New index of wellbeing challenges Canada’s GDP as sole measure of progress

Ethical MarketsSRI/ESG News, Sustainability News

Waterloo, Ont. – Canada has become a world leader in measuring wellbeing with the launch of a new comprehensive composite index set to challenge the gross domestic product (GDP) as the sole measure of our country’s progress, says the Honourable Roy Romanow, advisory board chair for the Canadian Index of …

From leafy Luxembourg: can the EIB become the climate banker to match the EU’s leadership

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The European Investment Bank (the EIB), the EU’s bank, is the world’s largest clean energy lender. True! Yet their lending is not (yet) enough to  achieve the transition to a low-carbon economy the EU needs and has  mandated by 2050. See the rest at http://climatebonds.net/2011/10/from-leafy-luxembourg-can-the-eib-become-the-climate-banker-to-match-the-eus-leadership/

Bain leads $13m investment into green lighting company EcoSense

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Deal News PREMIUM: Billion dollar deals signal maturing green chemicals industry Bain leads $13m investment into green lighting company EcoSense US solar company Renewable Resource Capital signs 100MW development deal with Youil Ensys GE teams with Moser Baer for 20MW solar greenhouse World Energy Solutions grows efficiency focus with Northeast acquisition …

Today’s Study: So Many Jobs in the Sun

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  NewEnergyNews Daily Headlines   click here for main page: http://www.NewEnergyNews.net/   TODAY AT NewEnergyNews, 10-19:   * TODAY’S STUDY: SO MANY JOBS IN THE SUN   * QUICK NEWS, 10-19: A BREAKTHROUGH SOLUTION FOR WIND; SUN PROFITS FALLING, PARTSHOLDING; BIG WIND BUILDING IN NO DAKOTA   YESTERDAY   * THE STUDY: ON CREATING AND NOT CREATING GREEN …

Nissan Keeping Options Open: BEVs, Hybrids and Cheaper Fuel Cells : AltEnergyStocks.com

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Nissan and its sister company Renault have clearly made a commitment to ‘advanced-drive’ autos. The facts speak for themselves: §     Nissan put the Leaf on the streets in December of 2010 – the first mass-produced, battery electric vehicle. Sales reached 15,000 units worldwide by September of this year. §     Nissan-Renault …

Listening to Occupy Wall Street

Ethical MarketsReforming Global Finance, Advisors' Forum

John  Fullerton is on the Ethical Markets Advisory Board and co-organized our TRANSFORMING FINANCE Statement. Join our many co- signers worldwide at www.transformingfinance.net.  – Hazel Henderson, Editor Listening to Occupy Wall Street I went down to Liberty Park Plaza this week (bought and renamed Zuccotti Park in 2006) to listen, to …

Opportunity for Collaboration – Transparency in Competition

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Social entrepreneurs need to be transparent to cooperate (that’s the social part), but they also need to rely on opacity to compete –we are entrepreneurs, after all. How can we cope with such dual personality? Our friend Peter Deitz started the conversation two years ago with Competition or Collaboration? Now is the time to …

World’s largest investors, worth $20 trillion step up call for urgent policy action on climate change

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World’s largest investors, worth $20 trillion step up call for urgent policy action on climate change   Call coincides with landmark Washington D.C. Global Roundtable on financial stability and sustainability   Geneva/London/New York/Melbourne, 19 October 2011 – Despite the global economic crisis, and increased market volatility, the world’s largest investors today urged …