Posted in IT, ambiente, cooperation, cooperazione, ecologia, ecology, ecosostenibilità, energia, energy, enviroment, green, health, international organization, network, ngo, ong, pace, peace, resource, risorse, salute, security, sustainability, technology, tagged agassi, auto, automobili, battery, better place, car, cars, ecologia, ecology, ecosostenibilità, electric car, energia, energy, exchangeable battery, network, nissan, oil, renault, renewable, renewable energy, renewable fuels, shai agassi, sustainability, sustainable energy, transport, transportation, zero emission on March 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Better Place is a project of Shai Agassi, he said a mission, to achieve sustainable transportation, global energy independence and freedom from oil. Better Place does not makes cars but embraces a joint venture with Nissan – Renault which are building zero-emission electric cars and exchangeable batteries.
Better Place network will provide [...]
Posted in cooperation, lobby, media, ngo, ong, pace, peace, people, politic, politica, security, sicurezza, society, società, sustainability, tagged batory, central european, ceu, charities, charity, civil society, communism, democracy, democrazia, diritti umani, eastern europe, est, europa, filantropia, fondazione, fondi, foundation, funding, george soros, human rights, independent media, movements, movimenti, no profit, open society, open society institute, OSI, partecipazione, participation, reform, revolution, riforme, rivoluzioni colorate, rivouluzioni, soros, soviet union, studenti, students, sviluppo, transition, transizione, università, university on February 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Open Society Institute (OSI), a private operating and grantmaking foundation, aims to shape public policy to promote democratic governance, human rights, and economic, legal, and social reform. On a local level, OSI implements a range of initiatives to support the rule of law, education, public health, and independent media. At [...]
Posted in ambiente, cooperation, cooperazione, ecologia, ecology, ecosostenibilità, enviroment, green, resource, risorse, sustainability, technology, tagged ambiente, ecologia, ecology, ecosostenibilità, enviroment, green, risparmio, save, spare, technology on February 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
SPRANQ creates ecofont: “Appealing ideas are often simple: how much of a letter can be removed while maintaining readability? After extensive testing with all kinds of shapes, the best results were achieved using small circles. After lots of late hours this resulted in a font that uses up to 20% less ink. Free to download, [...]
Posted in ambiente, ecologia, ecology, ecosostenibilità, enviroment, health, resource, risorse, salute, society, società, sustainability, tagged agricoltore, agricoltura, biologico, cibo, cost, ecologia, ecologico, farmer, farmers' markets, farmland, farms, filiera corta, grande distribuzione, green, greenmarkets, inquinamento, km 0, locale, locally-grown, market, mercati del contadino, mercato, natural, naturale, naturally, piccole imprese, piccoli agricoltori, pmi, production, qualità, risparmio, sano, spesa, stagionalità, sustainability, territorio, wholesale on December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Farmers’ markets, sometimes called greenmarkets, are markets, usually held out-of-doors, in public spaces, where farmers can sell produce to the public.
Farmers’ market produce is renowned for being locally-grown and very fresh. People argue farmers’ markets allow farmers to pick produce at the peak of flavor, preserve the nutritional content of fresh [...]
Posted in cooperation, ecosostenibilità, internet, ngo, ong, people, resource, solidarietà, solidarity, sustainability, tagged aiuto, beneficienza, capital, connect people, cooperation, cooperazione, denaro, developing countries, developing world, donate, donations, donazioni, ecosostenibilità, enterpreneur, enterpreneurs, field partners, finanziatori, fund, help, imprenditori, investimento, istituti di microcredito, kiva, lend, lender, lending, loan, loans, mcrocredito, micro-lending, microcredito, microfinance, microfinance istitutions, microfunds, money, ngo, no profit, ong, paesi in via di sviluppo, partnerships, paypal, people, piccola impresa, piccoli imprenditori, poverty, prestare, prestito, small business, sustainable development, sustanaibility, sviluppo, sviluppo sostenibile on November 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Kiva Microfunds is an organization that allows people to lend money via the Internet to microfinance institutions in developing countries which in turn lend the money to small businesses. It is a 501(c) non-profit organization headquartered in San Francisco, supported by donations from its users and through partnerships with businesses and [...]
Posted in ambiente, cooperation, ecologia, ecology, ecosostenibilità, energia, energy, enviroment, green, health, people, resource, risorse, salute, science, society, sustainability, tagged calculator, earth, ecologia, ecology, ecosostenibilità, ecosystem, footprint, human, impronta, index, indice, measurament, misura, regeneration, rifiuti, rigenerare, test, waste, welfare on November 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The ecological footprint is a measure of human demand on the Earth’s ecosystems. It compares human demand with planet Earth’s ecological capacity to regenerate it. It represents the amount of biologically productive land and sea area needed to regenerate the resources a human population consumes and to absorb and render harmless the corresponding waste, given [...]
Posted in ambiente, ecologia, ecology, ecosostenibilità, enviroment, resource, risorse, science, sustainability, tagged clima, CO2, ecologia, effetto serra, IPCC, nature, riscaldamento on May 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Nature ha pubblicato uno studio tedesco secondo cui nei prossimi 10 anni avremo una temporanea diminuzione delle temperature dovuta al raffreddamento delle correnti atlantiche, evento che avviene naturalmente ogni 60-70 anni. In termini di tempi del pianeta dieci anni non sono che un battito di ciglia, dal 2020 le temperature riprenderanno a salire come previsto [...]
