NewEnergyNews Daily Headlines * TODAY’S HEADLINE: NEW ENERGY WILL SAVE MILITARY LIVES – STUDY YESTERDAY * HEADLINE: THE TOO, TOO COSTLY CASE OF NUCLEAR POWER
ACEEE: Energy Efficiency: An Economic Development Strategy for South Carolina
Charleston, S.C. (November 11, 2009): A new study released today shows that a combination of energy and water efficiency policies could cut electricity and water bills for South Carolinians by $5.1 billion and could create almost 22,000 new “green” jobs by 2025.
Free Press Media Reform Daily
The Dirty Truth about Rural Broadband Verizon and other ISPs routinely present rural consumers as their primary concern, suggesting that they are doing all they can to bring them broadband. To call these ISPs hypocritical would be a gross understatement. While they purport to be committed to broadband deployment for …
ALLIANCE FOR LOBBYING TRANSPARENCY AND ETHICS REGULATION (ALTER-EU)
Thursday November 5, 2009 EUROPEAN COMMISSION URGED TO BREAK STRANGLEHOLD OF FINANCIAL SECTOR ***** The new ALTER-EU report ‘A captive Commission – the role of the financial industry in shaping EU regulation’ can be found at: http://www.alter-eu.org/en/system/files/publications/CaptiveCommission.pdf *** Brussels, November 5, 2009 – The vast majority of financial ‘experts’ advising …
Business Green: UK CCS competition “dead on its feet” says expert
Renewables Engineers argue UK climate change policy must be reshaped if targets are to be met More nuclear power, improved climate adaptation and greater research into geo-engineering needed, argues report from Institute of Mechanical Engineers Renewables Bulgaria eyes role as European wind energy powerhouse Eastern European country expects to see …
Sustainability initiatives can help drive corporate growth, according to Economist Intelligence Unit survey
For immediate release: Monday, November 9th 2009 Business initiatives that link sustainability and corporate growth are often dismissed by sceptics as mere window dressing. But executives say the link is significant, according to a global online survey of 183 respondents, conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit and sponsored by SAS. …
EARTH NEGOTIATIONS BULLETIN: SUMMARY OF THE BARCELONA CLIMATE CHANGE TALKS
2-6 NOVEMBER 2009 The second part of the seventh session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (AWG-LCA 7) and the second part of the ninth session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex …
A Little Populist Retribution: Making Wall Street Pay Its Fair Share
Ellen Brown, November 10, 2009 www.webofdebt.com/articles “Regular people know that they got done in by excesses on Wall Street, and they see a Democratic administration shoveling trillions of dollars to the same Wall Street banks that caused the mess. . . . What is overdue is a little bit of …
New Energy News
NewEnergyNews Daily Headlines * TODAY’S HEADLINE: NEW ENERGY WILL BRING BLUE COLLAR JOBS BACK TO THE U.S. MIDDLE CLASS – STUDY YESTERDAY * WIND PROJECT IS WIN-WIN-WIN FOR CHINA, TEXAS AND THE CLIMATE * THE FORCES OF RUIN * PUTTING MOROCCAN SUN TO WORK * CUTTING EMISSIONS IN MEXICO * …
National Federation of CDCUs Offering Intensive Seminar for Credit Unions on Community Reinvestment
Federation Offering Intensive Seminar for Credit Unions on Community Reinvestment On December 3, 2009 the National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions (Federation) will hold an intensive seminar to explore topics that have been controversial in the credit union movement: Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) and National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) …