market system according to Pavan Sukhdev, founder/CEO of GIST Advisory. A market that is not set on just financial success but for once focuses on the whole picture http://www.upsides.com/2013/02/28/why-a-corporation-should-be-so-much-more-than-a-money-cow/

 Inter Press Service, May 18, 2014
-▶ CAPITALISM UNABLE TO DEAL WITH CLIMATE CHANGE http://www.ipsnews.net/2014/05/capitalism-unable-deal-climate-change/

-▶ AT THE LIMITS OF THE MARKET:  WHY CAPITALISM HASN'T AND CAN'T SOLVE CLIMATE CHANGE http://sco.lt/84Vywz

Climate Progress, October 3, 2013
▶  WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE BIGGEST "FREE" TRADE AGREEMENT EVER AND HOW IT AFFECTS CLIMATE CHANGE  http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/10/03/2712961/biggest-free-trade-agreement-climate/

▶ THE PREPARATION FOR A CORPORATE-CONTROLLED PLANET:  TRANS PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP - NAFTA ON STEROIDS http://sco.lt/5SJPe5

▶ SHOULD COMPANIES COMPENSATE SOCIETY FOR ENVIRONMENT DESTRUCTION FROM WHICH THEY PROFIT? http://sco.lt/5x2tqz

▶  LARGE CORPORATE FISHING FLEETS EMPTYING OUR OCEANS: THE $400 BILLION OCEAN FISHING INDUSTRY  http://sco.lt/7ABxHV

                          AN URGENT MEMO TO THE WORLD

                                       The Natural Eye Project

http://thenaturaleye.wordpress.com/2012/07/12/an-urgent-memo-to-the-world/

                                              ENOUGHNESS: 

                    WESTERN THOUGHT vs INDIGENOUS PHILOSOPHY

                                         http://sco.lt/6vvj4T

                        THE SIXTH MASS EXTINCTION IS UPON US

                                         http://sco.lt/4ywB3h

▶  BIGGER, FASTER, MORE: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT FACTORY FARMING YOUR ANIMAL FOOD: http://sco.lt/522wPR

March 23, 3012 -  The Ecologist

▶  THICH NHAT HANH - MAYBE IN 100 YEARS THERE WILL BE NO MORE HUMANS ON THE PLANET   http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/1291786/thich_nhat_hanh_maybe_in_100_years_there_will_be_no_more_humans_on_the_planet.html

                                                   WATCH

                                                   "HOME"

                                       Yann Arthus-Bertrand

                An Exquisite Dedication To the Stewards of Our Planet

                             Solutions For A Sustainable Planet

http://thenaturaleye.wordpress.com/2011/03/26/home-an-exquisite-story-of-our-world/

                                                      SEE:

-▶ CLIMATE CHANGE WILL IMPACT US ALL http://www.scoop.it/t/changingplanet

-▶ BIODIVERSITY IS LIFE http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life

-▶ OUR OCEANS NEED US http://www.scoop.it/t/our-oceans-need-us

-▶ YOUR FOOD, YOUR ENVIRONMENT, YOUR HEALTH: THE CORPORATE TAKEOVER OF OUR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE  http://ow.ly/wWMez

-▶ CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY http://www.scoop.it/t/environmental-and-human-health

                                               KIDS FOR CASH

        Documentary with Interview with Filmmaker Robert May (50:11)
                                                    TheLipTV

                                REPORT, INTERVIEW AND FILM
                                         Published on Jun 2, 2014
KIDS FOR CASH documents the Pennsylvania scandal of selling children into the prison system at the hands of corrupt Judge Mark Arthur Ciavarella, Jr. How Ciavarella got embedded with the privatized prison system, how children were profited off of, and the plight of the imprisoned minors is shared with clips, the trailer, and in depth discussion with director Robert May in this uncensored Media Mayhem ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVzSe2TQ3d0

                                                  THE MOVIE

                                             "KIDS FOR CASH"

                                                @kidsforcash

                                 http://kidsforcashthemovie.com/

                                                 VIDEO REPORT
                                 Democracy Now, February 04, 2014
                                               KIDS FOR CASH

   Inside One of the Nation’s Most Shocking Juvenile Justice Scandals
http://www.democracynow.org/2014/2/4/kids_for_cash_inside_one_of

New York Times, June 28, 2014
-▶ WHEN THE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM ISN'T THE ANSWER: 70,000 AMERICAN YOUTH INCARCERATED ON ANY GIVEN DAY  http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/29/opinion/sunday/nicholas-kristof-when-the-juvenile-justice-system-isnt-the-answer.html?_r=0

                                                  VIDEO REPORT
                        The Real News Network, January 15, 2015
BALTIMORE STUDENTS STAE DIE-IN TO PROTEST SCHOOL-TO-PRISON PIPELINE Baltimore City Public School students are demanding comprehensive policy changes on police interaction with youth, school funding, and the city school's curriculum -   
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=13009

New York Post, February 23, 2014
-▶ CORRUPT 'KIDS FOR CASH' JUDGE RUINED MORE THAN 3,000 LIVES http://nypost.com/2014/02/23/film-details-teens-struggles-in-state-detention-in-payoff-scandal/

New York Times, December 19, 2014
-▶ JUDGE IN MARYLAND LOCKS UP YOUTHS AND RULES THEIR LIVE http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/20/us/judge-in-maryland-locks-up-youths-and-rules-their-lives.html

                                        TWO-PART EXPOSE :

                           Huffington Post, October 22, 2013

-▶  PRISONERS OF PROFIT: PRIVATE PRISON EMPIRE RISES DESPITE STARTLING RECORD OF JUVENILE ABUSE http://projects.huffingtonpost.com/prisoners-of-profit

September 18, 2014
U.S. SENATOR ROBERT CASEY
-▶ INTRODUCES LEGISLATION TO REFORM JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM  TO ELIMINATE LOOPHOLE THAT LEADS TO INCARCERATION OF YOUTH FOR STATUS OFFENSES LIKE TRUANCY  http://www.casey.senate.gov/newsroom/releases/casey-introduces-legislation-to-reform-juvenile-justice-system-eliminate-loophole-that-leads-to-incarceration-of-youth-for-status-offenses-like-truancy

                                                   VIDEO REPORT
                                    Democracy Now, October 01, 2014
ACCUSED OF STEALING A BACKPACK HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT JAILED FOR NEARLY THREE YEARS -- WITHOUT TRIAL
http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/1/accused_of_stealing_a_backpack_high

                                                  VIDEO REPORT
                                The Real News, January 15, 2015
BALTIMORE STUDENTS STAGE DIE-IN TO PROTEST SCHOOL-TO-PRISON PIPELINE  http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=13009

Common Dreams, April 04, 2014
-▶  THE PRESCHOOL-TO-PRISON PIPELINE' Studies Confirm the Dehumanization of Black Children http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/04-6

                                                 VIDEO REPORT
                               OUR SCHOOL-TO-PRISON PIPELINE

        ARE SOME U.S. SCHOOL DISCIPLINE POLICIES TOO PUNITIVE?

 http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/education/jan-june14/school_01-08.html

                                            VIDEO INVESTIGATION

                              The Center for Investigative Reporting

                               TEENS IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT

                  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opUCRAbCkR8

                                             VIDEO REPORT
                           PBS Newshour, February 21, 2014
                              Center For Investigative Reporting
                 QUESTIONING TEENS IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT At Rikers Island, New York City’s main jail complex, about a quarter of the under aged teenagers who are awaiting trial are in solitary confinement, spending 23 hours a day in a 6 by 8 ft cell. Daffodil Altan of the Center for Investigative Reporting takes a look at concern from city officials and others about the psychological effects of isolation on young inmates. This week, New York State announced that it will ban the practice in its prison system.http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/questioning-solitary-confinement-adolescents-rikers-island/

Mother Jones, January/February 2015
-▶ THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE LOCK CHILDREN IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT  http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/01/juveniles-kids-solitary-confinement-ohio-new-york

Alternet, August 05, 2014
-▶  BRUTAL TREATMENT OF KIDS AT RIKERS ISLAND JAIL 'INSPIRED BY LORD OF THE FLIES,' SAYS DOJ http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/brutal-treatment-kids-rikers-island-jail-inspired-lord-flies-says-doj?akid=12092.237541.DW6Rmg&rd=1&src=newsletter1014272&t=2

Rolling Stone September 12, 2013

-▶  WHEN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ARE TREATED LIKE PRISONERS  - FOR PROFIT http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/when-high-school-students-are-treated-like-prisoners-20130912

 ProPublica, June 19, 2014
-▶ VIOLENT AND LEGAL:  THE SHOCKING WAYS SCHOOL KIDS ARE BEING PINNED DOWN, ISOLATED AGAINST THEIR WILL http://www.propublica.org/article/schools-restraints-seclusions

                                                    VIDEO REPORT
                                        PBS Newshour, February 20, 2014
-▶  RESTORATIVE JUSTICE:  RESOLVING SCHOOL CONFLICT WITH CONVERSATION, NOT SUSPENSION - KEEPING KIDS OUT OF PRISON http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/new-approach-discipline-school/

                                ==========================

                                        INCARCERATION NATION 

        U.S. MASS INCARCERATION ON AN UNPRECEDENTED SCALE

                             KIDS, POOR, ELDERLY, MIGRANTS

                   PRIVATE PRISONS PAID BY THE NUMBERS

                                         http://sco.lt/6qmS8n

                         ===============================

                             JAILING AMERICANS FOR PROFIT     

                              THE RISE OF THE BILLION DOLLAR

                        PRIVATE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

                                            http://sco.lt/6bHg3N

                                                         WATCH

                                          LOCKED UP IN AMERICA

                                                Investigative Reports
                                    FRONTLINE PBS April 22, 29, 2014
                              "SOLITARY NATION" and "PRISON STATE"

      http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/locked-up-in-america/

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GizMag, September 10, 2015

 - ▶PATIENT RECEIVES 3D-PRINTED TITANIUM STERNUM AND RIB CAGE - 

Australia's CSIRO has added to the growing list of 3D-printed medical implants by designing and printing a replacement titanium sternum and rib cage for a 54-year-old cancer patient. http://www.gizmag.com/3d-printed-sternum-and-rib-cage-csiro/39369/

Triple Pundit, December 24, 2014
-▶ COULD 3-D PRINTING BRING US CLOSER TO THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY?  http://www.triplepundit.com/2014/12/3d-printing-bring-world-closer-circular-economy/

                                                            FOLLOW:

 - ▶ 3D Printing Daily ▸  http://paper.li/iPrint_3D/1381911501

- ▶ 3ders.org - 3D printer and 3D printing news, trends and resources

http://www.3ders.org/

The Guardian, January 31, 2015
 - ▶ CHINESE FIRM CREATES 'WORLD'S TALLEST 3-D PRINTED BUILDING http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/jan/31/chinese-firm-creates-worlds-tallest-3d-printed-building

TechInAsia, January 2, 2015
 - ▶ IN CHINA, 3D-PRINTED MANSION AND APARTMENT BLOCKS ARE NOW A REALITY  https://www.techinasia.com/china-3d-printed-mansion-and-tower-block/

Quartz, July 04, 2014
 - ▶ HOW 3-D PRINTING CAN CREATE 10 BUILDINGS A DAY:  AN ANSWER TO HOMELESSNESS AND MINIMALIZED LIVING? http://qz.com/230032/how-3d-printing-10-buildings-in-a-day-could-help-china-clean-up-mountains-of-waste/

FastCo, December 05, 2014
 - ▶ INSIDE THE 3D PRINTED LIMB FACTORY http://www.fastcompany.com/3039329/finally-a-good-use-for-3d-printing-prosthetic-limbs

                                                         VIDEO
                                                Fast Company
 - ▶ WATCH A DISABLED DOG GET A NEW LEASE ON LIFE WITH 3-D PRINTED LEGS http://www.fastcompany.com/3040014/the-recommender/watch-a-disabled-dog-get-a-new-lease-on-life-with-3-d-printed-legs

MORE AT 3Ders.org @3dersorg

http://www.3ders.org/articles/20141216-3d-printed-custom-prosthetic-legs-allow-derby-the-dog-to-run-upright-for-the-first-time.html

                                                      WATCH
                             2014 Ted Talk: Avi Reichental (9:04)
                                  WHAT'S NEXT IN 3D PRINTING?
    http://www.ted.com/talks/avi_reichental_what_s_next_in_3d_printing

Treehugger, November 25, 2014

 - ▶ 3D PRINTING CONCRETE BUILDINGS GIVES ARCHITECTS NEW FREEDOM TO CREATE http://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/foster-partners-and-skanska-will-soon-be-3d-printing-concrete-buildings.html

Truthout, November 21, 2014
 - ▶ THE "URBEE" 3D-PRINTED CAR:  U.S. COAST TO COAST ON 10 GALLONS:  RETHINKING THE 21st CENTURY CAR  http://truth-out.org/news/item/27430-the-urbee-3d-printed-car-coast-to-coast-on-10-gallons

Business Insider, October 23, 2014
 - ▶ THIS AWESOME MACHINE CAN 3D PRINT PLANTS TO GROW INTO ANY SHAPE FOR CITY GREEN SPACES http://www.businessinsider.com/3d-print-plants-for-city-green-spaces-2014-10

Harvard Business Review, October 24, 2014
 - ▶ MY DENTIST 3D PRINTED MY CROWN http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/10/my-dentist-3d-printed-my-crown/

Print.com, February25, 2014
▶ 3D PRINTED EMBEDDABLE HEART DEVICE TO TRANSFORM TREATMENT OF HEART DISORDERS http://3dprint.com/1300/3d-printed-embeddable-heart-device-to-transform-treatment-of-heart-disorders/

 New Scientist, February 26, 2014
▶ BIOPRINTING: ROBOT ARMS HELP KNIT REPLACEMENT HUMAN BODY PARTS http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25120-robot-arms-to-help-knit-replacement-human-body-parts.html#.Uw5TCV5kJK4

3D Print, May 29, 2014

 - ▶ NETHERLANDS RESEARCHERS ADVANCE THE 3D PRINTING OF BODY PARTS BY USING STEM CELLS  http://3dprint.com/4627/3d-printing-stem-cells/

 Wired Magazine, March 18, 2014
 - ▶ THE NEXT BIG THING YOU MISSED:  3-D PRINTING PROMISES BETTER BIONIC LIMBS FOR THE WAR-WOUNDED http://www.wired.com/business/2014/03/next-big-thing-missed-bionic-limbs-3d-printed-worlds-war-wounded/

Wired Magazine, March 26, 2014
 - ▶ NEUROSURGEONS SUCCESSFULLY IMPLANT 3D PRINTED SKULL http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-03/26/3d-printed-skull

FastCo Design,
 - ▶ HOW 3D PRINTING CAN HELP TO CURE CANCER This 3-D printer can print living tumors, and the technology may revolutionize the treatment of cancer http://www.fastcodesign.com/3029794/how-3-d-printing-can-help-to-cure-cancer

Print.com, July 17, 2014
 - ▶ 3D PRINTING ALLOWS FOR HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELL BREAKTHROUGH  - CELL ORGANIZATION http://3dprint.com/8934/3d-print-embryonic-stem-cell/

  - ▶ 3D PRINTING ARTIFICIAL BLOOD VESSELS

http://www.dw.de/3d-printer-artificial-blood-vessels/a-17091129

Smart Planet,
 - ▶ FORENSIC BREAKTHROUGH:  NEW DNA TECHNOLOGY PROMISED 3D REPLICA OF YOUR FACE THROUGH SALIVA http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/new-dna-technology-promises-3d-replica-of-your-face-through-saliva/

INFOGRAPH                  

Computer Science Hub February 12, 2014
WHAT IS 3D PRINTING:  HOW IT WORKS
http://www.computersciencehub.org/3d-printing/

 Grist, September 10, 2013
 - ▶ INJURED BALD EAGLE GETS NEW 3-D PRINTED BEAK http://grist.org/list/injured-bald-eagle-gets-new-3-d-printed-beak/

                                                         VIDEO

- ▶ HOW IT DOES IT.  3D PRINTER PRINTS FUNCTIONAL TOOLS
http://www.wimp.com/functionaltools/

                                                         VIDEO

 de zeen Magazine, May 01, 2014
 - ▶ LIX 3-D PRINTING PEN ALLOWS USERS TO CREATE SOLID DRAWING IN MID AIR http://www.dezeen.com/2014/05/01/lix-smallest-3d-printing-pen-aluminium/

Mother Jones, April 15, 2014
- ▶  TURNS OUT, YOU CAN MAKE SOLAR PANELS WORK IN CLOUDY SKIES - WITH 3D PRINTING. Organic solar cells, which can be 3D-printed or coated over large areas, may make solar power realistic in perpetually gloomy cities like London and Seattle. http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/04/you-can-make-solar-panels-work-cloudy-cities

TechRepublic March 05, 2014

- ▶  THE DARK SIDE OF 3D PRINTING: 10 THINGS TO WATCH FOR http://www.techrepublic.com/article/the-dark-side-of-3d-printing-10-things-to-watch/

Treehugger, March 26, 2014
 - ▶ IS DIGITAL FABRICATION AND 3D PRINTING SUSTAINABLE? http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/digital-fabrication-and-3d-printing-sustainable.html

Green Biz, February 25, 2014

 - ▶ HOW 3-D PRINTING TRENDS DRIVE SUSTAINABILITY OUTCOMES http://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2014/02/25/how-3d-printing-business-models-spell-ecosystem-change

                                                  DW.DE TV
                                                     VIDEOS
                                       FOOD FROM 3D PRINTERS

                             Comes Out Of A Printer and it's Edible !

              http://www.dw.de/food-from-3d-printers/av-17435720

 Inhabitat, July 22, 2013
- ▶  SCIENTISTS FIND THAT NANOPARTICLES FROM 3D PRINTER CAN BE HARMFUL TO YOUR HEALTH http://inhabitat.com/scientist-find-that-3d-printers-can-be-harmful-to-your-health/

 EurActive, March 24, 2014
 - ▶ 3-D PRINTING NEEDS RAPID ATTENTION OF EU COMMISSION. 3D printing is reshaping some of the foundations of today’s society and economy. The opportunities are monumental, but so are the legal (patent) and regulatory challenges http://www.euractiv.com/innovation-enterprise/3d-printing-needs-rapid-attentio-analysis-531760

 i-D Magazine
- ▶  SCAN IT, PRINT IT, WEAR IT:  THE FUTURE OF FASHION IS 3D http://i-d.vice.com/en_gb/read/think-pieces/2109/scan-it-print-it-wear-it-the-future-of-fashionis-3d

  The Ford Blog. The central hub of Ford social media, February 28, 2014

- ▶  3D PRINTING MAKES CONCEPT CARS COME TO LIFE FASTER http://blog.ford.ca/2014/02/28/3d-printing-makes-concept-cars-come-to-life-faster/

Treehugger, March 26, 2014
 - ▶ 3D PRINTED KAYAK REALLY FLOATS, TOOK 42 DAYS TO PRINT http://www.treehugger.com/gadgets/check-out-3d-printed-kayak.html

                                                      FOLLOW:

              3D Printing Daily ▸  http://paper.li/iPrint_3D/1381911501
                                     3DPrint, February 27, 2014
 - ▶ NIKE RECEIVES TWO MAJOR 3D PRINTING FOOTWEAR PATENTS http://3dprint.com/1331/nike-awarded-two-major-3d-printing-footwear-patents/

 Mashable, January 27, 2014

 - ▶ STRATASYS UNVEILS WORLD'S FIRST MULTI-COLOR, MULTI-MATERIAL 3D PRINTER

While Star Trek replicators still don't exist, we just moved a little closer to the dream, thanks to a new kind of 3D printer. 3D-printing manufacturer Stratasys just debuted the Objet500 Connex3, the world’s first 3D printer that can produce multi-color, multi-material objects at the same time...http://mashable.com/2014/01/27/stratasys-3d-printer/

Wired, February 25, 2014

 - ▶ HOW AN iPAD AND A 3-D PRINTER CAN FIX YOUR SWEATY, MESSED UP FEET http://www.wired.com/design/2014/02/sols-3-d-printed-orthotics/

Mashable, December 3, 2013
 - ▶ 7 THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT 3D PRINTING http://mashable.com/2013/12/03/3d-printing-brandspeak/

 Mashable

- ▶ 3D PRINTING - RECENT STORIES http://mashable.com/category/3d-printing/

LiveScience 

- ▶  2014 NEWS AND ARTICLES ABOUT 3D PRINTERS

http://www.livescience.com/topics/3d-printing/

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HuffPost Impact, January 21, 2014
 - ▶ THIS GIANT 3D PRINTER IS CAPABLE OF BUILDING A HOUSE IN A DAY, COULD CHANGE CONSTRUCTION FOREVER http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/21/3d-printer-house-mars-slums_n_4639046.html

Quartz, July 04, 2014
 - ▶ HOW 3-D PRINTING CAN CREATE 10 BUILDINGS A DAY:  AN ANSWER TO HOMELESSNESS AND MINIMALIZED LIVING? http://qz.com/230032/how-3d-printing-10-buildings-in-a-day-could-help-china-clean-up-mountains-of-waste/

                                     VIDEO - MIT MEDIA LAB
                    RETHINKING TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURE
        BUILDING HOUSES DESIGNED BY NATURE WITH 3D-PRINTING http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS9XH210U4g

                                                    VIDEO

                                                  Gizmodo
 - ▶ VISIT THIS HOUSE BEING 3D PRINTED IN AMSTERDAM RIGHT NOW http://gizmodo.com/visit-this-house-being-3d-printed-in-amsterdam-right-no-1543503640

Gizmag, April 23, 2014
 - ▶ CHINESE COMPANY USES 3D PRINTING TO BUILD 10 SMALL HOUSES IN A DAY FOR LESS THAN $5,000 http://www.gizmag.com/china-winsun-3d-printed-house/31757/

                                                     VIDEO

                                     Business Insider, January 09, 2014

RESEARCHERS ARE BUILDING A HUGE 3-D PRINTER THAT COULD RESOLVE THE WORLD'S HOUSING PROBLEMS

Researchers at The University of Southern California have a built a giant 3D printer that can build a house in 24 hours...  http://www.businessinsider.com/3d-printer-builds-house-in-24-hours-2014-1

 University of Southern California  - Viterbi School of Engineering -

 - ▶ 3D PRINTING A BUILDING IN 24 HOURS. Behrokh Khoshnevis, professor of industrial and systems engineering as well as civil and environmental engineering, is creating a machine that will construct full-scale civil structures within hours -- that is, 3D-printing an entire building. Khoshnevis, also the Director of the Center for Rapid Automated Fabrication Technologies (CRAFT), is developing the technology that will make building a house within 24 hours possible, including conduits for electrical, plumbing, and air-conditioning. http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2014/3d-printing-a.htm

- ▶ OFFICIAL WEBSITE: USC VITERBI - "CONTOUR CRAFTING" CC  http://ow.ly/u0DGM

                                           TED VIDEO, 11:59

    Professor Behrokh Khoshnevis, USC, Viterbi School of Engineering

▶ 3D PRINTER CAN BUILD A HOUSE IN 20 HOURS

                      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehnzfGP6sq

                                  GOOD VIDEO EXPLANATION

                                     CONTOUR CRAFTING

               http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31jkjsZPjtQ#t=41

                                                    VIDEO

                                            ZakWorldNews

 - ▶ NEW 3D PRINTER CAN BUILD A HOUSE IN JUST 24 HOURS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZuukXXEFPg

                                                    VIDEO

                                                 RT News
 - ▶ GIANT 3D PRINTER COULD BUILD HOMES IN UNDER A DAY
http://rt.com/usa/3d-printed-concrete-house-727/

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 BETTER THAN HUMAN? 

COULD ROBOTS HANDLE MOST U.S. JOBS IN 20 YEARS? 

http://sco.lt/7sjVKr

The Atlantic, October 30, 2014
THE CHIPOTIFICATION OF AMERICAN FAST FOOD. How trends from the fast-casual craze are trickling down into the struggling fast-food universe  http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/10/the-chipotlification-of-american-fast-food/382167/

March 1, 2013 - Guardian Sustainable Business

CHIPOLTE'S FAST FOOD INTEGRITY

Sadhbh Walshe interviews founder of the Chipotle Mexican Grill, Steve Ells, about his mission to provide fast food with integrity.

Is it possible to be a profitable restaurant chain and still live up to your goal of serving "food with integrity" to an ever expanding customer base? Those who decry the dismal state of modern farming practices will say it's not. Steve Ells, CEO and founder of Chipotle Mexican Grill is trying to prove them wrong.... http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/chipotle-fast-food-integrity

June 24, 2013 AlterNet

CHIPOTLE BECOMES FIRST FAST-FOOD OPERATION TO BEGIN LABELING GMO INGREDIENTS http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/chipotle-labels-gmo-ingredients?akid=10618.237541.kNrqct&rd=1&src=newsletter859713&t=17

June 24, 2013 Triple Pundit
CHIPOTLE MAKES HISTORY BY BECOMING FIRST FAST FOOD CHAIN TO TAG GMOs http://www.triplepundit.com/2013/06/chipotle-gmo/

 June 18, 2013 Business Week
THE GENETICALLY MODIFIED BURRITO: CHIPOTLE TELLS ALL http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-06-18/the-genetically-modified-burrito-chipotle-tells-all

                                                         WATCH

                                                     Short Video

                                   CHIPOTLE "BACK TO THE START"

 http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-and-gmos-gm/p/1916721283/back-to-the-start-amazing-short-video-from-chipotle-on-sustainable-farming

 Fast Company, March 14, 2014
HOW CHIPOTLE CHANGED AMERICAN FAST FOOD FOREVER http://www.fastcompany.com/3027647/lessons-learned/how-chipotle-changed-american-fast-food-forever

June 21, 2013 Global Possibilities
BRAVO CHIPOTLE http://www.globalpossibilities.org/bravo-chipotle/

                                        WATCH CHIPOTLE'S
                              "FARMED AND DANGEROUS"
         Chipotle's Online Show About The Terrors of Industrial Farming
http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/29/5358420/chipotle-hulu-show-farmed-and-dangerous

FastCoInn
CHIPOLTE'S FIRST-EVER NEW MENU ITEM:  THE VEGAN TOFU BURRITO, GOES NATIONAL http://www.fastcompany.com/3026907/innovation-agents/chipotles-first-ever-new-menu-item-the-vegan-tofu-burrito-goes-national?partner=newsletter

                                                WATCH

                                    "THE SCARECROW:

THERE'S NO GETTING AROUND IT:  THE NEW CHIPOTLE GMO-FREE AD IS AMAZING: It's being called "the most beautiful, haunting infomercial you'll ever see. http://gawker.com/theres-no-getting-around-it-the-new-chipotle-ad-is-am-1308234473

Treehugger, September 16, 2013
CHIPOLTE' "THE SCARECROW" AD IS A BRILLIANT CRITIQUE OF BIG AG AND FACTORY FARMS http://www.treehugger.com/corporate-responsibility/chipotles-scarecrow-ad-brilliant.html

New York Times, January 27, 2014
CHIPOTLE BLURS LINE WITH A SATIRICAL SERIES ABOUT INDUSTRIAL FARMING http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/27/business/media/chipotle-blurs-lines-with-a-satirical-series-about-industrial-farming.html?_r=0

 Business Week, October 18, 2013
CHIPOTLE'S ORGANIC ARTISAN TOFU BURRITO "SOFRITAS" MOVES EAST http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-10-18/chipotle-s-tofu-burrito-moves-east

PROCESSED AND GMO FOODS MAKE UP 70 PERCENT OF THE US DIET- WITH ABOUT 5,000 DIFFERENT CHEMICAL ADDITIVES - FDA IS CLUELESS http://sco.lt/7FPtxZ

Collective Evolution, March 4, 2014
FACTORY FARMING IS DESTROYING OUR ENVIRONMENT. According to the US Department of Agriculture nearly 10 BILLION animals are raised and killed for food each year in the United States alone. - http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/03/04/eating-meat-destruction-of-environment/

July 27, 2013 Forbes, Beth Hoffman

A SALAD OR A BIG MAC? THE CHOICE IS NOT ALWAYS CLEAR http://www.forbes.com/sites/bethhoffman/2013/07/22/a-salad-or-a-big-mac-the-choice-is-not-always-so-clear/

 Global Possibilities, June 26, 2013
NO, FAST FOOD ISN'T ACTUALLY GOOD FOR YOU: IN DEFENSE OF POLLANITES http://www.globalpossibilities.org/no-fast-food-isnt-actually-good-for-you-in-defense-of-pollanites/

            - THE SCIENCE OF MARKETING FOOD ADDICTION TO KIDS -

                                           http://sco.lt/5vxmqn

 THE DRUG STORE IN AMERICAN MEAT: SUSTAINABLE FARMING VS CORPORATE FACTORY FARMING http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/3996006334/the-drug-store-in-american-meat-sustainable-farming-vs-cafos-factory-farming

HOW THE JUNK FOOD INDUSTRY HAS ENCOURAGED US TO EAT OURSELVES TO DEATH http://sco.lt/6xAPtx

Global Research, May 4, 2013
THE GLOBALIZATION OF "FAST FOOD".  BEHIND THE BRAND: McDONALD'S http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-globalization-of-fast-food-behind-the-brand-mcdonald-s/25309

                                 FAST FOOD, SLOW DEATH

                    The $500 Billion Corporate Food Monopoly

                                      http://sco.lt/4qcBmb

GIANT FOOD CORPORATIONS WORK HAND-IN-GLOVE WITH GOVERNMENT AGENCIES TO DISH UP CHEAP, UNHEALTHY FOOD | Global Research http://www.globalresearch.ca/giant-food-corporations-work-hand-in-glove-with-corrupt-government-agencies-to-dish-up-cheap-unhealthy-food/5324525

HOW THE FOOD GIANTS HOOKED US http://sco.lt/4m8ptp

OXFAM: WORLD'S LARGEST FOOD COMPANIES CREATING LEGACY OF DESTRUCTION http://sco.lt/6sSzK5

                                            FARM TO FORK

          THE STORY OF OUR TOXIC FOOD SYSTEM - INFOGRAPH

                                       http://sco.lt/8xKt7J

Institute For Agriculture and Trade Policy, July 8, 2014

CHEMICALS AND OBESITY http://www.iatp.org/documents/chemicals-and-obesity

THE EXTRAORDINARY SCIENCE OF ADDICTIVE JUNK FOOD: A MEETING WITH 11 MEN WHO CONTROL AMERICA'S LARGEST FOOD COMPANIES  http://www.streamorganic.com/index.php/home-mainmenu-1/news-mainmenu-2/1-latest/4887-news-usa-the-extraordinary-science-of-addictive-junk-food.html

                             SWEET-TALKING THE PUBLIC: 

    THE COVERT WAR BETWEEN CORN AND SUGAR INDUSTRIES:

                                 MARKETING ADDICTION

                                       http://sco.lt/5iliLp

Grist, July 5, 2013
PEPSI: CANCER FOR A NEW GENERATION> http://grist.org/news/pepsi-cancer-for-a-new-generation/

 HOW GMO FOODS AFFECT HEALTH - GENE ALTERED FOODS NOW LARGE PART OF AMERICAN DIET  http://sco.lt/7oVxQH

FARMER-LED RESEARCH: FEEDING GMO TO ANIMALS: TOXIC FACTS http://www.anh-europe.org/news/why-farmer-led-research-could-create-a-quiet-revolution-in-gm#.UkhEDEP6Jc8.twitter