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 …
BIOMIMICRY, Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine M. Benyus
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature Review by Alan F Kay Biomimicry by Janine Benyus deals with the clear and fascinating, yet little understood and vast, reality of the processes of life and living beings. The book summarizes these ideas this way: Virtually all living creatures: plants, animals, microbes, etc., …
Global Sustainable Competitiveness Index 2013
Solability LTD, Ilsan, South Korean The Global Sustainable Competitiveness Index scores and ranks 176 countries according to their capability to sustain or increase wealth in a resource-constraint, globalised world. The Index was first developed and published in 2012, based on a competitiveness model that incorporates all aspects required to sustain …
Dr. Wackernagel Wins Prestigious Kenneth E. Boulding Award
We at Ethical Markets Media salute Dr. Mathis Wackernagel ,( who also serves on our Advisory Board for the Calvert-Henderson Quality of Life Indicators “ dashboard “) , as well as his co-creator of the Ecological Footprint , Dr. William Rees , in winning this prestigious Kenneth E. Boulding Award …
Book Review: ‘Doing More With Less’
Bruce Piasecki’s “Doing More with Less” (Wiley, 2012) gives solid, homespun advice to corporate and financial executives about how to reform their short-term profit-maximizing in the coming age of diminishing planetary resources and a human population of already more than 7 billion. Read the review on Seeking Alpha.