Archive for April, 2010
To You from NewEnergyNews: April 20, 2010
NewEnergyNews Daily Headlines click here for main page: http://newenergynews.blogspot.com/ * TODAY’S HEADLINE: NEW ENERGY AND THE LONG RUN * QUICK NEWS, 4-19: THE OBAMA ENERGY PLAN; THE MILITARY SEES ENERGY’S FUTURE; DETROIT SCHOOLS LIKE SMALL WIND; SUN'S 2009 SUNDAY WORLD, 4-18: * GREEN BUILDINGS IN INDIA & SOUTHEAST ASIA * [...]
NewNet Clean Energy Investor Newsletter
19 April 2010 DEALS NEWS... Carver Knowles warns UK government ‘green loans’ are restricted to small initiatives Qatar Investment Authority real estate fund invests in Veolia Environnement Watts Water Technologies acquires water conservation company Blue Ridge Atlantic Enterprises SunPower signs for $350m credit facility Italian [...]
Will the Climate Bill Nuke Earth Day?
Historian Harvey Wasserman Pinpoints the Mistake in the Climate Bill in Congress and How to Correct It - Hazel Henderson, Ed. April 18, 2010 The Climate Bill is due on Earth Day. By all accounts it will be a nuclear bomb. It will be the ultimate challenge of the global grassroots green movement to transform it into something that can [...]
Sustainable Financial Markets: How can we benchmark regulators?
Posted: 14 Apr 2010 02:10 PM PDT Given the inherent risks of downward spirals in regulatory competence - not least the way financial sector firms can “rent” politicalinfluence - how can we design the system to prevent the race to the bottom and regulatory arbitrage? Clearly, we need some creative thinking here, not least because those [...]
World’s Unions Urge G20 to Focus on Jobs for Economic Recovery
INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION (ITUC) Brussels, 15 April 2010 (ITUC OnLine): As forecasts warn of a continuing rise in unemployment on top of the additional 34 million people worldwide who have become unemployed due to the economic crisis, trade union leaders from the G20 countries will urge for more action on jobs when they meet with [...]
Upcoming CSR Asia Events
Companies are increasingly recognising the strategic importance of building sustainable business practices. This survey is designed to determine the status of CSR professionals in Asia and how companies are building capacity within their organisations to meet dynamic new challenges. The results of this questionnaire combined with the results of [...]
Energy & Capital: Officials Wake Up to Peak Oil, Part 2
By Chris Nelder | Friday, April 16th, 2010 In the first part of this series, I reviewed a series of reports from March supporting the peak oil view, and warning that world oil production very well may go into terminal decline by 2015 or sooner. The sources included the UK Industry Task Force on Peak Oil and Energy Security and officials within [...]
Former Wall Streeter Supports The Financial Transaction Tax
John Fullerton is also on Ethical Markets Advisory Board and Founder and President of The Capital Institute. - Hazel Henderson, Ed. April 15, 2010 John Fullerton President and Founder, Capital Institute jfullerton@capitalinstitute.org www.capitalinstitute.org Good afternoon. My name is John Fullerton. I am the President and Founder [...]
Small Change: Why Business Won’t Save The World by Michael Edwards, Berrett-Koehler 2010
Michael Edwards gives us a much-needed reality check on the rhetoric, performance and potential of the efforts of many to reform markets and make them serve new social purposes. While giving credit where it's due to all the well-motivated efforts of socially responsible investors, social venturers, philanthro-capitalists, social enterprises, [...]
13 Bankers by Simon Johnson and James Kwak, Pantheon Books 2010
Review by Hazel Henderson, author of Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy; President, Ethical Markets Media (USA and Brazil), www.ethicalmarkets.com Simon Johnson and James Kwak make clear that 13 Bankers is their call to fundamental reform of the US financial system. They provide well-documented evidence that compares the current size [...]
