Archive for May, 2010
FUTURIST UPDATE June 2010
Read online: www.wfs.org/futuristupdate.htm Pass this newsletter along! FUTURIST UPDATE may be freely shared if forwarded in its entirety. In This Issue: * The Edward Cornish Award for Futurist of the Year * FUTURIST Magazine Published in Turkish * Visions of Europe * Dator, Henderson, Coates Honored * 2010 High-School Essay Contest [...]
Celebrating change – a $200m fund, “Switch,” hiring for 5 new positions
Calvert Foundation launches new $200 million Communities at Work Fund™ with Citi and OFN. Calvert Foundation recently launched a new $200 million Communities at Work Fund™ with Citi and Opportunity Finance Network. This Fund was established separately from Calvert Foundation's Community Investment Note portfolio, and aims to create jobs, [...]
Remembering the Three Rio Conventions
Remembering the Three Rio Conventions By Ramesh Jaura IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis BERLIN (IDN) - The botched UN conference in Copenhagen may prove to be a blessing in disguise by way of correcting the imbalance that has favoured climate change but nearly ignored desertification and biodiversity that are two other centerpieces of the three 'Rio [...]
To You from NewEnergyNews: May 25, 2010
NewEnergyNews Daily Headlines click here for main page: http://www.NewEnergyNews.net/ * No lead post today because... * QUICK NEWS, 5-24: SUN NEEDS POLICY NURTURING; WIND MANUFACTURER TO ARKANSAS; THE GHGS FROM NATURAL GAS; BEYOND GRASS YESTERDAY * TODAY’S HEADLINE: Colliding tragedies and the missing pie slice * QUICK NEWS, [...]
Plea for pension funds to engage on reporting standards
RI News Alert: › Plea for pension funds to engage on reporting standards Click here to read the newsletter.
Earth Policy Release — Parking Lots to Parks: Designing Livable Cities
Earth Policy Release Book Byte May 25, 2010 PARKING LOTS TO PARKS: Designing Livable Cities www.earthpolicy.org/index.php?/book_bytes/2010/pb4ch06_ss1and8 By Lester R. Brown As I was being driven through Tel Aviv from my hotel to a conference center in 1998, I could not help but note the overwhelming presence of cars and parking [...]
Ragmonks.blogspot.com
WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 2010 Bob Monks video: SEC no action letters & Exxon resolutions Bob has recently published two new articles. One on categories of common stock ownership was published in Financial News (subscription) on May 10, and the other about SEC no-action letters appeared in P&I on May 11. This week, Bob commented on those pieces [...]
Earth Fever: Living Consciously with Climate Change by Judy McAllister
Congratulations to Earth Fever for winning a 2011 Nautilus Award in the Green Living and Sustainability category! Nautilus Book Awards, a leading book awards organization for cutting-edge books, announced that Earth Fever by Canadian Judy McAllister and Dutchmen Erik van Praag and Jan Paul van Soest, has been awarded the 2011 Nautilus Silver [...]
International Solar News – May 26, 2010
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 Leasing Beats Owning in Solar, Says Sungevity It will save Sandra Bullock $34 a month. First there was its offer to install free panels on the White House. (Lease payments were available if Barack felt uncomfortable with the gift.) (more...)
NewNet Clean Energy Investor Newsletter
25 May 2010 DEALS NEWS... Beacon Power secures $2m New York smart grid contract MTI invests £250,000 in UK water treatment developer Arvia Technology SunEdison and Weingarten Realty Investors to exploit US rooftops for solar National Wind secures Deutsche Bank credit facility AEI acquires majority stake in NBT New Energy [...]
