How conscious investors can turn up the heat and make companies change
About The Speaker Vinay Shandal. Investor agitator BCG’s Vinay Shandal is passionate about the role of capital in creating impact. Why you should listen…... Continue Reading
Continue Reading Coinbase Wants To Be Too Big To Fail
THE NEW TITANS OF FINANCE prowl a glass fortress 3,000 miles from Wall Street. High above San Francisco’s Market Street, their headquarters take up three floors with sweeping views of the bay and city below. The reception desk bears jars brimming with chocolate coins near a jokey “Initial Chocolate Offering” sign.... Continue Reading
Continue Reading Can Central Banks Use Cryptocurrency to Increase their Foreign Reserves?
HSBC, Credit Suisse and Barclays joined a project called “utility settlement coin” initiated by UBS, a giant Swiss bank, Deutsche Bank, BNY Mellon, NEX, Santander and Clearmatics Technologies in 2015. Through this project, the banks seek to develop an institutional streamlined mechanism of payment backed by the blockchain technology. This... Continue Reading
Continue Reading To eliminate waste, we need to discover thrift
There’s no such thing as throwing something away, says Andrew Dent — when you toss a used food container, broken toy or old pair of socks into the trash, those things inevitably end up in ever-growing landfills. But we can get smarter about the way we make, and remake, our... Continue Reading
Continue Reading Trash to treasure: The benefits of waste-to-energy technologies
Using landfill waste to produce energy generates less greenhouse gases than simply letting the waste decompose. The study highlights the benefits of food waste as a potential source of energy. Instead of hauling food waste to landfills, we might want to use that organic waste to power garbage trucks,... Continue Reading
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Featured article: Renewable Waste-To-Energy [and Brochure]
With the traditional energy markets being challenged by new innovative energy solutions, the demand for diversity is higher than ever – as a result, increasing interest is spreading for renewable energy and more sustainable energy sources. Renewable energy technologies will continually change and adapt to global initiatives, but will... Continue Reading
Continue Reading Innovative talk: Can we recycle plastic
Less than 10% of plastic trash is recycled — compared to almost 90% of metals — because of the massively complicated problem of finding and sorting the different kinds. Frustrated by this waste, Mike Biddle has developed a cheap and incredibly energy efficient plant that can, and does, recycle any... Continue Reading
Continue Reading The new age of corporate monopolies
Margrethe Vestager wants to keep European markets competitive — which is why, on behalf of the EU, she’s fined Google $2.8 billion for breaching antitrust rules, asked Apple for $15.3 billion in back taxes and investigated a range of companies, from Gazprom to Fiat, for anti-competitive practices. In an important... Continue Reading
Continue Reading Can we print money for aid?
During the financial crisis, the central banks of the United States, United Kingdom and Japan created $3.7 trillion in order to buy assets and encourage investors to do the same. Michael Metcalfe offers a shocking idea: could these same central banks print money to ensure they stay on track with... Continue Reading
Continue Reading How the blockchain will radically transform the economy
Say hello to the decentralized economy — the blockchain is about to change everything. In this lucid explainer of the complex (and confusing) technology, Bettina Warburg describes how the blockchain will eliminate the need for centralized institutions like banks or governments to facilitate trade, evolving age-old models of commerce and... Continue Reading
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