EarthTrends: Environmental Information
- Growing Carbon Offset Retail Market Provides Path to Individual Emissions Reductions. Consumers worldwide can now buy offsets from more than 30 companies to compensate for the carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases (GHGs) they emit in their day-to-day activities.
New Ventures: Creating Sustainable Enterprise
- Rising Ventures: BK Environmental Innovations. With plastic cutlery sales growing by 20-30% every year, the founder of BK Environmental Innovations recognized both a serious environmental challenge, and a market opportunity to create a viable substitute: edible cutlery.
NextBillion.net: Development Through Enterprise
- Indian Education: Missing Markets, New Opportunities. The education sector–once seen as the exclusive obligation of the governments and NGOs–is now an opportunity for research and private investment.
- 4th Investor Forum is Just the Tip of the Iceberg for Green Entrepreneurship in China. The New Ventures Investor Forum in Beijing showcased concrete examples of sustainable entrepreneurs sweeping China’s private sector.
Environmental News
- The Huffington Post. June 11, 2007. Is Water a Human Right? Marc Gunther argues that maybe we’d be better off if we thought about water as a business opportunity.
- Chicago Tribune. June 11, 2007. Mexico Taking a Lead Role in Global Warming Fight. With developing nations responsible for 73% of emissions growth between 2000 and 2004, Mexican officials say they hope to illustrate that these countries can voluntarily attack global warming without jeopardizing their fragile economies.
- Hartford Courant. June 10, 2007. Shifting Gears on Fuel Standards.
- BBC News. Switching On to Nanogeneration.
- Nature. June 7, 2007. Post-Kyoto Pact: Shaping the Successor.
