New Energy News – May 9

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$7.5 MIL FOR OCEAN ENERGY R&D STUDY OF UTILITIES, EFFICIENCIES EXPERT IN WIND ENERGY’S FINE PRINT YESTERDAY: NEW ENERGY BILLS: POLITICS AS USUAL MUST STOP SPEW – STERN BOSTON UTILITY TO SELL NEW ENGLAND WIND

More CEE Blue-Chips Issuing Stand-Alone English-Language Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Reports

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Reporting on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) by the Largest Listed Companies in Eleven Central and Eastern European (CEE) Countries; Fourth-Time Comparison with Peers in BRIC and Ukraine Released by the PFS Program – Thursday, May 8, 2008 Today, the Partners for Financial Stability (PFS) Program publishes its tenth semi-annual Survey …

Calvert Ranks Top Builders on Environmental and Sustainable Practices; Highest Ranked in Group: KB Home, Pulte, and D.R. Horton

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BETHESDA, MD. AND BOSTON, MA….May 6, 2008 Despite some encouraging environmental and energy-efficiency developments in recent years, none of America’s 13 largest publicly traded homebuilders has “fully embraced the emerging market of sustainable building design and construction,” according to a major new study by Calvert—one of the nation’s leaders in …

THE FIRST ANNUAL BUCKMINSTER FULLER CHALLENGE WINNER ANNOUNCED

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We congratulate winner Dr. John Todd of the Buckminster Fuller Challenge Award. Dr. Todd is also on our Research Advisory Board and our Founder, Dr. Hazel Henderson, was one of the Judges. For more information, visit:http://challenge.bfi.org MAY 2nd, 2008 NEW YORK CITY The Buckminster Fuller Institute is pleased to announce …

Green World Campaign

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The Green World Campaign is a network of global citizens finding new ways to care for our world. Like helping to turn barren lands around the world greener, right now, with a mouse-click and a quarter. And this spring, we’re greening Ethiopia. Read more…

Climate Change: Creating a Secure Climate

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Jennifer Morgan, May 2008. The World Today, Volume 64, Number 5 Climate change will be at the top of the agenda when leaders of the world’s major economies gather in Japan for the G8 Summit in July. The science is clear on the need for an ambitious and rapid response. …

NEW ON ETHICSWORLD

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April 30, 2008. ====CONFERENCE UPDATE: Business Ethics and Anti-Corruption Strategies conference in Brussels from June 5-6, 2008; Corporate Ethics and Compliance Asia on May 27-29 in Hong Kong. See EthicsWorld News from NGOs for details and other annoucements.=====

PNN Newsbriefs

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2008-04-24 – International – food UN calls for farming revolution With the price of foodstuffs soaring, a UNESCO panel has released a report last week on the state of world agriculture that is expected to call for urgent action to revamp global farming rules. The st ..continue… 2008-04-24 – International …