Sustainability

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• in Green
  China and The Magic Kingdom
  China has a remarkable opportunity to achieve environmental sustainability, should the country rise above materialism.
  by breetreport / on Nov 6, 2009
• in Green
  Carbon Discredits
  Betting on air quality sure is a strange way to deal with pollution. But Uncle Scam's about to do it.
  by lordonlow / on Oct 30, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Sustainability”

• 33 Excellent OLED Energy Saving & Eco-Friendly Designs

  
  WebEcoist — Authority: 613
  OLEDs are like a new type of magical material, self-illuminating and eco-friendly. They are organic and work in a way similar to the bioluminescence that makes a firefly and certain deep sea fish glow. OLEDs can be extremely thin, flexible, varying in shapes, colors and sizes, some are even transparent while providing ...
  10 hours ago

• Local Farmers Supply School Meals in Bolivia

  
  Friends of the World Food Program: Uniting to End Hunger — Authority: 131
  One of WFPs goals in providing assistance to the hungry is to help them help themselves. Long-term programs like Food for Assets and Purchase for Progress are designed to create sustainable infrastructure and markets that can be maintained by local governments and communities. One community in Bolivia is already ...
  10 hours ago

• Engineering the Planet to Dodge Global Warming

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 150
  Failure to make difficult choices to cut greenhouse gas emissions exposes humanity to an increasingly dire set of climate scenarios. But there is a way to buy time: Geoengineering. [More]
  11 hours ago

• Chamber of Horrors

  
  The Inspired Protagonist — Authority: 110
  Its been a rough few weeks for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Once a leading business organization and lobbying force, the Chamber has been hit from all quarters over its opposition to climate crisis action and its aggressive work to undermine current efforts to create new consumer protections, and stronger business ...
  12 hours ago

• Dam bad ideas – Portuguese edition

  
  Marginal Damage — Authority: 133
  Portuguese Government to insist on dams despite EC warnings – PUBLICO.PT . The article above is from a Portuguese newspaper, so the content will be indifferent to most readers; either way, here ’s a google-translated version, admittedly not for the faint of heart. The history is recurrent with the present (and ...
  13 hours ago

• New world food crisis looms

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 150
  The U.N. is warning the world is on the brink of another food crisis ahead of a major international summit in Rome.
  13 hours ago

• Job Skills in a Carbon Constrained World

  
  The Kenan-Flagler Blog — Authority: 118
  Last week the Energy Club here hosted another excellent event.  Kristel Dorion, a graduate of the Executive MBA program, and John Lott, a professor of sustainable enterprise at Kenan-Flagler, conducted a presentation about the always near carbon market. Kristel’s company, Energetix Climate, produces high quality ...
  13 hours ago

• December 3: Play it Cool? In Search of an Ethics and Aesthetics for dealing with Climate Change: Workshop

  
  Eyebeam RSS Feed — Authority: 124
  11/12/2009 - 12/03/2009 Date : Thurs., December 3, 2009 | 4 – 6PM Location : Eyebeam, 540 W. 21st St., NYC Cost : $5 REGISTER http://eyebeam.org/events/play-it-cool A workshop with Eyebeam resident Marina Zurkow , and NYU faculty Una Chaudhuri and Fritz Ertl . The science of ...
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• SolarWorld Q3 2009 Interim Report Confirms Revenue Increase

  
  Renewable Energy Sources — Authority: 144
  SolarWorld Confirms Revenues Increase in Course of Year – Expansion Creates Basis for Further Growth – Technology Fast 50 Award Won in Tenth Year after IPOBonn, 12.11.2009 SolarWorld AG confirms the figures it previously announced in submitting its consolidated interim report for the third quarter of ...
  15 hours ago

• Why the Military Is Going Green - Andrew Winston - HarvardBusiness.org

  
  PimpThisBlog.com - Latest published stories — Authority: 464
  In recent months, which radical, tree-hugging group has upped the volume on pushing for action on climate change? I bet you wouldnt have guessed American military leaders. Apparently, the people standing on the proverbial (and actual) walls defending our freedoms are very concerned about the dangers our soldiers face ...
  16 hours ago

• Designing for a sustainable world

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 430
  To celebrate World Usability Day 2009 , System Concepts has put together a video podcast exploring how different stakeholders can enhance the user experience of their designs by including sustainability as a key requirement. The interviewees include: - Professor Ben Shneiderman – User Interface guru from the ...
  17 hours ago

• Tips From UPS: Why and How to Start Greening Your Data Center

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 636
  We’ve all heard the good news: Improving efficiencies at your data center is a sure-fire way to cut energy costs and reduce GHG emissions.But, let’s face it. The prospect of greening a data center can seem overwhelming. After all, data centers are complicated, unwieldy and high-tech. Even the most intrepid ...
  17 hours ago

• Odd Couple, or Where Coffee Grounds and Mushroom Meet

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 636
  BTTR (as in Better) Ventures has a thing about mushrooms, while Peet’s Coffee & Tea of course has a very big thing about coffee (and tea). This unlikely duo has joined forces in a clever and delicious waste-to-food recycling venture that produces gourmet mushrooms out of coffee grounds.Some 16 billion pounds of ...
  17 hours ago

• Disappearing Act

  
  Matchstic Blog — Authority: 124
  We’re a short-sighted people. We like to consume, and we want our goods in nice packages — oftentimes individually wrapped. But where do these things end up? Who cares — out of sight, out of mind, right? (If you care to know what happens to those plastic Coke bottles tossed away without a second thought, it’s ...
  18 hours ago

• Panel Discussion on Economic and Environmental Sustainability

  
  Green Business Times — Authority: 108
  November 13, 2009 9:00 am to 10:30 am Venue: Seminar Room 3-1, Level 3, Manasseh Meyer, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, 469C Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259776 Organiser: Global Public Policy Network, GPPN Panellists: 1. Mr Tan Yong Soon, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Water Resource ...
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• Planning to plant plants at the plants: stories from Tsutsumi

  
  aim: zero emissions — Authority: 91
  There are sometimes stories that we don’t write about, that are actually of great interest to many people. This seems to have been the case with the plants that have been bred by TMC’s Biotechnology & Afforestation Business Division in Japan, and are used, amongst other places at the Prius plant. I have to ...
  18 hours ago

• Time’s Up, by Keith Farnish

  
  MAKE WEALTH HISTORY — Authority: 425
  Environmentalists are often accused of wanting to send us back to the dark ages, but in three years of researching and writing about green issues, I’ve only come across a handful of people who actually advocate a complete undoing of industrial society (I’m not one of them, by the way). To that small collection I ...
  19 hours ago

• World Usability Day presentations

  
  zumio — Authority: 121
  Just a note to say “thanks!” to Lisa and the organisers of World Usability Day Sydney – it was a pleasure to speak and I hope that it added constructively to the day’s dialogue… A quick housekeeping note – I’ll post the two slide decks of my presentations early next week. I’m interstate visiting ...
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• Standards in Photovoltaic Technologies

  
  Renewable Energy Sources — Authority: 144
  General standardsIn this category standards referring to solar radiation measurement process, measurement instrument calibration and the like can be found:ISO 9845-1, Solar energy – Reference solar spectral irradiance at the ground at different receiving conditions, Part 1: Direct normal and hemispherical solar ...
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• For peats sake

  
  Governance Focus — Authority: 148
  The world’s wetlands are big sources of greenhouse gases PEATY wetlands emit about 1.3 billion tonnes of CO2 a year as a result of human activity that drains them and thus exposes them to the oxidative effect of the atmosphere. This figure does not include the effect of fire on dried-up bogs, which can double the ...
  22 hours ago

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