Posted by Editor C on Friday, March 11, 2011 In : Must read
This is a great idea, kudos to Katherine V. Smith and her team at The Center for Corporate Citizenship (at Boston University). We hope other Universities will do the same.
"Dear MicroEmpowering,
As the world begins to comprehend the devastating impact of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, the Center extends its deepest sympathies to the people and businesses struggling against extraordinary circumstances. Our community of companies includes several headquartered in Japan and hundreds of othe...
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Posted by Editor on Tuesday, March 8, 2011 In : Must read
For decades, developers have been creating smart growth communities—places with a mix of land uses and housing types, built compactly to make walking and biking easier—throughout the county in urban, suburban, and rural locations. Some communities structure their approval and entitlement process to encourage construction of this type of neighborhood. Other communities are less familiar with these neighborhoods and may present more hurdles in the approval process because the design and lay... Continue reading...
Posted by Editor on Friday, January 14, 2011 In : Must read
CHECK BELOW FOR DONATIONS: Headquarters INVESTS RIO - Rua Mexico, 125 - Centro Rio (in the shop of the Tourism Department in front of elevators) HemoRio - The organ of the State Department of Health and Civil Defense is urging the population to donate blood. The blood center needs to send 300 bags of blood to the mountain region. The address is HemoRio at Rua Frei Caneca, No. 8, in downtown Rio The agency operates daily from 7am to 18 hours, including Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. To be a ... Continue reading...
Posted by Editor on Monday, December 20, 2010 In : News
By Maryann Jones Thompson (via CEF)
The Cancun international climate negotiations defied low expectations by producing a set of modest “Cancun Agreements,” which delegates argue provide a strong base for a comprehensive agreement
next year. Key outcomes included:
- Creation of a new “Green Climate Fund” (with the The World Bank as “Trustee”) that aims to disburse $100 billion a year by 2020 to help poor countries adapt to climate change impacts and assist with low-carbon developme...
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Posted by Editor on Monday, November 29, 2010 In : News
LONDON, BRUSSELS, COPENHAGEN, WASHINGTON, D.C. and CANCUN, Mexico, Nov. 24 /CSRwire/ - The most important and influential business, finance and government leaders in the climate change arena are coming together with more than 100 high-level speakers, and the largest coalition of financiers at the inaugural World Climate Summit, December 4-5, at The Ritz-Carlton, Cancun, Mexico, in parallel to the UNFCCC COP 16.
The World Climate Summit 2010 is the
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Posted by Editor C on Wednesday, November 17, 2010 In : Guest Blogger
Via Guest Blogger - with excerpts from Bloomberg Businessweek article
Speaking after Republicans won control of the House of Representatives, President Barack Obama has backed away from a cap-and-trade program saying he will work with Republicans on other ways to cut carbon emissions, reports Bloomberg Businessweek.
A cap-and-trade program was included in the climate bill passed by the House last year, but stalled in this year’s Senate. Peter Shattuck, a carbon-markets policy analyst at ... Continue reading...
Posted by on Tuesday, November 16, 2010 In : Guest Blogger
Via CDP - www.cdproject.net The highlights from 2010 disclosures
The CDP Water Disclosure replicates and builds on the tried-and-trusted methodology and process that the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) has used for carbon and climate change since 2003. Backed by 137 institutional investors representing $16 trillion in assets, this year CDP sent its first annual water questionnaire to 302 of the world’s 500 largest companies in the FTSE Global Equity Index Series, focusing on sectors that ar... Continue reading...
Posted by Editor on Tuesday, November 9, 2010 In : Guest Blogger
Several large commercial lenders including Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley, and Citibank, say they are starting to shift their involvement away from industry practices that they see as risky to their reputations and bottom lines, reports The New York Times. These include investments in oil and gas development, nuclear power, coal-fired electricity generation, oil sands development, fuel pipeline construction and forestry.
Wells Fargo will invest more than $100 million by the end of 2011 to fund th... Continue reading...
Posted by on Monday, November 8, 2010 In : Must read
By Ana Murphy
According to some EPA guidelines due to the importance of accurate cost information in making the decisions sketched out above, the term “environmental cost” has been introduced into the vocabulary of environmental managers.
Today we are starting a series of posts related to the definition(s) and the measurements used to evaluate environmental costs. Environmental costs are often hard to define from a business stand point. In the past 10 years they are more likely to be qua... Continue reading...
Posted by on Wednesday, November 3, 2010 In : News
Via Newsday, with commentary of Brandon MillerHere's some good news for New Yorkers who are tired of West NY getting attention for their (amazing) wind farms.
The New York Power Authority (NYPA) has applied to develop an off
shore wind farm 24km off the coast of Long Island that would begin
pumping 300 MW of energy into the region, but whose capacity would be
700 MW (to be achieved by 2016).
According to Newsday (subscriber's only), the project comes with a price tag of about $1.5 billion.
No... Continue reading...
Posted by on Saturday, October 30, 2010 In : News
Source: HARALD WINKLER*, ANDREW MARQUARD for Climate Policy, Volume 10, Number 5, 2010 , pp. 489-493(5) Excerpt from the Editorial of Climate Policy
The Introduction has a very good example focusing on South Africa case.
"Some developing countries are considering the option of using economic instruments as part of a broader policy of climate change mitigation. In South Africa, a carbon tax has been a very effective instrument for inducing relative emission reductions in the long-term mitigat... Continue reading...
Posted by Editor C on Friday, October 29, 2010 In : Must read
The U.S.
recycling rate for post-consumer polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is 28 percent
in 2009, marking the sixth straight year that the nation’s recycling rate has
increased, despite a four percent decrease in the availability of PET
containers, by weight, according to a new report.
The report, “2009
Report on Post Consumer PET Container Recycling Activity” (PDF), also details the end uses for a record 937
million pounds of recycled PET used in manufacturing applications, reflecti... Continue reading...
Posted by on Tuesday, October 19, 2010 In : News
By Hugh Wheelan via Responsible Investor Some of the biggest investment managers in the US – managing $415 billion in assets – have thrown their weight behind a campaign to fight a California state legal review that could halt implementation of its clean energy law, saying it would jeopardize long-term investment in green technology.
The investor backing of the ‘No on 23’ movement, referring to the controversial Proposition 23 ballot in two weeks time, follows an increasingly bitter ... Continue reading...
Posted by Newswire on Thursday, October 14, 2010 In : Must read
Via NREL Newswire
The kids are back in school in post-Katrina New Orleans, and there's light at the end of the classroom. Five years after Katrina flushed water through the failed floodwalls, destroying homes, damaging classrooms and dashing dreams, the opportunity to build green schools that save millions of dollars on energy bills is just within reach for the school districts that serve New Orleans.Hurricane Katrina knocked out dozens of schools along with thousands of homes, and for quite a... Continue reading...
Posted by on Thursday, October 14, 2010
Via DOEGolden, Colo., Oct. 13, 2010 – Thirty-four clean energy companies, including five Colorado companies, will gather in Denver Oct. 19-21 to present their clean energy business cases to a panel of national venture capitalists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory 23rd Industry Growth Forum. In addition to the business case presentations, a comprehensive agenda of speakers and in-depth panels will address the most important topics in the industry today... Continue reading...
Posted by Editor C on Thursday, October 7, 2010 In : Must read
Via U.S. Department of Energy U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Council of Environmental
Quality (CEQ) Chair Nancy Sutley recently announced plans for the
installation of solar on the roof of the White House residence. The
plans are for two solar panels that will provide electricity, and a
solar hot water heater that will heat water for use in the residence.
The announcement came on the one-year anniversary of President
Obama's Executive Order (EO) 13514 on Leadership in Environmental,
Ene... Continue reading...
Posted by Editor C on Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Via Wikipedia and Scientific American
A recent poll by the Magazine Scientific American sponsored by Shell over 50,000 readers answered the following question; Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is one method being developed to capture and store the CO2
that comes from burning fossil fuels--essential to help mitigate
serious climate change. The International Energy Agency says it could
account for nearly 19% of the total CO2 reductions needed by 2050.
Do you think CCS should be developed? (Ch... Continue reading...
Posted by Editor C on Wednesday, September 29, 2010 In : Top 10
By Enel.com
Rome, 2010 - Enel inaugurated the “Archimede” solar thermal power plant at Priolo Gargallo (Syracuse, Sicily). First in the world to use molten-salt technology integrated with a combined-cycle plant.
Participating in the ceremony together with the CEO and General Manager of Enel, Fulvio Conti, were, among others, the Minister for the Environment, Stefania Prestigiacomo, the President of the Province of Syracuse, Nicola Bono, and the Mayor of Priolo Gargallo, Antonello Rizza. ... Continue reading...
Posted by Editor on Monday, August 23, 2010 In : Must read
Courtesy of the IRS via email - Summertime Tax Tip 2010-21
Did you make a donation to a charity this year? If so, you may be able to take a deduction for it on your 2010 tax return. Here are the top 10 things the IRS wants every taxpayer to know before deducting charitable donations.
1. Charitable contributions must be made to qualified organizations to be deductible. You can ask any organization whether it is a qualified organization and most will be able to tell you. You can also check ... Continue reading...
Posted by Editor C on Thursday, August 19, 2010 In : Guest Blogger
Courtesy of FAI
Can
the poorest be reached with finance? “Ultra poor” members of society
face a series of constraints and deprivations that distinguish them
from the general poor. Limited social networks, chronic malnutrition,
and reliance on patronage systems characterize a socioeconomic class
that is hard to “bank.” Research now indicates that most microfinance
institutions serve poor and lower-income customers, but not the
poorest. A new FAI Framing Note
on “Targeting the ... Continue reading...
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