Archive for March, 2010
Main Street Values
David Pauling 842 Big Tree Drive NW, Issaquah WA 98027, (425) 922-6047, dp1928 @ hotmail.com Plan of Action Main Street Values (MSV) is a regional development cooperative whose mission is: • To turn every American into a successful venture capitalist; and • To catalyze the emergence of a new capital source industry. MSV will pursue [...]
From Myth to Reality: A Journey through Modern-Day Bhutan and Re?ections about its Future
Written by Gunter Pauli Founder of ZERI and author of The Blue Economy Professor Politecnico di Torino, February 2010 Preamble This article does not pretend to offer a blueprint for a sustainable economic development strategy for Bhutan. It merely summarizes a portfolio of opportunities that could provide an input to a long term policy [...]
Sustainable Financial Markets: Long Finance Movement
Ideas for Reform from a British, Market-Friendly Perspective. - Hazel Henderson, Ed Posted: 23 Mar 2010 07:31 PM PDT NSFM participant Prof Michael Mainelli is pushing forward ideas very compatible with NSFM core beliefs in a new project called the “Long Finance” Movement - see http://www.longfinance.net for more details. The [...]
The Baseline Scenario: The Brown Amendment: Do the Volcker Rules Live?
Posted: 24 Mar 2010 02:40 AM PDT The administration may be distancing itself from the Volcker Rules, but the same is not true of all Senators. (Why did President Obama go to the trouble of endorsing Mr. Volcker’s approach to limiting risk and size in the banking system, if his key implementers – led by Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner – [...]
The Blue Economy – Report to the Club of Rome 100 innovations – presented weekly over 2 years
Glass as building material Have you ever wondered why glass bottles are expensive to recycle? A mix of white, green and brown glass is still sent to a landfill. Heating up a blend of colored glass, injected with carbon dioxide creates glass foam. This glass is light but hard, and has an outstanding compression strength. It is an ideal [...]
Earth Negotiations Bulletin: Ninth Meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing of the Convention on Biological Diversity – Issue #2
ABS 9 HIGHLIGHTS MONDAY, 22 MARCH 2010 Delegates to the ninth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing (ABS) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) met in plenary throughout the day. In the morning, all regional groups expressed their willingness to work on the basis of a draft protocol text tabled [...]
NewNet Clean Energy Investor Newsletter
23 March 2010 DEALS NEWS... Azure Power closes series B investment LED manufacturer TerraLUX closes $5.6m investment round led by Emerald Technology Ventures Iberdrola Renovables acquires rights to build 400MW Ventotec Ost 2 offshore wind farm in Germany Click here for the newsletter...
Alternative Energy: Water into Hydrogen Fuel with Waste Energy
Posted: 23 Mar 2010 01:48 AM PDT With each passing day, scientists are coming out with unique solutions to lessen our dependence on fossil fuels. They are now thinking of turning stray forms of energy such as noise or random vibrations from the environment into useful form of energy. They want to use piezoelectric effect for such purposes. Read [...]
International Solar News – March 24, 2010
On Italy, PV, and Overheated Markets A Mediterranean country with lots of sunlight and high feed-in tariff rates is becoming the darling of the global solar industry. Sound familiar? (more...)
Social Investing: Markets & Missions
Jonathan C. Lewis Founder & Chief Executive Officer Opportunity Collaboration Founder & Chair MicroCredit Enterprises Social Venture Capital/Social Enterprise Conference March 18, 2010 - Miami, Florida Click here to download the speech.
