Posted on June 19, 2008 by jlevy84
The Rockefeller Foundation studied the opportunities to create a social stock Exchange located in United Kingdom . The ethical investors ‘ll can trade with companies socially responsible. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9a7da70c-f79f-11dc-ac40-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1
This initiative is a way to promote sustainable development to the investors and implies them to the social responsibility of the company in order to protect the environment, [...]
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Posted on June 19, 2008 by penczek
Denmark is a pioneer in wind power industry. Currently wind power provides nearly 20% of the nation’s electricity (compared with just 0.7 percent for the United States). This industry developed mainly thanks to geopolitical factors. Danish government supported Israel in so called Yom Kippur War in 1973. Arabic countries unhappy with that cut the [...]
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Posted on June 19, 2008 by blainewalsh
A new clean and slow burning charcoal that is created in the village is helping to heat the homes and cook the meals of the local villagers. The best thing about this is that the village women are ‘manufacturing’ the charcoal briquettes themselves. To manufacture the charcoal, rather than cut down trees, they are using [...]
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Posted on June 19, 2008 by saadabdalla
Moving away from the Oil issues in the world we need to attend to another creeping issue that is more important , in my view, than the oil …. that is the WATER CRISIS!
The world’s supply of fresh water is running out. Already one person in five has no access to safe drinking water. [...]
Filed under: water | Tagged: river systems | 2 Comments »