11TH SPECIAL SESSION OF THE UNEP GOVERNING COUNCIL/GLOBAL MINISTERIAL ENVIRONMENT FORUM AND THE SIMULTANEOUS EXTRAORDINARY COPS TO THE BASEL, ROTTERDAM AND STOCKHOLM CONVENTIONS 22–26 FEBRUARY 2010 Download the newsletter (PDF)
The Baseline Scenario: Fear Mongering, Wall Street Style
What happened to the global economy and what we can do about it By James Kwak Jason Paez points out this Reuters story on the claim that new banking regulations will require an additional $221 billion of capital in the industry as a whole. I would take this a little …
Global Innovation Commons
“The thirty year “cold war” of innovation is over. M·CAM in collaboration with Ethical Markets, Global Urban Development, and infoDev, are bringing transparency and access to hundreds of thousands of open-source innovations, most in the form of patents, which have either been abandoned, expired, disallowed, or are unprotected in their …
Climate: Eight Convenient Truths
By Amory B. Lovins (Editor’s note: this piece originally appeared in Roll Call on Nov. 9, 2009, in a slightly different form.) In his remarks at the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen in December, President Obama did say (to my delight) that climate solutions advance both prosperity and …
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NEWS HEADLINES: FEBRUARY 19TH, 2010 › RI round-up Feb 19
New Energy News: February 19, 2010
click here for main page: http://newenergynews.blogspot.com/ THINGS-TO-THINK-ABOUT FRIDAY, 2-19: * THERE’S WAY WAY MORE WIND THAN THEY THOUGHT * CLIMATE COULD TIP ANYTIME * CLIMATE CHANGE, CLEAN AIR & LUNGS * TEXAS SEEKS TO DELAY ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE * GEOTHERMAL ON THE LAND YESTERDAY * HEADLINE: THE CARBON TAX …
New Energy News: February 19, 2010
click here for main page: http://newenergynews.blogspot.com/ THINGS-TO-THINK-ABOUT FRIDAY, 2-12: * NEW ENERGY NEEDS CONGRESS TO SET A STANDARD * SOLAR TO POWER HAITI HOSPITALS * WIND CAN REGENERATE UK * HELP WITH BUYING THAT SOLAR SYSTEM * WALL STREET RETROFITS FOR FORWARD CAPACITY YESTERDAY * HEADLINE: NEW ENERGY MANUFACTURING CAN …
Why Rooftop Solar is Set to Explode
By Chris Nelder | Friday, February 12th, 2010 Distributed generation of renewable energy is off to a rocky start, but it’s finally making some headway. Click here to read more.
On Your Radar: Clean Energy
Bringing Up Biofuels: The Next Generation The biofuels industry is seeing some big numbers lately: the U.S. Department of Energy is providing nearly $800 million to accelerate advanced biofuels research and development; and the Bio Economic Research Associates estimate that the direct economic output from the advanced biofuels industry will …
John Rogers and Value for People offer quick start training for establishing local currencies
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