Maybe Wal Mart isn't the most likely candidate, but yesterday I watched a truly groundbreaking webcast from their Milestone Meeting Sustainability (will be made available here). They announced that they want to set a new world standard for retail in the 21st century, and it will be a sustainable one...

As a first step they will be posing 15 questions to all their suppliers. The questions will be in the follow… Continue

Some of the existing windmill power systems are very expensive to purchase, not to mention the installation and maintenance. This fact keeps people away from generating their own power through wind energy.

There are a growing number of low cost wind power systems which people can build themselves and cost just a few hundred dollars.

Windstuffnow provides a lot information about wind systems. They start with detailed explanations of a basic wind system and take you all the way through a Three P… Continue

To master advocacy one must master adversity.
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To master your perspective one must master the art of Anamorphosis.

The video "Life and Death of Mr. Green" directed by rising talent Timothy Garrett and starring musical troubadours from Carney, Evan Rachel Wood opposite of Reeve Carney (Broadway's next Spider-man, Julie Taymor's rendition of the infamous love story of the masked hero and Mary Jane) and was shot on the set of HBO's Carnivale in the California desert. The vi… Continue

More and more people are fed up with greediness, irresponsible and careless behavior. Instead, they’re longing for empathetic companies and institutions that care. Trendwatching, which is famous for accurate… Continue

In a new documentary, Bill Clinton and Michael Dukakis, as well as architecture and energy experts, discuss the problems caused by suburbanization and horizontal development. The DVD, Sprawling From Grace, which will be released on April 21, looks at the pollution, health-risks and decreased quality of life caused by suburbanization.



While the DVD may focus on awareness of the problems, the documentary's website features a blog that has informative and solution-focused… Continue

Today Green Heroes, the place to share information, ideas and experience on sustainable innovation has been launched. The Green Heroes Sustainable Innovation Network is a not for profit network that has been developed to share ideas on sustainable innovation and to connect green sta… Continue

International competition for entrepreneurs with environmentally responsible business concepts

An exciting new competition has launched – The Good Entrepreneur. The competition aims to identify entrepreneurs across Europe with environmentally responsible business concepts. These should be concepts that are based on making a clear contribution to the protection of the environment. The competition has been created in a partnership between CNBC, the leading business and financial news television c… Continue

On 9 September 2009 - The Dutch Sustainability Day - the National Stakeholder Energy Debate takes place in international press centre Nieuwspoort in The Hague. Various prominent stakeholders in the Dutch ener… Continue

Unfortunately we have had to make the sad decision to cancel the Green Heroes Gathering on Scandinavian Innovation which would have been held Thursday January 29th in The Hub in Amsterdam due to a lack of participants.

This week's Supernova Network Age Briefing will feature Scott Blake Harris, General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Energy. This is a chance to ask questions first-hand about topics as far ranging as current "Smart Grid" efforts, how technology is changing our thinking about carbon sequestration and nuclear energy, and how cybersecurity intersects with our country's energy policy. About our guest: Scott Blake Harris is the General Counsel of the Department of Energy. He was nominated for the p… Continue