May 14, 2012
by Jacob Scherr
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Jacob Scherr, Director, Global Strategy & Advocacy, Washington, DC
It is easy to feel depressed about the state of the Rio+20 preparations after the recent two weeks of “informal informal” negotiations at the United Nations … Continue reading
April 12, 2012
by Jacob Scherr
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Jacob Scherr, Director, Global Strategy & Advocacy, Washington, DC
After participating in Rio+20 preparatory meetings last month at the United Nations, it appears that governments will spend thousands of hours this spring arguing over a… Continue reading
April 20, 2011
by Shravya Reddy
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Shravya Reddy, India Analyst, New York In early April, India joined twenty three other countries at the second annual Clean Energy Ministerial, held in Abu Dhabi, and reaffirmed its commitment to deploying low-carbon energy. The Clean Energy Ministeria… Continue reading
Share on FacebookApril 18, 2011
by Reduce
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How you could score a free cup o’ joe and other highlights from Starbucks new Corporate Social Responsibility Report. Starbucks first started publishing its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reports 10 years ago. Back then, according to Ben Packard, vice president of Global Responsibility, Starbucks was among just a handful of companies that reported such findings [...] Continue reading
Share on FacebookMarch 7, 2011
by Michael Davidson
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On a miserable and rainy New York Sunday with gusts of up to 50 mph, what could fill a conference hall on sleepy 1st Avenue across from the United Nations? Civil society representatives have converged a day before the second preparatory committee on th… Continue reading
Share on FacebookFebruary 28, 2011
by Anjali Jaiswal
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There’s nothing like standing amid the bustle of India’s booming tech centers, such as Hyderabad’s Hi-Tech City, to get a glimpse of the magnitude of India’s building boom, as I’ve had an opportunity to do with NRDC Execut… Continue reading
Share on FacebookFebruary 4, 2011
by Kaid Benfield
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced on February 3 the formation of Sustainable Communities Building Blocks, a program designed to help interested communities adopt sustainable planning methods. Sustainable planning, said&… Continue reading
Share on FacebookSeptember 18, 2010
by Anjali Jaiswal
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Last week in Hyderabad, I had the unique opportunity to discuss strategies for galvanizing building efficiency from theory into practice in the rapidly growing hi-tech capital. We learned a lot about how to ramp up building efficiency in South In… Continue reading
Share on FacebookAugust 27, 2010
by Reduce
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August has been a big month in the realm of electronic waste and recycling, as the subject was both the focus of a Government Accountability Office (GAO) study and a named an international priority by the EPA.
The GAO study was prepared for the House of Representative Committee on Science and Technology and released to the [...] Continue reading