SMARTPLANET DAILY: Solar Roadways funding nears $2 million

Jay OwenCrowdfunding

  MANAGE | READ ONLINE | PREVIOUS   SmartPlanet Daily A DAILY BRIEFING OF THE NEWEST STORIES ON SMARTPLANET, FIVE DAYS A WEEK. June 06, 2014 FROM THE DESK OF … Halfway through their crowdfunding campaign, Solar Roadways has already doubled their funding goal and broken the Indiegogo record for …

Doha snapshots: Negotiations? pffft / IEA+WB+UNEP+PwC+WMO: big gun reports fire away / meanwhile, in Uganda ….

Ethical MarketsGreen Prosperity, SRI/ESG News

Posted on 04. Dec, 2012 by Sean Kidney in blog – I’m in Qatar, a place slightly smaller than Connecticut, prosaically described in my travel guide app as “mainly flat and barren desert, covered with loose sand and gravel”. There’s not a lot of desert left in its capital, Doha, …

Taking the Measure of the New Metrics Conference, Philadelphia 2012

kristyCommunity Development Solutions, Beyond GDP

by Paul Glover For 222 years, American stock exchanges have measured success by larger numbers, regardless of capital’s social and environmental impact. The bottom line has been the top line. During recent decades, though, corporations have been kicked from behind by vigilant citizens demanding government regulations, then nudged from within …

Thinking electric thoughts–A noisy large convention center, hordes of jet-lagged business types holding coffee like it was a life preserver.

kristyGreentech, Trendspotting

Thinking electric thoughts A noisy large convention center, hordes of jet-lagged business types holding coffee like it was a life preserver. In front of a busy demonstration booth, I am holding a piece of our future – an electricity producing roof shingle. Dow Solar has begun selling solar shingles that …

Movement of the Day: Economy of Communion

kristyGlobal Citizen

Movement of the Day: Economy of Communion A “social-Catholic” approach to economics. Luigini Bruni: “The EoC is a project that currently involves hundreds (754) of businesses in five continents and has attracted the interest of scholars and economists alike. The project started in 1991 when Chiara Lubich visited the city …