ScienceDaily: Top Environment News Helping growers mitigate costly droughts Posted: 18 Jun 2014 09:20 AM PDT The Agricultural Reference Index for Drought, or ARID, used more than 100 years of climate data to reasonably predict drought levels in crops on several farms in Florida and Georgia. Scientists say …
Earth Policy Institute: Denmark, Portugal, and Spain Leading the World in Wind Power
Denmark, Portugal, and Spain Leading the World in Wind Power J. Matthew Roney www.earth-policy.org/data_highlights/2014/highlights46 Earth Policy Release Data Highlight May 27, 2014 Denmark produced one third of its electricity from the wind in 2013. In no other country has wind’s share of annual electricity generation yet topped 30 percent. But …
real-world economics review – issue no. 67″ : Loanable funds vs. endogenous money: Krugman is wrong, Keen is right
real-world economics review – issue no. 67 real-world economics review – Subscribers: 24,474 Subscribe here Blog ISSN 1755-9472 – A journal of the World Economics Association (WEA) 12,557 members, join here – Sister open access journals: Economic Thought and World Economic Review – back issues at www.paecon.net recent issues: 66 65 64 63 62 61 60 59 58 57 Issue no. 67, 9 May 2014 http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue67/whole67.pdf You can download the whole issue as …
Zouk Capital leads €40m Series C funding round in iZettle
9 May 2014 Zouk Capital leads €40m Series C funding round in iZettle iZettle provides efficient mobile payment services for small enterprises iZettle, Europe’s No.1 provider of mobile payment services and apps, has closed a €40 million Series C funding round. London-based growth investor Zouk Capital led the round, with …
Set for take-off in Singapore
IIRC Newsletter – April Edition <IR> set for take-off in Singapore singapore will soon have a roadmap for <IR> adoption, backed by a sound body of academic and empirical evidence, following the creation this month of a market-led <IR> steering committee. “We are moving from concept to execution”, said Michael …
What a win-win on unburnable carbon looks like
The recent IPCC report is clear: We need a dramatic change in the design of the global economy to avoid climate catastrophe and we need it now. The International Energy Agency estimates that to stay within 2 degrees Celsius of atmospheric warming, the global economy will have to avert emitting the carbon …
Who’s Winning the clean Energy Race? 2013
Overview For the past five years, Pew has tracked investment and finance trends in the world’s leading economies. Over that period, the clean energy industry has been buffeted by a global recession, broad changes in energy markets, and uncertainty surrounding international policies on clean energy and climate change. Despite these …
Think of solutions! Ukraine, Russia and the West
Lots of common sense from the experts at Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research , Hazel Henderson, Editor PressInfo Contact TFF Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research Vegagatan 25, S – 22457 Lund, Sweden (+46) 738 52 52 00 Home • Blog • Facebook • Google+ • Twitter • YouTube old • YouTube • Vimeo Ukraine, Crimea, Georgia: …
Ukraine crisis shows urgency of green energy: Russian nat’l gas blackmail
by Juan Cole, originally published by Informed Comment | MAR 8, 2014 Hawks are complaining that europe has been insufficiently belligerent in its response to Russian moves in the Crimea, blaming the declining military budgets in most European countries. But this focus on military hardware is misleading, since there was never any prospect …
Maximpact e-News | Issue 09: Biomimicry
Bringing Biomimicry to Market: Impact Investing Inspired by Nature by Marta Maretich Biomimicry has captured the world’s imagination. From the momentJanine Benyus’ seminal book on biomimicry appeared in 2002, hopes have been high for this new approach to design and engineering. Twelve years on, where are biomimicry and bio-inspired design today? …