AUSTERITY IS DESTROYING OUR NATION

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance

 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 …

World Future Council Newsletter February 2014

Jay OwenGlobal Citizen

  Dear Friends of the World Future Council, Almost three years after the Great East disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in March 2011 almost 100 000 people are still displaced. During a recent disaster. We visited abandoned towns that are still highly contaminated. Travelling through entirely intact …

Join The National Green Energy Council And A TruBuilders Inc. at the grand opening of the New Jersey Storm Recovery Center Saturday April 22, 2013

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity

Press Release April 15, 2013 9:00AM EST        The National Green Energy Council And A TruBuilders Inc. partner on the New Jersey Storm Recovery Center        The official grand opening celebration of the New Jersey Storm Recovery Center will take place at the New Jersey Storm Recovery Center …

World Nuclear Electricity Generation Down 5 Percent Since 2006

Ethical MarketsTrendspotting

World nuclear electricity-generating capacity has been essentially flat since 2007 and is likely to fall as plants retire faster than new ones are built. In fact, the actual electricity generated at nuclear power plants fell 5 percent between 2006 and 2011. In 2011, following Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, 13 …

Greenpeace report rebukes finance sector for ignoring nuclear risks

kristySRI/ESG News

PRESS RELEASE A partner of Tokyo, June 12th 2012 Greenpeace report rebukes finance sector for ignoring nuclear risks Investors in nuclear power are being sold precarious and potentially damaging investments because the industry?s risks are regularly being overlooked or underestimated, a new report from Greenpeace has found. Compiled with the …

Germany To Phase Out Nuclear Power; US Could (in theory) Do Same

kristyResource Efficiency

Published on Wednesday, June 8, 2011 by Associated Press Germany To Phase Out Nuclear Power; US Could Do Same In their White House press conference Tuesday, President Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel stood together on topics ranging from the global economy to Libya. Cooling towers of the nuclear power …

Ecocity Design For Disaster Resilient Cities

kristySustainability News, Earth Systems Science

An Ecocity Builders email update — March 2011 Fire resistant ecotown sketch by Richard Register Dear Friends and Supporters, The on-going disaster in Japan should not pass without a constructive response from us, which is this: ecocity design can help prevent severe earthquake and tsunami damage and can eliminate nuclear …