Archive for the Category ‘NEWS’
Michelle Obama has urged US holidaymakers to support the Gulf coast economy following the BP oil spill.
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Hey there, cubicle commandos, if you’re itching for yet another diversion to break up the doldrums of your summer workday, you’re in luck. The Cheezburger Network (you know, the guys who brought you LOL Cats and FAIL Blog) launched a new video site today, entitled Bag of Misfits.
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Link to this video When a group of residents declared Garstang in Lancashire a Fairtrade town 10 years ago, few imagined it was the start of a grassroots social movement that would sweep throughout the UK and beyond. “Our aim was simply to get people to help make trade fairer for farmers from developing countries,” says Garstang campaigner Bruce Crowther. “We never dreamed that we would inspire people around the world to campaign within their communities to make people’s shopping habits more ethical.” A decade on, the Fairtrade Foundation is set to crown the UK’s 500th Fairtrade town, with Basingstoke and Deane borough in England, Fife in Scotland and the Welsh town of Llanelli all in the running
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Chair Appointment mental welfare commission. east central scotland, edinburgh, scotland. This appointment has a time commitment of around 45 days per year, with a daily fee of £335 (non-pensionable); plus travel and subsistence costs and dependant carer expenses..
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Social marketing platform Involver has just launched its Audience Management Platform ( AMP ), a social media dashboard for users, brands and agencies to manage, monitor and schedule their appearances on Facebook, Twitter and the broader social web. Last year, Involver launched its Facebook Page management system and since then, the company has been building and rolling out other types of apps for its clients, including the Get Satisfaction Facebook app .
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LONDON | Tue Jul 13, 2010 10:32am EDT LONDON (Reuters) – European carbon futures broke below 14 euros for the first time in three months on Tuesday, a day after tumbling by 4 percent, as speculators weighed on the market in the absence of utility buying, traders said. EU Allowance futures for December delivery fell as low as 13.96 euros a tonne by 0925 GMT, down 11 cents or 0.8 percent from Monday’s close.
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By Sunanda Creagh JAKARTA | Tue Jul 13, 2010 10:26am EDT JAKARTA (Reuters) – Mini-hydro power, waste water and geothermal projects are shaping up as favorites among green investors eyeing Indonesia, but regulatory problems are holding back a potentially lucrative sector, investors said on Tuesday. These policy hurdles could leave Southeast Asia’s biggest economy struggling to attract the investment needed to meet its targets to grow power supply and cut greenhouse gas emissions, and keep carbon developers focused on China and India instead.
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Tue Jul 13, 2010 10:24am EDT FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Nedim Cen and Peter Bauer have more in common than being CEOs of German tech companies: Cen, who heads solar cell maker Q-Cells, and Bauer, CEO of chipmaker Infineon, are both seen as turnaround men. Now analysts want Cen to take a page out of Bauer’s book on how to rescue a company from the edge: Q-Cells, once the world’s top maker of solar cells, trades at a tiny fraction of a high hit in late 2007 and clearly needs transformation
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New cap ‘successfully installed’ on leaking well BP to begin tests to close valves on new containment cap in Gulf of Mexico and hopes to temporarily stop oil gushing from wellhead
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Liberia’s rainforests are being primed as a lucrative and legal industry. Electronic tags allow consumers to trace the end-product right back to the stump
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