Green Financial Investments from Solar Living

Special Event: Investing for a Green Economy

San Francisco, March 17

Massive investments are required to address the issues of global warming and peak oil, which presents enormous opportunities for both investors and socially-conscious individuals alike. How can we redirect millions of investment dollars towards building a green economy?

Increasing your understanding of the socially responsible financial markets is the first step toward making informed, responsible and effective investments that stimulate positive change. With that knowledge both large and small investors can proactively select investments that build a green economy while meeting and often far surpassing financial goals.

Join cutting edge financial professionals and visionaries in an interactive day that will educate and empower you to re-direct your investment dollars into building a green economy in a financially responsible manner.

This incredible information-packed workshop includes the following presentations:

• How Financial Markets Work
  Rupert Ayton, CEO of the Center for the Development of Social Finance
• Investing in the Private Markets: Venture Capital
  Phil Kranenburg, President of Kranenburg Capital Management
• Green Banking
  Peter Liu, President of New Resource Bank
• Innovations in Social Finance
  Esther Park, Director of Lending Programs at the Rudolf Steiner Foundation
• Local Investment Initiatives
  Don Shafer, Director of Business Alliance for Local Living Economies
• Socially Responsible Stocks & Mutual Funds
  Eric Leenson, Progressive Asset Management

This workshop is suitable for experienced and non-experienced investors, small and large investors, financial professionals, and those wanting more information on responsible investing. Sign up online today for Investing for a Green Economy or call 707-744-2017 and register before March 1 to receive 10% off of the registration price.

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Sierra Club Radio
Sure, we're about as biased as you can get, but we love Sierra Club Radio. We love how easy it is to subscribe to it on our iPods.

We love Orli Cotel's way with an interview. We even love the funky theme music. But we especially love the top-notch guests who've been showing up to talk about all things environmental.

Last Saturday, it was Steven Page of the Bare Naked Ladies, who are going green with their Bare Naked Planet tour by biodiesel bus. And the week before, it was Davis Guggenheim, whose Oscar-nominated film actually turned A.G. into a movie star.

Missed these shows? The good news is you can still hear them online and, if you haven't signed up for the podcast, you can do it with just a click or two here.

So tune in -- coming up next week is an interview with Hollywood's greenest star, Ed Begley, Jr.

Car Talk, EcoTalk

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NRDC Vehicles Policy Director Roland Hwang tells Betsy how when other countries come to the US to talk proactive environmental strategy, they are increasingly bypassing Washington for California: "California and Europe are moving forward together into the future, while Washington seems stuck in the past." Unlike the Bush Administration, which has long used China and India's inaction as an excuse for their own, California and Europe remained undeterred by cynicism or nearsightedness: Mandatory carbon and tailpipe standards in California and Europe promise to transform the automotive industry, and the influential precedents that the world needs will be in place and ready for copy. PART ONE (11 min) Picture Treehugger Title from Boston Globe
Roland also shared with us one of the more succinct and cogent analyses of Ethanol that we have heard: "Not all ethanol is created equal, and if you want to help the environment, you have to use the ethanol in the right way. Here's what I mean...." PART TWO (7 min)

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MIT Launches Sustainable Business Lab

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MIT Launches Sustainable Business Lab Source: GreenBiz.com
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 5, 2007 -- A future marred by stronger storms, rising sea levels and a dramatic increase in global temperatures unless stronger efforts are made to reduce carbon emissions is depicted in the new report by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. But with today's business models generating tremendous strain on the environment, how can free-market capitalism be reconciled with the need for more sustainable business practices? MIT Sloan School of Management is responding with the launch of its new Laboratory for Sustainable Business (S-Lab) on February 7, 2007. S-Lab is the latest in new, experimental curricula debuting at MIT Sloan, which includes, among others, Conversations with Jack Welch and the Entrepreneurship & Innovation Certificate Program. "As a world leader in business, engineering and science, MIT is uniquely positioned to define the risks and opportunities involved in creating sustainability-based business models for the future," says MIT Sloan Prof. Richard Locke, one of six leading professors at the business school who collaborated in the creation of the course. S-Lab recognizes climate change as one of the most daunting challenges mankind faces in creating a sustainable society, says Locke. "A critical issue for global warming is the ways in which the risks are communicated, and the framing of the solutions, both for specific organizations and for communities," he says. "S-Lab will teach future CEOs and business leaders the challenges of implementation and how the science of sustainability can be best communicated to policymakers and citizens." Key to addressing sustainability, says Locke, is in re-defining it. "Up until now we have considered aspects of sustainability -- climate, energy, water, food, poverty, and social development -- in isolation," he says. "S-Lab is developing an integrated framework to consider the system-wide dynamics of human society along with tools and methodologies for measuring and monitoring sustainability efforts and their applications." Interactive computer-based simulations will enable students to play the role of entrepreneurs seeking to maximize their profits investing in companies that impact the environment. In the process, students will experience first hand the challenges of applying renewable resources within the framework of existing policies and business models. They will then have the opportunity to experiment with re-shaping these external factors in a manner that promotes both sustainability and the bottom line. In another exercise, S-Lab will look at an attempt by Conoco-Phillips, Inc. to win an oil development contract in Ecuador's tropical rain forest. The students will examine what choices can minimize ecological disruption and restore

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