MATTERS IN THE AIR …. WELCOMING NEW COMERS – Reminding each other of opportunities before us – Reporting on the current surge in action as noted recently – incl.submissions galore to the ICB and the Treasury

– FINANCE LAB Report http://tinyurl.com/5unnsul – And the Innovation Gp we are adding to the Finance Lab – http://tinyurl.com/682o7c9

– Call for the next Kuala Lumpur Conference – sequence to November’s launch of the KLCMJ. Four countries — Indonesia, Malaysia , Iraq and Iran (two conferences to come) – are increasingly active. http://tinyurl.com/5tkdj95

– BFI’s remarkable repository of whole systems solutions to the world’s most pressing problems Idea Index at – http://challenge.bfi.org/solutions/all/0/2011

– Ben’s company in Oxford Friday Mar 4th – £ Professor David Miles (Bank of England) € Angela Knight (British Bankers’ Association) $ Professor Peyton Young (Oxford University) £ Ben Dyson (Positive Money) ¤ Professor David Vines (Oxford University) Chair: Professor Alan Morrison (Said Business School)

PERTINENT PICKINGS from the week

MARCH FOR THE ALTERNATIVE – JOBS*GROWTH*JUSTICE Saturday 26 March 2011

http://www.tuc.org.uk/march – Paradox: Linchpin Of The Long Emergency – Carolyn Baker 13 February, 2011 – http://carolynbaker.net/2011/02/13/paradox-linchpin-of-the-long-emergency-by-carolyn-baker/

– Model Constitutions for the US and for the Arabian Confederation – informed drafts relating the parts to the whole in interesting ways – http://tinyurl.com/6bsdjcn

– Mark Gater’s paper ‘A brief inquiry into sustainable banking – http://tinyurl.com/62nz865

– Debtonation: The Global Financial Crisis has posted a new item, ‘Chinks in the
austerity armour…..’ Ann Pettifor – http://www.debtonation.org/2011/02/chinks-in-the-austerity-armour/ – see also The Chart: http://www.debtonation.org/2011/02/the-chart/

– Wit that shocks – http://lsdimension.wordpress.com/2011/01/26/gap-between-rich-and-poor-named-8th-wonder-of-the-world/

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