The WRI Weekly Roundup
October 2, 2007
Earth Trends: Environmental Information
- The Most Polluted Cities in the World. September 28, 2007. Earlier this month, the Blacksmith Institute's Polluted Places Initiative released an unranked list of the 10 most polluted cities in the world. More than 400 cities were nominated and evaluated for this dubious honor.
NextBillion.net: Development Through Enterprise
- Sattva: Raising Equilibrium in Social Change. October 1, 2007.
- Solutions That Sustain. October 1, 2007.
Environmental News
Bottom of the Pyramid- Political Affairs. September 28, 2007. Latin America's Process of Economic and Social Stabilization. Few critics would deny that in 2006 the economy of Latin America and the Caribbean reported growth performance at the highest rate since the 1970s.
- TMCnet. September 24, 2007. World Technology: Targeting the World's Poor. With markets slowing in rich, industrialised countries, technology suppliers are looking to emerging markets for their real growth opportunities and many of them are going back to the drawing board.
- Triple Pundit. September 25, 2007. Businesses "Come to Grips" with Carbon Management: Interview with Kyle Tanger. Sustainability consulting firm Natural Logic has announced it will present a four-part webinar series.
- Dow Jones Market Watch. September 26, 2007. Ecuador's Yasuni-ITT Proposal Recognized at the Clinton Global Initiative. The Ecuadorian proposal, "Leaving Ecuador's Oil in the Ground," which seeks to avoid carbon emissions and save the Yasuni Rainforest has been selected from among close to a thousand other proposals.
- Financial Times (New Zealand). September 29, 2007. As Brazil's Rain Forest Burns Down, the Planet Heats Up. Slash-and-burn agriculture has helped millions of farmers and ranchers scratch out a living from the forest, but it's put Brazil at the heart of the environmental challenge of the century.
- Electronic House. September 25, 2007. Support the Environment -- Buy A/V. Panasonic is donating 5 percent of consumers' online purchases to three environmental organizations.
- Global Envision. September 28, 2007. China's Eco-entrepreneurs. The Chinese environmental movement has taken great strides -- and made great progress -- in combating the harms of rapid development.
- TMCnet. September 25, 2007. Eleventh Annual Miami herald Americas Conference Focuses on Free Trade. A panel on business and philanthropy discussed the emerging trend of addressing social issues by uniting charitable goals with the strategies of private equity investors.
- Chesapeake Bay Journal. October 2007. NOAA Report Finds Most Coastal Areas Suffer From Excess Nutrients. The vast majority of the nation's estuarine waters suffer from excess nutrients, and most are predicted to worsen by 2020 as populations in coastal areas continue to swell, according to a recent report.