View it in your browser February 03, 2013 WHAT WE’RE FOLLOWING Fast Tracking Cities in China 700 mountains are being leveled to make way for a new city in China which will be known as Lanzhou New City. The vast demolition project which will clear and flatten an area ten square …
Carbon budgets and sub-prime assets
The concept of fossil fuel reserves exceeding the carbon budget continues to gather acceptance. Last week the IEA published its World Energy Outlook 2011. In the Climate Change Chapter, the IEA uses the same approach as Carbon Tracker to show that thee numbers don’t add up. See attached extract for …
Green Sectors Top $2.4 Trillion At Midyear
Press Release ethical markets Media (USA and Brazil) PO Box 5190, St. Augustine, FL 32085 [email protected] phone 904.829.3140 St. Augustine, FL, September 6, 2011 — ethical markets Media (USA and Brazil) releases its August 2011 update of the GREEN TRANSITION SCOREBOARD® tracking private sector investments since 2007 in green companies and technologies …
Chevron investors shrug off $8.6bn pollution fine
Newsletter from Environmental Finance News Forestry/REDD+ webinar series A reminder that the first of four forest carbon and REDD+ webinars is next Thursday 24 February. Click here for details. ——————————————————————————– ——————————————————————————– Republicans to block Obama’s green spending plan? Renewable energy and energy efficiency were major winners in President Barack Obama’s …
Thermodynamic Roots of Economics
By Herman Daly The first and second laws of thermodynamics should also be called the first and second laws of economics. Why? Because without them there would be no scarcity, and without scarcity, no economics. Consider the first law: if we could create useful energy and matter as we needed …
Cell Phone Chargers to go Green
Posted: 13 Jul 2010 01:52 PM PDT Today cell-phones have become an integral part of our life and are the most used mode of communication. More prevalent the use of cell-phone, more imperative is the need to curtail eco-pollution that emanates from the huge number of still-in-use and out-of-use cell …