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| Visiting philosophy professor discusses ancient Olympics Posted: 13 Apr 2010 08:16 PM PDT This Wednesday at the UND Bookstore from 6 to 7 p.m., the Institute for Philosophy in Public Life (IPPL) will be hosting a presentation and discussion entitled, "300 Soldiers and the Ancient Olympic Games." The event will contrast the meaning and ideals behind today's Olympics and those in ancient Greece, while drawing historical parallels between the games and the Battle of Thermopylae. It will be led by Jesús Ilundáin-Agurruza, an assistant professor of Philosophy at Linfield College in McMinnville Ore., whose work focuses primarily on philosophy and ethics and how they relate to sports, art and literature. He believes that the global scale of Olympic games creates a large responsibility-and a unique opportunity-to showcase how sports can be both meaningful and inspiring, and sees a few key things that he would like to see changed about the modern Olympics, how they are presented, how they are received by viewers and what aspects of the games we place value on. He believes that an overemphasis on winning and losing, records determined by hundredths of a second, and which country takes home the most medals has detracted from what the Olympics could be. Beyond just the Olympic games, Ilundáin-Agurruza believes examination of the culture surrounding sports provides a unique tool with which society can assess its own values and mores. The event on Wednesday is free and open to the public. Those who are unable to be there in person can still participate. At www.philosophyinpubliclife.org, it will be possible to participate in the event from anywhere in the world. Those who choose to attend online will be able to view the event and chat with other participants in real-time. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| ECO2 Forests Release Details of E4 Philosophy Posted: 13 Apr 2010 05:33 AM PDT SOURCE: ECO2 Forests Inc. SACRAMENTO, CA and QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA--(Marketwire - April 13, 2010) - ECO2 Forests Inc. ( The step to release the information through media outlets is part of an open door policy the company has adopted when it comes to environmental, social and economic responsibilities. "ECO2 Forests is a company that prides itself on delivering a positive outcome in each area of our E4 Philosophy -- Environmental, Economic, Employment and Education throughout our business plans and operations. We believe by making this E4 Philosophy completely open we demonstrate our self-imposed accountability and commitment to delivering shareholder value and the planned positive impact of our E4 Philosophy," ECO2 Forests Founder Martin Tindall said. "Environmental accountability and social responsibility is paramount at ECO2 Forests. Creating a network of forests globally, ECO2 Forests intends to deliver a regular and sustainable supply of lumber to worldwide markets while at the same time preserving natural forests that act as a carbon sink," Tindall added ECO2 Forests intends to create a significant positive environmental impact through the reduction of old growth forest logging by developing renewable resource, sustainably managed Kiri Forest lumber and the planned securing of preservation rights over existing forests to avoid deforestation. The carbon sequestration achieved from each Kiri Tree planted in a forest aims to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. A single mature Kiri Tree has been calculated to remove up to two and a half tons of CO2 from the atmosphere in every seven-year harvest cycle. A 1,000 acre forest, in the same time, is expected to absorb over 400,000 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere. ECO2 Forests planned projects must be able to ensure positive environmental impact, in conjunction with maximizing shareholder value to proceed beyond the evaluation stage. Additionally, all targeted Global Forestry Plan projects are intended to deliver positive economic impact to the local community and region where they are located. The nature of the targeted Global Forestry Plan projects regularly involves significant development in remote regions among local communities experiencing high unemployment. The ability to recruit staff from these communities positions ECO2 Forests to potentially make a direct and positive impact at a local level. A 15,000 acre forest, for example, is expected to generate up to 300 local jobs for the lifetime of the project. The positive effect for employees, their families and the wider community may be felt for decades through education and job training, additional cash injection, increased quality of life and self worth provided by the employment within the planned projects. Global Forestry Plan projects are intended to be in operation for well over 50 years in most cases. Positive educational outcomes can take on many forms. In all targeted ECO2 Forests projects, it is intended that all staff be trained and educated in the latest 'green technologies' to ensure the company is positioned to remain at the forefront of reforestation, avoided deforestation and carbon sequestration techniques. This education is intended to provide staff, many of whom are located in remote areas of developing countries, with skills that can be passed on to family and friends. They, in turn, can use this knowledge to help create a stronger positive environmental impact at a local level and establish greater sustainability for their community. "Adopting this method of education demonstrates how a long-term environmentally sustainable solution can be achieved in the wider community, not just at the project site," added Martin Tindall. ECO2 Forests Research and Development Centre in Queensland, Australia is planned to provide educational facilities for visitors and students to further their knowledge and skills in reforestation and other 'green technologies.' This combination of R&D and educational facilities and ongoing staff training is intended to ensure ECO2 Forests may maintain a world class level of standards and further educate the wider community in measures that may help to reduce their individual carbon footprints. About ECO2 Forests Inc. Headquartered in Sacramento, California, the Company has adopted an 'E4 Philosophy' to achieve positive Environmental, Economic, Employment and Educational outcomes through its projects. For more information please visit www.eco2forests.com. Forward-Looking Statements For all media enquiries please contact: United States and International Australia Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| ECO2 Forests Release Details of E4 Philosophy Posted: 13 Apr 2010 05:00 AM PDT SACRAMENTO, CA and QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA--(Marketwire - 04/13/10) - ECO2 Forests Inc. (Pinksheets:ECOF - News), is pleased to detail the company's E4 Philosophy that is intended to underpin all Global Forestry Plan projects and to meet its targeted triple bottom line responsibilities. The step to release the information through media outlets is part of an open door policy the company has adopted when it comes to environmental, social and economic responsibilities. "ECO2 Forests is a company that prides itself on delivering a positive outcome in each area of our E4 Philosophy -- Environmental, Economic, Employment and Education throughout our business plans and operations. We believe by making this E4 Philosophy completely open we demonstrate our self-imposed accountability and commitment to delivering shareholder value and the planned positive impact of our E4 Philosophy," ECO2 Forests Founder Martin Tindall said. "Environmental accountability and social responsibility is paramount at ECO2 Forests. Creating a network of forests globally, ECO2 Forests intends to deliver a regular and sustainable supply of lumber to worldwide markets while at the same time preserving natural forests that act as a carbon sink," Tindall added ECO2 Forests intends to create a significant positive environmental impact through the reduction of old growth forest logging by developing renewable resource, sustainably managed Kiri Forest lumber and the planned securing of preservation rights over existing forests to avoid deforestation. The carbon sequestration achieved from each Kiri Tree planted in a forest aims to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. A single mature Kiri Tree has been calculated to remove up to two and a half tons of CO2 from the atmosphere in every seven-year harvest cycle. A 1,000 acre forest, in the same time, is expected to absorb over 400,000 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere. ECO2 Forests planned projects must be able to ensure positive environmental impact, in conjunction with maximizing shareholder value to proceed beyond the evaluation stage. Additionally, all targeted Global Forestry Plan projects are intended to deliver positive economic impact to the local community and region where they are located. The nature of the targeted Global Forestry Plan projects regularly involves significant development in remote regions among local communities experiencing high unemployment. The ability to recruit staff from these communities positions ECO2 Forests to potentially make a direct and positive impact at a local level. A 15,000 acre forest, for example, is expected to generate up to 300 local jobs for the lifetime of the project. The positive effect for employees, their families and the wider community may be felt for decades through education and job training, additional cash injection, increased quality of life and self worth provided by the employment within the planned projects. Global Forestry Plan projects are intended to be in operation for well over 50 years in most cases. Positive educational outcomes can take on many forms. In all targeted ECO2 Forests projects, it is intended that all staff be trained and educated in the latest 'green technologies' to ensure the company is positioned to remain at the forefront of reforestation, avoided deforestation and carbon sequestration techniques. This education is intended to provide staff, many of whom are located in remote areas of developing countries, with skills that can be passed on to family and friends. They, in turn, can use this knowledge to help create a stronger positive environmental impact at a local level and establish greater sustainability for their community. "Adopting this method of education demonstrates how a long-term environmentally sustainable solution can be achieved in the wider community, not just at the project site," added Martin Tindall. ECO2 Forests Research and Development Centre in Queensland, Australia is planned to provide educational facilities for visitors and students to further their knowledge and skills in reforestation and other 'green technologies.' This combination of R&D and educational facilities and ongoing staff training is intended to ensure ECO2 Forests may maintain a world class level of standards and further educate the wider community in measures that may help to reduce their individual carbon footprints. About ECO2 Forests Inc. Headquartered in Sacramento, California, the Company has adopted an 'E4 Philosophy' to achieve positive Environmental, Economic, Employment and Educational outcomes through its projects. For more information please visit www.eco2forests.com. Forward-Looking Statements Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Posted: 14 Apr 2010 02:05 AM PDT  Nick Clegg launches the Liberal Democrat manifesto in London today. Photograph: Daniel Deme/EPA 10.52am: My colleague Steven Morris has been following the Plaid Cymru campaign today. He has sent me this:
 10.44am: The Lib Dem manifesto launch is over. I have not had a chance to have a proper look at the manifesto – a full report will be going up on our website later – but the key message is clear. • The Lib Dems are trying to present themselves as the "deficit truth-tellers" of the election campaign. At one stage the Conservatives were keen to be seen as the party that deserved credit for being honest about the scale of the problems facing the public finances. But the "age of austerity" rhetoric has now been abandoned, and today Nick Clegg and Vincent Cable presented themselves as the honest brokers of the campaign. But this stance has already come under fire. At the press launch journalists expressed scepticism about the suggestion that the Lib Dems could raise more than £4bn by clamping down on tax avoidance. And Labour sources are now claiming that the Lib Dems have underestimated the cost of their main tax pledge by more than £6bn. There are three other points worth making. • Clegg suggested that Brown should resign as prime minister if David Cameron wins more seats. This might seem obvious, but it is not. If there is a hung parliament, convention says that a serving prime minister has the right to try to get a Queen's speech through parliament. But Clegg said it was "self-evident" to him that the party that won the election should have the right to govern. • Clegg again refused to be explain what he means when he says the Lib Dems would give the party with the biggest mandate a chance to govern in a hung parliament. It is possible that Labour could win more seats than the Tories with fewer votes. (There does not seem to be any possibility of the Tories winning more seats but fewer votes, given the way the electoral system is currently operating.) Asked if he meant largest number of voters or largest number of seats when he was talking about the party with the biggest mandate, Clegg replied: "Both. I have been referring to both." • The Lib Dems are a very much two-man band. Although Danny Alexander and Sarah Teather both made appearances, this was very much a Clegg-Cable show, as the other Lib Dem press conferences have been this week. Other senior party figures, like Chris Huhne, don't seem to be getting much of a look-in. 10.22am: Gary Gibbon from Channel 4 News asked how much of the £16bn that the Lib Dems would spend on raising the income tax threshold would go to the poor. Clegg said that people earning between £10,000 and £100,000 would save £700 a year. He did not directly answer Gibbon's question. But Will Straw did, in a post on Left Foot Forward yesterday. It includes a chart showing who will gain from the Lib Dem proposal, by income group. Straw said:
10.17am: Nick Robinson has been reading the tax tables at the back of the document too. (See 9.58am.) He asked the first question, and he pointed out that the Lib Dems are assuming that they will be able to raise more than £4bn by cutting down on tax avoidance. If that is so easy, why hasn't the Treasury done it already? Clegg claimed that the figure was realistic. He said that the Treasury estimates that taxes worth more than £40bn go uncollected. But he did not seem to persuade ITN's Tom Bradby, who suggested that the Lib Dems were peddling "fantasy economics" when he raised the same issue in the second question. 9.58am: In his speech, Clegg tried to explain the philosophy behind the manifesto.
This philosophy is embedded in the four steps at the heart of the Lib Dem programme, he said. The party wants a fair tax system, a fair chance for every child, a fair economy, and cleaner politics, Clegg said. Clegg also said that every item in the manifesto was costed. (That seems to be true. The costings are all there, on pages 100 to 103. The Lib Dems have costed their policies year by year for the next five years. There's also a proper index at the back, which I think is a first for any manifesto I have read.) 9.48am: Vincent Cable told the audience at the launch that Labour and the Tories did not acknowledge the the seriousness of the deficit in their manifestos. That problem remains "the elephant in the room", he said. But the Lib Dem document does recognise that spending will have to be cut. In that sense, Cable said, "I'm the elephant man". Cable said that the structural deficit was worth around £70bn. Halving it would involve cutting spending by £35bn. Labour has identified cuts worth £20bn. The Lib Dems have found another £10bn – but they would still have to go further, Cable said. The manifesto is now on the Liberal Democrats' website.  9.35am: The Liberal Democrat manifesto launch is starting. Sarah Teather is opening the proceedings with a speech about the "shocking inequalities" in Britain today.  Nick Clegg leaves his home before the launch of the Liberal Democrat manifesto today. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA 9.28am: David Laws, the Lib Dem children's spokesman, is standing in for David Cameron in the debate rehearsals Nick Clegg has been having. According to PoliticsHome, Laws told Sky this morning he found this tricky.
 Screen grab of Vanessa Feltz interviewing David Cameron from the BBC website. Photograph: BBC 9.14am: David Cameron is about to do an interview with Vanessa Feltz on BBC London. You can watch the video stream on the BBC London website. I'll be monitoring what he says. (It's odd watching radio presenters on a video stream. You feel like a voyeur.) 9.06am: The Labour press conference has just ended now. There were four points of note. • Labour are using public services to attack the Conservatives. Now that David Cameron has made getting people involved in service delivery an essential part of the Conservative message, Labour are saying (a) this is impractical and (b) this means parents and patients will lose the guarantees they have been offered. Andy Burnham and Ed Balls both made this point (see 8.24am) but Mandelson summed it up towards the end very crisply.
• Balls and Mandelson both played down the suggestion that Gordon Brown has made a new admission of failure in relation to City regulation. (See 8.07am and 8.38am.) • Mandelson denied that Labour was engaged in negative campaigning. In response to a question about this towards the end, he said.
• But Mandelson also accused David Cameron of being "toffee nosed". Mandelson used the phrase only about five minutes after he denied engaging in negative campaigning, which does rather undermine the point he was making. Mandelson was urging the journalists to read an interview Kenneth Clarke has given to the Financial Times, in which Clarke criticised Labour for spending so much money on regional development. Mandelson said:
On the insult front, in fairness I should point out that Clarke started it. In the FT interview, he described Mandelson as being like "a Bourbon monarch [who] went round in his coach throwing out gold coins".  Andy Burnham, Lord Mandelson and Ed Balls at a Labour press conference on 14 April 2010. Photograph: BBC News 8.38am: The BBC's Laura Kuenssberg's asked about the Brown comments. (See 8.07am and 8.14am.) Ed Balls and Lord Mandelson (who is hosting the press conference) both insisted that Brown had said many times before the UK's City regulation should have been tougher. But Channel Five's Andy Bell agreed with Kuenssberg; he claimed that in the past Brown had always stressed that lax regulation was a global problem, not a specifically British problem.  8.24am: In the opening statements, Andy Burnham, the health secretary, said the Tories were offering "a false prospectus on health". They would take power away from patients "and hand it back to the system". Under the Tories all the progress on waiting times would be abandoned, Burnham said, because Labour's guarantees would be abandoned. Waiting lists would go up. And it would no longer be a "national" health service, because patients would be subject to a postcode lottery. Provision would vary from area to area. Ed Balls said Cameron would leave teachers and pupils to "fend for themselves". He said the Tories blocked Labour plans for a guarantee on one-to-one learning when the children, schools and families bill was being passed by parliament last week. And he quoted from the letter from headteachers in today's Guardian saying the Tory plans offered "the threat of across-the-board cuts coupled with boutique experiments borrowed as a result of naive educational tourism". Labour was offering excellence for all, Balls said. The Tories were offering "abandonment" and excellence just for a few. 8.14am: This may go slightly further than anything Brown has said before – he comes close to saying that he put the interests of the City above the interests of the UK as a whole – but he has certainly said before that he should have regulated the banks more tightly, and so this does not strike me as a key development. But it sounds as if it is going to be raised at the press conference, which is just starting now. 8.07am: The Labour press conference is about to start. The BBC is getting quite excited about an interview that Gordon Brown has given to ITN. He admitted he should have imposed tougher regulation on the banks.
7.09am: I'm heading into Westminster now, where I'll be covering the Labour press conference. 7.02am: We're getting the Liberal Democract manifesto this morning. Nick Clegg, Vincent Cable and Danny Alexander (chair of the manifesto committee) are launching it at the Bloomberg HQ at 9.30am. It's a glittering, high-tech building, and the pictures will no doubt look great, although I don't suppose many of Bloomberg's City customers are in favour of the Lib Dem plan to ban cash bonuses worth more than £2,500. Labour are holding their own press conference this morning. Ed Balls and Andy Burnham will be talking about public services at 8am. The Tories aren't holding one, but David Cameron is supposed to be taking part in a radio phone-in later this morning. I'll post a proper review of the papers later. But my colleague Haroon Siddique was looking at the first editions as they came in last night and these are the stories he picked out:  • The Guardian leads with Cameron's DIY revolution, saying Cameron cast himself as a "unifying national figure" and "eschewed traditional right wing themes". • The Times's headline is "Politicians' biggest fear is angry electorate". It highlights the fact that 32% of people want a hung parliament, whereas 28% want a Tory majority and 22% a Labour one. It also gives details of the Tory lead over Labour dwindling to three points. • The Financial Times leads with Ken Clarke vowing to defend Britain's liberal takeover regime, dismissing Labour plans to impede hostile takeovers and deter hedge fund predators as "populist nonsense". • David Cameron "presented a bold vision of Britain in which communities – rather than government – worked together to solve shared problems", reports the Daily Telegraph. But the paper highlights the Tories' failure to spell out how they would reduce the national debt. Covering the Tory leader's big day the Telegraph front page has a picture of (who else?) Samantha Cameron. • Finally, after the MPs' expenses scandal, it's the turn of civil servants after the Daily Mail obtained details of their expenses through freedom of information requests.
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