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2009-05-01 - -
Chicago May Get Largest U.S. Urban Solar Plant
On the south side of Chicago, a former industrial park is the proposed site of a $60 million project to add 10 MW of solar photovoltaic panels. Supporters say it will be the largest urban solar instal..read all..

2009-05-01 - -
We Need to Make Good Jobs Out of Green Jobs
Last December, Republic Windows, maker of energy-efficient windows, gained worldwide attention when members of United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers (UE) Local 1110 occupied the plant after th..read all..

2009-05-01 - -
Green Becoming a Tiebreaker in Shopping Decisions, Survey Finds
Green product attributes are evolving into an important brand differentiator for consumers and can serve as a tiebreaker for shoppers evaluating similar products, according to results of a new study f..read all..

2009-04-21 - -
Ecologists Put Price Tag On Invasive Species
Invasive species can disrupt natural and human-made ecosystems, throwing food webs out of balance and damaging the services they provide to people. Now scientists have begun to put a price tag on this..read all..

2009-04-21 - United States - CSR
Adapting Skills For The Green Tech Revolution
The recent multi-billion-dollar U.S. stimulus package is paving the way for a smarter national infrastructure, which will inevitably creates job, stimulate economic growth and drive innovation to buil..read all..

2009-03-23 - -
Carbon Sinks Losing The Battle With Rising Emissions - Science Daily
The stabilising influence that land and ocean carbon sinks have on rising carbon emissions is gradually weakening, say scientists attending last week’s international Copenhagen Climate Change Co..read all..

2009-03-21 - -
Renewable Energy Distribution Market Grows
Companies that have solar and wind power generators tied into the grid are part of a major growth area, according to Pike Research. Renewable Distributed Energy Generation (RDEG) revenue from sub-util..read all..

2009-03-21 - -
Calculating the Gross National Trash
More than 15 years ago, I received some data that changed the way I looked at trash. It came in the form of an obscure presentation by a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency official to a September 19..read all..

2009-03-16 - International - development
As planet warms, poor nations face economic chill
A rising tide is said to lift all boats. Rising global temperatures, however, may lead to increased disparities between rich and poor countries, according to a recent MIT economic analysis of the impa..read all..

2009-03-16 - United Nations - sustainability
Natural Resource Management Critical to Peacebuilding
Intrastate conflicts are likely to drag on and escalate without a greater focus on environment and natural resources in the peacebuilding process, according to a new report launched today by the Unite..read all..

2009-03-14 - United States - food
Helping Food Safety, Or Helping Monsanto?
The New York Times reported that, according to President Obama, the government’s failure to inspect 95 percent of food processing plants "is a hazard to the public health." &ldqu..read all..

2009-03-14 - International - climate
Key Messages from the Copenhagen Congress on Climate Change
Following a successful International Scientific Congress Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges & Decisions attended by more than 2,500 delegates from nearly 80 countries, preliminary messages f..read all..

2009-03-09 - United States - economy
Growth of 'Green' Consumption On Hold
At 36 percent, the number of Americans who say they “almost always” or “regularly” buy green products remains unchanged, according to recent Mintel consumer survey data. This l..read all..

2009-03-09 - European Union - food
Ministers back right to refuse GM crop cultivation
Attempts by the European Commission to force Austria and Hungary to allow the cultivation of genetically modified (GM) maize on their territory were rejected yet again by EU environment ministers. &nb..read all..

2009-03-09 - United States - climate
A roomful of cynics
What is to be done when the world's leading experts in a field come together in the largest, most extensively peer-reviewed inquiry in the history of science and arrive at a conclusion that is dia..read all..

2009-03-09 - United States - policy
Clinton: 'Never waste a good crisis'
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today told an audience "never waste a good crisis", as she highlighted the opportunity of rebuilding economies in a greener, less energy intensive..read all..

2009-03-08 - United States - technology
Less Nitrogen Could Increase Profit, Sustainability
More fertilizer doesn't always mean more profit. That's one conclusion from a 10-year study conducted by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists at the agency’s Soil Plant Nutrien..read all..

2009-03-07 - United States - economy
EU and US vow to use crisis for green new deal
Secretary of state Hillary Clinton on Friday said the Obama administration was committed to take EU-US co-operation to a new level, particularly in regards to climate change and the current economic c..read all..

2009-03-02 - International - CSR
Businesses, Investors Must Give Water Risks Greater Attention
Companies need to think about water beyond just how much they use directly, and consider their water needs all the way from raw material extraction up to product use and disposal, according to a new r..read all..

2009-03-02 - International - climate
Lower Increases In Global Temperatures,Greater Impacts
A new study by scientists updating the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2001 Third Assessment Report finds that even a lower level of increase in average global temperatures d..read all..

2009-03-02 - United States - policy
What's Green About the New Stimulus Deal?
There's lots of good news -- from a tax credit for renewables to the $50 billion nuclear industry giveaway being axed. Here's the highlights. A final deal was reached on a $789 billion stimulu..read all..

2009-03-02 - -
Is It Possible to Be a Conscientious Meat Eater?
The 'new meat movement' is against industrial meat production, but not against eating meat. Their thinking is problematic. You may have noticed an onslaught of articles recently on what is bei..read all..

2009-03-02 - United States - energy
Anti-coal TV campaign goes Hollywood
A U.S. anti-coal campaign has gone Hollywood with a new TV spot directed by Academy Award-winning filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen of No Country for Old Men and Fargo fame. The Reality Coalition, a proj..read all..

2009-03-02 - China - water
'Borrowing' water, Chinese style
The south has plenty of water and the north lacks it, so if possible why not borrow some? China's revolutionary communist leader Mao Zedong said in 1952. That probably seemed a great idea at the t..read all..

2009-02-23 - Brazil - environment
New free software helps identify key areas for environmental protection
A new open-system software package for the analysis of geographic distribution of animals and plants was launched this week by Conservation International (CI) in Brazil. This innovative technology wil..read all..

2009-02-23 - United States - energy
Time to Get “Smart” on Biofuels
The Sierra Club and Worldwatch Institute released a report, Smart Choices for Biofuels, highlighting the need for important policy reforms at this critical juncture in America’s effort to increa..read all..

2009-02-23 - United States - technology
Enlisting microbes to solve global problems
In the search for answers to the planet's biggest challenges, some MIT researchers are turning to its tiniest organisms: bacteria. The idea of exploiting microbial products is not new: Humans have..read all..

2009-02-23 - International - CSR
Visualizing A Green Network
There's a vast and growing network that supplies partners, support and a market for aspiring green brands. I discovered this network in the process of interviewing America's top green business..read all..

2009-02-23 - United Kingdom - energy
UK Plans “Sustainable Makeover” for Every British Home
The UK announced plans for a “sustainable makeover” for each of the nation’s 27 million homes, Bloomberg reports. The proposal announced by the Department of Energy and Climate Chang..read all..

2009-02-23 - Japan - energy
Green 'Curtains' Climb Japanese School Walls
Ecobank Aichi, a Japanese non-profit organization (NPO) based in the city of Ichinomiya in Aichi Prefecture, has published a booklet entitled "Green Curtains: A Teaching Manual" for elementa..read all..

2009-02-23 - United Kingdom -
Global warming 'bigger problem than economy'
Climate change is a bigger problem than the struggling British economy, a Government minister said today. Sustainability Minister Lord Hunt spoke on the first day of London Fashion Week as he launched..read all..

2009-02-22 - -
U.N. Seeks a Green Revolution in Food
The food crisis that spilled over from last year could take a turn for the worse in the next decade if there are no explicit answers to a rash of growing new problems, including declining agricultural..read all..

2009-02-16 - International - food
Fishers Learn to Share Shrinking Catch
With the oceans in crisis, where will our fish - an important source of protein for billions of people - come from? Innovative new fisheries management tools called "catch share" have begun ..read all..

2009-02-16 - International - CSR
The State of Green Business 2009: Green Moves Up and Down the Chain of Command
Environmental issues have been garnering top-level attention for years -- "Get CEO buy-in," is a well worn piece of advice for aspiring corporate environmentalists -- but for many companies,..read all..

2009-02-16 - -
When Fish Farms Are Built Along The Coast, Where Does The Waste Go?
Commercial fish pens are placed in the open waters of oceans and bays with no reliable method of predicting where the waste plume will be carried by winds, currents and tides. This can lead to damage ..read all..

2009-02-16 - -
Scientist Models The Mysterious Travels Of Greenhouse Gas
The global travel logs of greenhouse gases are based on atmospheric sampling locations sprinkled over the Earth and short towers that measure the uptake or release of carbon from a small patch of fore..read all..

2009-02-16 - -
Biofuels may speed up, not slow global warming: study
Once heralded as the answer to oil, biofuels have become increasingly controversial because of their impact on food prices and the amount of energy it takes to produce them. They could also be respons..read all..

2009-02-16 - -
It's too late for Planet Earth, says James Lovelock
You may feel, as job losses soar and parts of the world descend into turmoil, that you're apocalypsed-out for February. If so, you may not immediately leap at James Lovelock's forthcoming book..read all..

2009-02-14 - -
'CO2 reduction treaties useless'
A new report says that treaties, such as the Kyoto Protocol, which aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, are useless. The Institution of Mechanical Engineers report says we have to accept the world ..read all..

2009-02-11 - United States - technology
MIT students develop energy-harvesting shock absorbers
A team of MIT undergraduate students has invented a shock absorber that harnesses energy from small bumps in the road, generating electricity while it smoothes the ride more effectively than conventio..read all..

2009-02-09 - International - CSR
Executive Compensation and Corporate Social Responsibility
As I've been reading accounts of the mob with pitchforks going after greedy C-level exec's on Wall Street, I'm reminded of a prescient chapter in my book, "The Gort Cloud," that ..read all..

2009-02-09 - India - economy
India is poised to be the biggest cleantech market
Another year has gone by with annual carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels and manufacturing cement measuring nine billion metric tonne. This despite the widespread concern about climate ..read all..

2009-02-09 - United States - policy
How green is your stimulus?
The Obama administration's original stimulus proposal would reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by at least 61 million tons per year, according to an analysis commissioned by Greenpeace from the consu..read all..

2009-02-08 - International - economy
Carbon Emissions, Prices Drop As Downturn Bites
A steep decline in industrial production, combined with decreased demand for electricity across Europe, both caused by the economic downturn, has prompted Point C ..read all..

2009-02-02 - Europe - energy
European Solar Prize open for applications
Outstanding achievements, innovation and creativity in expanding the use of renewable energy will be recognised through the annual EUROSOLAR European Solar Prizes also this year. EUROSOLAR accepts app..read all..

2009-02-02 - Europe - energy
Wind now leads EU power sector
In 2008, more wind power was installed in the EU than any other electricity generating technology. Statistics released by the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) today show that 43% of all new ele..read all..

2009-02-02 - International - CSR
New Wal-Mart CEO Says Sustainability Drive Will Continue at Full Speed
New Wal-Mart President and CEO Mike Duke, who succeeds Lee Scott as head of the world's largest retailer, says he expects the company to accelerate and broaden efforts to achieve its sweeping envi..read all..

2009-02-02 - Norway - CSR
Norwegian companies urged to disclose their sustainability performance
The Norwegian government has launched its first national white paper on corporate social responsibility in a globalised economy. The white paper clarifies the responsibility companies have regarding p..read all..

2009-02-01 - United States - energy
5000 expected at RETECH 2009
RETECH 2009 is expected to be the largest all-renewables gathering in the U.S. in 2009, with an attendance of over 5,000 people. The event is planned to increase in scale in coming years to 10,000 att..read all..

2009-02-01 - International - economy
WEF Report: US$ 515 billion needed in green investments
The World Economic Forum today released the Green Investing: Towards a Clean Energy Infrastructure report. The report outlines the scale of the investments needed to develop a clean energy infrastruct..read all..

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