TODAY’S HEADLINES: – RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY STANDARD (RES) = RENEWABLE ENERGY STANDARD = RENEWABLE PORTFOLIO STANDARD (RPS) – MORE NEWS, 2-10 (OBAMA CALLS FOR RES; WORKING ON A BETTER BATTERY; GREEN POWER EXPRESS IS WIRES FOR WIND; S. DAKOTA READIES FOR BIG WIND) YESTERDAY: – OBAMA STIMULUS CUTS EMISSIONS, CAN’T WAIT …
The G20 Must Discuss Monetary Reform at its 2nd April Meeting and We Must Make Sure It’s on Their Agenda
A CRASH CAMPAIGN – URGENT ACTION NEEDED The way money is created today as profit-making debt, both nationally and internationally, cannot avoid leading to recurrent highly damaging booms and busts. In normal times too, it results in a skewed system of financial rewards and penalties that motivates almost everyone in …
AltAssets Private Equity Newsletter
Wednesday 4 February 2009 Institutional Investor Profile: Richard Harris, Chief Executive, Port Shelter Investment Management Richard Harris on the private equity scene in Asia, on the potential bubble in distressed debt funding, on private equity lock-ups and on the improper practices of some GPs. Read more…
Integrity in Science Watch – Feb. 9, 2009
Industry Controls USDA Role in Peanut Safety The Agriculture department’s advisory committee charged with ensuring the safety of exported peanuts is comprised entirely of industry representatives, including the chief executive of the firm responsible for the massive salmonella-outbreak that has been linked to at least eight deaths and sickened more …
CIGS Thin-Film Solar Market Revealed in Inaugural Issue of the Greentech Innovations Report
The Greentech Innovations Report, a new market research monthly from Greentech Media, answers one of the most critical questions facing the PV market in 2009: Can CIGS-based thin-film PV scale to meet the market? Thin-film photovoltaics, and copper-indium-gallium-selenide (CIGS) in particular, offer reduced materials usage, lower weight, and smaller size …
Global Policy Innovations: Japanese efficiency, Digital diplomacy, Cashless society, Prostitution; MEDIA: Collaboration, culture, community, Islam in virtual worlds
FEBRUARY 5, 2009 Dear Readers, Global Policy Innovations announces the Spring 2009 Poetry Contest. Theme: Spring is a time of renewal, something that is clearly needed in the global economy in 2009.
European Federation of Employee Share NEWSLETTER – FEBRUARY 2009
Manifesto for the 2009 European Parliament Elections The Employee Ownership Manifesto presents 6 practical proposals to all candidates to the new European Parliament and to the European Commission. Read more…
THE TIERRA MANIFESTO OF 2009
Version 2 By Frans C. Verhagen, M.Div., M.I.A., Ph.D., sustainability sociologist, Founding President of the International Institute of Monetary Transformation Presented to the Economic and Climate Crises Communities In Government, Business and Civil Society, Particularly Their Heads of State www.timun.org. [email protected] New York City March 30, 2009 “As to methods …
Treasury's $78 Billion TARP Giveaway
The Congressional Oversight Panel is certainly doing its job of double-checking TARP expenditures and Treasury statements. Here’s a bit of its latest report, which accuses Treasury of overpaying for assets to the tune of $78 billion…Read more.
PPS Greatest Hits of 2008: 10 Trends Shaping the Future of Our Communities
January 2009 As we transition from a burgeoning economy to one that’s rapidly deflating, people are realizing that placemaking offers the ideal approach to improving our cities and neighborhoods in these hard times.