‘Sustainability News’
General reporting on issues, research and experimental programs, new trade associations, and communities/business efforts, advertising, marketing.
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CSE North America launched at the Oscars with GAEA climate neutral olive oil
We congratulate our partner, the Center For Sustainability and Excellence, on the launch of its North American division. - Editor I, Robot download download missing in america online One of the most innovative clients of the Centre for Sustainability & Excellence (CSE), GAEA, took advantage of the ecological character of this year’s [...]
VISIBLE STRATEGIES BRINGS AWARD-WINNING ENVIRONMENTALIST LESTER BROWN'S "PLAN B 3.0" TO LIFE ON SCREEN USING SEE-ITTM
Visually experience the plan to save civilization with three clicks of a mouse button VANCOUVER, B.C., CANADA February 26, 2009 --/WORLD-WIRE/--Today Visible Strategies, provider of the world’s most visually engaging performance management and communications software, and the Earth Policy Institute, a research organization in Washington, [...]
NGLS Compilation of CSO input to the Commission of Experts on the Financial Crisis
53rd Session of the Commission on the Status of Women The fifty-third session of the Commission on the Status of Women will be held at UN headquarters in New York from 2-13 March 2009. CSW’s priority theme will be The equal sharing of responsibilities between women and men, including caregiving in the context of HIV/AIDS. (more...)
Feb. 24, 2009: News from Boston Research Center
BRC 2009 Theme: "Humanizing Our Lives, Humanizing Our World" Can a deeper faith in the potential of the self for positive growth spark a more enduring compassion for others, indeed for all of humanity and the environment supporting us? (more...)
Can Green Jobs Be Good Jobs?
By Jeremy Brecher The Nation - February 16, 2009 At the first Good Jobs, Green Jobs conference, held in Pittsburgh a year ago, advocates of green energy bemoaned their inability to get a modest renewable-energy tax credit through Congress over the opposition of the Bush administration. (more...)
Green for All: Great news! $500 million for green jobs!
Congress just passed the FINAL version of the economic recovery bill. And guess what? $500 million for green jobs training is included in the package! This is a huge victory. And together, we've been fighting for it for more than a year. Read more...
Feb. 11, 2009: Planet 2025 News Network
North American Trees Dying Twice as Fast Our trees are dying. Throughout the western United States, cherished and protected forests are dying twice as fast as they did 20 years ago because of climate change, researchers reported in the journal Science. (more...)
PPS Greatest Hits of 2008: 10 Trends Shaping the Future of Our Communities
January 2009 As we transition from a burgeoning economy to one that's rapidly deflating, people are realizing that placemaking offers the ideal approach to improving our cities and neighborhoods in these hard times. (more...)
2008 Urban Economic Conference Recap
On October 9, 2008, the Black Economic Council (BEC) hosted its 3rd Annual Urban Economic Conference-"The Democratization of the Capital Markets" The conference which provided knowledge and resources that minority businesses and families must have to facilitate equal access to capital, highlighted the need for preserving minority-owned banks, as [...]
January 28, 2009: Organic News
Organic food growth slows amid downturn Jan. 28 -- London/Chicago -- (Reuters) - As recession drives consumers to cut costs, their commitment to organic food has been tested with sales growth slowing -- but so far, sales are not falling. How green are our wallets? Grown without the use of synthetic fertilisers and pesticides, organic food has [...]
