Book Review: Destination 2050 – A Concepts Bank and Toolkit for Future-Makers

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Destination 2050 – A Concepts Bank and Toolkit for Future-Makers By Peter Ellyard, 2013 The year 2050 is emerging both as a year of aspirational focus for, and a year of judgment of, collective human endeavor. In Destination 2050, Peter Ellyard describes the emerging interdependent sustainable society – one based on …

Terry Mock, Co-Founder, Champion Tree Project International & Sustainable Land Development Initiative

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Terry Mock received a degree in Real Estate and Urban Land Studies from the University of Florida in 1972. Since then, Terry has developed a variety of pioneer residential, commercial, industrial and recreational land development projects which employed innovative sustainability technologies, including a specialty in native plant preservation and restoration techniques. In …

IGES on-site side events, related events & exhibitions at Rio+20

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Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) will hold the following on-site side events at Rio+20, and will be involved in related events and exhibitions in the Japan Pavilion. http://www.iges.or.jp/en/rio20/side_events.html   “Building Resilience to Disasters in the 21st Century: Implications of the Triple Disaster in Japan in a Post-Rio+20 World” Monday, 18 …

Today’s Study: The Solutions The World Has Been Looking For

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NewEnergyNews Daily Headlines click here for main page: http://www.NewEnergyNews.net/ Today At Newenergynews, April 23: * Today’s Study: The Solutions The World Has Been Looking For * Quick News, April 23: Quick News, April23: How Coal Is Subsidized; Caes In Texas; Changes In The Economy Mean Changes For New Energy Yesterday …

Billionaires Get Behind Cleantech Funding

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Published on Date September 28th, 2011 by Matter Network Posted in Category Finance, Category Renewables It’s the fall, and the discontent of American billionaires, like that of New York Mets fans, is rising. Not only has laconic investment guru Warren Buffett demanded that the U.S. levy more taxes on the …

Sustainable Finance is the Way Out of the Crisis

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by Simon Zadek, Senior Fellow at the Global Green Growth Institute, http://www.zadek.net/blog Originally published on OpenDemocracy.net Sustainable Finance is the Way Out of the Crisis: History will wrongly vindicate Standard & Poor’s in downgrading their view of US creditworthiness, because they made the right call for the wrong reason. S&P …