http://www.ceres.org/press/press-releases/business-leaders-continue-call-to-action-on-u.s.-climate-policy-by-signing-the-climate-declaration FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Business Leaders Continue Call to Action on U.S. Climate Policy by Signing the Climate Declaration The Weather Company, K2 Sports and Others Join More Than 600 Companies in Push for National Action on Climate Change For more information, contact · Brian Bowen — Ceres | [email protected] | phone: 617-247-0700 x 148 | cell: 617-257-6626 BOSTON, MA Jul 10, …
Futurist Update: Designing Clothing for Space Travel
In this issue: · Designing Clothing for Space Travel · Smartphone Ownership Passes 55% of U.S. Adults · A Big Data Approach to Detecting Viruses · With More Hunger Comes More Risk Taking · What’s Hot in THE FUTURIST Magazine Advertisement The Annual Conference of the World Future Society: July 19-21, 2013, at …
Shifts in Global Water Systems – Markers of a New Geological Epoch: the Anthropocene
A new geologic epoch, “The Anthropocene,” is characterized by humanity’s growing dominance of Earth’s environment and a planetary transformation as profound as the last epoch-defining event — the retreat of the glaciers 11,500 years ago. By way of illustration: Humanity has cleared an area the size of South …
How Google’s investment into P2P Lending will impact the financial markets
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Google, Cisco share first place on Greenpeace’s 2013 Cool IT list
On The Brink Climate change as real business risk By Michael Kramer Politicians might debate them, but the risks of climate change and their potential impact on businesses are all too real. …Read More How to prevent the natural resources economic bubble By Nathan Havey Climate change and natural …
ENB Summary of OWG-2 now available
Second Session of the Open Working Group (OWG) of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 17-19 April 2013 | UN Headquarters, New York, United States of America http://www.iisd.ca/sdgs/owg2/ The second session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) Open Working Group (OWG) …
Game upgrade: Schools across the U.S. will soon start teaching real climate science
The map accompanying this article has school districts taking up real climate science in blue, presumably because they also are a close match to having a larger Democratic constituency in state government. The ones not adopting it are reliably Repugnican far-right in state governments: shilling for the oil and coal …
How Crowdsourcing Could Save the DOE – GTM Daily Newsletter
March 1, 2013 LATEST NEWS: OneRoof Adds $100M More in Home Solar Rooftop Financing Eric Wesoff – February 28, 2013 The surge of financing money flooding into residential solar continues. Guest Post: Why the Telecom Sector Should Take Renewables Seriously David King – February 28, 2013 How market forces are …
Rio + 20 Newsletter: The future working people want
This is the fourth in a series of messages we will be sending to keep you up to date on the plans we have put together for the upcoming UN Conference on Sustainable Development – Rio+20, as well as our own associated event – The Trade Union Assembly on Labour …