For Immediate Release Media Contact: Patrick Kiker, [email protected], 202.507.4043 ACEEE: GERMANY, ITALY, EU, CHINA, AND FRANCE TOP GLOBAL ENERGY EFFICIENCY RANKINGS U.S. Places 13th Out of 16, Behind Australia, India, and South Korea; Germany Wins “World Cup” of Energy Efficiency: 2nd International Scorecard Evaluates 16 Leading World Economies on …
Strong US Majority Prefers Iran Deal says “Citizen Cabinet” Survey
Strong US Majority Prefers Iran Deal says “Citizen Cabinet” Survey by Jim Lobe – Via LobeLog, IPS Blogosphere* Sixty-one percent of the American public prefers a deal permitting Iran to continue limited uranium enrichment and imposing intrusive inspections on its nuclear facilities in exchange for some sanctions relief, …
20th International Summer University: “Terra Nova – Global Alliance for the Healing of the Earth” August 1-10th 2014
Photos from left to right: Oracle Spring Building Site with Sabine Lichtenfels, Summer University in Tamera, Evening Light over Lake One Tamera Newsletter – June 2014 Dear friends of Tamera, The world looks to the FIFA World Cup in Brazil but many football fans can …
GEMS Water: Global water quality data to inform SDGs
ENB on the Side Coverage of Selected Side Events at the First UN Environment Assembly (UNEA) of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Issue No. 2 – Wednesday, 25 June 2014 Events convened on Tuesday, 24 June 2014 GEMS Water: Global water quality data to inform SDGs Presented by UNEP/DEWA …
AUSTERITY IS DESTROYING OUR NATION
Dear Friends of the American Monetary Institute, AUSTERITY IS ATTACKING THE NATION The “austerity” budgets around the World are having exactly the intended effect – they are making people even more dependent on the immoral banking systems in place, thus increasing the power of the ruling financiers, and making it more …
Same Price, More Renewables. San Diego’s Fight for Community Choice – Episode 23 of Local Energy Rules
An Island Utility Hinders Incredibly Cost-Effective Solar Power Last week I shared a new podcast about the struggle for local energy in San Diego. Residents of that city are trying to follow in the footsteps of Marin Clean Energy and Sonoma Clean Power to gain local control over their energy …
OTHER NEWS: Where Will The New Europe Go?
Where Will The New Europe Go? By Roberto Savio* ROME, May 2014 (IPS) – “An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted” is a phrase from Arthur Miller which applies well to the European elections that have just ended. What those elections …
Earth Policy Institute: Denmark, Portugal, and Spain Leading the World in Wind Power
Denmark, Portugal, and Spain Leading the World in Wind Power J. Matthew Roney www.earth-policy.org/data_highlights/2014/highlights46 Earth Policy Release Data Highlight May 27, 2014 Denmark produced one third of its electricity from the wind in 2013. In no other country has wind’s share of annual electricity generation yet topped 30 percent. But …
New facts about employee ownership in May 2014
EFES NEWSLETTER – MAY 2014 Transparency It is usually considered in large European companies that employee share ownership has to be developed, leading to better performances and better governance. …
Ukraine crisis shows urgency of green energy: Russian nat’l gas blackmail
by Juan Cole, originally published by Informed Comment | MAR 8, 2014 Hawks are complaining that europe has been insufficiently belligerent in its response to Russian moves in the Crimea, blaming the declining military budgets in most European countries. But this focus on military hardware is misleading, since there was never any prospect …