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Eurosif’s 2012 Procurement Report: What Investors Must Know About Sustainability Supply Chains
By: Aman Singh Post: 2012-04-12
Resources + Utilities
The Post-Nuclear Transition
The Fukushima disaster in March reminded the world, 25 years after Chernobyl, that nuclear energy is anything but clean, secure, and affordable. Unfortunately, another nuclear catastrophe was needed to trigger a fresh debate on the use of nuclear power. Germany’s decision in June to phase out nuclea...
Citizen Power Goes Solar
In 2011, we saw a burgeoning movement of protest spread around the world. But protest is only one side of the coin – and maybe not even the most important side. That's because ordinary citizens around the world are not just demanding change, they are becoming the change they want to see.
Come on Baby Light my Fire!
Thanks to President George W. Bush and his positively brilliant idea to sign into law in 2007 a federal energy bill establishing energy-efficiency standards for light bulbs , inventiveness in the lighting sector has been unleashed, and manufacturers are on fire with excitement about all the new produc...
China’s Dam Frenzy
Since 1949, China has completed, on average, at least one large dam per day, and today boasts more dams than the rest of the world combined. But China's over-damming of rivers has already wreaked havoc on natural ecosystems, and the social costs – both at home and abroad – have been even higher.
We’ve Hit the Limits of a Finite Earth
Hit the limits? Hmm…I’m not sure, not when each day the sun provides the earth with a daily dose of energy 15,000 times greater than the energy humans currently use. But the biggest drawback of the “we’ve-hit-the-limits” idea isn’t just the potential it encourages us to miss. The problem is that it ...
Ready, Set, Re-Frame! A Conversation with Frances Moore Lappé about EcoMind
I took the quiz -- have you? It’s the EcoMind Quiz devised by Frances Moore Lappé to go with her new book, EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We Want .
The quiz tests your assumptions about what it takes to save our planet and, Lappé hopes, will get you thinking about alternate wa...
Carbon Emissions’ Friendly Skies
The airline industry is responsible for 4.9% of all human-caused climate change worldwide, but 26 non-EU countries are campaigning against EU aviation carbon caps. If they succeed, they will destroy a critical mechanism in the battle against global warming. It was once said of the battle to fight cl...
CO2 Emissions: Frontiers of Sky-High Protectionism?
A new controversy has emerged between the EU and several of its main trade partners since the Union decided to include in its CO2 emission-control scheme all flights to and from its territory. The EU's trade partners are up in arms about the new policy, mainly because they fear a...
B-Corporations: Solving The Ben Jerry's Problem Again
For B Corporations and for the movement being enshrined into law in several states around the country, that means making it legal to have language in a company’s operating agreement that enable it to push back against investors and shareholders who think that the duty of a company is to maximize sha...
Corn-fed Capitalism
Just as the financial industry caused a near-meltdown of the global economy in 2008, the food industry has facilitated the explosion of obesity around the world. In both cases, the links to broader problems with contemporary Western capitalism have become impossible to ignore.
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