NEWS HEADLINES: AUGUST 27TH, 2009 › SRI fund sales mirror market rise: RI/Lipper FMI stats › UK FSA chair slams City of London’s ‘socially useless’ excesses, floats Tobin tax FEATURES: Spotlight: Monitoring and reporting on corporate governance is essential for responsible investment Read more…
The Biochar Promise: Sacred Shrines and Skinny Chickens — by Albert Bates
Posted August 28, 2009 Editor’s note: Albert Bates’ ongoing research and networking around the world have resulted in an optimistic message. He agrees there’s no way that collapse of suburbia and business-as-usual can be avoided. But with ecovillages, permaculture, biochar and all manner of caring for the Earth, he knows …
Cleantech Group & New England Clean Energy Council Partner on Cleantech Forum XXIII Boston
Nick Parker, Executive Chairman of Cleantech, and Mark Donohue, on Cleantech’s North America advisory board, are members of the Ethical Markets Reseach Advisory Board. http://cleantech.com/about/pressreleases/20090826.cfm Registration about to close for significant clean technology industry event SAN FRANCISCO – August 26, 2009 – The Cleantech GroupT, LLC, providers of leading global …
Corporate strategy and inadequate governance: The pitfalls of CSR
by Susan Ariel Aaronson, Business and Development Discussion Papers, paper no. 11, summer 2009 Susan Aaronson is a member of the Ethical Markets Research Advisory Board – Corporate and Government Accountability Research Download the report (PDF)
Threshold IV INNOVATION IN ACTION – NOW!
An Extreme Weekend Retreat October 1 – 4, 2009 The Mermaid Mountain Inn Topanga, California, USA Maximum 13 participants Register Now: Email [email protected]
Lecturing Birds on Flying, by Pablo Triana, J Wiley, 2009
Review by Hazel Henderson A deeply unsettling insider account of how bogus mathematics overtook finance and was a key contributor to the financial collapse of 2008-2009 and also the 25% losses Wall Street suffered in the crash of 1987. Pablo Triana, like his fellow iconoclastic options trader Nassim Taleb who …
GreenerComputing News :: Chief Green Officers, Thin Clients, Green Storage and More…
The Green IT Perspective By Preston Gralla Every time you send or receive an email, you’re contributing ever so slightly to the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere. In fact, just storing mail on a server contributes emissions. A single email doesn’t add up to much, but put all …
NewNet Clean Energy Investor Newsletter
26 Aug 2009 Latest News in Clean Energy DEALS NEWS… Energy Conversion Devices completes merger with Solar Integrated Technologies Covanta Holding Corporation completes first phase of Veolia energy-from-waste acquisition Scottish consortium buys biodiesel producer Argent Energy Read the newsletter…
Steve Meacham: Fighting Foreclosure
There is little question that the mortgage crisis remains dire. U.S. foreclosure rates for March were at record levels — the number of households that received a foreclosure filing was more than 12 percent higher than the next highest month on record. One in every 159 U.S. housing units received …
EU to hold special summit on financial reform
http://euobserver.com/9/28580/?rk=1 LUCIA KUBOSOVA Today @ 09:25 CET EU leaders are to gather on 17 September for an extra summit to decide Europe’s position ahead of global talks on financial reform, with French President Nicolas Sarkozy pushing for bank managers to freeze their bonuses. Diplomats confirmed on Tuesday (25 August) the …