Sustainable production a “must” not an “option”

Ethical Markets - RPoetry by Hazel Henderson

We at Ethical Markets get asked our opinion on lots of things all the time. Sometimes the questioner likes our response, sometimes not. Either way, it’s worth the mental exercise. Here’s my response to The NRF, A United Nations Sustainable Development Journal, inviting replies to the following question for the …

OBAMA FINALLY GETS IT ON WALL STREET

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Over the past year, America has faced the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, leaving millions of Americans struggling with unemployment, businesses failing, home prices falling, and savings plummeting. Read more…

Energy & Capital: How Saving Energy Is Returning Billions

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One of the principals of Ethical markets has a position in Eneroc – Ed. By Nick Hodge | Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 By now you’ve heard about energy efficiency — also called negawatts or the “Fifth Fuel” — and the big splash it’s making in the market. Boiled down to …

Greentech Media: Abu Dhabi – Land of Construction and Chaos

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A Megawatt Heat Beam For Solar Thermal Beam me down, Scotty, into a tank of liquid calcium. NanoH2O to Change the Economics of Desalination “It all comes down to the performance of the membrane.” Abu Dhabi: Land of Construction and Chaos The Masdar Initiative is not some sort of intellectual …

NGO CALLS TO REFORM EUROPE’S FINANCIAL EXPERT GROUPS

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http://www.euractiv.com/en/financial-services/ngo-calls-barnier-reform-eu-financial-expert-groups/article-189035 “The European Commission should reform the way it takes advice on financial matters and it cannot do that without bringing about a deep change in its financial expert groups,” Yiorgos Vassalos, a researcher at the Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), told EurActiv Germany in an interview.

Energy & Capital

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Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 Dear Energy and Capital Reader, If you pay a utility bill… you need to read the following report. Day after day, I talk to friends and colleagues who are furious about their high energy bills. And they’re all looking for something to do about it. Luckily, …