BuildingIQ, Enlighted Make Strides in Energy-Smart Buildings

kristyGreentech

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 …

Earth Day, Green Festivals, Green Economy Think Tank, Delicious Evolution Collaborations

kristyGreen Prosperity, Sustainability News

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?

kristyCommunity Development Solutions, Sustainability News

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

kristyGreen Prosperity

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 …

Two Upcoming Conferences on Ecological Economics

kristyBeyond GDP

“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”

kristyReforming Global Finance, SRI/ESG News, Sustainability News

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 …

Bond news: IRS provokes roaring laughter w. Destiny Green Bond ruling

kristyReforming Global Finance

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 …