The sister-city program, meant to foster peace and understanding across the globe, is financed with $10,000 budgeted annually.
A basic exchange works like this: When a company like the Gap commits to reducing emissions but cannot, or chooses not to, cut the energy used to move clothes across the globe, it finances someone else's green project.
City's team, loaded with talent from all over the globe, is financed by petro-dollars from Abu Dhabi, while Maldonado, racing for a British team, is backed with the millions brought in by his sponsorship from a Venezuelan oil company.
He's now running for president of Argentina in next year's election, but he still travels the globe talking to finance ministers, central bankers and investors about the world economy.
Increasingly, sophisticated filmmakers who once relied on American studios for backing are turning to a globe-straddling independent finance system for their most expensive projects.
WASHINGTON, Aug 19 (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers are once again taking advantage of their summer recess to race around the globe on privately financed tours to places like China, the Middle East and Scotland - trips watchdog groups cite as evidence that congressional ethics reforms are unraveling.
The Environmental Movement, ecopsychology, Systems Theory, the Internet that joins us across the globe, global structures of finance, the Goddess movement, the push toward sustainability, organic agriculture, Brian Swimme's inspiring cosmological reveries: these and other worldly-circling matters grew up in the light of Earthrise.
Yahoo, one of the most-visited sites on the Internet, does not disclose the total of clubs, which include a wide range of topics, like snow-globe collecting, business and finance and Trotskyist politics.
CONSIDER for a moment the high-tech world of modern finance, with its whizzy computers and snazzy software, its round-the-clock trading, its transactions that zip across the globe as electronic pulses.
Last year, researchers travelled around the globe to talk about personal finance with a hundred and fifty thousand people, representing a range of socioeconomic classes, and living both in cities and in remote, rural parts of more than a hundred and forty countries.
And, to the extent we can, use overt as well as covert activities to improve target information, to gather intelligence that will enable us to be more precise in what we do and to force people to move and change what they're doing, to raise the cost of what they're doing, to attempt to reduce the number of people around the globe who support them and finance them.
