2009 Annual Report on the CDFI Banking Industry, An NCIF Publication

kristySRI/ESG News

Please visit our website (www.ncif.org) for a copy of the NCIF (SM) 2009 Annual Report on the CDFI Banking Industry. This contains information on the financial performance and condition of the CDFI banks along with their Social Performance Metrics (SM) and peer data. Detailed Social Performance Metrics analysis, including longitudinal …

Nanosolar: Solar Power at a Lower Cost

kristyTrendspotting

Nanosolar: Solar Power at a Lower Cost Posted: 23 May 2010 05:00 PM PDT In a market-friendly scenario, Nanosolar claims to be able to produce electricity at 5-6 cents/kilowatt hour almost as cheap as power from coal and at about one-third the cost of other solar power. Nanosolar claims: Nanosolar …

GridPoint Lands U.S. Postal Service – GTM Daily

kristySustainability News

DAILY NEWSLETTER | MONDAY, MAY 24, 2010 Tony Blair Joins Khosla Ventures As Porfolio Comes out of Stealth Calera, Kior, Point Source Power, Soraa come out of hidey hole. MEMC Continues M&A Hunt with $66M Solaicx Buy Another acquisition from MEMC as the solar market’s consolidation continues Why VCs Are …

To You from NewEnergyNews: May 24, 2010

kristyTrendspotting

NewEnergyNews Daily Headlines click here for main page: http://www.NewEnergyNews.net/ * TODAY’S HEADLINE: Colliding tragedies and the missing pie slice * QUICK NEWS, 5-24: EFX OF ENERGY/CLIMATE BILL; MORE COSTS OF COAL; CALIF SUN EXPERIMENT; WHAT WIND CAN DO FOR TEXAS SUNDAY WORLD, 5-23: * EU WIND’S FOREMOST MERIT * CHINA …

Climate Bonds

kristyGreen Prosperity

Climate Bonds has posted a new item, ‘AXA IM fixed income CIO calls Climate Bonds a “major new asset class brewing”‘ AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) is one of the biggest asset managers in the world. At the end of 2009 AXA IM had EUR 328 billion of fixed income …

Culture Integral to Agriculture

kristyEarth Systems Science

‘Culture Integral to Agriculture’ By Sabina Zaccaro ROME, May 21, 2010 (IPS) – Biodiversity in agriculture is about culture. Traditional knowledge and culture are as important as research and investments aver farmers, researchers and academicians who are gathered in Rome to celebrate International Day for Biodiversity on Saturday.

Weekly update from the Center for Public Integrity

kristyGlobal Citizen

Center’s BP Refinery Scoop Noted at White House Briefing An exclusive Center for Public Integrity story revealing that BP refineries account for 97 percent of the worst safety problems in the U.S. refining industry was widely published and even prompted a question at a White House daily press briefing. The …