Garvin Jabusch, Co-Founder, Chief Investment Officer, Green Alpha Advisors The fossil fuels industry, big oil, big coal, natural gas, and its allied sectors, including some large financial institutions, will not quietly or willingly retire into the history of ideas whose time has passed. That fossil fuels represent the single …
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Predictions FROM Jeremy Leggett, author ENERGY OF NATIONS
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The COSA Measuring Sustainability Report
We recently launched “The COSA Measuring Sustainability Report.” together with five sustainable practices in developing coutires. Giants like Mars, Unilever, Starbucks, Nestle and McDonalds are among the firms investing in new approaches to help them understand what makes the segments now integrate no less than 435 sustainability. Some of these are a response to …
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ILLICIT FINANCIAL OUTFLOWS FROM africa CRIPPLING CONTINENT’S DEVELOPMENT – UN New York, Feb 6 2014 6:00PM United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson and former South African President Thabo Mbeki today stressed the need for global efforts to address the problem of illicit financial flows from Africa, which have crippled the …
Helio International: Monitoring Progress on Energy and Ecodevelopment
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The Millennium Project Ranked 6th Best Think Tank in the World for New Ideas and Paradigms
We at Ethical Markets are proud to see this honor for the Millennium Project and happy that our Founder, Hazel Henderson, was an early funder and still serves on their Planning Committee.” ~Editor The Millennium Project Ranked 6th Best Think Tank in the World for New Ideas and Paradigms Global …
REN21 – In this issue News from the Secretariat News from the Network Upcoming Events
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Climate Change, the Sharing Economy & Collaborating for a Brave New World
Symbiotic relationships in nature could show business the key to collaboration. Submitted by:Danielle Lanyard Posted:Oct 11, 2013 – 09:30 AM EST Tags:climate change, sharing economy, business, sea levels, economy,ecology, sustainability, eco, symbiosis, whole systems approach, collaboration, thoughting By Danielle Lanyard One of the most recent and startling headlines on climate change is the expected repercussions from the potential release of 50 …