For Immediate Release 23 March 2011 Sustainability reporting: most complete guidance ever The most comprehensive and complete sustainability reporting guidance is now available, as the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) launches its G3.1 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines today (23 March 2011). GRI is a network-based non-governmental organization that aims to make sustainability …
Tesco unveils wind-powered distribution centres
Tesco unveils wind-powered distribution centres Supermarket giant installs four 800kW wind turbines at facilities in Daventry and Newport READ» How will Mayor Boris boost London’s air quality plan? Mayor to face questions from London Assembly after receiving temporary exemption from EU’s air quality standards READ» EU clears hacked Czech carbon …
Conference on Certification Consumption and Change
Ethical Markets Media correspondent and director of communications Melanie Feliciano will be covering the D.C. CERTIFICATION CONSUMPTION AND CHANGE conference in Washington, DC, May 24, 2011. This is an international convening of thought-leaders and practitioners working on ethical certification, bringing together 150 thought leaders from social enterprises, leading brands and certifying …
Corporate R&D: Global Investments in Green Innovation
By Timothy Jack Nash Wed Mar 23, 2011 7:31am EDT by Timothy Jack Nash Corporate spending on Research & Development is an informative signal for the direction of the overall economy. R&D strategies and budgets are often laid out in a long-term horizon, so they give a good indication of …
Norwegian pension fund more than triples investment in green assets
A publication from Fund Balance Environmental Finance: 22 March 2011 Norway?s Government Pension Fund Global has more than tripled its green-themed assets under management to NOK25.7 billion ($4.6 billion) in one year. Last year, Norges Bank Investment Fund (NBIM), which manages the pension fund, awarded six mandates with a focus …
EnerNOC Wins SCE Contract for Energy Efficiency
EnerNOC Wins SCE Contract for Energy Efficiency Forget about demand response, EnerNOC wants a bite of the energy efficiency pie. The Humanitarian Side of Solar and Renewables We take a break from pure capitalism to honor the human, animal, and environmental-minded side of the renewable business. Suniva Update: “Suspending” Pursuit …
UN Report on Right to Food Promotes Agroecology, Questions Corporate-controlled Farming
This report explores how States can achieve a reorientation of their agricultural systems towards modes of production that are highly productive, highly sustainable and that contribute to the progressive realization of the human right to adequate food. Drawing on an extensive review of the scientific literature published in the last …
NIH Spending Imperiled by Republicans Ignoring Gingrich Pleas
When House Republicans took power in 1995 determined to cut spending in a battle that shut down the U.S. government, then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich was persuaded to spare the National Institutes of Health. Read more..
Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper: A Low-cost, High-impact Placemaking Approach
A Low-cost, High-impact Placemaking Approach to Improve Your Community Now As people everywhere struggle to do more with less and cry out for places of meaning and beauty, we have to find fast, creative, profitable ways to capitalize on local ingenuity and turn public spaces into treasured community places. Read …
Where the Money Will Take New Energy
TODAY AT NewEnergyNews, 3-22: * Today’s Study: Where the Money Will Take New Energy * Quick News, 3-22: Japan Meltdown Heats Nuke Waste Debate; Cats Kill Way More Birds Than Wind; How Algae Replaces Oil; State Workers Can Lead Efficiency