Posts Tagged ‘climate change’
EU Wind Energy Capacity Grew 11 Percent in 2011, Report Says
EU Wind Energy Capacity Grew 11 Percent in 2011, Report Says Posted: 07 Feb 2012 03:00 AM PST Filed under: Energy News Ryue Nishiziwa?s Gorgeous Vertical Garden House Takes Root in Tokyo Posted: 06 Feb 2012 11:00 PM PST Filed under: Energy News New Record for High Concentration Phovoltaic Solar Modules Posted: 06 Feb 2012 [...]
Green Economics Institute
Green Economics Institute Books Progressive Economics THE GREEN ECONOMICS INSTITUTE INVITATION New books have just been released! Order your Book copy now! Find detailed information about each book below and email us at greeneconomicsinstitute@yahoo.com for further details. Green Economics and Climate Change Download book flyer [...]
Future Fee – 0.1 Thousandth for our Future
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 Future Fee - 0.1 Thousandth for our Future First producer commits to the Future Fee The Change Chocolate We're putting our first climate neutral and fair trade chocolate on the [...]
The Economics of Happiness Trailer
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5131259/EoH%20trailers/EoH_Trailer_DvPal.mov The Economics of Happiness Trailer About the film ‘Going local’ is a powerful strategy to repair our fractured world—our ecosystems, our societies and our selves Economic globalization has led to a massive expansion in the scale and power of big business and [...]
World Future Energy Summit 2012 Highlights
IISD Reporting Services On Tuesday, the World Future Energy Summit (WFES) 2012 was organized around the theme of “Business and Policy Forum.” In the morning, participants attended plenary panel discussions by business leaders in sustainable energy and international agencies. In the afternoon, participants attended parallel sessions on wind [...]
Ban Urges Private Sector To Invest In Sustainable Development Initiatives
BAN URGES PRIVATE SECTOR TO INVEST IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES New York, Jan 12 2012 5:05PM Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged investors today to lend their support to sustainable development initiatives to deal with climate change and provide efficient energy solutions around the world. ?In these times of austerity and economic [...]
Global carbon market value rises 4%
Global carbon market value rises 4% The value of the global carbon market climbed 4% in 2011, despite dramatically lower prices in the largest market in Europe, according to analysis by Thomson Reuters Point Carbon. More >>> Dismal fourth quarter for clean energy investments Clean energy investment slumped in the last quarter of [...]
Urgent Action on Energy Needed For Both Development and Environment
Urgent Action on Energy Needed For Both Development and Environment Timothy E. Wirth, President, United Nations Foundation, and Member of UN Secretary-General’s High-level Group on Sustainable Energy for All - Urgent Action on Energy Needed For Both Development and Environment For_humanity to thrive and for the planet to support it, [...]
A note from Paul Hawken
We—you who are reading this—support Women’s Earth Alliance not because it goes to the root of the problem, but because it goes to the heart of the solution: women and to women’s culture. As James Hillman wrote, “Nature dies because culture dies.” To address resource shortages WEA is enlivening the greatest and most abundant resource [...]
Breaking the funding Deadlock of the new Green Climate Fund
by Jakob von Uexkull World Future Council The UNFCCC negotiations in Cancun in December 2010 resulted in a decision to establish a Green Climate Fund (GCF). Many are now looking to it as the solution to climate finance. But nothing has yet been paid into this fund, threatening to turn it into an “empty shell” (UNSG Ban Ki Moon). Indeed, [...]
