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"Another glib explanation is that the boom is due to the interest rate cuts implemented in many countries in an effort to deal with a weak global economy. But while low interest rates are certainly a contributing factor, central banks have cut interest rates many times in history, and such actions never produced such concerted booms. So what did cause this real estate boom in so many parts of the world? It is important to understand this phenomenon." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"A worldwide renewable energy program is created, paving the way toward a third industrial revolution that makes use of solar and other renewable energy sources to transform the global economy, provide clean water, and lift marginalized populations out of the vicious cycles of poverty. • Agriculture is restored to a place of primary importance in the world economy, both for producing staple foods and for growing energy crops and raw materials for communities and industry." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"Their goal was to create a sustainable and environmentally sensitive global economy, based on safe technologies, and energy and public health concerns. Attendees included Nike, McDonald's, Wal-Mart, and representatives of other major food and safe household cleaning product companies and industries. Notably absent from the meeting were representatives of major cosmetic and personal care product industries, which by continuing to market toxic products reject CSR principles." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"Perhaps that's because, on average, fruits are eaten two to three weeks after being picked. Our global economy demands standardized products: dependable, consistent and uniform. Having commodified nature, we're eating the shrapnel of a worldwide homogeneity bomb. I've purchased identical apples in Borneo, Brazil, Budapest and Boston. Many of the fruits we eat were developed to ship well and spend ten days under the withering glow of fluorescent supermarket lights." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Just as toward safer green chemistry California's energy-efficiency policies have fos-alternatives tered a vibrant solar industry in the state, chemicalspolicy org effective chemical policies would likewise birth new industries in green chemistry and clean manufacturing to meet the demands of the 21st-century global economy. New Year, New You "All we have to do is design new systems. That's new business," as Aveda's creator Horst Rechelbacher told cosmetics industry CEOs in Miami." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.)

"In the age of a global economy, it is economically unsound, dangerous, and unhealthy to have so little understanding and appreciation for our neighbors." We asked Marilyn for a specific example of how she's helped a company flip their values. "When I was at Reebok, we explored the production of soccer balls. Before initiating the manufacture of these balls in Pakistan, which is where most soccer balls are made by ? ? No business is child laborers, we ascertained what an equitable living , . successful even wage was in that country. We also found out which facto- ." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"In chapter 5 we touched on the basic outlines and goals of an integral world federation, which would be instituted to provide democratic oversight of the global economy, protect the world's environment, establish a universal bill of human rights, preserve cultural diversity, and bring an eventual end to war, disease, and poverty." - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.) "Regulation of the global economy by the WTO and the IMF alone cannot effectively contain the naturally destructive forces of self-serving multinational corporations unless such regulatory bodies are themselves subject to the democratic oversight provided by a world federation. Will multinationals vigorously resist this? Although some responsible multinational corporations will recognize that such global laws will ultimately be for their own good, others will, of course, oppose such laws." - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.) "But now, as free markets continue to grow beyond the borders of nations, as the economies of individual nations become inextricably connected to the global economy, the absence of effective global law is resulting in the same destructive effects witnessed in the past. Although integral consciousness seeks to protect market economies, it also recognizes the need for markets to be fairly and effectively regulated in order to be sustainable." - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.)

"Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME) added, "If European countries can safely trade prescription drugs, the United States should be up to the task as well,"8 while Representative Marion Berry (D-AR) emphasized, "Here we are in a global economy, and the United States allows these drug companies to take advantage and rob our own people. That can't continue."5 When the elected representatives were done presenting their views, they had yet another surprise for me. Because of Pfizer's letter, Representative Jo Ann Emerson (R-MO), gave me a military flak jacket." - Peter Rost, The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman (Get the book.)

"Losses to investors, customers, and employees were shattering—so large that a shudder was felt throughout the global economy. In the aftermath of the collapse, criminal charges were leveled at the firm's top executives. One of the world's most respected accounting companies, Arthur Andersen, with more than 28,000 workers worldwide, was implicated as an accessory and slowly dismantled, accused of accounting fraud. The conduct of the executives at Enron was hardly an isolated incident." - Ray Dodd, BeliefWorks: The Art of Living Your Dreams (Get the book.) "Companies are made up of people, members of the community, and more and more are recognizing that in a global economy environmental problems and human problems are everyone's problem. The supply of products can only be sustained if the living Earth and its communities are revered and protected. Conscious companies that put these values into action are reaping rewards inside their organizations and at the cash register." - Ray Dodd, BeliefWorks: The Art of Living Your Dreams (Get the book.)

"In today's global economy, that depends on Chinese manufacturers and U.S. consumers as much as it does on Lesotho's workers and government. ez Understanding Global Shipping Search Amazon.com for books about the Internet, the global telecommunications network that connects us all, and you'll find more than 23,000 titles. Search for books on shipping containers and you'll find fewer than 200. After all, who wants to read about container ships and the cargos they carry?" - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"This was the extent of their participation in the global economy. They were not unique. All over PNG, farmers from remote villages were carrying their beans over mountains and rivers, through mud and landslides, to wait by the road for buyers. In fact, the majority of coffee in PNG finds its way to market in this manner. The middlemen know where the farmers will appear, usually next to the stoa built there specifically because that's where the farmers appear. The coffee goes through any of a score of small hullers and baggers and ends up on the docks of Lae port." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.)

"Understanding the patterns and processes of place, even in a world homogenized by global economy and culture, will hold keys to citizenship and sufficiency. As we rename our changing places, we may discern the stories to guide the next phase of human presence on earth. Placing yourself in the changing world is a worldchanging act." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Recent elections have seen a slow shift toward the center-right, as the national desire to integrate into the global economy draws more voters toward candidates promising jobs and money. Ex-combatants have settled down, many forming coffee cooperatives, such as Santa Anita la Union. Rigoberta may run for president of Guatemala, which shows how indigenous politics have continued to evolve and strengthen. She still wont let me kiss her. 6 Tracking the Death Train MEXICO/EL SALVADOR, 2OO5 For the coffee farmers of the Americas, 2000 was not the New Millennium, it was the Perfect Storm." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.)

"Otherwise, the state will face growing environmental and health problems and risk being left behind in the global economy.7 "Our universities are not teaching green chemistry because industry isn't demanding chemists with this kind of knowledge," Wilson said. "The fact is that innovating new products, from both a technical and commercial viability point of view, is very difficult to do. The process of innovation is expensive and uncertain." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.)

"Over the long run, when we consider the effect on the soil and on a post-oil world, markets for food may work bettet (although not necessarily more cheaply) if they are smaller and less integrated into a global economy, with local markets selling local food. As it becomes increasingly expensive to get food produced elsewhere to the people, it will become incteasingly attractive to take food production to the people—into the cities. Despite its seemingly contradictory name, urban agricuhure is not an oxymoron." - David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.) "For other alternative ideas, like organic practices and biological pest control, it is consumers rather than governments who are driving the process of change in today's global economy without a global society. But governments still have an important role to play. In the developed world, through policies and subsidies they can reshape incentives to promote both small-scale organic farms and no-till practices on large, mechanized farms. In developing countries, they can give farmers new tools to replace their plows and promote no-till and organic methods on small labor-intensive farms." - David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.) "In the new global economy, former political colonies continued to serve the interests of wealthier nations—only now trading soil for cash. But this is not all that new: the United States was in the same position before its own revolution. six Westward Hoe Since the achievement of our independence, he is the greatest Patriot, who stops the most gullies. PATRICK HENRY several years ago, on a breakneck research trip down rough dirt roads through a recently deforested part of the lower Amazon, I saw how topsoil loss could cripple a region's economy and impoverish its people." - David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Still, knowing the appropriate steps to take under different scenarios isn't necessarily enough if the reporting lags and complexities of a sprawling global economy obscure signals when to favor one approach over the other. Yet some strategies can make the going easier. For one thing, it will be wise to pay heed to at least one timeless maxim: "Assume the worst, hope for the best, and be prepared for whatever happens." - Michael J. Panzner, Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes (Get the book.)

"In response to such emerging shifts in the gravitational pull of the global economy, the Europeans added a third to their duo of environmental counselors in Washington and Beijing. The new post is in that other rising powerhouse, India, and the mandate is the same: climate change, chemicals and more sustainable economics. The man appointed to head that effort is Robert Donkers, who in September 2007 moved from Washington to the Indian Capital of New Delhi." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.) "While the United States retreats, the EU's tougher approach to environmental protection is rippling into the supply chains of the global economy. "The ground is changing," commented Daryl Ditz of the Center for International Environmental Law, which works globally on behalf of environmental reform. "It's happening through all these micro-decisions made by companies in countries most Americans don't pay attention to.",z At the same time, new axis of power are emerging, independent of any of the superpowers." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.) "Lynn Goldman, formerly of the EPA, sees long-term implications in the erosion of environmental credibility as other developing countries powered by their growing role in a global economy become market forces in their own right. "There will be an edge to this shift globally," she said. "For developing countries, the customers of chemical manufacturers and products, trust in the safety of those products is going to become more important. And the Europeans will have that trust." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.) "China's vast economic and ecological footprint is not only reshaping the global economy, it is reshaping the global climate. Year after year of double-digit growth requires vast and increasing supplies of energy to keep pace. China is second only to the United States as a greenhouse gas emitter. At the end of 2006, it released its first-ever report on the effects of climate change. The China Meteorological Administration predicted that the average temperature in China would rise by 1.3 to 2.1 degrees Celsius by 2020, and by 2.3 to 3.3 degrees Celsius by 2050." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"That's the sort of question economists like Pietra Rivoli, author of The Travels of a T-Shirt in the global economy, like to ask. Intrigued when an antiglobalization protester asked her, "Who made your T-shirt?" Rivoli decided to find out. After purchasing a shirt on a Fort Lauderdale street, she traced the origin of the item from a cotton field in West Texas to a factory in Shanghai to a T-shirt printer in Miami —and imagined its likely eventual fate at a textile-recycling facility in Brooklyn and a used garment market in Tanzania." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"And in China, there is also growing income inequality between those who have joined the global economy and those who have not. Some 500 million people live in coastal cities in China and participate in modern commerce, but there are another 700 million who still live in the countryside. While the cities grow richer, the poor in China are left behind, like America's industrial workers. In short, the world is getting flatter in some areas, and steeper in others." - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.)

"From a strategic perspective, it is not unreasonable to predict that as life conditions begin to threaten the sustainability of the global economy, the self-interested rationalism of the modernist majority in America and Europe will begin to see the wisdom and the necessity of global governance. Similarly, many of those with a postmodern worldview may be persuaded into seeing the wisdom of global governance because of the obvious benefits for human rights, the environment, and other postmodern concerns." - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.)

"With our global economy, we are often eating food that was picked a day or more before in Guatemala, Indonesia, or Asia, where there are not the same restrictions on the use of pesticides as there are in the United States. Many of these chemicals are stored in fat tissue, making animal products concentrated sources. One hundred percent of beef is contaminated with DDT, as are 93 percent of processed cheese, hot dogs, bologna, turkey, and ice cream, because the soil still contains residues of the pesticide long ago banned." - Mark Hyman, Ultra-Metabolism: The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss (Get the book.)

"The estimated costs of a flu pandemic in the United States alone are 70 to 165 billion dollars. The global economy, so much a part of the twenty-first century, would shut down. In fact, super viral diseases are historically real. During the conquest of the Americas, upward of 95 percent of indigenous people in North America, Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America were wiped out by smallpox and influenza. The last major killer pandemic, the Spanish flu of 1918, caused an estimated 50 million deaths and possibly as high as 100 million in a single year." - J. E. Williams, Beating the Flu: The Natural Prescription for Surviving Pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu (Get the book.)

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