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UN Rio+20 Agenda Galvanizes Sustainability Community on Cities

October 31, 2011 by Warren Karlenzig
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As Rio+20 takes shape (officially, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, follow-up to the historic UN 1992 "Earth Summit," held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), the issue of sustainable cities appears to be taking center stage in planning for the June 2012 event dedicated to marshalling the global Green Economy. "Cities... [read more]

What The New Budget Could Mean For The Green Economy

April 6, 2011 by Shari Shapiro
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The United States is at a precipice with respect to public motivators for the green economy. Essentially, the carrot of public incentives or investment and the stick of potential mandatory regulation of carbon emissions are slated for elimination at the same time.  Although we cannot know what this two part... [read more]

Pricing Trash Out of Existence

October 25, 2010 by Tyler Caine
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Our collective waste stream is one of the prime issues in need of attention in our country. Americans produce more waste per capita than any other country in the world. For as good as we are at creating ideas of value, we are apparently even better at deeming volumes of things worthless. But if more waste streams became feedstock—new raw... [read more]

From Global Green New Deal to Global Green Recovery

May 7, 2010 by Paul B
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Asia and in particular China and the Republic of Korea are pioneering an economic and employment recovery based in part on significant investments in a Green Economy. Over a third of China’s stimulus package, equal to three per cent of its GDP, is being spent on high speed rail to boosting its already impressive growth in areas such as... [read more]