SolarNexus Dropping Solar’s “Soft Costs” Scrubbing cost out of the residential solar rooftop installation process ShineOn: $51.5 Million for LED Components ShineOn you crazy diamond! Think of them as the motherboard makers to the LED world. The Mouth of the South and T. Boone Bash Big Oil Ted Turner and …
Small-scale farmers increasingly at risk from ‘global land grabbing’
New research on the global rush for agricultural land shows that small-scale farmers will increasingly lose out to major corporations as land deals ignore local tenure rights. by Jun Borras, Ian Scoones, David Hughes Fresh evidence from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the former Soviet Union was presented last week …
What Smart Grid Growth Needs
NewEnergyNews Daily Headlines click here for main page: http://www.NewEnergyNews.net/ Today At Newenergynews, 4-20: * Today’s Study: What Smart Grid Growth Needs * Quick News, 4-20: Nat Gas Study Challenged; Cape Wind Gets Big Go; Wires Key To Ocean Wind; Top 10 Sunmakers In 2010 Yesterday * Study: Not So Clean …
Sustainability experts call for smarter regulation on transparency
Sustainability experts are calling on regulators to ask companies for information on how sustainable they are – or explain why if they choose not to provide it. Today the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) launches the Report or Explain Campaign Forum to encourage more companies to be transparent about their impacts …
Reversing the Mexican “Brain Drain”
A publication from World Trends & Forecasts Investing in more tech opportunities may lure the best and brightest back home. By Concepción Olavarrieta After investing more than a billion dollars (or 25% of the Ministry for Education’s budget) in postgraduate studies for young students abroad, Mexico is looking for a …
Save the Date: CSR Asia Summit 2011 Returns to Malaysia
Save the Date: CSR Asia Summit 2011 Returns to Malaysia CSR Asia Summit, the region’s premier conference for corporate social responsibility, will return to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 27th to 28th September 2011. The Summit will deliver the most cutting-edge CSR issues, case studies, tools and knowledge to challenge your …
Helius Energy awards contracts for 7.5MW biomass plant
20 April 2011 DEAL NEWS Helius Energy awards contracts for 7.5MW biomass plant Rentech to up stake in ClearFuels Eiser Infrastructure closes €475m Spanish solar thermal financing Silfab secures €2.2m loan for Ontario production AMP Electric Vehicles to electrify Northern Lights fleet in $100m deal TPG takes $150m stake in …
€4.6bn Dutch development bank FMO signs up to UN PRI
April 20th, 2011 RI News Alert: › €4.6bn Dutch development bank FMO signs up to UN PRI › ESG input reduces risk on emerging markets/corporate bond exposure: quant report Click here to read the newsletter
AFL-CIO unveils Executive PayWatch site
April 20th, 2011 RI News Alert: › RI Briefing, April 20: AFL-CIO unveils Executive PayWatch site Click here to read the newsletter
Peak Uranium – And Other Threats To Nuclear Power
Background: This article discusses the fact that the world will “run out of uranium” about the same time it “runs out of oil”. It is a limitation that was recognized from the very earliest days of nuclear research. Before the first commercial reactors were ever built, nuclear scientists were well …