Update from Crazy Abu Dhabi: green bonds part of UN Climate Summit / Jeffrey Sachs lays out 7 Step Survival Plan / Ban Ki Moon’s soft power

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity, SRI/ESG News

Climate Bonds has posted a new item, ‘Update from Crazy Abu Dhabi: green bonds part of UN Climate Summit / Jeffrey Sachs lays out 7 Step Survival Plan / Ban Ki Moon’s soft power‘ Abu Dhabi is indeed a crazy place: gold-leaf covered 7 star hotels surrounded by desal-water fed …

Video: Masdar – the City of the Future

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity, Community Development Solutions

Robert Llewellyn, host of the Fully Charged Show, visits Masdar City, a city fully sustainable on green energy. Masdar City is a project in Abu Dhabi, in the united arab emirates. Its core is a planned city, which is being built by the abu dhabi Future Energy Company, a subsidiary …

Ecocities: Emerging To support humanity’s transition to the Ecozoic Era

Jay OwenSustainability News

  Greetings!   It’s been a busy year for Ecocity Builders. Program wise, we launched the EcoCitizen World Map Project with pilots now starting in Morocco, Egypt and Colombia. We’re excited about the potential for this project to replicate and grow to support other cities and citizens around the world. …

Ecocities Emerging

Jay OwenSustainability News

Ecocities Emerging To support humanity’s transition to the Ecozoic Era Ecocity Builders October 2013   Greetings,   Ecocity World Summit 2013, Nantes, France, has concluded. It was a very successful gathering and also a lot of fun! Our sincere congratulations and thanks go out to Nantes Metropole, Senator Ronan Dantec, …

Envision Solar Announces Full Year 2012 Financial Results; Provides Business Update and Outlook For 2013

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News, Greentech

Envision Solar Announces Full Year 2012 Financial Results; Provides Business Update and Outlook for 2013 SAN DIEGO, April 1, 2013 — Envision Solar International, Inc. (EVSI: OTCQB) (“Envision Solar,” or the “Company”), a manufacturer and designer of unique, architecturally accretive, renewable energy systems, today announced results for the three and …

Arms Bazaars Proliferate as U.N. Tries to Regulate Trade

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

      Arms Bazaars Proliferate as U.N. Tries to Regulate Trade   By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Feb 2013 (IPS) – When a 20-year-old went on a deadly shooting spree killing 26 students and teachers in an elementary school in Connecticut last December, there was the inevitable outcry either for …

REN21 – Newsletter February 2013

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity

REN21 – Newsletter February 2013 Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. February 2013 In This Issue – News from the REN21 Secretariat – News from the REN21 Network – Upcoming Events Add the REN21 Renewables Interactive Map widget to your website to incorporate its renewable energy data search Keep Up …

Solar News Weekend Edition: China To Add 49 GW of Renewables in 2013

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity

IRENA Sets Goal to Double Global Renewable Energy Capacity by 2030, Welcomes China to Its Ranks by Renewable Energy World Editors | January 14, 2013 | Post Your Comment It’s been a busy few days for the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), as the UN-sponsored organization released several announcements at the Abu …

Let’s plant a million trees in each country of the world!

kristyGlobal Citizen

Let’s plant a million trees in each country of the world! www.plant-for-the-planet.org Update from the Plant-for-the-Planet Children Initiative NEWS Elect the Next Global Board! Register as voter for the global board 2012/2013 Plant-for-the-Planet Annual Meeting – Be Part of it! April 20 – 22nd 2012 in Castle Schwaneck near Munich …

Eye on Earth Brings Access to Environmental Data for Emerging Economies

kristyEarth Systems Science

Abu Dhabi, 7 June 2011 – Abu Dhabi will host the first Eye on Earth Summit on December 12-15 2011, in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The summit will focus on the issue of greater access to environmental and societal data. Over the past ten years, Abu …