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Evaporated those words that once came embracing my mind A child
gift unknown then This gift of "mind" Reawaken with explosive words
(from Penned Words)
As we approach the 30th anniversary of Earth Day (the first of
its kind was April 1970), congressional debate about environmental
protection often remains paralyzed and polarized. But across the
country, environmental pragmatism is gaining ground. The Morning
after Earth Day explores how policymakers, business executives, and
citizen groups are fighting novel political battles and sometimes
making peace with surprising compromises. After a generation of
progress in reducing large sources of industrial and municipal
pollution and in improving management of public lands, today's
environmental conflicts are more complex. They involve controlling
pollution caused by farmers, small businesses, drivers of aging
cars, and homeowners, as well as minimizing ecological threats on
private land. Remedies often lie in politically treacherous
territory--persuading ordinary people to change their daily
routines rather than ordering big business to adopt new technology
or government officials to manage land differently. As Mary Graham
shows, practical approaches are resolving immediate disputes and
providing clues for future policy. But core dilemmas remain. They
include how to reconcile environmental protection with respect for
private property, how to balance federal and state authority, and
how much to rely on behavioral versus technological change. Only by
reclaiming the debate about these dilemmas from extremists and
confronting them head-on will the nation build a solid foundation
for the next generation of environmental policy. Copublished with
the Governance Institute
Which SUVs are most likely to rollover? What cities have the
unhealthiest drinking water? Which factories are the most dangerous
polluters? What cereals are the most nutritious? In recent decades,
governments have sought to provide answers to such critical
questions through public disclosure to force manufacturers, water
authorities, and others to improve their products and practices.
Corporate financial disclosure, nutritional labels, and school
report cards are examples of such targeted transparency policies.
At best, they create a light-handed approach to governance that
improves markets, enriches public discourse, and empowers citizens.
But such policies are frequently ineffective or counterproductive.
Based on an analysis of eighteen U.S. and international policies,
Full Disclosure shows that information is often incomplete,
incomprehensible, or irrelevant to consumers, investors, workers,
and community residents. To be successful, transparency policies
must be accurate, keep ahead of disclosers' efforts to find
loopholes, and, above all, focus on the needs of ordinary citizens.
How presidents use secrecy to protect the nation, foster diplomacy,
and gain power Ever since the nation's most important secret
meeting-the Constitutional Convention-presidents have struggled to
balance open, accountable government with necessary secrecy in
military affairs and negotiations. For the first one hundred and
twenty years, a culture of open government persisted, but new
threats and technology have long since shattered the old bargains.
Today, presidents neither protect vital information nor provide the
open debate Americans expect. Mary Graham tracks the rise in
governmental secrecy that began with surveillance and loyalty
programs during Woodrow Wilson's administration, explores how it
developed during the Cold War, and analyzes efforts to reform the
secrecy apparatus and restore oversight in the 1970s. Chronicling
the expansion of presidential secrecy in the Bush years, Graham
explains what presidents and the American people can learn from
earlier crises, why the attempts of Congress to rein in stealth
activities don't work, and why presidents cannot hide actions that
affect citizens' rights and values.
Hannah is a plump, re-headed pre-teen struggling with various
elements of her life including the search for the perfect dog who
will brighten her life . See how she learns one of life's most
valuable lessons on a comically disastrous Christmas.
Evaporated those words that once came embracing my mind A child
gift unknown then This gift of "mind" Reawaken with explosive words
(from Penned Words)
While doing research on chronic fatigue/fibromyalgia, Elaine
Marie Graham realized she had gathered a lot of information that
could be used in any health situation. Her wish is to share this
research in hopes of helping anyone dealing with a health
challenge. She started writing a blog in March of 2011 with the
hope of sharing this research. She realized that it could be even
more beneficial to write a book with practical tips and
discoveries. This is her gift to all who have walked in the
darkness or shadow of a disabling condition.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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Dotage (Paperback)
Elbridge Streeter Brooks, George Bradford Bartlett, Mary Graham
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R1,038
Discovery Miles 10 380
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Governments in recent decades have employed public disclosure
strategies to reduce risks, improve public and private goods and
services, and reduce injustice. In the United States, these
targeted transparency policies include financial securities
disclosures, nutritional labels, school report cards, automobile
rollover rankings, and sexual offender registries. They constitute
a light-handed approach to governance that empowers citizens.
However, as Full Disclosure shows these policies are frequently
ineffective or counterproductive. Based on a comparative analysis
of eighteen major policies, the authors suggest that transparency
policies often produce information that is incomplete,
incomprehensible, or irrelevant to the consumers, investors,
workers, and community residents who could benefit from them.
Sometimes transparency fails because those who are threatened by it
form political coalitions to limit or distort information. To be
successful, transparency policies must place the needs of ordinary
citizens at centre stage and produce information that informs their
everyday choices.
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