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Executive Director of Earth Economics David Batker Sends a Trip Report from Bhutan | Earth Economics: The Blog
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Earth Economics: The Blog. What is your planet worth? Executive Director of Earth Economics David Batker Sends a Trip Report from Bhutan. Trongsa Dzong, Bhutan. Laquo; Tourism in Mexico. Date : March 29, 2011. Categories : Dave's Travels. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out.
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Earth Economics in national and international press! | Earth Economics: The Blog
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Earth Economics: The Blog. What is your planet worth? Earth Economics in national and international press! As promised in the last post, our report “ Gaining Ground – Wetlands, Hurricanes, and the Economy: The Value of Restoring the Mississippi River Delta. 8221; has been released in the press. The response has been astounding, bringing perhaps the most excitement to our little office in at least two years. First we had an exclusive release in the Washington Post. KING 5 TV interview and article. You are...
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Environment & Sustainability Series: Re-Imagining the GDP | Earth Economics: The Blog
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Earth Economics: The Blog. What is your planet worth? Environment and Sustainability Series: Re-Imagining the GDP. It was the Great Depression that gave rise to the measurement of GDP, and led, many think, to smarter policy choices. To navigate beyond today’s Great Recession, do we need a revised GDP that more broadly defines well-being, and considers the environment, our health, our education, and our civic engagement? What would it take to get a new metric enacted? We hope to see you there! Fill in you...
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Valuing the Puget Sound Basin | Earth Economics: The Blog
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Earth Economics: The Blog. What is your planet worth? Valuing the Puget Sound Basin. 1) Built Capital: productive infrastructure of technologies, machines, tools and transport that humans design, build and use for productive purposes. 2) Human Capital: knowledge acquired through education, interpersonal skills. 3) Social Capital: inventory of organizations, institutions, laws, informal social networks and relationships of trust that make up or provide for the productive organization of the economy. Notif...
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It’s cheaper to send a prisoner to Harvard than to jail! | Earth Economics: The Blog
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Earth Economics: The Blog. What is your planet worth? It’s cheaper to send a prisoner to Harvard than to jail! We touched on this issue briefly in our film, “What’s the Economy for, Anyway? 8221; (see Act Six. Does throwing people into prison really lower crime rates? Short answer is, no. Here are the numbers:. New York’s violent crime went down by 40% while it cut its incarceration rate by 15% between 1997 and 2007. The US. lock people up seven times the European rate. Date : August 8, 2010. Notify me o...
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Tourism in Mexico | Earth Economics: The Blog
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Earth Economics: The Blog. What is your planet worth? While this post was intended to highlight the hydrological ecosystem services in a watershed in Veracruz, Mexico I can’t help but bring up another type of ecosystem service, one that falls under the cultural category: tourism. Jen Harrison-Cox and I went to Xalapa, Mexico to participate in a workshop for ARIES ( ARtificial Intelligence for Ecosystem Services. Which maps ecosystem services. 8220;Almost free” said one vender at the site, trying to...
