Oct. 27: Against a backdrop of solar energy panels in Florida, President Barack Obama awarded $3.4 billion in economic stimulus funds to projects aimed at modernizing the country’s power grid. Read more:  Video: Video: Obama backs smart energy

Great intro by Hazel Henderson to developments in sustainable and socially responsible investing, green sustainability metrics, and the necessary overhaul of finance and business education. By Hazel Henderson : “Marking the 20th Anniversary of SRI in the Rockies offers more than an opportunity to review the hard-won progress of investors to prove that socially responsible investing is viable and now clearly out-performs traditional mainstream investing. Since the credit crises of 2008-

Tags People Celebrities High Tech Sports Odd News Top Information Health Business Spoken News News Photos Slideshows 1/134Corey Feldman’s wife files for divorce (AP) AP – Court records show Corey Feldman’s wife has filed for divorce after seven years of marriage. (AP) Click on the image for the actual size or for a fullscreen flash.Click here for more description. 2/134Jackson movie ‘This Is It’ set for global premiere (AFP) AFP – Michael Jackson was set t

Tags People Celebrities High Tech Sports Odd News Top Information Health Business Spoken News News Photos Slideshows 1/137′Michael Jackson’s This Is It’ to open worldwide (AP) AP – When Michael Jackson died in June, he was just days away from launching a 50-show run of comeback concerts in London. (AP) Click on the image for the actual size or for a fullscreen flash.Click here for more description. 2/137Bahamas lawmaker apologizes for Travolta mistrial (AP)

“The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind” To most of us, old bicycle parts are mostly good for DIY furniture projects if they’re good for anything, and windmills are best designed by people with advanced degrees. When fourteen-year-old William Kamkwamba, of Masitala Village in Wimbe, Malawi, stumbled acro… Read the full story on TreeHugger Read the original:  The World’s DIY Hero: An Interview With William Kamkwamba, Windmill Wunderkind

“The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind” To most of us, old bicycle parts are mostly good for DIY furniture projects if they’re good for anything, and windmills are best designed by people with advanced degrees. When fourteen-year-old William Kamkwamba, of Masitala Village in Wimbe, Malawi, stumbled acro… Read the full story on TreeHugger

In the recent few days the Indian government has struggled to clearly state its official stand on the issue of reducing carbon emissions. While the traditional stance has been to oppose any mandatory emission targets, their has been a drastic change in this policy with indications of a domestic emissions reduction law and other proactive mitigation measures. The situation worsened after the environment minister, in an informal letter to the Prime Minister, said that India needs to move away from

cadenon October 25, 2009—Leave a Comment The Chris­t­ian Sci­ence Mon­i­tor – Pres­i­dent Obama took a tour of the Mass­a­chu­setts Insti­tute of Technology’s energy labs Fri­day, see­ing the lat­est inno­va­tions in wind, solar, and bat­tery research. And he also made a speech there ask­ing Con­gress to pass a climate-​​change law soon.By I&VSphere: Related Content  Link to this page  Link to this page Copy the code below to your web site.x Get Link­ToTh­is­Page from the Cre­ative Real Estate

Business, industry and government organisations have all been under tremendous economic and environmental pressures, especially in the recent years due to the current global economic situation as well as concerns on energy security and climate change. . Awg Ahmad Hj Mohamad, Head of Efficiency and Conservation Unit of the Energy Division from the Prime Minister’s Office, further stated, “Being economically competitive in the business world while meeting increasing environmental standards have

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