The Greener Economy

2009-11-13T17:51:00.003-05:00

Green technology should be shared
Big business is gearing up to fight the use of green technology by developing countries seeking to reduce carbon emissions. Read on...

China's two richest people heavily involved in “green” industries

2009-10-26T10:55:00.009-04:00

China's two richest people heavily involved in “green” industries. Read on...

Lecture: Major Current Issues in China’s Economic Development

2009-04-06T00:01:00.004-04:00

Please RSVP to this free public lecture by e-mail ( pjy2@case.edu) or phone (216-368-2234)

Major Current Issues in China’s Economic Development

A Free Public Lecture by Professor Wenjun Xuan
Dean of Business School, East China University of Political Science and Law, Shanghai, China

Location: Mather Memorial 225
Case Western Reserve University
11220 Bellflower Rd, Cleveland, OH‎
Parking: Bellflower Rd and East Boulevard (visitors park garage and parking meters)

Time: Tuesday, April 14, 4:30-6:00 p.m.
4:30-5:00 Reception
5:00-6:00 Lecture

Admission: Free to the public

Sponsored by the CWRU Worldwide Learning Experience Program

Link: http://yang.case.edu/WLE-Lecture-on-China.pdf

2009-01-21T13:07:00.004-05:00

The Greener Economy Portal

A website associated with the Greener Economy Community.

2009-01-21T10:31:00.002-05:00

Innovation Exchange
The Innovation Exchange provides access to valuable content, practical yet impactful tools and a dynamic online community to help you improve both your company and the planet.

Causecast
Causecast, dubbed "a one stop philanthropy shop" by TechCrunch, is a platform where media, philanthropy, social networking, entertainment and education converge to serve a greater purpose.

Conservation International
Conservation International has made this future a reality with the support of an ever-expanding list of key players.

Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia is a free, fully searchable collection of articles written by scholars, professionals, educators, and experts who collaborate and review each other's work. The articles are written in non-technical language and will be useful to students, educators, scholars, professionals, as well as to the general public.

Accelerating the Transition to a Greener Economy: A Key to Resolving the Current Economic Crisis?

2009-01-21T09:43:00.004-05:00

Goal of this blog: This blog is to rally an energetic green community for promoting the accelerated transition to a greener economy. It identifies one of the more deeply rooted structural problems of this economy, i.e. the wasteful depletion of finite fossil fuels, and its relationship with three of the major problems facing the U.S. economy – global financial crisis, skyrocketing energy prices, and climate change. It explores the changes needed to solve these problems by examining the recent German experience with a Government-sponsored transition to a greener energy and economic structure, which contributed to export and job growth in the German economy. It attempts to demonstrate that the triple predicament of the existing carbon-based U.S. economy can be ultimately cured by a comprehensive visionary economic strategy of the U.S. economy in close collaboration with other major developed and developing economies.

Global Green New Deal

2009-01-19T11:36:00.004-05:00

The United Nations called for a "Global Green New Deal"

Environmentally-Focused Investment Historic Opportunity for 21st Century Prosperity and Job Generation

http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=548&ArticleID=5957&l=en

UNEP Resources on the Green Economy

2009-01-19T08:46:00.001-05:00

UNEP Resources on the Green Economy
http://www.unep.org/greeneconomy/

Green Economy Report
The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity
Green Jobs

2009-01-19T08:10:00.001-05:00

The following goals of Obama's Greener Economic Plan need to be achieved:

help create five million new jobs by strategically investing US$150 billion in renewables over the next ten years to catalyse private efforts to build a greener energy future;
save more oil than the USA currently imports from the Middle East and Venezuela combined within ten years;
help build in America one million plug-in hybrid cars that can reach 150 miles per gallon by 2015;
ensure renewable energy sources make up 10% of US electricity by 2012, and 25% by 2025; and
carry out an economy-wide cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80% by 2050.