News & Updates

March 16, 2010 Up is Down, Brown is Green (with apologies to Orwell)

Source:RealClimate.org

In the alternate universe of Fox News, Anthony Watts, and many others, up is down. Now, it appears, brown is green. Following the total confusion over the retraction of a paper on sea level, claims of another “mistake” by the...

March 15, 2010 'Green Procurement Has Already Become a Key Competitive Factor'

Source:Supply and Demand Chain Executive

Value creation characterized by environmental and social sustainability is increasingly key to the very existence of companies, and procurement organizations, as the interface with the company's value creation chain, are being...

March 11, 2010 Environment America Has 10 Percent Solar Power By 2030 Solar Vision

Source:Earth Techling

Imagine a world where you drive your solar-charged electric vehicle from your new solar home to the solar-powered laundromat before heading off to the solar-powered baseball stadium, where you’ll snack on chips baked with solar...

March 10, 2010 Greening of the Empire State Building

Source:ECOWorld.com

NEW YORK, March 5 (UPI) — The Empire State Building’s 6,500 windows will be retrofitted as part of an energy overhaul designed to reduce the iconic skyscraper’s energy use by 38 percent. Milwaukee’s Johnson Controls, which is...

March 9, 2010 Cool it on efforts against new rules, EPA chief asks

Source:Houston Chronicle

WASHINGTON — The head of the Environmental Protection Agency on Monday pushed back against lawmakers' attempts to halt the EPA's regulation of greenhouse gases from power plants, refiners and other industrial facilities. EPA...

March 8, 2010 IMF working on $100bn ‘green fund’ – Strauss-Kahn

Source:Engineering news.co.za.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) was “working on the idea of a green fund” to raise $100-billion a year by 2020 to mitigate the impacts of climate change on developing economies, IMF MD Dominique Strauss-Kahn told a...

March 5, 2010 $100 Million in Stimulus Funds for Green Tech

Source:NY Times - blog

The Department of Energy announced this week that $100 million in stimulus funds would be distributed to help accelerate innovation in green technology.

March 4, 2010 Next Winter Games Don't Look So Green

Source:SustainableBusiness.com

The Vancouver Winter games attempted to set the bar high for the greening of future Olympics. But environmentalists say preparations for the 2014 games in Sochi are causing environmental havoc.

March 3, 2010 Seeing the Investor Value in Being Green

Source:NY Times

Constructing or renovating a building to make it environmentally sustainable can be a daunting task for any owner, but Jamestown Properties, a German commercial real estate investment company, has decided it will go “green” in...

March 2, 2010 Themed green funds continue sales boom

Source:Responsible Investor

Themed RI funds, which include green investment strategies, continued to rake in assets during December last year – as talks at Copenhagen ploughed on – with total sales of just over €2bn for the month, according to the latest...

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