Latest Greenpeace Electronics Scorecard Highlights E-Waste, Climate Battles By GreenerComputing Staff In its quarterly ranking of electronics manufacturers’ commitments to the environment, Greenpeace found Nokia at the top of the heap yet again, while the NGO highlighted takeback policies and carbon-reduction commitments as the key to truly green electronics…. Read …
News on The Edge – November 25, 2008
Welcome to the Social Edge update! Global X had a chance to interview Bill Drayton, the founder of Ashoka, as they both traveled to the same European city a few months ago. In the two-minute segment we are showing this week, Bill Drayton describes the magical instant when a social …
Come Clean, Larry Summers, About Your Role in the Credit Default Swap Mess!
© 2008 Hazel Henderson Dear Larry, now that you have been appointed as President-elect Obama’s economic supremo, we need you to explain why you enabled the unregulated CDS market to balloon to some $60 trillion! Mr. Obama said at his news conference November 25th about his incoming administration that “When …
News from Natural Logic — November 2008
What a remarkable time this is, at so many levels: The Election. For all its strangeness (1000 news stories on the horse race for every one on the issues), and duration (we take two years to elect a president; France takes six weeks) — for all that , what a …
Dow Wields Its Science to Attack Pesticide Ban
The recent controversy surrounding bisphenol A, an endocrine disruptor, pitted science backed by industry against science backed by government and non-profit groups. Now, in another case of dueling experiments, Dow AgroSciences, a subsidiary of Dow Chemical, is wielding industry-funded studies to challenge an effort by Quebec Province to ban the …
Nov 25, 2008–Sustain News
ECO-DESIGN and GREEN BUILDING Hybrid Tugboat May Give Local Ports a Green Push Giant sea vessels are so sophisticated these days that they require only a handful of crew members. But the ships still burn a thick, dirty sludge called bunker fuel while at sea and slurp diesel to keep …
To You from NewEnergyNews: Nov. 25, 2008
WAXMAN ‘DA MAN (TO CHAIR HOUSE ENERGY COMMITTEE) POWER FROM THE GRAVEYARD MOVING WIND POWER AROUND YESTERDAY: NEW ENERGY’S NEEDS AND PRESIDENT-ELECT OBAMA’S PLAN IN LANDMARK DECISION, WASH STATE SUPREME COURT APPROVES WIND INTERNATIONAL SOLAR COMPANY IN BIG 3Q EARNINGS
ASrIA E-bulletin (25-Nov-08) – Financial turmoil bolsters ESGthinking
EDITORIAL ASrIA strengthens its team in Hong Kong with a new Executive Director and Development Director. The effects of the global financial crisis on sustainable finance and how Asian countries may spend their expected stimulus packages are investigated. The World Bank President provides a concise overview of the global carbon …
Arthur D. Little releases water management report
A new report from global management consultancy Arthur D Little warns businesses that merely adopting a reactive response to water management can damage corporate performance. The report provides several illustrations of how water affects businesses’ financial performance – such as at Électricité de France (EDF), which was hit by losses …