links for 2009-04-24
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MBA Jargon Watch is the illegitimate brainchild of an MBA and full-time member of the dotcom proletariat petite bourgeoisie (I got a promotion). The intent of the Web site is to elucidate, amuse, and gently mock users and consumers of management, business, and consulting jargon. The definitions listed were selected using JargonRank, a proprietary measure based on the word's frequency of use among management professionals, students, professors and staff.(tags: B-School)
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(tags: Music)
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(tags: NGO)
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(tags: Almost_Live)
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The Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) is a center within the Earth Institute at Columbia University. CIESIN works at the intersection of the social, natural, and information sciences, and specializes in on-line data and information management, spatial data integration and training, and interdisciplinary research related to human interactions in the environment.(tags: Geoscience Columbia)
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Today, regions in every continent experience periodic water stress in one form or another. In places such as China, India, the Sahel, the Middle East, Southern Europe, Northern Africa and the American Southwest, water constraints and their impacts may soon be chronic, posing a significant challenge to the lives of billions of humans. The associated ecological impacts may be devastating. Sustainable water resource development, planning and management have emerged as a global challenge in the 21st century. A changing climate and increasing water use by rapidly growing populations is constraining fresh water availability in many regions. The problems of water pollution and the lack of access to safe drinking water and sanitation are emphasized as scarcity increases. Principles of water allocation and governance need to be revised to promote efficient water use as part of a sustainable development strategy, and to recognize that water supply and consumption are changing in significant…
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(tags: Geoscience)
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(tags: Global_Warming)
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(tags: Geoscience Columbia)
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Earth
The Columbia Climate Center seeks to improve humankind's capacity to understand, predict, and respond to climate variability and change within a multidisciplinary approach to sustainable development. By integrating basic and applied research in climate science, engineering, public health, economics, social science and political science conducted throughout Columbia University, the Center will develop strategies for adaptation to and mitigation of climate change, while communicating the science and impacts of climate change to society and providing policy analysis and advising to stakeholders and decision makers.
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The mission of the Lenfest Center is to develop technologies and institutions to ensure a sufficient supply of environmentally sustainable energy. To meet this goal, the Center supports research programs across Columbia University to develop solutions that will satisfy the world’s future energy needs. Most of the Center’s work is focused on the technology and institutions needed for development of the three major energy resources sufficient to support the world's projected population in 2100 without increased carbon emissions: solar, nuclear, and fossil fuels combined with carbon capture and storage.
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(tags: Communication)
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(tags: UAE)
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This tool will generate a venture financing term sheet based on your responses to an online questionnaire. It also has an informational component, with basic tutorials and annotations on financing terms. This term sheet generator is a modified version of a tool that we use internally, which comprises one part of a suite of document automation tools that we use to generate start-up and venture financing-related documents.(tags: Venture_Capital)
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