FREE LISTINGS OFFERED FOR BUSINESSES WITH GREEN OR SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES BEACHWOOD, OH, January 27, 2009 –/WORLD-WIRE/– Businesses and consumers are continuing to increase their demand for environmentally friendly products and services. Until now, both groups were spending inordinate amounts of time simply trying to find these items. FairGreenTrade.com …
Today's Organic News: January 15, 2009
Organic women join forces The new Organic Women’s Network has been created to increase female leadership and ensure the industries future. The creator, Annie Brownjohn says women interact and operate business differently and are more likely to share information and so a formal group was needed. Miss Brownjohn has been …
Going green: Communities make their own currencies
By RODRIQUE NGOWI – 3 days ago GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. (AP) — Diana Felber brought her groceries to the checkout and counted out her cash — purple, blue and green bills that are good only at businesses in western Massachusetts. Read more…
Organic News Today: January 9, 2009
Organic Alliance Completes the Acquisition of AvocadoMan Brand. In 2007, the AvocadoMan Brand Generated $12,000,000 in Top Line Revenue and Has Tracked Twice That Rate in 2008 Jan. 8–Organic Alliance just received a future revenue windfall from ongoing shortages of Avocados grown in California and Chile, primarily caused by weather …
Social Edge Newsletter: Win a full scholarship to the Global Social Benefit Incubator
Tuesday, January 6, 2009 News on The Edge Welcome to the Social Edge update! Now is the time to apply to the GSBI’09 on Social Edge. Up to twenty social entrepreneurs will have a chance to win a full scholarship (worth US$25,000 each) to attend the 2009 Global Social Benefit …
PNN News Update: January 06, 2009
If you think 2008 was exciting, you may be surprised about the pace of change in 2009 and beyond. Watch our video message by clicking on the link below. Be inspired and inspire………….
REDUCING FISHERFOLK’S VULNERABILITY LEADS TO RESPONSIBLE FISHERIES
http://www.sflp.org/briefs/eng/01.pdfThe aim of this policy brief is to: Highlight the different ways in which small scale fisheries currently contribute to poverty alleviation and food security,with a focus on West Africa
Special Report from EARTH POLICY INSTITUTE: Mobilizing to save civilization
Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization 2008 by Lester R. Brown. Read more…
Breakthrough for wind and solar. Check out the plan from ex-oil man Boone Pickens.
It’s an addiction that threatens our economy, our environment and our national security. It touches every part of our daily lives and ties our hands as a nation and a people. The addiction has worsened for decades and now it’s reached a point of crisis. In 1970, we imported 24% …
BAN KI-MOON DEMANDS IMMEDIATE GAZA CEASE-FIRE
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon joined by John Holmes, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, addresses a press conference on the humanitarian situation in Gaza. United Nations, New York. 29 December 2008. UN Photo# 256293 /Mark Garten. Watch the video…