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News and forecasts of trends/experiments in Green Technologies, IT, New Models, Environment, community solutions, wikis.
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Holiday Reading, Upcoming Webinars, and 2013 Opportunities with Clean Edge
Bring in the New Year with Unparalleled Market Insights and Branding Opportunities Looking for some good holiday reading? Want to keep track of hard-hitting and timely topics in 2013 without leaving your desk? Have some budget left in 2012 and planning for your organization’s marketing and research needs in 2013? Clean Edge can help out on all [...]
THIS Will Devastate Our Economy
By Jeff Siegel | Monday, December 17th, 2012 December 22, 2012, is when it'll go down... The Mississippi River will hit a record low-water mark and barges could be completely halted for up to two weeks, perhaps even longer. Jobs will be lost, food prices will rise. Overall, the economic impact will be felt everywhere. You see, while [...]
World Nuclear Electricity Generation Down 5 Percent Since 2006
World nuclear electricity-generating capacity has been essentially flat since 2007 and is likely to fall as plants retire faster than new ones are built. In fact, the actual electricity generated at nuclear power plants fell 5 percent between 2006 and 2011. In 2011, following Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, 13 nuclear reactors in [...]
Global Trends 2030 report from the U.S. National Intelligence Council
Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds is the fifth installment in the National IntelligenceCouncil’s series aimed at providing a framework for thinking about the future. As with previouseditions, we hope that this report will stimulate strategic thinking by identifying critical trends andpotential discontinuities. We distinguish between [...]
How Quickly Does Aging Occur?
Predicting Ice Formation in the Arctic Training New Thinkers for a More Complex World What’s New @WFS What's Hot in THE FUTURIST Magazine How Quickly Does Aging Occur? The "Methylome" Offers a Model Aging is an unevenly distributed process, affecting individuals differently and accelerating with disease and other stress factors. Even [...]
Climate Concerns Rise in the East
Climate Concerns Rise in the East Posted: 23 Nov 2012 05:34 AM PST A new study from the Carbon Trust reveals a divide between Generation Y?s attitude to carbon reduction in the East and West. GM to Produce 500,000 Green Cars By 2017 Posted: 23 Nov 2012 05:00 AM PST General Motors, seeming more confident in the face of [...]
Compassion Games — Survival of the Kindest
Compassion Games -- Survival of the Kindest Six months ago, I wrote a blog, Hunger Games - The Price of Failed Transition, in response to the popular movie. Here is a follow-up based on real life. Importantly, where Hunger Games are the imagined price of failed transition to sustainable prosperity, Compassion Games are the authentic reward for [...]
Will Sandy Trigger Our Great Transformation?
In The Future of Finance two weeks ago, the Capital Institute's John Fullerton explained how our response to Sandy will come in two phases. Today, he expands on Phase Two in a new post, which originally appeared on The Guardian Sustainable Business blog. We are now a couple of weeks into the aftermath of Super Storm Sandy, and no one has yet [...]
Taking Stock: World Fish Catch Falls to 90 Million Tons in 2012
J. Matthew Roney www.earth-policy.org/indicators/C55/fish_catch_2012 Earth Policy Release Eco-Economy Indicator November 19, 2012 The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) projects that the world’s wild fish harvest will fall to 90 million tons in 2012, down 2 percent from 2011. This is close to 4 percent below the [...]
Taking Stock: World Fish Catch Falls to 90 Million Tons in 2012
J. Matthew Roney www.earth-policy.org/indicators/C55/fish_catch_2012 Earth Policy Release Eco-Economy Indicator November 19, 2012 The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) projects that the world’s wild fish harvest will fall to 90 million tons in 2012, down 2 percent from 2011. This is close to 4 percent below the [...]
