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Poverty Environment Partnership Meeting Addresses Climate and ...

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:05:34 +0000

[Climate-L.org] 8 March 2010: The 15th meeting of the Poverty Environment Partnership (PEP 15), which took place from 1-5 March 2010, in Lilongwe, Malawi, convened under the theme “Climate and Environment Mainstreaming and the Green Economy to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals.”

Latest Conservative B.S.: Immigration's Bad for the Environment ...

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:04:05 +0000

[SpeakEasy] I would like to also point out, that most of the talk about immigration reform, is all the talk about rewarding the illegals, with citizenship. This is what has most people up in arms, including most of the LEGAL immigrants, who abided and played by the rules, and came to this country, the LEGAL and right way.

For Full Disclosure Of Climate-Change Risks - Investors.com

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:05:42 +0000

[Investors.com] The recent Securities and Exchange Commission "interpretive guidance" on climate change says companies should disclose not only potential risks from climate change, but also risks from climate-related legislation, regulation, international accords and effects on business trends.

» California Regulators: Climate Change a Bigger Threat than ...

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:04:30 +0000

[Big Government] The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is known for its relentless pursuit of initiatives to combat pollution and emissions it deems harmful, including carbon dioxide. However, one of its efforts designed to counter climate change has the agency attracting incoming fire, with critics charging that CARB is more concerned about the prospect of global warming than protecting the public from felons.

Greenpeace - Making Waves: March 10: Opposition in EU to GE-potato ...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:35:15 +0000

[Humanitarian News blogs] Greenpeace - Making Waves: March 10: Opposition in EU to GE-potato; China, India ratify Copenhagen Accord. March 10, 2010 - 13:36. Swiss-anti-GE.jpg. Greenpeace has called for a renewed moratorium ("GE-Free!") in Switzerland on GE crops ...

Greenpeace Loses Round Two in Tiff with Facebook | Green Living ...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:34:34 +0000

[Green Living Tips and Ideas] That’s the sort of lesson coming out from the latest round in the Greenpeace vs. Facebook skirmish currently afoot on the internet.

Energy Secretary Chu Fields Questions at ECO:nomics |Triple Pundit

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:37:14 +0000

[Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit] US Energy Secretary Steven Chu, fresh from the inaugural ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit, was the final and perhaps most anticipated speaker at last week's ECO:nomics conference. Throughout the conference, regulatory uncertainty had .

Eco-News Roundup: Tuesday March 9 | Mother Jones

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:36:12 +0000

[Blue Marble Feed | Mother Jones] Eco-News Roundup: Tuesday March 9. ”” By Jen Phillips. | Tue Mar. 9, 2010 4:41 AM PST. Crass Pass: A sometimes vulgar plea to just pass a healthcare bill already. Turning Blue: Unwittingly, Anthem may have helped bring healthcare back to ...

iHub- A place for Knowledge Ecosystems Launched

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:35:27 +0000

[All about Africa and specifically Kenya] Kenya in particular has living proves that technology developed out of necessity can turn out to be a great tool which can be deployed to help people all over the World. Ushaidi created in the in the wake of Post election violence in Kenya in 2008 has been used in many other places such as South Africa, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti and now Chile.

Business Ecosystems » Blog Archive » iSkin: when humanity mirrors ...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:33:48 +0000

[Business Ecosystems] Now imagine you can use your hand - or your forearm if you need more space - as a touchscreen for making phone calls, surfing the Internet, sharing on Facebook, up-dating a blog, controlling your iPod, and so on. This is the new frontier opened by Skinput, a skin-based interface that, through a microchip-sized projector and an acoustic detector embedded in an armband, turns your body into an iBody.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | “Save Greenpeace” Website Launched in ...

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:05:41 +0000

[Mobilization for Climate Justice] Tzeporah Berman has been a pioneer of the collaborative approach. As founder of ForestEthics, she drew the ire of BC environmentalists and natives for eliminating public oversight from negotiations around the Great Bear Rainforest, giving the go-ahead to a plan to log 70% of the pristine forest.

A Push to Save Greenpeace | Mostly Water

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:04:49 +0000

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news] "Greenpeace's original approach was confronting corporations and governments at the scenes of their crimes," said savegreenpeace.org co-creator Macdonald Stainsby. "That approach has softened lately, but if they hire Tzeporah Berman, they'll be on the fast track to corporate collaboration, beyond the point of no return," he said.

Ed Driscoll » Are Economics And Environmentalism Secular Religions?

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:05:31 +0000

[Ed Driscoll] I can’t comment on the details of Nelson’s thesis until I read the whole book, but I think he’s on to something. I would put the point this way: The perennial problem for both economic and environmental arguments is that they’re often framed, officially, in scientific terms, but almost all of their interest is moral.

The Pathetic God of Environmentalism « THE BLACK KETTLE

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:03:52 +0000

[THE BLACK KETTLE] The theological conclusion that follows from worshiping Mother Earth is that she is no god at all. She doesn’t even have the power to defend herself from the CO2 that is emitted when we exhale.

Northwest Business Environment Awards 2010 - Entries sought by May ...

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:04:09 +0000

[Cheshire & Warrington Economic Alliance - Economic Alliance] Hosted by award-winning environmental business support programme, ENWORKS, the region’s most prestigious green award scheme is backed by the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA), Northwest Business Insider, Environment Agency, Envirolink Northwest, Groundwork Northwest, Institute of Directors and Foundation, the climate fund for the North West.