Former U.S. Vice President turned climate campaigner Al Gore and his longtime business partner David Blood, a former Goldman Sachs executive, are out with a bit of financial advice for their wealthy comrades who remain in the habit of investing in the world’s high-polluting carbon industry: Don’t. Saying the misguided dependence on the world’s fossil […]
Read MoreBFC and Vogue Fashion Fund announce applications are open for 2021
The British Fashion Council (BFC) on Thursday announced applications are open for its BFC/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund 2021. The fund will be welcomed by budding designer businesses who will benefit from its cash prize and mentoring programme. The fund, which was established in 2008, aims to celebrate exceptional talent and help businesses grow in areas […]
Read MoreHawaii Takes Center Stage in Growing Anti-GMO Movement
Hawaii is the latest stage for the growing movement against genetically modified organisms (GMOs). As the Hawaii Tribune Herald reported, the Hawaii County Council voted 6-3 on Tuesday to pass a bill that “restricts the expansion of transgenic crops grown on the Big Island by limiting most of their use to enclosed structures, such as […]
Read MoreNew Snowden Docs Reveal NSA Collecting Data on a 'Planetary Scale'
Click:West Hollywood head spa The National Security Agency is tracking location information on hundreds of millions of cellphones around the world every day, amounting to roughly 5 billion daily records, the Washington Post reported Wednesday, revealing that the agency makes “most efforts at communications security effectively futile.” As this latest revelation made possible by leaks […]
Read MoreUK competition authority to investigate greenwashing and misleading labels
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is to investigate descriptions and labels used to promote products and services claiming to be ‘eco-friendly’, and whether they could mislead consumers. Greenwashing, or ‘green sheen’, is when a company uses misleading or false claims to suggest it’s doing more for the environment than it actually is. Click […]
Read MoreGrosjean ‘should have been a race winner in F1’ says Boullier
Former Renault and Lotus team boss Eric Boullier says that Romain Grosjean should have won multiple Grands Prix during his time in the sport. Grosjean made his Formula 1 debut with Renault in 2009, but was then sent back to race with the DAMS team in GP2 and Auto GP. After clinching both titles he […]
Read MoreSen. Warren Aims to Fix 'One More Way the System Is Rigged'
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) introduced legislation on Tuesday that would ban the widespread practice of employers using prospective employees’ credit ratings as a basis for hiring, a practice she said is “one more way in which the system is rigged.” A 2012 poll by the Society for Human Resource Management found that nearly half of […]
Read MoreBiggest Threat to World Peace: The United States
Over 12 years into the so-called “Global War on Terror,” the United States appears to be striking terror into the hearts of the rest of the world. In their annual End of Year survey, Win/Gallup International found that the United States is considered the number one “greatest threat to peace in the world today” by […]
Read MoreRadioactive Fish at 124 Times 'Safe' Levels Caught Near Fukushima
A fish with 124 times the level of radiation deemed safe for food consumption was caught near the ravaged Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan. The government-affiliated Fisheries Research Agency announced Friday that a captured black sea bream fish had 12,400 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium, a drastic leap from the maximum of 100 […]
Read MoreWWE NXT video highlights: Halloween Havoc
For the first time since WCW closed its doors, Halloween Havoc made its return last night. Last night’s Halloween Havoc episode of NXT was hosted by Shotzi Blackheart and featured three Halloween-themed stipulation matches. Spin the Wheel, Make the Deal decided the stipulations for Io Shirai vs. Candice LeRae and Damian Priest vs. Johnny Gargano. […]
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