- Recession Is the Time To Build a Low-Carbon Future Grist, 10/29
- Making Green Stuff Cool, Making Ungreen Stuff Uncool Treehugger, 10/29
- What the Public Doesn't Get About Climate Change Time, 10/29
- Report Shows How Green Supply Chains Can Cut Costs LOHAS Weekly, 10/29
- Eco-Horror Films Shocking Us Into Action CNN, 10/29
- Frugal Tips for New Homeowners Also Happen to Be Green Treehugger, 10/29
- Top Economist Talkes Up Risk of Climate Inaction AFP, 10/29
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Sustainability News Headlines - 10/29/2008
News of Sustainability Benefiting People Today
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Sustainability News Headlines - 10/28/2008
News of Sustainability Benefiting People Today
- Natural Settings Help Brain Fatigue NY Times, 10/28
- Green Products Help GE Weather Rough Economic Times GreenBiz, 10/28
- Telecommuting and the (Cheaper) Green Office of the Future GreenBiz, 10/28
- Nature Helps With ADHD And May Even Outperform Medication Mongabay.com, 10/28
- Waste Watchers - Save Cash AND The Environment The Independent, 10/28
- Don't Believe in Climate Change? You Still Need a Carbon Tax The Gazette, 10/28
- Oil Prices - A Little More of the Story The OIl Drum, 10/28
Monday, October 27, 2008
Sustainability News Headlines - 10/27/2008
News of Sustainability Benefiting People Today
- Rolling Out the Infrastructure: Plug-Ins for Boulder, Australia The Triple Pundit, 10/27
- Is There a Conservation Lesson In the Oil Price Collapse? Sightline, 10/27
- Why the Media Storyline That Recession and Low Gas Prices Mean Trouble For Green Energy Is Wrong Grist, 10/27
- Carbon Finance Seen As Solid Despite Global Crunch ENN, 10/27
- The Nature Conservancy Named to Help Lead World Bank's Forest Carbon Partnership Facility The Nature Conservancy, 10/27
- Human Carrying Capacity and the 2008 Financial Meltdown Sustainable Home Blog, 10/27
- Did Chemicals In Furniture (PBDE's) Kill This Woman's Cat? Treehugger, 10/27
Friday, October 24, 2008
Sustainability News Headlines - 10/24/2008
News of Sustainability Benefiting People Today
- The Green New Deal NY Times, 10/24
- Green Collar Stimulus - Federal Spending, Quick! Grist, 10/24
- Value a Forest, Cool a Planet CS Monitor, 10/24
- Begrudgingly Green CEO's Treehugger, 10/24
- Organic Farming 'Could Feed Africa' The Independent, 10/24
- Kids and Climate Change Grist, 10/24
- Oil Addiction and the Recession WorldChanging, 10/24
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Sustainability News Headlines - 10/23/2008
News of Sustainability Benefiting People Today
- Green New Deal Will Spark Global Economy On Long-Term Basis Mongabay.com, 10/23
- One Big (and Potentially Lucrative) Filtering Forest Ecosystem Marketplace, 10/23
- How to Green Your Halloween Grist, 10/23
- More Flaws Found in CCX's Carbon Offsets, As Industry Continues to Shake Out Severe Kinks Grist, 10/23
- Five Tips for Saving Greenbacks Through Green Purchasing Responsible Purchasing Network, 10/23
- Unique New Tool Helps Industries Factor in Biodiversity Birdlife International, 10/23
- Special Feature: How Our Economy Is Killing the Earth New Scientist, 10/23
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Sustainability News Headlines - 10/22/2008
News of Sustainability Benefiting People Today
- Thinking Green In a Blue Economy Two Steps Forward, 10/22
- Crunch May Put Price Tag on Environment ENN, 10/22
- The 'Win Win' Solution Failing the Rainforests The Guardian, 10/22
- What Does the Warming Period From 55 Million Years Ago Tell Us About What's Coming? High Country News, 10/22
- Alternative Energy Suddenly Faces Headwinds NY Times, 10/22
- Climate Change Accellerating Far Beyond the IPCC Forecast, Says WWF The London Telegraph, 10/22
- Climate Change Linked to Indian Tiger Attacks Reuters, 10/22
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Sustainability News Headlines - 10/21/2008
News of Sustainability Benefiting People Today
- George Soros - A Green Economy Is the Solution GreenBiz, 10/21
- I'll Match Your Economy Bailout and Raise You One Climate Plan Grist, 10/21
- Green Policies in California Generated Jobs, Study Finds NY Times, 10/21
- How to Green - School Teachers! Treehugger, 10/21
- Putting a Price on Nature Can Save Forests, Rivers Reuters, 10/21
- Company Says Shoes Can Power Gadgets Energy Daily, 10/21
- Mass Amphibian Die-Offs Affect Ecosystems Mongabay.com, 10/21
Monday, October 20, 2008
Sustainability News Headlines - 10/20/2008
News of Sustainability Benefiting People Today
- Financial Crisis An Opportunity For Change, Says UN New Scientist, 10/20
- What Would the Bank Bailout Money Buy For The Environment? The Guardian, 10/20
- 'The Great Growth Industry of the 21st Century Grist, 10/20
- Carbon Conservation Schemes Will Fail Without Forest Indigenous Peoples Mongabay.com, 10/20
- Workers to Employers: "Green Up!" Sustainable Life Media, 10/20
- What's Really Wrong With the Price of Oil NY Times, 10/20
- Highlights of the Peak Oil Conference - Saudi King Says "The Oil Boom Is Over" Get Realist, 10/20
Friday, October 17, 2008
Sustainability News Headlines - 10/17/2008
News of Sustainability Benefiting People Today
- New Energy Economy Emerging in the United States Grist, 10/17
- The Plug-In Revolution Washington Monthly, 10/17
- The Greening of Mobility Two Steps Forward, 10/17
- Weekly Clean Energy Roundup Sustainable Business, 10/17
- Green Building On Upswing Despite Down Market Greener Buildings, 10/17
- Organic Agriculture is Better Than Industrial Agriculture The Oil Drum, 10/17
- Meltdown: A Global Warming Travelogue CNN, 10/17
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Sustainability News Headlines - 10/16/2008
News of Sustainability Benefiting People Today
- Toward a Greener Economy CS Monitor, 10/16
- Can Green Jobs Save Us? Politico, 10/16
- World Conservation Congress - Saving Nature Must Be An Integral Part of Solving Any World Crisis ENS, 10/16
- UK Government - Rainforests Are a Weapon Against Global Warming Mongabay.com, 10/16
- Buried in the Bailout: The Bicycle Commuter Act NY Times, 10/16
- Why Climate Deniers Out Debate Smart Talkers Grist, 10/16
- As Climate Warms, Alaska Village Faces Eroded Future BBC, 10/16
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Sustainability News Headlines - 10/15/2008
News of Sustainability Benefiting People Today
- How the Financial Crisis Could Open Up New Opportunities For Sustainability Thinking Grist, 10/15
- Time to Invest in Nature's Capital BBC, 10/15
- Green Teams: Silicon Valley Employees Use Peer Pressure, Creative Ideas to Help Environment Contra Costa Times, 10/15
- Clorox Cleaners Take Big Share of Green Market, Taking Share from Conventional Cleaners SF Chronicle, 10/15
- Be Green, Get Rich? Grist, 10/15
- Deadly Ozone Pollution to Worsen Under Climate Change Discovery, 10/15
- Notes From the 2008 ASPO Peak Oil Conference GetREAList, 10/15
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Sustainability News Headlines - 10/14/2008
News of Sustainability Benefiting People Today
- Green Marketing - Nailing the 'What's In It for Me?' GreenBiz, 10/14
- Building Biodiversity Business Ecosystem Marketplace, 10/14
- Analysts Say Global Carbon Market Will Pass $100B by Year's End ENN, 10/14
- Book Details Green Programs of 70 American Companies GreenBiz, 10/14
- A New Shape for Solar Panels? Treehugger, 10/14
- Sustainable Sushi Guide On the Way Treehugger, 10/14
- New Evidence - Low Levels of Mercury in Fish a Health Hazard ENS, 10/14
Monday, October 13, 2008
Sustainability News Headlines - 10/13/2008
News of Sustainability Benefiting People Today
- Could More Renewable Energy Mean Lower Power Prices? Wall Street Journal, 10/13
- Indian Tribes See Profit In Harnessing the Wind For Power NY Times, 10/13
- Michael Pollan: Farmer in Chief NY Times, 10/13
- To Protect the Environment, Biofuel Standards Are Necessary Science Daily, 10/13
- Sustainable Agriculture in Practice: It's All About the Soil...And Carbon The Triple Pundit, 10/13
- Most U.S. Homeowners Pursue Green Upgrades to Save Money, not the Planet LOHAS Weekly, 10/13
- Nature Loss 'Dwarfs Bank Crisis' BBC, 10/13
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Thoughts On Accountability and Opportunity As the Credit Crisis Slows Investment in Clean Energy Development
I just finished reading this post on Grist and a N.Y Times article that it links to about the credit crisis slowing investment in clean energy development, and I’ve gotta say – I’m pretty hoppin’ mad. As one of the sources cited in The Times piece acknowledged:"financing for carbon-cutting projects is harder to find and...financiers (are) more cautious than before the crunch."Reading this N.Y. Times expose last weekend detailing how the Bush Administration's policy blunders and negligence on oversight have brought us to this point didn’t exactly help me feel better. Lovely – thanks for bringing us to the verge of another Panic of 1873. As top market analysts have stated:
"We still don't know the extent of the damage still coming from Lehman. But we do know that the federal government has made it so we are all afraid. That's not going away. My hope is this -- new president, better team." - Jim Cramer, TheStreet.com
"Recessions are simply part of the business cycle... Depressions are caused by governments making major policy mistakes. And we have made some in the areas of not regulating mortgage lending, allowing the five large investment banks to increase their leverage to 30 or 40 to one in 2004 (what was the SEC thinking?), and failing to oversee the rating agencies." - John Maudlin, Thoughts from the Frontline Weekly Newsletter, 10/10/2008
While other sources in the articles about impacts of the credit crisis on clean energy investment fortunately remained optimistic - as do I - one thing that leaves me at a loss of words as I consult with top sources to understand both the problem and the best potential solutions is this: where is the accountability?
Name me one person charged by the Administration with overseeing Wall Street and the economy who’s been fired, reprimanded, transferred, tarred and feathered, or forced to eat McDonalds for 30 days straight… Or who’s stood up to bravely take the heat for our government’s gross mismanagement of its oversight of the financial system.
Granted, we’re about to have a big national accountability moment in a few weeks – on November 4th. I’m a registered independent – I vote by issues not by party. But there’s no way that if this was a Democratic administration and a Republican Congress, Congress wouldn’t be screaming like Puritans at the Salem Witch Trials for heads to be rolling and people to go to jail.
As the credit crisis slows investment needed to fuel clean energy and energy efficiency projects – the seeds of the emerging green economy that YOU are helping give birth to if you’re reading this blog – it’s time to get vocal and (1) demand some accountability here, and (2) step up to become part of the greater policy solution. Aside from our work advancing green living and business solutions and voting, we need to write to and meet with our local, state, and federal representatives – and make sure that the best ideas for how to green the recovery, from a ‘100 Days of Climate (and Energy) Action’ to ‘Green Collar Jobs', to how to gain ‘Freedom from Oil’ to 'Plan B' and 'Natural Capitalism' (among my favorites), are actually incorporated into legislation. We need to become active in the policy arena, as Focus the Nation leader, Eban Goodstein, emphasizes.
What steps to you recommend right now to help America and the world turn this crisis into the opportunity we’ve been waiting for: to gain major policy victories that propel us into the next – green-powered – economy?
Friday, October 10, 2008
Sustainability News Headlines - 10/10/2008
News of Sustainability Benefiting People Today
- U.S. Focus on Climate Could Ease Financial Crisis ENN, 10/10
- The Environmental Messaging Debate: Shellenberger and Nordhaus Rebutted, Part I Grist, 10/10
- The Environmental Messaging Debate Continues: Rebutting Shellenberger and Nordhaus, Part II Grist, 10/10
- Focus Sharpens on Forests for Climate Fix Reuters, 10/10
- Save Paper, Save Money: Five Free Software Downloads That Spare Your Printer Treehugger, 10/10
- Cities Should Protect Nature - UN Reuters, 10/10
- Global Financial Crisis Endangers Conservation Gains National Geographic, 10/10
Thursday, October 09, 2008
Sustainability News Headlines - 10/9/2008
News of Sustainability Benefiting People Today
- A Green Path Out of the Red Living On Earth, 10/9
- How to Actually Deliver Green Collar Jobs to Those Who Need Them Grist, 10/9
- One Way to Cut Emissions - Beijing to Force 800,000 Cars Off the Road Daily Treehugger, 10/9
- U.S. States Ranked on Energy Efficiency ACEEE, 10/9
- Paraguay and Indonesia Announce Measures to Protect Tropical Forests WWF, 10/9
- Forest Conservation Can Fight Climate Change and Poverty Mongabay.com, 10/9
- The Cost of Lost Opportunities - The Bailout, The War, and Renewable Energy Grist, 10/9
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Exposing Diverse Audiences to Green - Mos Def, Backed By 30-Piece Orchestra, to Headline FREE Green Music Festival in S.F.
Are you a green maven who loves your work finds it hard to put it all down and go out and have some fun? Well, here's an opportunity to do both - and if you're a Bay Area green business, there's also a unique marketing opportunity for you here (see the bottom of this post)...On Saturday, October 18th, Golden Globe and Emmy Award-nominated actor and Grammy-nominated artist, Mos Def, will be joined by the full 30-piece Realistic Orchestra and very special guests – headlining the first annual Band Shell Music Summit, in Golden Gate Park’s (S.F.) Band Shell Music Concourse.
Mos Def’s performance will cap a FREE day-long sustainability-themed music festival – presented by Meadowlands Entertainment Group and Conservation Value Institute – that by including artists from multiple musical and cultural backgrounds, aims to connect diverse audiences with green solutions. Also in the line up are Mingus Amungus w/Special Guest Arab
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Special guest speaker, Cooler, Inc. founder, Michel Gelobter, will be on hand to inject the audience with inspiration on how climate change and clean energy solutions are also job-creating and poverty solutions. Gelobter recently led Redefining Progress in designing the world’s most aggressive climate legislation (signed into
Reaching a Diverse Audience with Green Messaging
As a conservation scientist with close ties to the music industry, I have been working for several years now on projects such as the Green Apple Festival and the ROTHBURY Think Tank, which leverage the viral power of music to connect the masses with green living, business and policy solutions. The Band Shell Music
For inner city and other low-income communities, efficient, clean technologies offer particularly promising benefits. It’s with these folks that the hundreds if not thousands of dollars in savings on energy bills that efficient technologies provide can make a really significant difference in how much money people have left to spend (or save) after the bills are paid.
Mini EcoVillage to Feature Green Solutions
To promote the poverty-fighting potential of green technologies, PG & E will be on hand to give out 3,000 efficient CFL bulbs. In addition, we’ve secured a solar trailer from SolaRover to provide power for our vendors, and will feature such green living and business solutions as solar power installers, sales of electric scooters and bicycles, a clean vehicle exhibit (including fuel cell and plug-in hybrid prototypes), organic and hemp clothing and natural jewelry boutiques, and perhaps even an installer of residential wind power – perfect for windy San Francisco.
On the non-profit side, HeadCount will be on hand to register fans to vote (the California Voter registration deadline is Monday 10/20, be sure to register to vote!), and multiple environmental non-profits will be on hand to educate festivalgoers in green living, business, and policy solutions. Festival partner, Blue Bear School of Music, will also be on hand, promoting their mission of providing superior quality and affordable music education to aspiring musicians of all ages and skill levels – check out their benefit with Mos Def and friends on Sunday night 10/19 at Ruby Skye!
Come one, come all and please join us in what promises to be a festive day of FREE music and green solutions, with wine and beer to be served in a special beverage gardens. And of course, spread the word! If you’d like to enjoy the festival with an exclusive VIP package, click here for details…
Market Your Green Products & Services - Boothing Opportunities Still Available
If your green business or non-profit would like to have a booth at the Band Shell Music Summit, stop by our “Talk to Us” page, where our booth sales contact information is provided – we’d love for you to join us, and help connect the crowd with products and services who's sustainable production, use and re-use potential reduces , waste and habitat destruction! But be quick, as booth spaces are limited and getting close to selling out.
Sustainability News Headlines - 10/8/2008
News of Sustainability Benefiting People Today
- Is There a Green Upside to the Economic Meltdown? The Triple Pundit, 10/8
- Van Jones: Out with Platinum Parachutes, In With Green Life Lines Grist, 10/8
- 12 Ways to Green Your Home For Winter - What Gives the Most Bang For Your Buck? Treehugger, 10/8
- Top 5 Clean Technologies The Triple Pundit, 10/8
- How to Measure Your Water Footprint CNN, 10/8
- Cut the Sprawl, Cut the Warming (and Reduce Oil Dependence) NY Times, 10/8
- End Use of Fossil Fuels in 20 Years, UK Warned The Guardian, 10/8
Monday, October 06, 2008
Sustainability News Headlines - 10/6/2008
News of Sustainability Benefiting People Today
- The Latest in Sustainability Purchasing ENN, 10/6
- The Five Horsemen of Environmental Change GreenBiz, 10/6
- Green Gap Between Climate Change Action and Attitudes of Executives LOHAS Weekly, 10/6
- The Green Evangelist - Denmark's Prime Minister Travels to U.S. to Sell New Climate Treaty Grist, 10/6
- Shade Grown Coffee Ensures a Future Cup of Joe Treehugger, 10/6
- Medications Turning Up In Our Drinking Water Living On Earth, 10/6
- Credit Crisis Slows Clean Energy Development Grist, 10/6
Friday, October 03, 2008
Sustainability News Headlines - 10/3/2008
News of Sustainability Benefiting People Today
- Google Plans for Renewables to Power America SF Chronicle, 10/3
- The Peak Oil Crisis: Bailouts and Shortages Falls Church News Press, 10/3
- An Excellent Report on the Potential and Benefits of Energy Efficiency Grist, 10/3
- Report: 4.2 Million 'Green' Jobs Possible AP, 10/3
- Gore, Mathai Address Avoided Deforestation Carbon Offsets Ecosystem Marketplace, 10/3
- U.S. Needs Environmental Standards for Biofuels Science, 10/3
- Pine Bark Beetles - Increasing With Warming - Changing Rocky Mountain Air Quality, Weather ENS, 10/3
Thursday, October 02, 2008
Sustainability News Headlines - 10/2/2008
News of Sustainability Benefiting People Today
- For Consumers, More Incentives to Go Green CS Monitor, 10/2
- Buffet Invests In Batteries Used With Wind and Solar Power, Electric Cars Huffington Post, 10/2
- Green Jobs Now! A Day of Action With Van Jones and the Green Jobs Initiative WorldChanging, 10/2
- Driving Adoption of Renewable Energy: An Energy Marketer's Perspective GreenBiz, 10/2
- Weekly Clean Energy Roundup Sustainable Business, 10/2
- Study Eases Fear About Wind Farm Threat to Birds Reuters, 10/2
- Environment at Rock Bottom of Concerns for America Voters Mongabay.com, 10/2
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
Sustainability News Headlines - 10/1/2008
News of Sustainability Benefiting People Today
- Green Investment Would Produce Twice the Jobs As the Wall Street Bailout Grist, 10/1
- The Green Bubble Bursts, Say Death of Environmentalism Authors LA Times, 10/1
- Northeast Puts On the Carbon Cap ENN, 10/1
- Up Close and Personal With Green Cars The Triple Pundit, 10/1
- California Launches Broad Effort to Control Hazardous Chemicals, Likely to Boost Green Alternatives L.A. Times, 10/1
- Greenpeace Ranks Nokia at Top of Green Electronics Guide ENN, 10/1
- Number of Ocean Dead Zones Rising Fast Reuters, 10/1
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