Based on this study, WRAP calculated that Britain's recycling efforts reduce its carbon-dioxide emissions by 10m-15m tonnes per year.
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We would not need all these nutrition programs if the commodity title didn’t do such a good job making junk food and fast food so ubiquitous and cheap.
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Billionaire George Soros called Wednesday for a massive injection of regulation and oversight over financial markets, saying that the lack of restraints on the markets has caused “not a normal crisis but the end of an era.”
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The rogue trader scandal that is convulsing French bank Société Générale prompted demands from Europe’s top central banker on Friday for a major strengthening of banking controls.
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On some of the biggest decisions in their lives, people succumb to inertia, ignorance or irresolution. Their private failings [...] are now big political questions. And the wonks think they have an ingenious new answer—a guiding but not illiberal state.
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The only reason to ask, "How do we allocate scarce bandwidth?" is if we're behind on technology. Even then, it is far more reasonable to ask, "How do we get ahead on technology?"
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Filter a website, and you protect a student for a day. Educate students about online safety in a real world environment, and you protect your child for a lifetime.
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[School's] Internet use management approach is heavily based on reliance on filtering. What is needed in schools is a stronger focus on educational use of the Internet and more effective monitoring, including technical monitoring.
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Suppose that MySpace is, in fact, exposing large numbers of teens to high-risk situations, then shouldn't the role of educational institutions be to help those teens understand those risks and develop strategies for dealing with them?
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Even if you don't want to download their movies you might still benefit from the relief in congestion over the whole internet. And if capital wants to build something and people want to pay for it, well, chances are it's going to get built.
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Unfortunately, 389 members of the U.S. House of Representatives evidently skipped that econ lecture, and think that if the owner's already paid for the gas in the pipe, you shouldn't have to pay any more at the pump.
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The practice of banning or blocking all social networking and/or blogging sites “out of fear” will prevent the initial efforts of “providing information” about safe online habits and effective online communication skills.
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Competition inspires people to do what we didn't think we could do. If people got to choose their kids' school, education options would be endless.
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Soon a book outside the library will be like a Web page outside the Web, gasping for air. Indeed, the only way for books to retain their waning authority in our culture is to wire their texts into the universal library.
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Residents are fed up with the increasing congestion, [the misallocation of funds], the insider dealings and no-bid contracts, and unaffordable housing caused by the urban-growth boundary and restrictive land-use rules.
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[There's the insane idea that] the way to cope with the destructive forces of nature is to deprive man of his means of coping with them, as though he, and not nature were the cause of those destructive forces, as though nature, left to itself, was benign.
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Patents don't affect innovation much, one way or the other. Most innovation in the software business happens in startups, and startups should simply ignore other companies' patents.
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Resource preservation and economic growth can be compatible [when] information about relative resource scarcity can be communicated across time and place in a low-cost manner [through clear price signals and complete capital markets].
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Sustainable economic development requires mechanisms to ensure that businesses fully internalize the social and economic costs they bring about. [...] An emerging factor is consumer preferences for sustainable business practices.
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The youth unemployment rate is largely an artefact of French law. If employers were free to fire employees without cause, they would be much more willing to take a chance on hiring workers without a record of satisfactory performance.
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