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Sigourney Weaver Narrates New Google Earth Animation on Brazil's Controversial Belo Monte Dam
10-minute Tour in 3-D Highlights the Dam's Harmful Impacts on Xingu River and Greener Alternatives
 San Francisco, CA - Amazon Watch and International Rivers have teamed up to create a state-of-the-art 10-minute Google Earth 3-D tour and video narrated by actress Sigourney Weaver, with technical assistance from Google Earth Outreach, in support of Brazil's Movimento Xingu Vivo Para Sempre (Xingu River Forever Alive Movement). The video and tour allow viewers to learn about the harmful impacts of, and alternatives to the massive Belo Monte Dam Complex on the Amazon's Xingu River. A Portuguese version of the video and tour, narrated by well-known Brazilian actor Dira Paes, will be launched next week.
THINK joins consortium of Spanish companies and authorities to introduce eco-car sharing
Sarecar project to run on entirely renewable energy sources powering exclusively electric vehicles
 Pioneering Scandinavian electric vehicle (EV) maker, THINK, and its distribution partner in Spain, Going Green, have teamed up with a consortium in the Basque Country to provide citizens of Ataun with a totally carbon free car-sharing scheme in the city.
Minding the Sustainability GAAP
By failing to integrate sustainability into annual financial reports, businesses make decisions that are bad for the environment and their own bottom lines.
 On August 26th BP abandoned its hope of bidding on a potentially lucrative exploration license in Greenland. The implication is that its tarnished reputation is undermining its ability to compete for projects. Across the Atlantic, the Tennessee Valley Authority has lost nearly $50 million in power generation during this summer's heatwave, because the Tennessee river is too hot for the nuclear plants' cooling towers to function.
Sustainable opportunities for protein production
To be held on 25th and 26th November 2010 in The Netherlands, the Protein Summit - for a sustainable future - will address the latest issues and views related to three key pillars: business opportunities, sustainable challenges and developments
 The global demand for proteins is soaring. By 2050, it is expected that the current production technologies will no longer be able to meet the level of protein consumption, resulting in substantial shortages. This will create new opportunities for plant-based proteins, as well as for new sources like fungi, which are single-cell-based proteins.
Earth's Overdraft Notice
On August 21st, we exceed nature's budget
 Oakland, CA -Aug 10, 2010 - It has taken humanity less than nine months to exhaust its ecological budget for the year, according to data from Global Footprint Network, a California-based environmental research organization.
Global Footprint Network calculates nature's supply in the form of biocapacity, the amount of resources the planet regenerates each year, and compares that to human demand: the amount it takes to produce all the living resources we consume and absorb our carbon dioxide emissions. Its data reveal that, as of August 21, humanity will have demanded all the ecological services -- from filtering CO2 to producing the raw materials for food -- that nature can provide this year.
The future belongs to Social Business
how it all began
 A few years ago, I happened to meet Franck Ribou, the chairman of Danone. We discussed different topics and I suggested to him: "Why don't we establish a Grameen-Danone joint venture in Bangladesh?" "And what is this company supposed to do?" he asked; I replied "to produce yoghurt - you just told me how good it is." And I continued: "Let's do it for a very specific purpose: there is a great number of malnourished and ill-fed children in Bangladesh. There are millions of them. We will put all the elements these children need into the yoghurt: vitamins, iron, zinc - everything they are lacking. We will dose it for exactly this type of malnourished children, according to the recommendation of the scientists. And the price of this yoghurt will be such that the parents can afford, when they are buying their children a snack in their village. In this way, the children will receive all the nutrients and trace elements they need to become healthier."
Integral Impact Investing
Where the science of achievement meets the art of fulfillment
 This article introduces the concept of Integral Impact Investing as an evolutionary model for sustainable capital management. It argues that the major collective threats faced by humanity today are addressed only partially by the current development strategies and investment schemes. It emphasizes the important role of capital and business in alleviating today's challenges and questions the sustainability of current investment practices in all investment fields such as Venture Capital, Public, and Private Equity. Moreover, it provides an integral investing framework that may fill the current void while potentially reducing the investment risk and increasing the social, environmental, cultural, and happiness impact.
Masdar City
A role model for the world?
 | An artist's night view of Masdar institute under construction. |
It is dusty and scorching hot. But the armada of construction workers, craftsmen, technicians, architects and construction engineers seem to have gotten used to it. Over 3,000 workers are toiling here in every shift. In three shifts, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, they are working for this desert dream. Because it is an ambitious project: Masdar City will become the first eco-city of the world. The pilot project is playing it cool. "One day all cities will be built like this", the slogan of the enterprise claims.
Cleantech needs a stage!
An interview with Sven Krueger and Marco Voigt
 Mr. Voigt, Mr. Krüger, three years ago you have launched the Clean Tech Media Award. How did you come up with the idea?
Sven Krueger: We both have been involved in the technology sector for over 10 years, and eventually noticed that there are many outstanding cleantech products and ideas, which are hardly known in the public. How should people change their responsiveness and behavior without learning about the alternatives that environmental technologies have to offer them?
A Call for Urgency and Passion
Cleantech Venture Capital in Silicon Valley and Germany
 To teach the dangers of exponential growth, this riddle is told in France: A water lily plant is growing on a pond. Every day, the water lily covers twice the area it has covered the day before. If you let it grow over the whole water surface, all other plants and fish in the pond will die. So you decide to let it grow until the lily covers only half the surface. Question: How long do you have to avoid disaster? Answer: Only one day.
Progress and sustainability
We must base our innovation progress and sustainability
 So far progress is an innocent matter. Wikipedia defines progress simply as a change of state. Talking about the meaning and the purpose of progress, it always remained a subsequent interpretation, that made a time into a golden age. The advancement itself was not golden, not colored, not friendly. It simply was: new, steaming, fast, harsh, insurmountable. Sometimes, but not necessarily, it was better than the past.
Co-founder of the Rainforest Alliance in dialog with forum
Part 1: Biodiversity
 Forum talked to Chris Wille, co-founder of the Rainforest Alliance and head of the agriculture sector for an interview. As a "man of the first hour" he is familiar with the broad topic of sustainability, sustainability certification and practical implementation in producer countries for tropical commodities like coffee and cocoa. The focus of our conversation is divided into three sections: Part 1 of biodiversity, part 2 audit and certification of sustainable farming, part 3 the seal with the frog. The interview was done by Feyza Morgül,
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