Don’t water down climate targets, Government warned

Jay OwenAdvisors' Forum

Ethical Markets Advisory Board member Tessa Tennant is one of the directors for the UK Green Investment Bank, instrumental in guiding the environmental policy in the UK which informed the report “Progress on Carbon Budgets” from the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee.   ~ editor 08 October 2013 MPs have …

Clean Technica: Inexpensive Solar Cell Coating May Lead To Big Increases In Solar Cell Efficiency, 1 Photon Knocks Loose 2 Electrons

Jay OwenGreentech

Top cleantech news of the day from CleanTechnica, the world’s #1 cleantech or clean energy website: Inexpensive Solar Cell Coating May Lead To Big Increases In Solar Cell Efficiency, 1 Photon Knocks Loose 2 Electrons Colorado Looks To Raise Renewable Energy Standard To 25 Percent For Rural Electric Co-Ops China Reclaims …

State Solar Jobs Map Unveiled — Maps Of 119,000 Solar Jobs, & Much More

Jay OwenCommunity Development Solutions, Resource Efficiency

State Solar Jobs Map Unveiled — Maps Of 119,000 Solar Jobs, & Much More (via Clean Technica) Toward the end of 2007, US citizens, the US labor force, experienced the troubling onset of an economic downturn. We’re still in a condition of recovery. Through the whole recovery, though, we have …

O.E.C.D. Warns of Ever-Higher Greenhouse Gas Emissions

kristyTrendspotting

O.E.C.D. Warns of Ever-Higher Greenhouse Gas Emissions By REUTERS Published: March 15, 2012 LONDON — Global greenhouse gas emissions could rise 50 percent by 2050 without more ambitious climate policies, as fossil fuels continue to dominate the energy mix, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Thursday. “Unless the …

Energy Efficiency in 2012: Forecast Is Mostly Sunny

kristyResource Efficiency

Energy Efficiency in 2012: Forecast Is Mostly Sunny By ACEEE Executive Director Steven Nadel Looking forward into 2012, I see more reasons for optimism than pessimism. Many states and utilities are committed to ramping up their energy efficiency programs this year and even more are considering similar steps. For example, …

Latest FFD-Africa newsletter on Foresight and the Economy

kristyTrendspotting

Foresight and the Economy The future of economies is a source of great uncertainty and concern globally. How will Africa engage with the questions, opportunities and challenges, and how can the continent adapt to unfolding futures? What will the implications be? How can Africa move forward and become economically stronger …

New facts about employee ownership in July 2011

kristySRI/ESG News

EFES NEWSLETTER – JULY 2011 New research on the impact of employee ownership A new research in the USA on the impact of employee ownership is the largest study ever on the connections among various forms of shared capitalism, organizational culture, and company performance. On the other hand, an important …