Archive for April, 2010
CDCU Insight
CDCU Insight An e-publication from the Federation March/April 2010 Dear members, colleagues and friends: As many of you know, the Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund has gotten unprecedented levels of funding to support the growth and expansion of CDFIs nationwide. With the new Community Development Capital Initiative [...]
Book Bytes – 76: Lowering Income Taxes While Raising Pollution Taxes Reaps Great Returns | EPI
As economic decisionmakers—whether consumers, corporate planners, government policymakers, or investment bankers—we all depend on the market for guidance. In order for markets to work and economic actors to make sound decisions, the markets must give us good information, including the full cost of the products we buy. Read more...
News from the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics 04/10
APRIL 2010 Newsletter This e-mail updates you on Center events and new material available on the Web site of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Center News Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Hierarchy Panelists look at the issue from the point of view of organizational ethics, theology, and pastoral [...]
Future 500 News: Climate Legislation to Transform the U.S.
Corporations And Stakeholders April 2010, Volume 6, Number 3 In This Issue: · Feature Article: Climate Legislation to Transform the U.S. by Scott Smithline, Director of Global Stakeholder Initiatives - Climate, and Danna Moore, Director of Stakeholder Campaigns, The Future 500 (more...)
Alternative Energy
PV Cell Prototype Generates Electricity from IR and UV Light Posted: 26 Apr 2010 12:15 AM PDT Solar energy is present in abundance around us. The problem is how to harness a substantial portion of it for human use. How to raise the efficiency bar of solar conversion into electricity? Scientists are continuously engaged in finding a way out [...]
B4E Summit Bulletin
Volume 174 Number 1 - Monday, 26 April 2010 FOURTH ANNUAL BUSINESS FOR THE ENVIRONMENT GLOBAL SUMMIT 22-23 APRIL 2010 The fourth Business for the Environment Global Summit (B4E Summit) met from Thursday April 22 to Friday 23 April 2010 in Seoul , Republic of Korea . The meeting was hosted by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), [...]
NewNet Clean Energy Investor Newsletter
26 April 2010 DEALS NEWS... German early stage investor Target Partners backs energy management company JouleX Desalination technology company Aqualyng China to benefit from state tie-up REpower signs US wind turbine deal, targets Turkish market Infrastructure developer Cavico forms Vietnamese renewable energy subsidiary ATEL Ventures [...]
GREEN TRANSITION ACCELERATING!
TODAY’S HEADLINE: NEW ENERGY IS THE SMART PLAY & THE U.S. ISN’T PLAYING SMART With U.S. energy and climate legislation now apparently trapped in a web of politics, xenophobia and Old Energy interests, New Energy developers and manufacturers around the rest of the world are likely rubbing their hands with glee and gearing up for action.
NewNet Clean Energy Investor Newsletter
22 April 2010 DEALS NEWS... Future Capital Partners raises £20m for Future Fuels transport plant project Skykon acquires Danish shipyard to access offshore wind market US power company Calpine pays $1.65bn for Pepco’s generation assets E.ON orders 87 Siemens Energy turbines for Papalote Creek II wind plant Concentrated solar [...]
Goldman, Magnetar, and Holes in the Dodd Bill
Is Goldman’s Hardball Stance a Big Mistake? Magnetar, Goldman Press Flurry Still Misses the Biggest Point of All Guest Post: Dodd Financial Reform Bill Is All Holes and No Cheese Marshall Auerback: Troubles in the EuroZone – Will the Contagion Affect the U.S.? Is Goldman’s Hardball Stance a Big Mistake? Posted: 20 Apr 2010 09:19 PM [...]
