How the new field of data science is grappling with ethics

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

  SMARTPLANET WEEKLY A WEEKLY PREVIEW OF OUR CURRENT ISSUE, DELIVERED EVERY SUNDAY. December 22, 2013 FROM THE DESK OF … To wrap up the year, we take a look back at our best features of 2013. Our magazine writers brought you stories from around the world on topics ranging from …

Join us at the 2014 Ceres Conference!

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity, SRI/ESG News

  The Future is Now Join us and more than 600 sustainability leaders at the Ceres Conference 2014 April 30th – May 1st in Boston to celebrate Ceres’s 25th anniversary and build a sustainable global economy. Register today to take advantage of our early registration rates! Check out the Conference Program Throughout the …

To Expand Offshore Power, Japan Builds Floating Windmills

Jay OwenGreentech

To Expand Offshore Power, Japan Builds Floating Windmills Yoshikazu Tsuno/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images An offshore wind turbine off the coast of Fukushima. By HIROKO TABUCHI Published: October 24, 2013 OFF THE COAST OF FUKUSHIMA, Japan — Twelve miles out to sea from the severely damaged and leaking nuclear reactors at …

GreenBuzz Oct 14th

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity, SRI/ESG News

Get Your Free VERGE Interconnect Expo Pass Taking Care of Business By Joel Makower, Chairman & Executive Editor It’s nearly showtime! Tomorrow morning we’ll kick off VERGE San Francisco. (You can download the official program here.) We’ve got more than 1,000 people coming, so it’s going to be quite a gathering (and party!). There’s still …

Only Three More Days to Tell Your Friends About Mosaic

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity, Crowdfunding

Only Three More Days to Tell Your Friends About Mosaic Do you have friends or family who’d be interested in investing at Mosaic? Send them to http://mos.ai/sun_bonus to claim their $10 new investor bonus! From clean energy ending India’s blackouts to America’s new “Green Elephants”, Mosaic’s October Newsletter brings you the top …

An agenda for change, by Nick Silver, Managing Director, Climate Bonds Initiative

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity

To avoid dangerous climate change will require the equivalent of another industrial revolution. This can only be achieved if finance into the green economy is increased by an order of magnitude. This may be possible as many low carbon technologies are competitive with fossil fuel if the cost of finance …

greentechmedia: To Hell With the Gov’t Shutdown, Let’s Create Some Cleantech Wealth

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity

LATEST NEWS: To Hell With the Gov’t Shutdown, Let’s Create Some Cleantech Wealth  Stephen Lacey – October 3, 2013 The Energy Gang explores how to leverage trillions of dollars in clean energy investment. EDF Experts on Fracking-Methane Study: 5 Key Takeaways  Breaking Energy, Conway Irwin – October 3, 2013 A …

NewNet Clean Energy Investor: Humans causing climate change says IPCC’s latest report

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity

30 September Today’s Top Stories Pattern tops IPO target, raising $352m UK Green Investment Bank invests £11m into Welsh biomass plant upgrade Pattern tops IPO target, raising $352m Cleantech VC Navitas Capital leads investment in Enmetric Systems Total and Etrion team up to build 70MW solar in Chile US DOE …

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News: Stronger winds may explain puzzling growth of sea ice in Antarctica, model shows

Jay OwenEarth Systems Science

  ScienceDaily: Top Environment News       Stronger winds may explain puzzling growth of sea ice in Antarctica, model shows Posted: 17 Sep 2013 09:19 PM PDT Much attention is paid to melting sea ice in the Arctic. But less clear is the situation on the other side of …

NEWNET: MidAmerican Energy issues $950m secured notes

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity

17 September Today’s Top Stories MidAmerican Energy issues $950m secured notes PREMIUM British Gas and Landis+Gyr team up for £600m smart meter roll-out Macquarie’s takeover of Theolia falls through PREMIUM Latest on NewNet See all the latest industry news with a New Energy World Network premium subscription.SUBSCRIBE » Deals » MidAmerican Energy issues …