Sustainable Development

The Difference Between Renewable and Sustainable

September 22, 2010

Climate change, renewable energy, green this, eco that … We are constantly flooded with information about the need to shift towards a different, planet-friendly economy in order to preserve the atmospheric condition in which life as we know it can thrive. Technorati Tags: Clean energy, Deforestation, food, sustainability Related Posts:Get Your Energy Plan in Order [...]

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Dispatch from the Amazon: the queen of biomes needs care – and global cooperation

July 29, 2010

The day the group of journalists I was visiting Brazil with by an invitation of Apex, a trade and investment agency, arrived in Brasilia for a series of meetings with government officials, the news was good. The country had managed to reduce deforestation in the Amazon region by 47% between August 2009 and May 2010, [...]

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Wal-Mart goes green

June 26, 2010

Guest blog post by Dan Auld If you want to heap plaudits on Stuart Woolf for going sustainable way before sustainable was cool, go ahead. He just wonders what all the fuss is about. Technorati Tags: Renewable energy, Solar power, Wal-Mart Related Posts:Small Scale Renewable Energy Helps the Environment – And the Poor Non-profit takes [...]

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Switching to renewable energy

May 15, 2010

This week I read a brilliant interview with Mark Jacobson (pictured, left) on the Financial Times’ Energy Source blog. Jacobson is a Stanford professor of engineering who is a strong proponent of the idea that the world could move to 100 per cent renewable power, which is music to our ears. (for more details about [...]

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Scottish island gets green prize

January 14, 2010

A small island in Scotland, home to a community of about 100 people, was awarded £300,000 (US$487,000) from the Big Green Challenge by the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts. Solar power was part of the islanders’ efforts to go green. Technorati Tags: Add new tag, Carbon footprint, Eigg, environment, Fossil fuel, Scotland, [...]

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