Europe takes important steps towards going beyond GDP

kristySRI/ESG News, Sustainability News, Beyond GDP

Newsletter Europe takes important steps towards going beyond GDP July 2011 French and German versions of this newsletter will be posted on the website before 25 July 2011. An important step was taken beginning of June towards measuring progress in the EU on a broader basis than GDP alone, when …

Innu approve Lower Churchill hydro project deal in Canada

kristyGreentech

Hydro Headlines Innu approve Lower Churchill hydro project deal in Canada HALIFAX, Canada — An aboriginal group votes in favor of an agreement to approve the multi-billion dollar Lower Churchill hydropower project in Labrador. HydroWorld.com weekly newscast The HydroWorld.com weekly newscast, featuring headline news from the global hydropower industry, sponsored …

Shining a Light on Energy Efficiency

kristyResource Efficiency

Shining a Light on Energy Efficiency www.earth-policy.org/data_highlights/2011/highlights15 Earth Policy Release Data Highlight July 12, 2011 Our inefficient, carbon-based energy economy threatens to irreversibly disrupt the Earth’s climate. Averting dangerous climate change and the resultant crop-shrinking heat waves, more-destructive storms, accelerated sea level rise, and waves of climate refugees means cutting …

Book Review: David G. Victor’s ‘Global Warming Gridlock’

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Review by Hazel Henderson, originally published on SeekingAlpha.com This book, “Global Warming Gridlock,” Cambridge University Press 2011, by a deeply knowledgeable expert on all aspects of climate change, is an indispensible roadmap for the global debate about how to move beyond the Kyoto Protocol’s expiration in 2012. For full review, …

Book Review: ‘The Sixth Wave’

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Review by Hazel Henderson, originally published on SeekingAlpha.com The Sixth Wave by James Bradfield Moody and Bianca Nogrady, Vintage Books Australia 2010 Using the analogy to the famous waves of technological change modeled by Nikolai Kondratiev, these authors, both Australian experts, look at the global technological future. The tragic life …

Meet the Ranchers of Grasslands

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73 Arch Street, 3rd Floor Greenwich, CT 06830 United States (203)769-1191 ——————————————————————————– Meet the Ranchers of Grasslands As an “impact investor” in Grasslands, one of the true, unanticipated delights has been the amazing quality of the people the project has attracted. By connecting one’s investments with, and in the process …

Today’s Study: Efficiency’s Progress

kristyResource Efficiency

NewEnergyNews Daily Headlines click here for main page: http://www.NewEnergyNews.net/ Today At Newenergynews, July 12: * Today’s Study: Efficiency’s Progress * Quick News, July 12: Voters Back New Energy; New Energy Moves Ahead Of Nukes; Google’snew Energy Plan; Big Step For Ocean Wind Yesterday * Study: Google On Why New Energy …

Australia to set up $10bn Clean Energy Finance Corp

kristyGreen Prosperity

The Australian Government announced on the weekend it will set up a “Clean Energy Finance Corporation” (CEFC) as a statutory body. The initiative is part of a large package of climate change finance measures, including a long-awaited carbon tax. Described by ‘Responsible Investor’ magazine as Australia’s version of a Green …