Video: World’s tallest building could be a 24/7 Australian solar chimney By Mark Halper | January 26, 2012, 8:34 AM PST Bad news for Dubai’s 829-meter high Burj Khalifa. It might lose its distinction as the world’s tallest building, if a bunch of hot air takes root as planned in …
Today’s Study: The What, Where And When Of Rare Earth Elements
NewEnergyNews Daily Headlines click here for main page: http://www.NewEnergyNews.net/ Today At Newenergynews, January 23: * Today’s Study: The What, Where And When Of Rare Earth Elements * Quick News, January 23: That Wacky Nat Gas Price; A Solution For Bats In The Wind;First Solar’s Better Cdte Efficiency Sunday World, January …
London Stock Exchange – Occupied by Coal
London Stock Exchange – occupied by coal New analysis from Carbon Tracker endorsed by WWF shows how the growing number of coal mining companies listing in London exposes the financial market to a significant systemic risk. Investors tracking the FTSE AllShare Index are facing increasing efforts across the world to …
The Future We Want – Zero draft of the outcome document
I. Preamble/Stage Setting 1. We, the heads of State and Government, having met at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 20-22 June 2012, resolve to work together for a prosperous, secure and sustainable future for our people and our planet. 2. We reaffirm our determination to free humanity from hunger and …
The Final Countdown
The final countdown Will it be Nabucco? Will it be South Stream? Both? Neither? You have heard the Nabucco versus South Stream debate being waged over the last few years about which new gas pipeline(s) will be built to serve Europe in its “Southern Corridor”. Well, we now (almost) have …
Patagonia Registers as First California Benefit Corporation
Patagonia Registers as First California Benefit Corporation After ‘Year of the Protester’, Business Leaders Embrace Positive Alternative Submitted by: B Lab/B Corporation SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jan. 03 /CSRwire/ – Today, Patagonia became the first company in California to elect benefit corporation status. Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard led the largest group …
Top 10 Issues & Campaigns of 2012
Top 10 Issues & Campaigns of 2012 As a team, The Future 500 staff and board believe passionately in the promise of corporations and NGOs coming together to advance systemic solutions to our most urgent sustainability challenges. Each Fall, we hold a series of strategic planning meetings where we outline …
Hype Busters From Lux Research Explain Grid Based Energy Storage
Hype Busters From Lux Research Explain Grid Based Energy Storage Posted: 08 Dec 2011 07:07 AM PST John Petersen In 1883 Thomas Edison said, “The storage battery is one of those peculiar things which appeals to the imagination, and no more perfect thing could be desired by stock swindlers than …
Down To The Sea For New Energy
NewEnergyNews Daily Headlines click here for main page: http://www.NewEnergyNews.net/ Things-To-Think-About Friday, December 9: * Down To The Sea For New Energy, Part 1 * Down To The Sea For New Energy, Part 2 * Down To The Sea For New Energy, Part 3 * Down To The Sea For New …
A How-To Guide to Slashing California’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2050
This analysis is quite general in its application to the developed world. It makes the key point: the way to save our civilization from the ravages of climate disaster is straightforward from a science and engineering standpoint. The key difficulty is with rich and reactionary fossil fuels industries buying the …