According to WorldWatch, and Reuters, 80,000 homes in the UK are now using domestic wind turbines: Now turbines have been embraced by mainstream retailers like B&Q, a chain of hardware stores run...
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Image from Closer to Free. Via CSR Asia comes this story at ENN about the numbers of sharks being slaughtered just for their fins for shark fin soup: Up to four times more sharks than previously...
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Just a quick roundup of the first U.S.-EU meeting on Climate Change, Clean Energy and Sustainable Development in Helsinki the last two days. There's s a joint press release from the EU Environment...
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Via Gristmill, an essay by Bill McKibben, much of it about James Lovelock, that will appear next month in the New York Review of Books: The technology we need most badly is the technology of community...
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That seems to be the question coming to the fore these days as someone has finally made a convincing argument for paying now in order having to pay outrageously later. Arguments that implementing...
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(Photo: NYT) Today's New York Times profiles Andrew Shapiro, founder of GreenOrder Inc., a sutainability strategy and marketing firm based in NYC that does much of its work consulting on...
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If you're into environmental films you may be interested in checking out the Greenstream podcast from Green Planet Films. Here's a press release on this at WorldWire about upcoming podcasts....
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(Photo from CNN) The magazine, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, has a full issue devoted to China's environmental challenges and solutions for anyone interested. All the files are in pdf....
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(Photo from Harvesting Clean Energy) Here's an odd story from Reuters today about objections to the World Bank providing funding for alternative energy. I'm not so versed on the interplay...
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(Photo from Purdue University) From Purdue University: Purdue Research Foundation has licensed a technology to Bio Processing Technology Inc. for the development of a new environmentally friendly...
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An interesting story at WorldWatch on China's investment of about $100 million US in developing methane gas hydrate, or "combustible ice" as an energy source. There are concerns about...
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(Cartoon from Arthur's Amphibians) I've been thinking about this question for a while now: Why couldn't China jump straight into new forms of alternative, sustainable energy technology...
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Innovations in Emerging Markets points out this story from the Economist about bio-fuels becoming more popular in Southeast Asia. The above picture is one I took of a bio-gas generator in rural Sri...
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(Art from the Center for Sustainable Communities) From CSR-News.net, word that the third Tremblant Forum on corporate responsibility and sustainability will be held at Mont-Tremblant, Quebec, on...
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Is Scottish Gas the right organization to carry out Scotland's fuel poverty programme? Some don't think so: Politicians and campaigners expressed dismay yesterday after a contract to carry out...
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(Pic from WRD Environmental) From FAZ out of Germany, news of a Netherlands based venture capital fund focusing on sustainable technology start ups. More on Start Green in their press release (pdf)....
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I'm optimistic it can be found, if we get the right visionary leadership. But the pessimistic side of me thinks that's a longshot. A story from the IPS on the Global Environment Facility...
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(Map from MyBeijingChina) How China (and India) go over the next century will largely signal how the world goes as far as climate change, sustainable development and global economy. With billions of...
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(Cartoon from REC) Smart growth, slow growth, no growth, pro growth? No matter where you fall in among these you're obviously concerned with how communities grow. I'm not so pessimistic as...
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Two main stories to point to today about sustainable development in the Northwest. First is this piece on Seattle's mayor Greg Nickels from Reuters via ENN. On the frontier of the fight against...
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Or so says former president Lee Teng-hui in an essay at the Taipei Times: Taiwan, not China, should be the strategic focus of the nation's sustainable development. We should build a new strategy...
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