Archive for 2012
Sustainable Investing: Establishing Long-Term Value and Performance
Investment Research Sustainable Investing: Establishing Long-Term Value and Performance June 14, 2012 Click here to download paper PDF / 1419.37 kB The evidence is compelling: Sustainable Investing can be a clear win for investors and for companies. However, many SRI fund managers, who have tended to use exclusionary screens, have [...]
Algae Biofuel Plays in Peoria
Algae Biofuel Plays in Peoria Posted: 30 Jun 2012 11:06 AM PDT Solazyme opens algae biofuel refinery in PeoriaThe algae biofuel company Solazyme has just opened its first commercial scale algae biorefinery in Peoria Illinois, and as the saying goes, if it plays in Peoria, it will play anywhere. Peoria is legendary as a test market for [...]
ENB Vol. 9 No. 574 – Second meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Nagoya Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity – Issue #1
Second MEETING OF THE intergovernmental committee for the nagoya protocol ON ACCESS AND BENEFIT-SHARING to the convention on biological diversity: 2-6 JULY 2012 The second meeting of the Open-ended Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Committee for the Nagoya Protocol (ICNP) on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of [...]
Transitioning to the Solar Age
By Hazel Henderson This essay has been excerpted as a chapter in WorldShift 2020: The New Vision - Exploring the Evolving Horizons; section 'From Vision To Reality: Contributions From The Worldshifting Community' forthcoming from Inner Traditions Publishing (Rochester, VT). The multiple crises human societies experienced in the first decade [...]
New role for RNAi discovered: Epigenetic memory may pass RNA silencing from one generation to the next
New role for RNAi discovered: Epigenetic memory may pass RNA silencing from one generation to the next Posted: 26 Jun 2012 01:38 PM PDT Researchers have identified a mechanism related to RNAi that scans for intruders not by recognizing dsRNA or some other aberrant feature of the foreign sequence, but rather by comparing the foreign sequences [...]
UN SENIOR OFFICIALS HIGHLIGHT RIO+20 ACHIEVEMENTS
We at Ethical Markets, as full participants in RIO+20 agree! The wide support for growing green economies shows the way forward!", Hazel Henderson, Editor UN SENIOR OFFICIALS HIGHLIGHT RIO+20 ACHIEVEMENTS New York, Jun 28 2012 4:05PM United Nations senior officials today highlighted the achievements made during the United Nations Conference [...]
Northwind achieves financial close for Belgian offshore wind project
29 June 2012 Deal News Northwind achieves financial close for Belgian offshore wind project AES sells French wind assets for ?34m DOE-backed Abound Solar to file for bankruptcy protection PREMIUM PensionDanmark to make first investment into onshore wind Vestas wins 216MW order for Belgium offshore project Carmanah wins $1.1m [...]
Ethical Markets at Rio+20
Ladislau Dowbor, Ethical Markets Representative to Rio+20 has started the round of side events. Prof. Dowbor presented the Green Transition Scoreboard® to the Instituto Ethos Conference, Wednesday, June 13, 2012. Speaking of Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of ECLAC and moderator of the UN Secretary General's interactive dialogue on June [...]
STATEMENT ON TRANSFORMING FINANCE BASED ON ETHICS AND LIFE’S PRINCIPLES
June 27, 2012 © 2012 The STATEMENT ON TRANSFORMING FINANCE BASED ON ETHICS AND LIFE’S PRINCIPLES begins with the biological truth that the human species is interdependent with all other life forms on Planet Earth. A joint collobration with Biomimicry 3.8, the statement shows how human societies, cultures, values and belief systems are [...]
Rio + 20 For Dummies
by Melanie Feliciano Ethical Markets Correspondent The Mekong River - which travels through Thailand, Laos and Cambodia - is being destroyed by the construction of hydropower dams. The Aral Sea in Uzbekistan has had its surface area reduced by 90% due to diversion of water tributaries. Photographs of these effects of human industry on [...]
