Archive for May, 2010
Ecocities Emerging – May 2010 Issue
Welcome to the May 2010 edition of Ecocities Emerging, an initiative of Ecocity Builders and the International Ecocity Conference Series. The contemporary degrowth movement can trace its roots back to the anti-industrialist trends of the 19th century developed in Great Britain by John Ruskin, in the United States by Henry David Thoreau and in [...]
2009 Annual Report on the CDFI Banking Industry, An NCIF Publication
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 research [...]
Nanosolar: Solar Power at a Lower Cost
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 claims mass production of solar power will [...]
RI Round Up: Desjardins; RiskMetrics; CalSTRS
News Headlines: › RI Round Up: Desjardins; RiskMetrics; CalSTRS Click here to read the newsletter.
GridPoint Lands U.S. Postal Service – GTM Daily
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 Circling Wind Power for [...]
To You from NewEnergyNews: May 24, 2010
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 SUN IN [...]
Accelerating the Transition: what should be the priorities for the next government?
Accelerating the Transition: what should be the priorities for the next government? Thursday 29th April 2010 Lord Chris Smith, Chairman of the Environment Agency opened the meeting, noting "one of the interesting things about the current election campaign is that the environment ... has been virtually non-existent in the campaign discussions." [...]
Climate Bonds
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 assets under management. In a paper published this week, Christopher Iggo, AXA [...]
Alternative Energy May 23, 2010
Alternative Energy Investing Newsletter Sponsor Alternative Energy Energy Transition: The Intractability of the Built Environment by Gregor Macdonald
Culture Integral to Agriculture
'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. (more...)
