The WHO reports on global health threats, lighting up Africa, and executives without borders.

September 11, 2007

Earth Trends: Environmental Information

• World Health Report 2007 Highlights Global Health Threats. September 7, 2007. Effectively preventing and responding to new and emerging public health risks will require enhanced international cooperation and transparency.

New Ventures

• Solar IPOs and Sustainable Enterprise in China. The China Environment Fund’s Steven Guo explains what two recent exits mean for green business growth. September 5, 2007.

NextBillion.net: Development Through Enterprise

• Business With Four Billion Conference - Day 1. September 9, 2007.
• Lighting Africa: It's Time for the 'Dark Continent' to Begin to Shine! September 7, 2007.
• Executives Sans Frontières - Executives Without Borders. September 6, 2007.
• The 100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability. September 5, 2007.
• New Paper: Advancing the "Base of the Pyramid" Debate. September 5, 2007.

Environmental News

• The Boston Globe. September 11, 2007. For buyers, carbon labels tap into worry on warming. Timberland is among a growing number of companies seeking to capitalize on consumers' growing concern about climate change by developing "carbon labels" for everything from shoes to shampoo.

• News.com.au. September 11, 2007. Sales to bloom as firms turn green. Technology giants are splashing their sales spiels with green and charging into alliances that promote power reduction technology for data centres and computer equipment.

• The Earth Charter Initiative. September 10, 2007. Find the right carbon calculator for you! When considering the question of "Ethics and Climate Change", perhaps the first thing to do is to calculate your own personal contribution to greenhouse gas emissions.

• McClatchy Newspapers. September 8, 2007. As Brazil's rain forest burns down, planet heats up As vast tracts of rain forest are cleared, Brazil has become the world’s fourth-largest producer of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming, after the United States, China and Indonesia.

• Associated Content. September 7, 2007. Federal Climate Change Policies Can Be Influenced by State Policies.

• AgoraVox.com. September 7, 2007. Energy poverty and political vision. The delivery of affordable, reliable and sustainable power to citizens is one of the key challenges of the 21st century. Alejandro Litovsky reflects on the importance of political leadership in addressing an acute global problem.