March 28, 2012 LATEST NEWS: News Green Building BuildingIQ, Enlighted Make Strides in Energy-Smart Buildings Jeff St. John – March 27, 2012 Smart HVAC startup BuildingIQ partners with Schneider Electric, and Enlighted links its smart lighting with HVAC and demand response. News Smart Grid Top Ten Utility Smart Grid Deployments …
Time to Change! How to Break Free from Old Models
Time to Change! How to Break Free from Old Models 26 April 2012 • Brussels 44 Center Dear, JUMP Forum is the biggest single day event dedicated to the professional lives of women and their career planning. Each year it inspires hundreds of professional women and men across Europe, featuring …
Earth Day, Green Festivals, Green Economy Think Tank, Delicious Evolution Collaborations
From our colleague, Leland Lehrman, who helps organize and promote all these projects which Ethical Markets supports, Hazel Henderson, Editor Friends – Earth Day with Green Festivals and The Big Fix movie will be huge this year. For the UN and Delicious Evolution, it will be a staging area for …
What’s ecosapien doing today?
Headline from Future Earth-on-the-Mend What’s ecosapien doing today? Ecosapien’s wind/photon/PV electric sailing/delivering food on recombinant hybrid (ecosapien +) bikecycle/triwheel (local/regional mfg. processes passing full ecological audit) produce truck powered by: 1) ecosapien (powered by local org food); 2) flexible PV panel sails (arranged to catch wind if in good pushing …
ENB Vol. 27 No. 23 – First Round of ‘Informal-Informal’ Negotiations on the Zero Draft of the Outcome Document and Third Intersessional Meeting of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development – Issue #7
THIRD INTERSESSIONAL MEETING: monday, 26 march 2012 Delegates convened on Monday, 26 March, for the UNCSD’s third Intersessional Meeting, resuming their discussions under the “informal informal” consultations held the previous week. The group spent the entire day and evening exchanging further views and input on the zero draft. OPENING OF …
Hacking, Ethics, and the Future of Internet Security
March 2012 Newsletter UPCOMING EVENTS Hacking, Ethics, and the Future of Internet Security A talk by Joseph Menn, technology projects reporter for Reuters, draws on his experience on the technology beat for top publications including the Financial Times, LA Times, and Bloomberg. Monday, April 9, 7 p.m. Have the Rules …
Two Upcoming Conferences on Ecological Economics
“Degrowth in the Americas” International Conference Montreal, Quebec, Canada May 13-19, 2012 http://montreal.degrowth.org/ Speakers include: David Suzuki, William Rees, Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Fullerton, Alain Gras, Joan Martinez-Alier, Serge Mongeau, Elizabeth Peredo Beltrán, Juliet Schor, Peter Victor, François Schneider Want social and environmental justice? Montreal conference to explore alternatives to …
M·CAM Inc. releases the “The Navigare”
M·CAM Inc. releases the “The Navigare” (1st Quarter 2012) Date: Mon, 03/26/2012 M·CAM Inc. released the 2nd Volume of “The Navigare” today – the first issue of 2012! This volume highlights our most recent involvement constructing a wind mill in Papua New Guinea, a brilliant opinion piece from Adam Tepper …
WAR TIME by Mary L. Dudziak, Oxford University Press, 2012
WAR TIME by Mary L. Dudziak, Oxford University Press, 2012 Review by Alan F. Kay The book introduction initiates various ways that ideas about time affect our understanding of war — followed by chapters that specifically examine how war and time are imaged. We imagine the start and end of …
Bond news: IRS provokes roaring laughter w. Destiny Green Bond ruling
You have to hand it to the US IRS (Internal Revenue Service) – they seem to have a sense of humour. In 2004, the US Congress created tax-credits for Green Bonds for large construction projects that would serve as demonstrations of alternative energy technologies. In 2007 Destiny USA issued $228m …