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Bill Maher called the environment the "ultimate health care issue" Friday night during "Real Time" and argued that our future depends on our ability to... T.J. Ortenzi http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-news/reporting/tj-ortenzi/

New York City Comptroller John C. Liu has scored a coup in an ongoing national effort to increase corporate transparency after the U.S. Supreme Court... T.J. Ortenzi http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-news/reporting/tj-ortenzi/

Lending across the U.S. economy contracted 7.4 percent last year, the biggest such drop since 1942, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. That means... T.J. Ortenzi http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-news/reporting/tj-ortenzi/

You know what - change is a funny thing. For me, I can't wait untill I can watch all my movies and TV shows on... Brett King http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brett-king/

  With the mission of expanding opportunity for people living in poverty, Global Partnerships (GP) identifies, invests in, and supports innovative poverty alleviation solutions in Latin America. An estimated 100 million people live on less than $2 a day throughout the region, and only a fraction of the people who could benefit from microfinance are currently being served. Through investing socially motivated capital to support the growth of microfinance, GP helps create jobs and expand income for people living in poverty throughout this underserved region. GP supports the expansion of microfinance by investing capital and management expertise in microfinance institutions (MFIs), which in turn make financial and social services available to those they serve. Founded in 1994, GP is a rapidly growing nonprofit organization with a team of 20 employees and offices in Seattle, Washington, and Managua, Nicaragua. GP currently serves more than 812,000 microcredit borrowers through our 28 microfinance partner institutions in seven Latin American countries. The Investment Contract Administrator position will play an important documentation, compliance and legal support role for the Social Investment Team. We seek an individual with a paralegal and project management background including experience in financial, legal, and contractual transactions. Must be able to handle transactions in Spanish; full Spanish fluency is required. PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES: Maintain accurate data systems and file systems for organizing, maintaining, administering and tracking records of all contracts related to GPs MFI loan contracts as well as GP's investor finance contracts. Manage the production, review, execution and delivery of contract documents to ensure final contracts are completed, fully executed and registered, working under the guidance of outside domestic and international counsel. Produce various reports on status of loan contracts, contract compliance and investment evaluation. Monitor all contracts to ensure GP meets contractual requirements and legal regulations. Coordinate legal registration processes for new fund formation as well as for fund dissolutions. Coordinate and manage the process of preparing and updating Private Placement Memoranda. Work collaboratively with Social Investment, Finance and Administration, Investor Relations, and Communications teams and outside counsel to deliver consistently high quality work. QUALIFICATIONS: Commitment to GP's mission and values of respect, collaboration, and professional excellence Minimum 3 years paralegal or similar experience in corporate contract administration Demonstrated ability to manage complex legal processes and documentation - with a high level of accuracy, consistency, and reliability. Experience organizing, tracking, and analyzing data with a high level of accuracy and on a variety of software platforms. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Strong word processing, Excel, and data management skills. Full fluency in Spanish and English, including the ability to work effectively with business and legal documents in either language Bachelor's degree required. COMPENSATION: Competitive salary with comprehensive benefits package Global Partnerships is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified candidates are encouraged to apply. TO APPLY please send a cover letter and resume to: info@globalpartnerships.org or to: Global Partnerships, Attn: HR, 909 NE Boat Street, Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98105. Position open until filled.

SEATTLE -- Apple Inc. is giving its chief operating officer a $5 million bonus for "outstanding performance" running the company while CEO Steve Jobs was... Bianca Bosker http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-news/reporting/bianca-bosker/

From the news that the first known male elephant twins were born in the north-eastern province of Surin, Thailand to sustainable clothing ensembles and the The Cove's Oscar win at the Academy Awards, a lot happened this week in green. Find out what else happened in the world of green this week in our photo roundup of most popular, most important, and most oddball stories. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

So where will demand come from to save Main Street once the stimulus wears off? That question is the big unknown hanging over the U.S. economy. Until there's an answer, there's no recovery. Robert Reich http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/

Some aid projects have focused on restoring the country's forests, but few have tried to fix the generations of harm that has been done to Haiti's coral, its mangroves, its beaches and, most of all, its fish. Joseph B. Treaster http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-b-treaster/

Sadly, short-sighted politicians have presented a bogus choice between creating jobs and better protecting areas that the federal government, and therefore the American people, already own. Bill Wade http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill wade/

Image via SF Gate Over at the San Francisco Chronicle, Dr. Peter Gleick, the president of the Pacific Institute has come up with the most believable argument against global warming that I've yet encountered. And so, I'll close out my Friday by sharing it....Read the full story on TreeHugger

Saturday March 13 LIVE at 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern www.TalkRadioOne.com Steve Parker's The Car Nut Show Not only has Toyota become the butt of... Steve Parker http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-parker/

In honor of spring's coming arrival, we've compiled some of the newest additions to the animal kingdom from the past few weeks. Some of them,... Gazelle Emami http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-news/reporting/gazelle-emami/

Mr. Kapor wants to build a 10,000-square-foot house, complete with a 10-car garage, in Berkeley, Calif. When the house won planning approval earlier this year,... Gazelle Emami http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-news/reporting/gazelle-emami/

Here at Inhabitat we're pretty much glued to our reusable water bottles, so we got a little giddy when we saw the Bobble, a water... Gazelle Emami http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-news/reporting/gazelle-emami/

Marine mammal experts report that dozens of sick and hungry sea lion pups have washed up on California shores this winter, many not making it... Gazelle Emami http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-news/reporting/gazelle-emami/

WASHINGTON — The cost of Internet fraud doubled in 2009 to about $560 million, the FBI said Friday. The most common type of frauds reported... Bianca Bosker http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-news/reporting/bianca-bosker/

Acid ocean "SOS." Image credit:Alaska Marine Conservation Council US EPA has decided to consider ways that US states can, under already delegated authorities, curb pollutants that may otherwise add to the power of global warming's evil twin: Ocean Acidification. (Note: many US States regulate stack emissions to reduce acid rain and also have the delegated Federal authority to limit the acidity of effluent discharges within their boundaries. So, this would be an extension of State's rights, by interpretation of existing Federal and State la...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Image: LG Chem The Supply Chain for Electric Cars is Growing About 6 months ago we wrote that LG Chem was thinking about building an advanced lithium-ion battery plant in Holland, Michigan, to supply battery packs to GM for the Volt PHEV. Now it's confirmed, everything's official and the groundbreaking is scheduled for this summer, with a 2012 target for the beginning of operations. LG Chem says that the plant will create over 400 jobs by 2013, and many people will be hired and trained in advance....Read the full story on TreeHugger

Postwar suburban sprawl, courtesy of George Bailey and his Savings and Loan A lot of the Libertarian types think that those of us promoting higher densities and urban life are trying to limit freedom of choice. Joe Mysak wrote in Bloomberg about us: The notion appeals especially to people who like to think they'll be in charge after the revolution. They would apparently love nothing more than for the population to be confined to Soviet-style concrete-block high-rises and be forced to take state-run streetcars to their little jobs at the mill. According to the Read the full story on TreeHugger