Recent Posts Tagged With 'economics'

• Saving our selves then?

  Posted on Monday December 21st, 2009 at 06:55 in environment, economics, co-operatives, domain name for kernow

  Considering our illustrious world leaders can't git their bleedy acts together it looks like it's up to us to save ourselves. Lets start with Kernow and hope other nations & regions around the world do the same. DotKer The DotKer campaign for...

• Economy Green Paper for Cornwall

  Posted on Tuesday December 1st, 2009 at 13:57 in economics, cornwall council

  Economy Green Paper Friday 27 November 2009 Cornwall Council Statement of Economic Priorities and Strategic Intent: Towards a distinctive, high-value, knowledge-based 'green' Cornwall with opportunity for all Cornwall Council's first 'Green ...

• Money Dreckly

  Posted on Friday November 27th, 2009 at 13:54 in economics

  The CD has received the response below from the campaign group -Equality Trust- to an e-mail titled: The poorest region of the UK? Cornwall! Thank you very much for your email. I'm afraid we don't have anything very relevant as our focus is ineq...

• Break up the Banks! Keep the money in Kernow!

  Posted on Tuesday October 27th, 2009 at 14:23 in economics

  Good article here -Breaking the Banks- on the theme of the financial crisis and after. A couple of choice quotes below: When an institution becomes so important that it cannot be allowed to fail, that implicit state guarantee removes any incentive â...

• Hot Dry Rocks Revisited

  Posted on Thursday October 15th, 2009 at 13:59 in environment, economics

  WE'RE MINING FOR HEAT IN CORNWALLEnergy firm plans geothermal power plant to feed the UK grid and help regenerate a local communityIt's sustainable, brings skilled jobs to the Duchy and increases our energetic self-reliance. Lets hope it sees more su...

• Cornish Money

  Posted on Saturday October 10th, 2009 at 07:36 in economics, transition towns, local currency

  With the arrival of the Brixton, Lewes and Stroud pounds why not re-launch the idea of a Cornish currency?OK perhaps a currency for the whole Duchy is not on the cards but we have a few towns, along with their catchment areas, that would benefit from...

• Business Cornwall

  Posted on Tuesday October 6th, 2009 at 03:32 in economics, business cornwall

  EXCLUSIVE: FACE TO FACE WITH KEVIN LAVERYA refreashing point of view from Cornwall Councils Chief Executive Kevin Lavery below.Taken from an interview on the equally interesting website for Business Cornwall.BC: Do you think Cornwall has enough contr...

• Support a Cornish Charity with Everyclick

  Posted on Friday June 5th, 2009 at 15:00 in economics

  Why not help the Cornish Charity of your choice by using Everyclick as your homepage instead of Google, Yahoo or some other corporate monster? I've set mine up to raise funds for the Cornish branch of the Celtic Congress.The sum raised so far is tiny...

• Government trousers Cornish millions

  Posted on Saturday April 25th, 2009 at 03:43 in europe, economics, mps

  I promised more on this topic in an earlier post and Cornish World has jogged my memory. The Liberal Democrat parliamentary team, not totally useless I'll admit, has exposed that the Treasury has pocketed almost £25 million in European funding that ...

• Plijadur pen da benn

  Posted on Saturday April 4th, 2009 at 12:19 in economics, brittany, celts

  An interesting advertising campaign from the organisation Produit en Bretagne. Quite simply they state, in this time of crisis, that if you buy Breton produce you save Breton jobs.Does our Made In Cornwall initiative have the same guts? They don't ev...

• Cornish Banks

  Posted on Thursday March 26th, 2009 at 04:27 in economics

  Cornish Credit Unions have been mentioned here along with other local scale economic projects but could Cornish Banks make a come back? This from nef:The Government believes that the best way to revive the economy is to start from the top down. So it...