Show Me the Money: Sustainability and Financial Outperformance

Jay OwenSustainability News

  February 16, 2015 ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE Carbon Onsetting: A Robust Complement to — or Replacement for — Offsetting Internal carbon fees are becoming increasingly popular with companies as varied as Shell, Microsoft and Disney. But rather than use some or all of these funds to buy carbon offsets, a new …

CAE: 4 Ways Your City Can Be Cooler Next Summer

Jay OwenResource Efficiency

ACEEE BLOG POST   Media Contact: Patrick Kiker [email protected], (202) 507-4043     4 Ways Your City Can Be Cooler Next Summer   By Virginia Hewitt, Local Policy Research Assistant   This summer was a scorcher. Heat waves repeatedly struck the Midwest and South, sparing only sections of the Northeast. All …

Forget owning a solar panel, buy a stake in one instead

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity

      SmartPlanet Daily September 30, 2013 Your must-read morning briefing from SmartPlanet, delivered five days a week.   From the Desk of … Over the weekend, SmartPlanet switched to a format in which all weekly feature stories will be published and ready for perusal by Sunday morning. This daily newsletter …

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News: Earth’s wobble ‘fixes’ dinner for marine organisms

Jay OwenEarth Systems Science, Nature/Biomimicry

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News   Earth’s wobble ‘fixes’ dinner for marine organisms Posted: 13 Sep 2013 04:51 PM PDT The cyclic wobble of the Earth on its axis controls the production of a nutrient essential to the health of the ocean, according to a new study. The discovery of factors …

16 Favorite Things Climate Change is Ruining

Jay OwenTrendspotting

16 Of Your Favorite Things That Climate Change Is Totally Screwing Up By Ryan Koronowski on August 9, 2013 at 9:00 am When people talk about “climate impacts,” the images that usually come to mind are broiling heat waves, drought-parched creek beds, dangerous storm surges, the slowly-but-surely rising sea. These things can …

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News : Carbon dioxide at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Observatory reaches new milestone: Tops 400 parts per million

Jay OwenEarth Systems Science

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News Carbon dioxide at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Observatory reaches new milestone: Tops 400 parts per million Sacred lotus genome sequence enlightens scientists Revealing hidden fungal species using DNA: The importance of recognizing cryptic diversity Earliest archaeological evidence of human ancestors hunting and scavenging Kestrels, other urban birds …

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News: Maya Long Count calendar and European calendar linked using carbon-14 dating

Jay OwenEarth Systems Science

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News Maya Long Count calendar and European calendar linked using carbon-14 dating Warmest summers in last two decades in northern latitudes were unprecedented in six centuries New technique measures evaporation globally Sea mammals find U. S. safe harbor Enzymes from horse feces could hold secrets to streamlining …

Today’s Study: Clearing The Air About The Air

kristyEarth Systems Science

NewEnergyNews Daily Headlines click here for main page: http://www.NewEnergyNews.net/ TODAY AT NewEnergyNews, February 7: * Today’s Study: Clearing The Air About The Air * Quick News, February 7: Biggest U.S. Wind Builder Booming; $440 Mil From U.S.Bancorp To New Energy; Big Bucks In Buildings’ Energy Yesterday * Today’s Study: More …