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links for 2008-08-21

Futureal

Tamar Kasriel's Futures Consulting firm

(tags: Tamar Kasriel, consulting, marketing)

Facebook referrals to Justgiving are bigger than Google

1 in 5 visits to justgiving come from the Facebook justgiving widget

(tags: fundraising technology widgets facebook)
Breaking the Climate Deadlock

New report from the Climate Group outlining a political process for a global political deal

(tags: climate politics)

The McCain Oil Price Premium

Interesting prediction: Oil under McCain falls to $125/barrel. Oil under Obama falls to $95.

(tags: oil politics future)

World Values Survey

Global survey of cultural values. Denmark is the happiest nation, ZImbabwe least happy.

(tags: values survey)
marklynas.org

Mark Lynas, Climate Change author/campaigner

(tags: carbon climate climatechange environment)
World Wealth Report

Cap Gemini report into global wealth. Include research into green investors and BRIC wealth.

(tags: economics business green)
DOES ONE ABUSED WOMAN = 100 ABUSED PUPPIES?

Strangely, this unsophisticated economist article on the logic behind donating to animal v. human charities is taken from their magazine called “Intelligent Life”.

(tags: charity fundraising)

“Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point…. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.”

Kildevil Hill
(Robert Rauschenberg. Killdevil Hill, 1975 from the Moma website)

The Greenwash Brigade

Blog tracking corporate claims to environmentalism

(tags: blogs environment green)
Clinton v Obama online spending

Obama spent $93k on web consultants. Clinton spent $3.5m on ad and media consultants

(tags: advertising campaigns)