Global Atlas for Solar and Wind: IRENA Update June 2013

Jay OwenResource Efficiency, Greentech

provided by IRENA, the International Renewable Energy Agency   What is the Global Atlas for Solar & Wind?   The Global Atlas is the comprehensive information platform on the potential of renewable energy. It provides resource maps from leading technical institutes worldwide and tools for evaluating the technical potential of …

Jay OwenEarth Systems Science

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News Irish chronicles reveal links between cold weather and volcanic eruptions Where trash accumulates in the deep sea Life on Earth shockingly comes from out of this world First evidence that the genome can adapt to temperature changes U.S. Clean Air Act increased Atlanta rainfall Animals and …

Market Forces: ANZ biggest gambler on dirty coal and gas exports

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

ANZ biggest gambler on dirty coal and gas exports Friday 31 May 2013 Press Release A new interactive map has been published that identifies ANZ as the commercial bank lending most heavily to coal and gas export projects along Australia’s Eastern seaboard, including in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage …

The 1,000-Mile Electric Car

Jay OwenResource Efficiency

Forward to a Friend Having trouble viewing this issue? Click here. Refer a Friend to Energy and Capital. The 1,000-Mile Electric Car By Jeff Siegel | Wednesday, May 1st, 2013 A good friend of mine recently took delivery of a brand-new Tesla Model S. This is the electric car you’ve read …

INVESTORS FACING A CARBON BUBBLE SHOULD SHIFT TO GREEN INVESTMENTS

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

INVESTORS FACING A CARBON BUBBLE SHOULD SHIFT TO GREEN INVESTMENTS – Institutional Investors Gambling On Carbon Reserves As Stranded Assets in the Transition Underway to Low-Carbon Green Economies.  “This is why Ethical Markets  GREEN TRANSITION SCOREBOARD®  urges pension funds to shift  their assets to green sectors, which now total  $4.1 …

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News:Arctic nearly free of summer sea ice during first half of 21st century, experts predict

Jay OwenNature/Biomimicry

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News Arctic nearly free of summer sea ice during first half of 21st century, experts predict Scientists map elusive 3-D structure of telomerase enzyme, key actor in cancer, aging Secrets of bacterial slime revealed Alternative way to explain life’s complexity proposed Disappearing nannies force parents to accept …

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News: A warming world will further intensify extreme precipitation events, research shows

Jay OwenEarth Systems Science

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News A warming world will further intensify extreme precipitation events, research shows Researchers uncover new pathways in bacterial intercellular competition The ethics of resurrecting extinct species ‘Pharmaceutical’ approach boosts oil production from algae How carbon moves within planet plays big role in planetary atmosphere formation No map, …

A Bonding Experience

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity, SRI/ESG News

Bond risk Our thinking about the role of future environmental politics on capital markets has extended to another asset class – fixed income. Carbon Tracker recently collaborated with global credit-ratings agency Standard & Poors to publish ‘What a carbon-constrained future could mean for oil companies’ creditworthiness’.  This report assesses the …

First-ever map reveals where tropical forests store carbon

kristyEarth Systems Science

EarthSky // Blogs // Earth Posted Jun 04, 2011 First-ever map reveals where tropical forests store carbon Researchers looked at three million measurements of treetop height, along with ground data, and calculated the carbon held in tropical forests. A NASA-led research team has created the most precise map ever produced …