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Green For All is working to lift 250,000 low-income people above the poverty line and into the emerging green economy.

Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007. Revitalizing urban communities requires developing a local economy that utilizes the skills of its residents. This means casting off an economic model that masks the talents and creativity of individuals by exploiting workers, endangering public health, and consuming open space.

Social Edge By Social Entrepreneurs, For Social Entrepreneurs. Oct, 2007 Online community for philanthropists, nonprofit professionals, and the business community to network, learns, debate, inspire, and share expertise and resources.

Sept 2007. (Archives). What is “green servicizing”? As used in Japan, “servicizing” refers to a shift from the sale of products to the provision of services, that is, focusing on the functions of products and providing these functions as services. In Europe, this kind of approach is also called a …

Green Budget News 18 – 08/2007 (Archives)

Off the Charts The U.S. EPA ENERGY STAR® Program’s E-Newsletter Covering Energy Management for the Financial Markets

July 24, 2007. As the world’s demand for water has tripled over the last half-century and as the demand for hydroelectric power has grown even faster, dams and diversions of river water have drained many rivers dry. As water tables fall, the springs that feed rivers go dry, reducing river …

(PDF) July 2007 Issue . (Archives)

July 16, 2007. Competitiveness impact of EU emissions trading scheme. Concerns about the loss of industrial competitiveness remain one of the major barriers to setting more robust carbon dioxide mitigation obligations on industrial sectors in the EU, observes a March 2007 report from the Climate Strategies group.

UNITED NATIONS, July 16 — As the UN Pension Board meeting ended on July 13 without acting on CEO Bernard Cocheme’s recommendation to be given more power, Cocheme stopped in the UN basement hallways and spoke with Inner City Press for an hour. Cocheme began with two questions. “Why do …