Posted: 29 May 2010 11:40 AM PDT Matt Simmons, founder and chairman emeritus of Simmons & Co., talks with Bloomberg’s Mark Crumpton and Lori Rothman about BP Plc’s leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. BP said in a statement today that it has spent $930 million responding to …
Earth Policy Release — Parking Lots to Parks: Designing Livable Cities
Earth Policy Release Book Byte May 25, 2010 PARKING LOTS TO PARKS: Designing Livable Cities www.earthpolicy.org/index.php?/book_bytes/2010/pb4ch06_ss1and8 By Lester R. Brown As I was being driven through Tel Aviv from my hotel to a conference center in 1998, I could not help but note the overwhelming presence of cars and parking …
Ecocities Emerging – May 2010 Issue
Welcome to the May 2010 edition of Ecocities Emerging, an initiative of Ecocity Builders and the International Ecocity Conference Series. The contemporary degrowth movement can trace its roots back to the anti-industrialist trends of the 19th century developed in Great Britain by John Ruskin, in the United States by Henry …
GridPoint Lands U.S. Postal Service – GTM Daily
DAILY NEWSLETTER | MONDAY, MAY 24, 2010 Tony Blair Joins Khosla Ventures As Porfolio Comes out of Stealth Calera, Kior, Point Source Power, Soraa come out of hidey hole. MEMC Continues M&A Hunt with $66M Solaicx Buy Another acquisition from MEMC as the solar market’s consolidation continues Why VCs Are …
WRI Digest: Development Banks and Sustainable Energy
Development Banks and Sustainable Energy Governments around the world are struggling to mitigate dangerous climate change while securing the energy they need to sustain economic development. The need to direct future investment to meet the world’s energy needs away from polluting fossil fuels, and into more sustainable, low-carbon options has …
Reviving the Office of Technology Assessment
Ethical Markets correspondent Melanie Feliciano attended the “Reinventing Technology Assessment” meeting in DC. Her report was edited by Rosalinda Sanquiche. The April 28, 2010, meeting REINVENTING TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC, addressed revisiting the need for an OTA – Office of Technology Assessment – in …
Sustainable Brands ’10 Unveils Cutting-Edge Programming – Final Program Announced in Four-Part Framework: Observe, Redesign, Measure and Communicate
Demonstrating The Power of AND Across Industries and Operational Initiatives, Visionaries and Leaders To Offer Latest Innovations, Breakthrough Results and Emerging Best Practices BURLINGAME, Calif., May 5, 2010 – Sustainable Life Media today announced its full Sustainable Brands ’10 conference schedule and unveiled confirmed speakers for each of the four …
ToYou from NewEnergyNews: April 30, 2010
NewEnergyNews Daily Headlines click here for main page: http://www.NewEnergyNews.net/ THINGS-TO-THINK-ABOUT FRIDAY, 4-30:
Robert F Kennedy Jr. Presents Vertical Farming System During Earth Week
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Robert F Kennedy Jr. Presents Vertical Farming System During Earth Week VANCOUVER , B.C., CANADA , April 22, 2010 –/WORLD-WIRE/– Valcent Products, www.valcent.net, and their vertical farming system, VertiCrop™ were presented by Robert F Kennedy Jr. on WUSA9 television during Earth Week.
Ecocities Emerging – April 2010 Issue
Greetings, Welcome to the April 2010 edition of Ecocities Emerging, an initiative of Ecocity Builders and the International Ecocity Conference Series. It has been a busy time for Ecocity Builders. Our Berkeley Center Street Plaza project took a major step forward when the Berkeley City Council voted 8-1 to endorse …