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Can ethics help your firm live forever?

2016-02-23 02:31:33| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

The Italian designer who wants his firm to live forever

Peter Singer on the COP21 Agreement & Ethics of Climate Change

2016-01-12 20:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Good Magazine: Peter Singer is arguably one of the worlds best-known modern philosophers. Singer has been based out of Princeton University since 1999 and has a host of awards and honors to his name. Hes perhaps best known for his seminal 1975 tome Animal Liberation, which all but coined that term (hed used it earlier in 1973) and helped to launch the movement around it. Arguing that there was no real value or significance in the distinction between species and rejecting the need for reciprocal social contracts...

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The ethics of climate change: A primer

2016-01-05 19:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Washington Post: With a ratcheting up of awareness culminating in the Paris climate change conference, 2015 may have been the year that the threat of climate change was finally taken seriously. But a question remains: Who, if anyone, is most deserving of blame, and who should be held responsible? Today, six of the top 10 greenhouse gas emitters are developing countries, with China the largest contributor at approximately 28 percent of the global total. Yet on the per capita level, the United States and Canada...

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Cuomo Hints At Possible Ethics Legislation

2015-12-02 22:35:23| Telecom - Topix.net

In response to the Sheldon Silver corruption trial guilty verdict, Gov. Andrew Cuomo suggested there be more ethics legislation, asking New York state lawmakers to be serious about the necessity for reform, according to State of Politics, Time Warner Cable News. In the statement late Monday Cuomo said there will be "zero tolerance for the violation of the public trust in New York," says the report.

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