Be Prepared – For a LOT More Solar by 2025 | The Energy Collective Daily

Jay OwenGreentech

Be Prepared – For a LOT More Solar by 2025 | The Energy Collective Daily     Be Prepared – For a LOT More Solar by 2025 Posted: 11 Sep 2014 09:00 AM PDT 2025 may sound a ways off, but it’s only 11 years away. What will the world …

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News: Do gut bacteria rule our minds? In an ecosystem within us, microbes evolved to sway food choices

Jay OwenResource Efficiency

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News   Do gut bacteria rule our minds? In an ecosystem within us, microbes evolved to sway food choices Posted: 15 Aug 2014 04:22 PM PDT It sounds like science fiction, but it seems that bacteria within us — which outnumber our own cells about 100-fold — …

GLOBE World Summit of Legislators Resolution Urges Climate Action

Jay OwenSustainability News

  A compilation of items recently posted to the Sustainable Development Policy & Practice knowledgebase Latest News – 11 June 2014 GLOBE World Summit of Legislators Resolution Urges Climate Action 9_June_2014: Participants at the Second World Summit of Legislators, organized by the Global Legislators Organisation (GLOBE), agreed on a Legislators …

Sustainable Development Update – 16 April 2014 – Sustainable Development Policy & Practice

Jay OwenSustainability News

      A compilation of items recently posted to the Sustainable Development Policy & Practice knowledgebase Latest News – 16 April 2014 IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings Emphasize Climate Change, Sustainable Development 13_April_2014: The Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Group (WBG) brought together officials, …

Sustainable Development Update – 26 March 2014 – Sustainable Development Policy & Practice

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News, Sustainability News

World Bank Report Proposes Priorities for Sustainable Urbanization 25_March_2014: ‘Urban China: Toward Efficient, Inclusive and Sustainable Urbanization,’ a report by the World Bank and China’s Development Research Center, proposes a ‘new urbanization’ path that will be environmentally sustainable, ensure food security, better allocate capital, labor and land, and place people …

The Regional Implementation Meetings for Rio+20 Follow-Up: An Analysis of the Outcomes

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News, Sustainability News

Click here to visit the Sustainable Development Policy & Practice knowledgebase.   A compilation of items recently posted to the Sustainable Development Policy & Practice knowledgebase Latest News – 9 September 2013 SD Policy Update The Regional Implementation Meetings for Rio+20 Follow-Up: An Analysis of the Outcomes by Pamela S. Chasek, Executive Editor, Earth Negotiations Bulletin [ENB], IISD Reporting Services (US) As_part_of the discussions on …

Sustainable Development Update – 29 August 2013 – Sustainable Development Policy & Practice

Jay OwenSustainability News

  A compilation of items recently posted to the Sustainable Development Policy & Practice knowledgebase Latest News – 29 August 2013 UNGA Resumes Consultations on Strengthening ECOSOC 28_August_2013: UN Member States have resumed consultations on the process to review implementation of UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolution 61/16 on strengthening the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). Delegates conducted a general review of the …

DEPUTY UN CHIEF STRESSES NEED TO ADVANCE SUSTAINABLE TOURISM AS CITIES CONTINUE TO GROW

Jay OwenSustainability News

  The United Nations Deputy Secretary-General today encouraged governments, the tourism industry and local communities to work together to tackle the important challenge of urbanization and tourism to sustainable development.In <“http://www.un.org/sg/dsg/statements/index.asp?nid=400“>remarks to the Working Luncheon on Sustainable Urban Development and Tourism, hosted by the Permanent Mission of China to the …

Clean Technica: Fiat 500e Starting At $32,500 (Leasing From $199/Month)

Jay OwenResource Efficiency

Top cleantech news of the day from CleanTechnica, the world’s #1 cleantech or clean energy website: Fiat 500e Starting At $32,500 (Leasing From $199/Month) New UK Nissan Leaf Has Battery Leasing Option, Over 100 Improvements Electricity Suppliers Look To EVs To Save Their Business Models Sweden’s Quest To Be The First …

Work-Family Balance Benefits Families and Society At Large, Says Ban

Ethical MarketsSRI/ESG News

New York, May 15 2012  9:05AM Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has highlighted the need for work-family balance for the benefit of families and society at large, adding that while flexible working arrangements are becoming more widely available, there is much room for improvement. “We need to respond to the ever-changing complexities of work and family life,” …