FUTURIST UPDATE: Air Pollution Is Deadlier Than We Thought

Jay OwenTrendspotting

April 2014 • Volume 15, No. 4 In this issue: Air Pollution Is Deadlier Than We Thought Planet-Hunting Astronomers Get Help from a Robot A “Green” Solution to High Drug Prices WorldFuture 2014 Speakers Bookshelf What’s Hot in The Futurist magazine Air Pollution Is Deadlier Than We Thought Air pollution …

India’s dangerous ‘food bubble’

Jay OwenEarth Systems Science

  India’s dangerous ‘food bubble’  Lester R. Brown http://www.earth-policy.org/plan_b_updates/2013/update119 Earth Policy Release Plan B Update December 4, 2013 india is now the world’s third-largest grain producer after china and the united states. The adoption of higher-yielding crop varieties and the spread of irrigation have led to this remarkable tripling of …

WRI Digest

Jay OwenEarth Systems Science

At the end of September, WRI helped launch The New Climate Economy, the flagship project of The Global Commission on the Economy and Climate. The year-long research project will analyze the economic costs and benefits of climate action. In an OpEd originally posted on Project Syndicate, former President of Mexico and current …

Ten Economic Risks of Fossil Fuels : AltEnergyStocks.com

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, SRI/ESG News

Ten Economic Risks of Fossil Fuels : AltEnergyStocks.com Ten Economic Risks of Fossil Fuels Posted: 16 May 2013 07:19 AM PDT Garvin Jabusch A train, loaded with coal, crashed into the back of a passenger train in Czechloslovakia in 1868. Securities of fossil fuels firms, as an economic sector, may soon …

Post-2015 Development Agenda Bulletin – Vol. 208 No. 10 – High Level Meeting on Energy and the Post-2015 Development Agenda – Final Summary

Jay OwenEarth Systems Science

Post-2015 Development Agenda Bulletin · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · Published by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) in collaboration with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) Volume 208 Number 10 – Thursday, 11 April 2013 SUMMARY OF THE HIGH LEVEL MEETING ON ENERGY AND THE POST-2015 DEVELOPMENT AGENDA 9 APRIL …

ToYou from NewEnergyNews: Today’s Headlines

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity, Trendspotting

NewEnergyNews Daily Headlines click here for main page: http://www.NewEnergyNews.net/   On The Road Reading, Tuesday, January 15:    While NewEnergyNews is on the road covering wind and solar conferences, check out these pieces written recently for Greentech Media. Back soon.   * On The Road Reading: How Much Renewable Potential Does the US Have? Energy …

Solar & Wind Energy Subsidies Should Continue ?Forever?

kristyGreen Prosperity

Solar & Wind Energy Subsidies Should Continue ?Forever? Posted: 29 Apr 2012 11:20 AM PDT clean energy subsidies It seems that every day I?m reading (or even writing) about solar and wind energy?s price and potential without government subsidies ? but it is really ridiculous that dropping government subsidies should …

New Energy Driving Down Power Prices In Europe

kristyResource Efficiency

NewEnergyNews Daily Headlines click here for main page: http://www.NewEnergyNews.net/ Things-To-Think-About Friday, September 30: * New Energy Driving Down Power Prices In Europe * Why The U.S. Sneezes At Climate Change * Wind Protecting The Environment * $50mil To Rooftop Solar Leasing * Nasa Seeks Robotics From Cleantech Open Yesterday * …