Germany Gets Ball Rolling On Green Climate Fund
Germany is contributing $1 billion - the first major commitment to a fund considered pivotal in attaining an international climate treaty.
Winning Sustainable Development Blogger Gets to Visit Abu Dhabi
Masdar has launched a blogging competition on sustainable development - the winner gets a free trip to Sustainability Week in Abu Dhabi in January.
Flexenclosure Gets $24 Million to Reduce Poverty, Emissions in Developing Countries
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Its modular, prefab data centers run on renewable energy.
Clean Water, Clean Cookstoves Coming to 2.2 Million People in Rwanda
Carbon credits are paying for the project, which will employ 2000 local health workers.
Tea Party Disrupting Attempts by Town, Cities to Green Up, Calling It Conspiracy
The Tea Party views efforts to address climate change, restore the environment, increase efficiency and develop using
Beyond Banking: Community Investing How To's
Part 2 of Community Investing: putting your money to work for communities through loan and venture capital funds.
Postcards from Johannesburg: Part 2
Our friend and sustainability expert, Susan Burns, tells us what it was like to be present at the Earth Summit. Part 2.
Businesses Make the Case for Biodiversity at WSSD
Business and Biodiversity was the focus at the IUCN Business Day at the WSSD.
Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth
In 1543, Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus challenged the view that the Sun revolved around the earth, arguing instead that the earth revolved around the Sun. His paper led to a revolution in thinking -to a new worldview. A new book, Eco-Economy, discusses the need today for a similar shift in our worldview. Since 1974, Lester Brown, through the Worldwatch Institute’s annual State of the World reports, has served as a witness to our planet’s deteriorating ecology. Now he’s started a new non-profit, Earth Policy Institute, to help people develop a shared vision of what an environmentally sustainable economy, an eco-economy would look like. This book outlines his vision. “We can see glimpses of the eco-economy emerging in the wind farms of northern Germany, the solar rooftops of Japan, the reforested mountains of South Korea, and the steel recycling mills of the U.S.” The question is, do we join together to build an economy that is sustainable or do we keep at the status quo until its inevitable decline? One way or another the choice will be made by our generation, but it will affect life on earth for countless generations to come. Download the book or order it: www.earth-policy.org
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