By: amita charan
Green computing or green IT, refers to environmentally sustainable computing or IT. It is “the study and practice of designing, manufacturing, using, and disposing of computers, servers, and associated subsystems—such as monitors, printers, storage devices, and networking and communications systems—efficiently and effectively with minimal or no impact on the environment. Green IT also [...]
By: Gail
“Recently my stepdaughter was at the end of an English lesson and the teacher asked what she had next. When mathematics was mentioned, the teacher indicated that maths was a tough subject and not really what a person doing English should be studying.” This anecdote from Professor Peter Main, director of education and science [...]
By: Adam Singleton
There can be little doubt that one of the most hotly debated topics in recent years has been the environment – and to what extent human activity over the past century has contributed to global warming.
Indeed, there is still some dispute as to whether recent climate change patterns are entirely down to the [...]
By: Aarkstore Enterprise
Aarkstore announce a new report “Top Ten Global Energy Trends in 2010″ through its vast collection of market research report.
Summary
The leading business intelligence provider, has released its latest research “Top Ten Global Energy Trends in 2010” The study, which is an offering from the company’s Energy Research Group, provides an analysis of the [...]
By: Tyler Green
Why cap-and-trade instead of a carbon tax?
(Abhishek Uppal)
Some local governments (e.g. Boulder, Colorado, USA; British Columbia, Canada) and early-action countries (Sweden, Finland, and Netherlands in the 1990s) have implemented carbon taxes. Over time, however, a cap-and-trade orientation has begun to dominate policy approaches.
In simple terms, a cap-and-trade sets a target for emissions in [...]
By: Kh. Atiar Rahman
There is no denying the fact just before the emergence of Bangladesh in the middle of 1970; the intact Western globe materialize to have moved into the essence of managerial as well as Financial reforms. Moreover, these restructuring policies actually demonstrate to show up certain general features. They all tend to be [...]
By: Konstantin Barkoukis
Albania is a South Eastern Balkan country situated on the eastern Adriatic Coast in Europe. The country borders the former Yugoslav provinces of Montenegro, FYR-Macedonia, Serbia and Greece to the South. The capital is Tirana. (The World Bank Group, 2009).Personal foreign direct investment (FDI) interest in Albania is derived from closely monitoring Albania’s [...]
By: CISSE DAOUDA
INTRODUCTION Marketing is about selling people more. So can sustainable marketing really work?- Marketing comprises a set of skills that generally enable companies to sell more stuff to more people to get a greater share of the market. These skills are usually portable: it doesn’t matter what’s being sold to whom in what marketplace. [...]
By: Andrew Burger
It stands to reason that governments around the world are looking to expand their use of nuclear energy in coming years given the potentially catastrophic effects of climate change and the current international focus on reducing carbon dioxide greenhouse gas emissions. More than 130 new nuclear power plants are under construction worldwide and [...]
By: Michael Quinn
In an attempt to attract greater foreign investment to Australia the Federal Government has recently doubled the current foreign investment thresholds.Current legislation dictates that foreign investors looking to purchase a share of 15% or more interest in an asset valued at $100 million or more must apply to the Foreign Investment Review Board [...]
By: Art Harchenko
Why move your business Offshore:For a small or medium-sized company based in a high-tax area and without an extensive network of senior (and expensive) advisers, it is not easy to know how to approach the idea of offshore e-commerce. Just the idea of e-commerce itself is sufficiently challenging at first, if a company [...]
By: Yvonne Nana Afua Idun
This incident needs to make Africans realise that there is the need to depart from the dependency syndrome of relying on developed countries to help Africa resolveits economic problems and issues relating to sustainable development. Although someassistance might be necessary in this regard, African countries need to empower themselves at national, [...]
By: Jayanthi&aleeswari
TOURISM – A FIGHT AGAINST POVERTY Creating Jobs and WealthPoverty alleviation has become an essential condition for peace, environmental conservation and sustainable development, besides being an ethical obligation in an affluent world, where the divide between poor and rich nations seems to have increased in recent years. There is a stronger evidence that tourism [...]
By: Bharat Book Bureau
Top Ten Global Energy Trends in 2010 The study, which is an offering from the company’s Energy Research Group, provides an analysis of the key challenges and potential short term trends in the global energy sector during 2010. The major areas of focus include impact of the financial crisis and the after effects [...]