HydroVision International 2012: Where Hydro Meets Power Developing 7.5-MW Youngs Creek in Washington State Adding a Spillway Protects Integrity of Jackson Bluff Dam Viewpoints from the Board Room: John Brewster, NAES Corporation How Small Hydro Could Rescue America?s Dumb Dams Upgrading the Cowlitz Salmon Hatchery Installing Hydraulic Crest Gates Improves …
Green Expo: Are You Green? Find out at informative seminars about building, energy, transportation, environment, agriculture and economics.
The Southern Green Living Expo will offer informative seminars about “being green” during the Southern Green Living Expo, September 14-16, 2012, held in downtown Asheville at the U.S. Cellular Center, formerly known as the Civic Center. Click for more information.
NOAA Ship Fairweather conducting hydrographic reconnaissance in the Arctic
Mission to update measurements dating to the 18th century NOAA Ship Fairweather begins a 30-day survey mission in the Arctic this week, scheduled to check a sparsely measured 1,500-nautical mile coastal corridor from Dutch Harbor, Alaska, north through the Bering Strait and east to the Canadian border. The mission will …
Announcing: Sustainable Economics for the 21st Century Free Teleseminar Series starts Aug. 5th! Register here
Sustainable Economics for the 21st Century A FREE Five Part Teleseminar Co-Hosts: Alanna Hartzok and Wendell Fitzgerald Consciousness in its fulfilled, developed state will bring the ‘dismal science’ of economics to an evolved and higher level – to the status of Enlightened Economics. – Ron Robins The five 90-minute teleseminars …
General Assembly President Calls on States to Implement Rio + 20 Outcome Document
New York, Jul 27 2012 3:05PM The President of the General Assembly, Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, today called on countries to focus on implementing the outcome document from the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, last month. “We have defined the future we …
Great news on chemical reform; work still to do
Great news! This week the U.S. Senate achieved a landmark decision when the Environment and Public Works (EPW) committee passed the Safe Chemicals Act, which provides environmental health protections from toxic chemicals. This is the first time that there has been a vote on modernizing the nation’s toxic chemical laws …
Ozone loss and climate change are now “intimately” connected
Ethical Markets’ colleagues at the scientific group HELIO report new discovery. – Hazel Henderson, editor Published on Thursday, July 26, 2012 by Common Dreams Increase in Extreme Storms Causing ‘Rapid Ozone Destruction’ Injection of water vapor makes ozone layer sensitive to global warming — and geoengineering – Common Dreams staff …
Focusing Science on the Damage
We at Ethical Markets agree with Chandran Nair ! – Hazel Henderson, Editor HONG KONG — At the end of June, Brazil’s state-controlled oil company, Petrobras, announced plans to invest $44 billion in the “pre-salt” oil fields in the country’s coastal waters, whose holdings of at least 50 billion barrels …
7 Ways Your Solar Website Is Driving Away Business? Yes, Your Website
7 Ways Your Solar Website Is Driving Away Business ? Yes, Your Website by Tor ‘Solar Fred’ Valenza | July 27, 2012 | There are at least a million ways to design a solar website today, and there are probably just as many ways to turn that expensive investment into …
New BSR Conference 2012 Plenary Speakers
The BSR Conference 2012 will feature a powerful lineup of plenary speakers, including Marks and Spencer Chief Executive Marc Bolland and former Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste President José Ramos-Horta. The plenary program will also feature I3 speakers Global Institute for Tomorrow (GIFT) CEO Chandran Nair, and international photographer Platon. I3 …