Ellen Brown March 26, 2011 www.webofdebt.com/articles Cut spending, raise taxes, sell off public assets – these are the unsatisfactory solutions being debated across the nation; but the budget crises now being suffered by nearly all the states did not arise from too much spending or too little taxation. They arose …
Humanitarian Competition from CASS Ethics Series
In the seventh edition of Cass Ethics, Lisa Cowan, European correspondent for Ethical Markets and Cass EMBA alumni, introduces the Humanitarian Competition framework. For the Cass Ethics Series, every other week, Edouard Larpin, BSc Business Studies, will ask an academic or a specialist practitioner their point of view on applying …
Five Questions about SRI – Weekly Expert Interview with Ann Logue
A publication from Emerging Markets ESG Five Questions about SRI – Weekly Expert Interview with Ann Logue, CFA, Author of “Emerging Markets for Dummies” and “SRI for Dummies,” Chicago, USA – March 25, 2011 By Geoffrey on March 25, 2011 Each week Emerging Markets ESG publishes an interview entitled, “Five …
Event Summary: A Budget for Growth?
A publication from Aldersgate Group Joan Walley MP, Chair of the Environmental Audit Select Committee opened the meeting, “It’s Budget Day!” She posed the question to the speakers and audience, “how green was the Budget for you?” Dr Gordon Edge, Director of Policy, RenewableUK responded that “there are things in …
Green Transition Scoreboard In the Press
Advisor.ca: Green Investment Tops $3.3 Trillion Ethical Markets Media has released its 2012 Green Transition Scoreboard, the newest report based on their global scoring system used to track private sector investments in green companies and technologies since 2007. Asria: New Report Shows Private Investments In Green Sectors Top $2 Trillion …
UNIDO, Republic of Korea Collaborate on Green Growth and Low-Carbon Industrial Development
A newsletter from UNCSD 22_March_2011: The UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the Ministry of Knowledge Economy of the Republic of Korea have signed an agreement to strengthen cooperation and identify joint projects and activities in the fields of green growth technology and low-carbon industrial development. continued… UNCSD Newsletter Highlights …
Why Aren’t Those Wind Turbines Turning?
It’s called curtailment—and it could be costing the nation a lot of green energy and green money. . Some 292,000 megawatt-hours of wind power were curtailed by the Midwest transmission system operator in 2009; in 2010, that figure jumped to about 824,000 megawatt-hours. At a rule-of-thumb 7 cents per kilowatt-hour, …
Energy Opinions Before The Flood
NewEnergyNews Daily Headlines click here for main page: http://www.NewEnergyNews.net/ Things-To-Think-About Friday, 3-25: * Energy Opinions Before The Flood * Energy Opinions After The Flood * Solar Lights Up As Nuclear Burns Out * Even Offshore Wind Beats Nuclear Now * The Facts On Green Jobs Yesterday * Guest Lead Post: …
G20 Finance Ministers on Wrong Track
INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION ITUC OnLine 067/230311 G20 Finance Ministers on Wrong Track Continued failure to tackle jobs crisis Further social unrest likely due to policy failures Destructive finance sector bonus culture left untouched Brussels, 23 March 2011 (ITUC OnLine): Trade unions are demanding a fundamental change in direction from …
Bglobal Metering prepares for UK smart meter roll out
DEAL NEWS Bglobal Metering prepares for UK smart meter roll out Seventure Partners invests €1m in sustainable start-up AgraQuest raises $17.7m US government injects $4.4m in cheap solar film development Smart Energy Capital to finance $70m Massachusetts solar project Turboden rankine machines to make solar thermal debut Developers to identify …