World Growth Innovators is a new venture that I have created and its first set of innovations are aimed at Haiti.

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• Leaner posts I remember in high school and college when I would cringe when the teacher would ask for a 1,500 words essay. I thoughts I'd never find enough material to fulfil those requirements. Flash forward to today and I have to pare down my posts so they don't exceed 1,500 words.......
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It is always a good sign when large corporations get on the bandwagon.In this case, the sustainable development bandwagon.

There are currently two very different strategies taken large corporations in their drive towards sustainable development:

• A “sustainable brand” strategy: Clorox and S.C. Johnson have both chosen to create a “green” cleaning range.

• A “transversal” strategy: Procter & Gamble targets all mainstream consumers. The company gradually reinforces the “green” dimension of most of its flagship brands. It created “Tide Coldwater”, an “Ultra Downy” softener.

You can read the full article entitled “P & G’s Sustainable Development Strategy“

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• organic food - How green is my valley? Most people still have a bucolic view of agriculture. In fact, modern agriculture is far from green. It is in fact, one of the largest contributor to green house gas. Unfortunately, organic farming is not as productive. In fact, it is said that today's yield is bout 10 times......
• Sustainable Development -- The HOME movie Luc Besson partnered with a French documentary filmmaker to produce an amazing documentary film that is a strong message sent to humanity: Stop procrastinating and take action now if we, as humans, want to have a future on this planet. The film was released on the Web and on various......
• Could Internet Marketers Save the Human Race? Let me put some perspective on things first. Nobody knows how a new technology will lead us. Heck often times, the darn thing is invented without a specific purpose in mind. It just is. When Arthur Fry the Post-It (TM), he had to distribute massive amounts of them to coworkers,......

• SustainLane's 2008 City Ranking - How Sustainable Is Your City? I know my "city" isn't on here, as we only have a few thousand people here, but your city might be. SustainLane released their 2008 U.S. City Sustainability Rankings, which ranks the 50 most-populous cities on urban sustainability. Their rankings "gauge, for instance, which cities’ public transit, renewable energy,......
• 8 Key Ways to Advance your Corporate Blogging Effort Blogs are mushrooming at the speed of light in this day and age. For this reason, creating a blogging effort for your company can be extremely profitable and rewarding for your company. There is no real start up fees or set up fees that are needed, and starting a blog......
• The Biggest Polluter on the Planet: SEX Thomas Friedman's follow-up to "The World is Flat" is currently slowly integrating it's message into my brain.  "Hot, Flat, and Crowded" preaches the message of the coming problems the world is expected to face in the next generation. Most of his focus is on increased energy demand.  The middle class......

From Costa Rica: Producing bio fuel, it is important  to ensure sustainable crop production that is environmentally and socially effective as well optimized. The Costa Rica News

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• Food import export and the Asian diet In a recent visit to China and South Korea, Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, of course discussed many topics. One topic was Canadian beef import to South Korea. Following the mad cow disease situation, South Korea has banned the import of Canadian beef for past six years. Currently, Asia has......
• The Cost of Oil Last week the barrel of oil had its highest one-day increase ever. Every time that I hear news concerning oil prices, that always makes me realize how dependent we are on oil. I try to imagine how we could get out of that dependency. The thing is, even if the......
• The Evil Liberal Agenda According to the Conservatives, the Liberals have an agenda:  They want to rule the world.  Here are the facts:  Al Gore owns 100% of 100% of all the green companies in the world, on top of donating money to all those non-profit organizations who own large pieces of land that......

• Time To Find Some Environmental News It's difficult to change how we think. It's much easier to go on our lives the easy way, not challenging our thoughts and actions. Real awareness challenges our personal, private thoughts and asks us to look at another way of thinking. It opens our mind to new ideas that......
• Green Building Materials Green Construction is the practice of building in a way that increases efficiency of the use of materials like energy, water and other materials and resources while reducing the impact on human health and the environment during the process of building through more efficient design, site selection, construction, operation, maintenance......
• Healthy Green Alternatives Push Asbestos Out of the Home Today's article is written by Joe Lederman, an Awareness Coordinator at the Mesothelioma Cancer Center. When purchasing or remodeling a home or building, there are many variables to consider. Homes which were built prior to 1980 have a strong likelihood of containing asbestos materials. Asbestos is a fibrous mineral that......

Indigenous knowledge key to sustainable development:

Scientists should not forget to consider the knowledge of natives when it comes to implementing good environmental practices to certain areas. From a blog post in Just Means.

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• Buildings and energy consumption. An interesting article on the architecture 2030 website about energy consumption as it relates to buildings. The article shows three pie charts with the first two showing U.S. energy consumption and the third one showing worldwide energy consumption. Surprisingly, it shows that transportation only accounts for 1% of energy consumption......
• Sustainable Development -- The HOME movie Luc Besson partnered with a French documentary filmmaker to produce an amazing documentary film that is a strong message sent to humanity: Stop procrastinating and take action now if we, as humans, want to have a future on this planet. The film was released on the Web and on various......
• Food import export and the Asian diet In a recent visit to China and South Korea, Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, of course discussed many topics. One topic was Canadian beef import to South Korea. Following the mad cow disease situation, South Korea has banned the import of Canadian beef for past six years. Currently, Asia has......

• Video: Android running on the iPhone Video: Android running on the iPhone by Greg Kumparak on April 21, 2010 Consider my mind blown. There have been a lot of (poorly) faked videos portraying Android running on the iPhone over the last few years. Lots and lots. Like a ridiculous amount. This one’s real. After a hiatus......
• Should You Use Free Blogging Sites? There are certainly many blogging sites online today. It has become the biggest trend in communications for business and for personal reasons. A blog is a wonderful business tool that allows you to build a presence online as an expert in your field and develop a following of loyal readers.......
• What's on my iPhone 4 On twitter, this was the most requested video. Watch to find out what apps/games I use on my iPhone. I demonstrate several of them. For more info about iPhone 4, visit www.apple.com If you like my videos, hit the thumbs up/like button and subscribe to be notified when I......

The Abu Dhabi urban planning council asked helped from the city of Vancouver to help elaborate their their sustainable urban design.  Vancouver’s  co-director of planning, is serving as the emirate’s “special adviser.

The city of Abu Dhabi has requirements that are quite different, mostly heat and drought related.

Among other things, they want to develop more walkable communities.

You can read the full article at “Abu Dhabi Showcases Sustainable Urban Design“.

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• Sustainable development, corporations and public education A large corporation like Home Depot only adopted sustainable development measures following a public outcry and boycotts over the sale of their lumber products. Seeing a threat to their profits, they adopted more ecological and sustainable business practice in order to impove their public image. But, in order for corporations......
• Food import export and the Asian diet In a recent visit to China and South Korea, Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, of course discussed many topics. One topic was Canadian beef import to South Korea. Following the mad cow disease situation, South Korea has banned the import of Canadian beef for past six years. Currently, Asia has......
• Cisco and the future of Internet Video For the past couple of years, an unknown brand has made quite a stir in the cheap video camera market. The Flip video camera is super simple to use. Just press the big red button to start recording and press it again to stop. Then, you simply press to pop......

• Review: Green Design: A Healthy Home Handbook by Alan Berman This latest book by author and architect Alan Berman is written with environmental sustainability in mind. In his book, Berman describes various ways to make the reader's home a more environmentally friendly place to live. The book is teeming with diagrams, simple charts and photographs, enabling users at any level......
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When it comes to the production of clean renewable energy, China took the lead last year with $34.6 billion, leaving the US well behind with only $18.6 billion.

Cleantech, the new buzzwords which describes the development of clean and renewable energy sources such as wind, sun, geothermal as well as biofuel is a growth industry which apparently grows bigger in some countries than others. For example:

Brazil had a good showing with $7.4 billion, some of which went in wind turbines installed on the windy northeast coast of the country.

India had a prety good showing with $2.3 billion. While Japan had a disappointing $800 million.

For more details, you can click on who’s winning the clean energy race blog post.

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• Sustainable Development -- The HOME movie Luc Besson partnered with a French documentary filmmaker to produce an amazing documentary film that is a strong message sent to humanity: Stop procrastinating and take action now if we, as humans, want to have a future on this planet. The film was released on the Web and on various......
• The only problem with politics is the politicians Politicians make me sick. In a recent post, I commented on my disagreement with Cap and Trade, and why it wouldn’t resolve any issues.  All the hoopla and controversy around the upcoming Copenhagen Summit has to do with politicians not agreeing on political issues.  The United States has yet to......
• Copenhagen Summit -- controversial for all the wrong reasons Last June, a group of scientists met up in Copenhagen as part of the preparation for the December summit. They hinted at some bad prognosis in regards to climate change. At the time, I thought that this would be the focus of the December summit: Forcing industrialized nations to put......

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• Introducing The Las Cruces, Green Chamber Of Commerce. Elisa Cundiff works for Energy Concepts, a New Mexico Solar Company. She is also a member of the newly formed, Las Cruces Green Chamber of Commerce. In Las Cruces, New Mexico we have just formed a “Green Chamber of Commerce”, representing the business interests of local, sustainably-minded companies. Already, over......
• Government Rebates For The Energy Ball V200 Electric producing wind turbines, from the Netherlands, are a provocative creation of clean and renewable energy for any homeowner. The Netherlands has for centuries counted on wind power, for centuries using the advancements of their windmills to provide efficiency and improved productivity on farms and manufacturing facilities. Now, in......

A very large version of a stereo lithographic printer is being used to “print” large structures such as sculptures or even houses. The printer uses a mixture of sand with a magnesium based glue that binds the sand into rock.

The inventor claims that his process is four times faster than conventional building, costs one-third to one-half the price of Portland cement and creates very little waste.

See the complete story on the fast company website.

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• Sustainable development and large corporations It is always a good sign when large corporations get on the bandwagon.In this case, the sustainable development bandwagon. There are currently two very different strategies taken large corporations in their drive towards sustainable development: • A “sustainable brand” strategy: Clorox and S.C. Johnson have both chosen to create a......
• The Cost of Oil Last week the barrel of oil had its highest one-day increase ever. Every time that I hear news concerning oil prices, that always makes me realize how dependent we are on oil. I try to imagine how we could get out of that dependency. The thing is, even if the......
• Copenhagen and Third World nations By being just a little smarter and with just a bit more foresight, it could be advantage of Third World. Third World nations feel that first world nations had it good for 200 years and that it gave them an advantage that they are now denied. In fact, it's quite......

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• Apple Locks Horns with Amazon – Writers Writhe in the Middle [/caption]As Apple is getting ready to go head to head against Amazon with it’s much publicized and much hyped iPad, there have been a few issues of contention that is causing much buzz in the writing world. According to the New York Times, Apple has made a deal with Perseus......

A large corporation like Home Depot only adopted sustainable development measures following a public outcry and boycotts over the sale of their lumber products. Seeing a threat to their profits, they adopted more ecological and sustainable business practice in order to impove their public image.

But, in order for corporations to change their ways, it has to hurt on their bottom line and that only occurs when an informed public becomes aware of a situation that needs to be corrected.  Hence the need for a better educated general public.

Other large corporations like Wal Mart have also been made aware of certain of their business practices that needed improvement. Those two large retail chains require their suppliers to also improve their ways. For example, Wal Mart has asked their suppliers to provide less packaging so that there are less garbage generated by all the wrappings.

Educating the public can start in public schools from kinder garden on up but also through various means to educate the adult population as well.

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• Either way, you are right! Whether you think that 1,849 is the number of projects that I have or that project 1,849 itself contains 1,849 projects, either way, you are right. Project 1849 is about the sharing and the dissemination of ideas, information, knowledge. Over the coming months, I will present a multitude of topics......
• Sustainable Development -- The HOME movie Luc Besson partnered with a French documentary filmmaker to produce an amazing documentary film that is a strong message sent to humanity: Stop procrastinating and take action now if we, as humans, want to have a future on this planet. The film was released on the Web and on various......
• Copenhagen and low-carbon investments A little quote from the BusinessGreen website "The potential impact on low-carbon investments of failing to deliver a meaningful deal at the forthcoming Copenhagen Summit was underlined last week with the news that analyst firm Point Carbon is downgrading its long-term price forecasts, primarily as a result of growing uncertainty......

• Wal-mart CEO Gets $22 Million Bonus, Workers Still Get Nothing. And workers still get nothing but crap. From Wal-Mart Watch: Let me get this straight. In 2006, Wal-Mart tallied its worst same-store sales growth in 27 years. The company's stock price has remained stagnant for years. And, public opinion has taken a serious turn for the worse. The company has......
• 50% Of Poll Respondents Chose Wal-Mart As Best Symbol Of America. And if that doesn't spell trouble for the old U. S. of A., then I don't know what does. A massive retail giant that sells crappy goods that most of us don't actually need, that don't last the test of time and need to be replaced often, and that put......
• Greenwash Of The Week: Wal-Mart's Sustainability Index. Honestly, I wasn't going to touch this one. But then I came across a really great article over on CorpWatch titled "Wal-Mart’s (Un)sustainability Index" and, well, I couldn't leave it be without sharing it with you guys. As regular readers know, I am not a fan of the big-box giant,......

A European parliament law states that all new buildings will have to be zero energy.  Meaning that they must produce as much energy than they consume by way of heat pump, solar energy, wind energy  and smart energy management.

You can read the full article All new buildings to be zero energy from 2019 say MEPs.

The new ruling also calls for upgrading the energy performance of existing buildings.

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• Buildings and energy consumption. An interesting article on the architecture 2030 website about energy consumption as it relates to buildings. The article shows three pie charts with the first two showing U.S. energy consumption and the third one showing worldwide energy consumption. Surprisingly, it shows that transportation only accounts for 1% of energy consumption......
• GM files for bankrupcy--the end of the car era ? I wrote a little essay on the future of the automobile,"The end of the car era ?"in it, I talk about how the snootiness and myopic visions of American auto manufacturers led to this current situation. I also talk about whether it is a good thing to keep pushing the......
• Sustainable development and large corporations It is always a good sign when large corporations get on the bandwagon.In this case, the sustainable development bandwagon. There are currently two very different strategies taken large corporations in their drive towards sustainable development: • A “sustainable brand” strategy: Clorox and S.C. Johnson have both chosen to create a......

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Interesting post on the futurepast blog.  Principles of sustainability are given consideration in the planning processes of many governments as well as by the private sector.

A good way to learn of the evolution of sustainable development from the Brundtland Report onward, including  agenda 21.

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• Sustainable development, corporations and public education A large corporation like Home Depot only adopted sustainable development measures following a public outcry and boycotts over the sale of their lumber products. Seeing a threat to their profits, they adopted more ecological and sustainable business practice in order to impove their public image. But, in order for corporations......
• Who else wants more 2009 predictions ? I am notoriously bad at predicting a year ahead because my predictions occur 5 to 20 years later.With the speed of progress, I'd say that whatever I write here shold happen within the next 3-5 years.  Enjoy: Cell phones: on the cover of PC Magazine it says that "PC is......
• The Evil Liberal Agenda According to the Conservatives, the Liberals have an agenda:  They want to rule the world.  Here are the facts:  Al Gore owns 100% of 100% of all the green companies in the world, on top of donating money to all those non-profit organizations who own large pieces of land that......

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