‘Sustainability News’
General reporting on issues, research and experimental programs, new trade associations, and communities/business efforts, advertising, marketing.
Relates to: Trendspotting, Community Development Solutions, Global Citizenship, Sustainability Research Group, EthicalMarkets.tv
Schumacher Centenary Festival
Ethical Markets Media celebrates E.F.Schumacher’s Centennial! He was a friend of our Founder and President, Hazel Henderson and wrote the Foreword to her first book, Creating Alternative Futures : The End of Economics (1978, 1996) Schumacher Centenary Festival 8-9 October, 2011 in Bristol Time for a New Direction This weekend in [...]
RSF Fall Newlsetter: Food & Agriculture
RSF Fall Newlsetter: Food & Agriculture In this issue of the RSF Quarterly, we examine ways in which people are actively working to change how our food system operates. Check out the Clients in Conversation piece to learn about the work of RSF investor-borrowers, Jessica Rolph (HAPPYFAMILY) and John Roulac (Nutiva), in the superfoods [...]
Ecocities Emerging – October 2011 Issue
Greetings, Welcome to the October 2011 edition of Ecocities Emerging, an initiative of Ecocity Builders and the International Ecocity Conference Series. "Why are we here?" It's a question often posed philosophically. Posed practically, the answer is pretty straightforward - we're here because our planet supports conditions for life, [...]
LA Green Festival & October Events – RSVP
Join us on Oct. 29-30 Green Festival comes to Los Angeles, October 29 -30 at the LA Convention Center. Join us... and share the FUN with all your friends and family! Help spread the word. Share this email with your friends. Make plans to join your friends at this celebration of what’s working in our communities. More than 150 visionary [...]
Green Sectors Expanding into Trillions of Dollars
Small and intermediate enterprises are joining large ones to boost Green Industry's footprint By Rosalinda Sanquiche As part of the Green Economy series While mainstream media, economists and general opinion still designate the Green Economy as "emerging" and assume green investments are riskier or provide lower returns than other [...]
The International Green Energy Council Becomes Collaborative Partner for the Allianz Championship
The International Green Energy Council has been commissioned to assist in the "greening" of the Allianz Championship to be held at the Broken Sound Golf Course and Country Club in Boca Raton, Florida the week of February 6-12, 2012. "The Allianz Championship is thrilled to be partnering with the International Green Energy Council in its goal to [...]
Sustainable Community Development
Julia DeGraw, in this video from Food and Water Watch, explains why Oregonians are opposed to selling their water to Nestles. Read more...
UNECE, EEA Launch Assessment of Assessments on Water and Green Economy
21_September 2011: The UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the European Environment Agency (EEA) have launched an Assessment of Assessments report recommending ways to align environmental information and policy making, with a focus on water and the green economy. The recommendations were issued to the ministers meeting at the seventh [...]
Rio+20: Accountability and Implementation policy brief
During the Rio+20 PrepCom2, a side event was held on accountability and implementation. The event was organized by the BU Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-range Future, with the support from the Nordic Missions of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden to the United Nations in New [...]
The Navigare Feature Story: An Update From Mongolia, A Greenhouse Stands
By Ken Dabkowski In the summer of 2010, a group of unlikely friends began to assemble and set out to pur- sue a crazy idea: Could we take an abundance of vodka bottles from the remote Mongolian countryside and use them to build a green- house? In just a year's time, we had an answer to that question. Download the newsletter (PDF).
