SB NEWS and VIEWS: Top Weekend Reads: 15+ Stories Not to Miss This Week

Jay OwenSustainability News

February 28, 2014 Top Weekend Reads: 15+ Stories Not to Miss This Week This week: SB Research+ newsletter has been updated with written reports and multimedia specially selected from the SB Library. A new report from the Responsible Sourcing Network includes company survey results and ratings in the apparel and …

ENB Vol. 9 No. 614 – Third Meeting of the Open-ended Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Committee for the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization – Issue #3

Jay OwenEarth Systems Science, Nature/Biomimicry

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eceee Industrial Summer Study – early birds register by 14 February

Jay OwenResource Efficiency

eceee 2014 Industrial Summer Study Retool for a competitive and sustainable industry2–5 JunePapendal, Arnhem, the NetherlandsEarly birds register by 14 February Register by 14 February to enjoy early bird discounts. http://www.eceee.org/industry/registration/Secure your hotel room now! eceee has reserved a number of discounted hotel rooms on site. Book now to secure your hotel room.Why an industrial …

Convergent Globalisation for Sustainability

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity, Sustainability News

Convergent Globalisation for Sustainability January 31st 2014, 9.30am – 4.30pm The Create Centre, Bristol Interested in bringing together environment and development agendas? Think there is a need for considering social inequity at the same time as protecting the environment? Want to have your say on these issues? Join us to …

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News: Clever chemistry improves new class of antibiotics

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity

  ScienceDaily: Top Environment News   Clever chemistry improves new class of antibiotics Posted: 17 Jan 2014 09:49 AM PST A new class of molecules called acyldepsipeptides — ADEPs — may provide a new way to attack bacteria that have developed resistance to antibiotics. Researchers have discovered a way to …

The Bank Guarantee That Bankrupted Ireland

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance

The Bank Guarantee That Bankrupted Ireland Posted on November 2, 2013 by Ellen Brown The Irish have a long history of being tyrannized, exploited, and oppressed—from the forced conversion to Christianity in the Dark Ages, to slave trading of the natives in the 15th and 16th centuries, to the mid-nineteenth century “potato famine” that was really …

Scientists Declare No Consensus on GMO Safety

Jay OwenEarth Systems Science

ISIS Report 21/10/13Scientists Declare No Consensus on GMO Safety#############################################A group of 93 scientists from all over the world deplore the disinformationover the safety of GMOs and expose the lack of empirical and scientificevidence on which the false claims of “consensus” on safety are being madeSign the statement or see the …

NEWNET: Trina Solar shirks losses in Q2, pushes profit to $51.2m

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity

21 August 2013 – Today’s Top Stories on NewNet NADB finances Sol Orchard’s $67.6m PV park Rentech sells Natchez bioenergy site for $9m Turkey’s Aksa Enerji funded €44m for three wind farms Raya confirms financing for Indonesian geothermal projects Pattern Energy begins 218MW Texas wind farm construction SPI Solar to …

[Climate Bonds] China’s State Council (the Chinese govt’s cabinet) has decided to encourage green corporate bonds as part of its financial market reforms. Bravo! Will the EU and the US follow?

Jay OwenTrendspotting

Climate Bonds has posted a new item, ‘China’s State Council (the Chinese govt’s cabinet) has decided to encourage green corporate bonds as part of its financial market reforms. Bravo! Will the EU and the US follow?’China’s State Council, the Chinese Government’s cabinet, last week published an important and comprehensive plan …