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- 1999: Firefly Brigade (NGO) launches to promote the integration of bike riding as a main transportation option
- 2000: Senate approves $7.8 Billion to restore the Everglades ecosystem in Florida
Globalization and Its Discontents
- 2004: A study was published showing the effects air pollution has on the lungs of children/adolescents in Southern California
- 2005: Kyoto Protocol goes into effect
- Born on February 9, 1943
- Gary, Indiana
- Awareness on the corruption of the IMF
Awesome book, but no
- False promises made to developing countries
- http://www.infoplease.com/spot/earthdaytimeline.html
-http:/www.nytimes.com/2000/09/26/us/senate-approves-7.8-billion-plan-to-aid-everglades.html?_r=0
-http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa040610
-http://66.147.244.135/~enviror4/21st-century/firstdecade-2000-09/
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Cambridge, University of Chicago, & Amherst College
- Policies enforced by the IMF that did not seem to make sense
- Does not talk about environmental issues
- The power the IMF holds
- American Economist
- Won a Nobel Memorial Prize in 2001
- Former Senior VP and Chief Econonist of the World Bank
- Mentions the environment/environmental degradation, but does not have a part dedicated to showing how globalization impacts the environment
-Former member and chairman of the US President's Council of Economic Advisers
None!
Other than that...
- Easy read
- A lot of eye-opening information
- The flow is pretty consistent throughout the book