Posted by Guest Editor on Tuesday, April 17, 2012,
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It's one of our favorite times of the year—when hundreds of concerned citizens from across New York State travel to Albany to call on lawmakers to vote green! Please join us for the 22nd annual Earth Day Lobby Day! | | When: | Wednesday, April 25, 2012
9:30 a.m.–3 p.m. | | | Where: | New York State Capitol
Albany, NY | | | RSVP: | Click here to register |
At Earth Day Lobby Day, you'll hear from state government and environmental leaders, learn about environmental bills that are pending in Albany, and lob... Continue reading ...
Posted by Guest Editor on Friday, April 13, 2012,
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The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio +20, will be held from 13 to 22 June 2012, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is known as Rio +20 because it marks the twentieth anniversary of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Rio-92), and should help define the sustainable development agenda for the coming decades.
Brazil's petition to host Rio +20 was approved in the 6th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, in 2009.
The objective of the... Continue reading ...
Posted by Guest Editor on Friday, April 6, 2012,
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Africa's collective GDP, at $1.7 trillion in 2010, is now roughly equal to Brazil's or Russia's. While Africa's increased economic momentum is widely recognized, less known are its sources and likely staying power. By 2020, it could be $ 2.6 trillion dollars.Among the key findings:Africa's growth acceleration was widespread, with 27 of its 30 largest economies expanding more rapidly after 2000. All sectors contributed, including resources, finance, retail, agriculture, transportation and telec... Continue reading ...
Posted by Editor, via CNET on Sunday, October 9, 2011,
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What do you think of sustainable houses?
The technology used for building is improving every day, but if it's a super energy-efficient dwelling you're after, the tools are already well at hand. Once a year, the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association organizes a green buildings open house where energy nerds like us can see the latest in home efficiency.
 
Source: CNET
On the other hand, if you want to built a different house, to be in harmony with nature. You might want to consider these inexpen... Continue reading ...
Posted by Editor, via entrepreneur.com on Sunday, September 4, 2011,
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Do you have a "bajillion" things to do? Have you ever had a "light-bulb moment"? Entrepreneurs need to keep up with the new business-related words and lingo that pop up almost every day. The publishers of the Concise Oxford Dictionary have added 400 new words to the 12th edition of the publication, so we thought it might be useful to take a look at the new terms. Turns out several apply to business. We've selected the 10 need-to-know new words. Whether or not you start using them in your own bu... Continue reading ...
Posted by Editor via DOE on Tuesday, August 2, 2011,
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DOE Announces Funding for Nationwide Student-Focused Clean Energy Business Competitions
Washington, D.C. - As part of the Obama Administration's effort to support and empower the next generation of American clean energy entrepreneurs, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced $2 million in available funding for the National University Clean Energy Business Challenge. This nationwide initiative will create a network of regional student-focused clean energy business creation competitions ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Editor CM on Monday, July 18, 2011,
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LOS ANGELES, Jul. 18 /CSRwire/ - For undergraduates interested in social innovation and developing well thought-out solutions to the world's problems, the Society and Business Lab (SBL) at the USC Marshall School of Business in conjunction with the School of Policy, Planning and Development has announced a social entrepreneurship minor that will begin in fall 2011. The interdisciplinary minor will be open to all USC undergraduate students who are seeking to understand the global context of soc... Continue reading ...
Posted by Editor C on Friday, March 11, 2011,
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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,
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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 Monday, November 29, 2010,
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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
beginning of a new, open and collaborative ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Editor C on Wednesday, November 17, 2010,
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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 Monday, November 8, 2010,
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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 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 Contribuitor on Wednesday, August 4, 2010,
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(Via BusinessGreen) American Businesses for Clean Energy (ABCE) group, one
of the leading corporate coalitions pushing for the adoption of climate change
legislation, last week released an analysis of green business lobby groups
revealing that more than 6,000 firms are now fully in favour of clean energy and
climate legislation The
study said that combined, the companies, which include 21 Fortune 100
companies and many of the largest corporate names in the US, employ 3.5 million
people and hav... Continue reading ...
Posted by Ana M on Saturday, July 24, 2010,
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Via Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University
Our colleague and good friend Steve Schneider, the Melvin and Joan Lane
Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies and senior fellow
at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford, died on July
19, 2010, while traveling from a meeting in Stockholm to London. Steve
was not only a man of formidable intellectual depth and breadth, but
also a committed and compassionate advisor, mentor, teacher and friend.
... Continue reading ...
Posted by Editor on Monday, June 21, 2010,
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by Timothy Curran
Perhaps surprisingly, the Greendex study which surveys
17,000 people, 1000 in 17 different countries, on their habits and attitudes in
relation to consumer choices finds that the residents of developing nations of
Brazil, India and China are the most sustainable consumers. France, Canada and
the USA rank the lowest.
While these results may be encouraging to those concerned
with how economic growth will affect the environment, they do not sit well with
the environmental real... Continue reading ...
Posted by AC on Wednesday, February 17, 2010,
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