“Preventing a Double-Dip Requires a New Team in Washington” Reviewed by Hazel Henderson © 2010 In my review of Robert Kuttner’s earlier Obama’s Challenge (2008), I shared his concern that Obama’s administration could become one of continuity – with little of the change the USA needs. In this earlier volume, …
Sustainable Development Key Performance Indicators (SD-KPIs)
Sustainable Development Key Performance Indicators (SD-KPIs) are the three most important sustainability indicators for the business development, position and anticipated development of 68 industries. From 2004 until now, Dr. Axel Hesse (SD-M®) has elaborated the SD-KPI Standard 2010-2014, which is protected by copyright. “Institutional Shareowner” summarized the development.
THE FUTURE OF FINANCE: And The Theory That Underpins It, London School of Economics Press, UK, 2010
Review by Hazel Henderson. This compilation of papers by Britain’s best and brightest addresses the structural weaknesses and questions the social utility of the global financial system. These deeper issues are not addressed by the new US 843-page Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act signed by President Obama. …
Sharp Solar’s Ron Kenedi on Amorphous Silicon
Sharp Solar’s Ron Kenedi on Amorphous Silicon Amorphous silicon (a-Si) will constitute as much as 50 percent of Sharp’s solar business in the coming years. The Underlying Network in Smart Grid Silver Spring, Proximetry, SmartSynch and SD G &E debate how to build out the grid. Maryland PSC Reconsiders BGE …
PNOC Renewables pumps $335m in hydro projects
14 July 2010 DEALS NEWS… PNOC Renewables pumps $335m in hydro projects Beacon Power receives $2.25m federal grant to develop advanced energy storage system First Solar seals NextLight Renewable Power acquisition Biogas-fuel innovator LanzaTech raises NZ$18m to commercialise conversion process Click here to read the newsletter.
The Dream of “Clean” Coal Dissipates in Dollars
NewEnergyNews Daily Headlines click here for main page: http://www.NewEnergyNews.net/ * Today’s Headline:The Dream Of “Clean” Coal Dissipates In Dollars * Quick News, 7-15: Senate To Go For Utility Cap; New Coalition For Offshore Wind; For New Energy Investors; Vc New Energy Spending Up Yesterday * Headline: Offshore Wind, The Way …
TEEB report: corporations out of step with consumers on biodiversity loss
July 14th, 2010 RI News Alert: › Rio Tinto, Unilever frustrated with mainstream investors on ESG › TEEB report: corporations out of step with consumers on biodiversity loss Click here to read the newsletter.
Cell Phone Chargers to go Green
Posted: 13 Jul 2010 01:52 PM PDT Today cell-phones have become an integral part of our life and are the most used mode of communication. More prevalent the use of cell-phone, more imperative is the need to curtail eco-pollution that emanates from the huge number of still-in-use and out-of-use cell …
Shareholders and Pension Fund Trustees Should read THE FUTURE OF FINANCE from the Paul Woolley Centre for the Study of Dysfunctional Finance: Fix the principal-agent Problem!
July 19th, 2010 Spotlight: The European Commission could pull the plug on shareholder engagement unless owners step up Click here to read the newsletter.
The Emerging Politics of Food Scarcity
By Lester R. Brown Earth Policy Release Book Byte July 14, 2010 A dangerous geopolitics of food scarcity is emerging in which individual countries, acting in their narrowly defined self-interest, reinforce the trends causing global food security to deteriorate. This began in late 2007 when wheat-exporting countries, like Russia and …