Energy News: New Utility Model, Same as the Old Utility Model? In West Virginia, Tesla is Just a Small Town | The Energy Collective Daily

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News, Greentech

Energy News: New Utility Model, Same as the Old Utility Model? In West Virginia, Tesla is Just a Small Town | The Energy Collective Daily Energy News: New Utility Model, Same as the Old Utility Model? In West Virginia, Tesla is Just a Small Town Posted: 10 Apr 2015 08:00 …

Is global warming causing extreme weather via jet stream waves?

Jay OwenEarth Systems Science

Is global warming causing extreme weather via jet stream waves? A new study investigates how changes to atmospheric winds are making weather more extreme The jet stream that circles Earth’s north pole travels west to east. But when the jet stream interacts with a Rossby wave, as shown here, the …

Opportunities in Paraguay 2014 Early Registration Closes March 31

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

Opportunities in Paraguay 2014 – Part 2 May 5-6, Trade & Business Mission  ?  May 6-8, Conference JOIN US IN Asunción, Paraguay Limited openings for Trade & Business Mission RESERVE YOUR SPOT TODAY Register Now This conference brings together the most senior government and industry leaders from Paraguay with globally recognized …

Debt, austerity, devastation: it’s Europe’s turn

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance

As the creditors get fatter, the innocent are punished. Susan George laments a leadership subservient to big business. Like plague in the 14th century, the scourge of debt has gradually migrated from South to North. Our 21st-century Yersinia pestis isn’t spread by flea-infested rats but by deadly, ideology-infested neoliberal fundamentalists. …

Book Review: Parent Power

Jay OwenBooks and Reviews

Parent Power: The Key to America’s Prosperity: Why do we permit babies to have one, two or three strikes against them at birth and endanger our nation’s future? By Jack C. Westman, M.D., CreateSpace Independent Publishing, 2013   “Dr. Weston’s well-research, bold proposal  focusing  on  how to give our children …

SAI Leadership Transitions to Shared CEO Role: Starting July 2013, SAI President and Executive Director will alternate as CEO, working with new Director of Operations & Administration

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News, Sustainability News

SAI Leadership Transitions to Shared CEO Role Starting July 2013, SAI President and Executive Director will alternate as CEO, working with new Director of Operations & Administration SAI President Alice Tepper Marlin and Executive Director Eileen Kaufman by PLMA Live during a video interview with PLMA Live – see video …

We did it — Europe just banned bee-killing pesticides!!

Jay OwenGlobal Citizen

We did it — Europe just banned bee-killing pesticides!! Mega-corporations like Bayer threw everything they had at this, but people-power, science and good governance came out on top!! Bee “die in” at Bayer’s headquarters, Cologne Vanessa Amaral-Rogers from the specialist conservation organisation Buglife, says: “It was a close vote, but thanks …

Friday Video: Caroline Lucas, Green Party MP on Positive Money

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance

Positive Money Conference “Modernising Money” on 26th January 2013 in London       Speaking at the “Modernising Money” Conference, Caroline Lucas, MP, states:     “The debate that Positive Money has started is an incredibly important one. We all need to better understand the role that money and its creation …

Jay OwenSustainability News, Trendspotting

Transforming The DNA of Leadership? Corporate sustainability leaders are beginning to embrace radical transformation in their climate change strategies. Submitted by:Nikos Avlonas Posted:Feb 15, 2013 – 09:57 AM EST Tags:sustainability, carbon, carbon management, cse, cdp, climate change, epa,environmental regulation By Nikos Avlonas, President, CSE Sustainability is about longevity, but it is also about transformation. How do we …

Catastrophism: environmentalism and ‘apocalyptic’ politics

Jay OwenBooks and Reviews

http://www.ecoequity.org/2013/01/book-review-catastrophism-the-apocalyptic-politics-of-collapse-and-rebirth/   Book Review: by Tom Athanasiou, Jan 31, 2013 ********************** Catastrophism: The Apocalyptic Politics of Collapse and Rebirth, by Sasha Lilley, David McNally, Eddie Yuen, James Davis, with a foreword by Doug Henwood. PM Press 2012 by Tom Athanasiou There are four essays in this slim volume, one on …