Caption: "Sadly, the only proven way to achieve global GHG reductions so far has been economic recession." Comment: Fortunately, shifting to 100% renewables would catalyze the global transition to durable prosperity and community well-being in a way that would eliminate GHG production AND grow the economy <<continued>>. (See also: strategic sustainability, natural capitalism, its four strategies, and RMI's Reinventing Fire [energy] Program.)
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September 17, 2011 at 03:31PM Gil Friend (CEO, Natural Logic) and Paul Herman (founder HIP Investment advisors) discuss the state of sustainable finance in an informal unscripted conversation this past May, 2011. Check out Gil's blog for a basic orientation and a few resources. The frame for the conversation is as follows: "The CFO "owns" risk -- and in
June 15, 2011 at 09:51PM Latest activist murder in the Amazon highlights battle over land, logging . . . (The Christian Science Monitor, June 15, 2011).
and high risks of environmental protection more generally throughout the world.
The death of Obede Loyla Souza in Para state in the Brazilian Amazon is the fifth murder in a month. It may have been the result of a land conflict, underscoring a pattern that pits development against the environment.
The article was written by Hannah Stone, a writer for Insight – Organized Crime in the Americas, which provides research, analysis, and investigation of the criminal world throughout the region. Find all of her research here.
