Profit from the Death of Your Electric Company

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity, Trendspotting

  Profit from the Death of Your Electric Company By Jeff Siegel | Wednesday, July 31st, 2013 The annual market for distributed generation will reach $12.7 billion in about three years. This figure is based on a recent Pike Research report on microgrids, and has since been shown to be …

GIFT: An Action Agenda for Sustainable Development

Jay OwenTrendspotting, Earth Systems Science

Global Institute For Tomorrow – Programme Updates – Summer 2013 Programme Updates – Summer 2013 An Action Agenda for Sustainable Development issued by the UN last month outlines 10 priorities covering the four main dimensions of sustainable development: economic growth and the end of poverty, social inclusion,environmental sustainability, and good governance. Water resources for drinking, sanitation, energy …

Fort McMurray Evicts Oil Sands Companies that Helped it Grow

Jay OwenTrendspotting

Fort McMurray Evicts Oil Sands Companies that Helped it Grow  The Canadian town of Fort McMurray, population 76,000, is the heart of Alberta’s oil sands largesse–but the town is bursting at its seams with nowhere to expand because the land surrounding it is owned by oil companies. The government’s answer to this …

GIFT: An Action Agenda for Sustainable Development

Jay OwenTrendspotting, Earth Systems Science

Global Institute For Tomorrow – Programme Updates – Summer 2013   Programme Updates – Summer 2013 An Action Agenda for Sustainable Development issued by the UN last month outlines 10 priorities covering the four main dimensions of sustainable development: economic growth and the end of poverty, social inclusion, environmental sustainability, and good governance. Water resources for drinking, sanitation, energy and …

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity, Trendspotting

    Profit from the Death of Your Electric Company By Jeff Siegel | Wednesday, July 31st, 2013 The annual market for distributed generation will reach $12.7 billion in about three years. This figure is based on a recent Pike Research report on microgrids, and has since been shown to …

Smart Planet Daily: A New Age of Sail? Clipper ships are back in business

Jay OwenTrendspotting

    Manage my newsletters  |  Trouble viewing this mail? Read it online.  |  Previous Edition     SmartPlanet Daily July 31, 2013 A daily briefing of the newest stories on SmartPlanet, five days a week.   From the Desk of … But these aren’t your grandmother’s clipper ships. Plus, C.C. Sullivan asks whether …

Futurist Update: Curbing the Decline of Chinese Manufacturing

Jay OwenTrendspotting

    August 2013 • Volume 14, No. 8 In this issue: ·        Curbing the Decline of Chinese Manufacturing ·        Smart Glasses for Teachers Can “See” Students’ Questions ·        Even Regulated Pesticide Use Is Deadly to Aquatic Ecosystems ·        WorldFuture 2013 Recaps ·        Set of Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace Is Threatened by Sand …

The Sun Breaks Through Stormy Skies of China/EU Trade : AltEnergyStocks.com

Jay OwenTrendspotting

The Sun Breaks Through Stormy Skies of China/EU Trade : AltEnergyStocks.com The Sun Breaks Through Stormy Skies of China/EU Trade Posted: 29 Jul 2013 07:28 AM PDT Sun breaks through trade war clouds China and the West broke a decades-old pattern of troubled trade relations over the weekend with a …

NewEnergyNews: CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST

Jay OwenTrendspotting

NewEnergyNews      Daily Headlines                                         http://www.NewEnergyNews.net/   THINGS-TO-THINK-ABOUT THURSDAY, July 25: * CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST * U.S. OFFSHORE WIND COMING ON * COLORS OF THE SUN * COLO CAPITAL BLDG ADDS …

SmartPlanet Daily: What if we could turn carbon dioxide into electricity?

Jay OwenTrendspotting

Electric airplane prepares for 250mph flight By Charlie Osborne | July 24, 2013, 8:52 AM PDT 2Comments more + Chip Yates, a builder and pilot of electric airplanes, is planning to launch into the sky again next month in order to break his own speed record. After spending the best part of …