This week, we published our latest installment in charting the potential for Wind Energy in the United States. That potential has doubled in the last five years due to technological improvements. Check out my SlideShare to learn more! Also, I wrote an assessment of some of the feedback that Karl and …
Ban welcomes UN Assembly’s endorsement of action plan on post-2015 development financing
27 July 2015 – The United Nations General Assembly today endorsed the new global action agenda for financing sustainable development adopted two weeks ago by a major UN conference, and Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed the move as a major step that firmly puts the world “on the path to a more prosperous, …
Informed Investors and Policy-Makers are Essential for Healthy Capital Markets
Healthy Markets Association Informed Investors and Policy-Makers are Essential for Healthy Capital Markets Thank you for signing up for updates about the Healthy Markets Association. We launched this non-profit effort a year ago to promote data-driven changes in capital markets. Over the past year we’ve learned a lot about how …
Toward Regenerative Society: Plan for Rapid Transition – See more at: http://commonstransition.org/toward-regenerative-society-plan-for-rapid-transition#sthash.6uVSauQE.dpuf
The Commons Transition/P2P Foundation team was pleasantly surprised while reading the Center for Planetary Culture‘s Plan for Rapid Transition, authored by Daniel Pinchbeck. It is a thorough and inspiring overview for transitioning to a more sensible cognitive framework that holds many similarities to our own Commons Transition Plan, including its focus …
Weekend Reflections: Pope Francis and the Environment
We at ethical markets have no religious affiliations , but are impressed by the scientific accuracy of Pope Francis , as a chemist, demonstrated in his Encyclical, which we already posted in full for our audience of socially concerned investors, Hazel Henderson,Editor July 24, 2015 Weekend Reflections Pope Francis …
NewEnergyNews: THE NEWEST CLIMATE SCIENCE (SPOILER: NOT GOOD NEWS)
NewEnergyNews: Daily Headlines www.NewEnergyNews.net/ TODAY AT NewEnergyNews, July 27: * TODAY’S STUDY: THE NEWEST CLIMATE SCIENCE (SPOILER: NOT GOOD NEWS) * QUICK NEWS, July 27: WIND’S HOPE …
A call for platform cooperatives
Lots of important articles here on defining the differences between labor brokers like Uber and true cooperative sharing enterprises, Hazel Henderson,Editor “P2P Foundation” – 4 new articles A call for platform cooperatives Book of the Day: Conflicts in the Knowledge Society Can political movements become enabling movements ? Trebor Scholz …
ESA hands over control of the MSG-4 weather satellite
On 26 July at 09:30 GMT (11:30 CEST), ESA handed control of Europe’s last Meteosat Second Generation weather satellite, MSG-4, to EUMETSAT. This follows the launch of the satellite on 15 July aboard an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, and the Launch and Early Orbit Phase …
Obama Walks Fine Line in Kenya on LGBTI Rights
2015/7/27 Obama Walks Fine Line in Kenya on LGBTI Rights Aruna Dutt U.S. President Barack Obama spoke in Nairobi at the end of a two-day visit Saturday, focusing on Kenya’s economy and the fight against terrorism, but also briefly touching on gay rights and discrimination. “When you start treating people …
Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms: evidence from paleoclimate data, climate modeling, and modern observations that 2 ?C global warming is highly dangerous
There is evidence of ice melt, sea level rise to +5–9 m, and extreme storms in the prior interglacial period that was less than 1?C warmer than today. Human-made climate forcing is stronger and more rapid than paleo forcings, but much can be learned by 5 combining insights from paleoclimate, …
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