Archive for 2012
South Africa’s Largest Ever Solar Deal, SolarX, First Solar CEO Interview (Solar News Of The Week)
South Africa's Largest Ever Solar Deal, SolarX, First Solar CEO Interview (Solar News Of The Week) Posted: 15 Dec 2012 05:11 PM PST Here's some more top solar energy news from the week (other than our own stories - which you can find via the link above): Rooftop Solar Why Utilites Will Pay A Premium For Rooftop Solar: "A power company rang [...]
Europe’s Big Risk Test
Announcement European Energy Review has entered a new phase of its existence. After five years our newsletter and website have been renewed and expanded, and our business model has been changed, to ensure that we can continue to function as the premier independent international energy platform. Register yourself now and become acquainted with [...]
Katerva announces the 51 Finalists for the 2012 Katerva Award
51 new ideas that will change our world 13 December 2012—The Katerva Award has been referred to as the Nobel Prize of Sustainability, highlighting the most innovative projects from around the world. The 2012 Katerva Award Finalists are: Eco-Fuel Africa, Sino-implant, Womankind Worldwide, Voice 4 Girls, The Water Initiative, A Liter of Light, [...]
A Digital Cold War?
The most important result of the World Conference on International Telecom has been to demonstrate that the world now splits into two camps when it comes to the Internet: one is comprised of more authoritarian countries, which would like to turn back the clock and regain sovereignty over their own national bits of the Internet; the other wants to [...]
Earth Charter Education Center Programme for Educators – May 2013
Learn how to implement the ethical principles of sustainability in your school or classroom. Join other educators for a one week intensive program which will provide you with ideas, resources and skills for implementing ESD in your work environment. The program introduces sustainable development, and the implications it has for education, [...]
A High School Reunion Video Becomes a Film of Global Importance
Children of the Silent Revolution reveals the insight of a special group of young people Viktoria Ershova had a great idea to make her high school reunion special. Why not make a short film showing how the lives of those in her circle of friends had transpired over the past ten years? What had happened to each? Where were they? Had they [...]
Fiduciary management, people roundup, ABP vs JP Morgan, OECD on Ireland, Asset Owners Disclosure Project, Preqin
Survey shows waning interest in fiduciary management in Netherlands NETHERLANDS – Pension funds less likely to outsource asset management, IPNederland survey shows. 12/12/12 Wednesday people roundup ABP settles with JP Morgan over 'false, misleading' RMBS sale OECD review to trigger 'major' pension reforms in Ireland Pension funds [...]
World Nuclear Electricity Generation Down 5 Percent Since 2006
World nuclear electricity-generating capacity has been essentially flat since 2007 and is likely to fall as plants retire faster than new ones are built. In fact, the actual electricity generated at nuclear power plants fell 5 percent between 2006 and 2011. In 2011, following Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, 13 nuclear reactors in [...]
Capital Institute 2012 Year in Review
With the year’s end fast approaching, we cannot help but reflect on our busy and productive year: research and practice around holism, biomimicry, and entropic thrift; debate around impact investing in the anthropocene, climate change, and stranded assets; discussions of the Financial Transactions Tax and Dodd-Frank. We made significant [...]
Guess what next year’s top 10 issues are?
Future 500 believes passionately in the promise of corporations and NGOs coming together to advance systemic solutions to our most urgent sustainability challenges. Each fall we identify what we anticipate are the Top 10 issues that activists and corporations will likely contend with in the coming year. From Money In [...]
