BS: Green Economics

Subject: RE: BS: Green Economics
From: CarolC
Date: 01 Oct 08 - 07:35 PM

http://fora.tv/2008/08/29/Slow_Food_Nation_Re-Localizing_Food

Slow Food Nation is an effort to help people get more nutritional and tasty food while at the same time helping the environment.

Subject: RE: BS: Green Economics
From: GUEST,Jim Martin
Date: 01 Oct 08 - 07:29 AM

refresh

Subject: RE: BS: Green Economics
From: GUEST,Jim Martin
Date: 30 Sep 08 - 08:00 AM

Went to a very interesting meeting entitled 'Transition Towns' in my county town of Ennis last night:

http://www.transitiontowns.org/

This has got to be the way forward, it seems to be the only glimmer of light in a very dark time!

Subject: RE: BS: Green Economics
From: Alice
Date: 27 Sep 08 - 08:06 PM

"Rocky Mountain Institute ® (RMI) is a nonprofit organization that fosters the efficient and restorative use of resources so that companies, governments and organizations are more efficient, make more money and do less harm to the environment. RMI is engaged in cutting-edge research on oil independence, renewable energy technologies, distributed energy, resource planning, green buildings and radically efficient transportation."

http://www.rmi.org/

Subject: RE: BS: Green Economics
From: Alice
Date: 27 Sep 08 - 08:03 PM

Get a "green" career online.
http://mtgreen.mus.edu/ Montana Green Campus

Subject: RE: BS: Green Economics
From: CarolC
Date: 27 Sep 08 - 02:02 PM

Mortgage lenders probably aren't very friendly to the idea of composting toilets, either, I'm guessing.

Subject: RE: BS: Green Economics
From: Alice
Date: 27 Sep 08 - 01:11 PM

The mortgage lender explained to me that in Montana, at least, if a building owner wants to build something that is independent from the electric grid, i.e. powered by solar or wind, then it is not as easy to get financing for the mortgage because of regulations that require electric utility lines to be run to the building from the local electric company.

Subject: RE: BS: Green Economics
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 27 Sep 08 - 11:33 AM

Alice, you you explain how this works now vis a vis mortgages ?

Subject: RE: BS: Green Economics
From: Alice
Date: 27 Sep 08 - 11:29 AM

In the print yellow pages business, we have a new heading "Contractors - Green Building". In talking to a customer who does mortgage contracts, he described to me how the financing right now is structured to be a deterent to off-the-grid buildings. We have to change the way mortgages are financed, too, in order to promote green building.

Subject: RE: BS: Green Economics
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 27 Sep 08 - 11:20 AM

Carol, thank you for posting the above, very interesting information. On another note; As a guest I have never understood the rule regarding guest postings. It seems like a for of censorship that disallows a wide range of debate and discussion. Last week I wished to start a thread on bookshops in New York as I am going there on holiday. I realized that , as guest, I could not pose this innocent question. This seems, to me at least, to guarantee that only a small group may determine what subjects are acceptable. There may be very good reasons why one may not wish to be a member, so signing up is not always an option. Just my thoughts on the subject.

Subject: RE: BS: Green Economics
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 26 Sep 08 - 07:34 PM

Jim - the Mudcat Posting" policy change is outlined here....
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: Green Economics
From: Sorcha
Date: 26 Sep 08 - 06:20 PM

Actually, the new rule is that Guest posters can't start BS threads. Just join up Jim. It's painless.

Subject: RE: BS: Green Economics
From: CarolC
Date: 26 Sep 08 - 06:11 PM

They changed them a couple of months ago, I think. They're encouraging people who post regularly to become members. For people who can't log on every time they post (because they're posting from a work place that doesn't allow cookies or whatever), I think they would allow someone to start a thread as a guest as long as that person had a membership.

Subject: RE: BS: Green Economics
From: GUEST,Jim Martin
Date: 26 Sep 08 - 08:29 AM

Thanks for that 'CarolC'as I was the original poster.

When did the rules change, I hadn't heard, I thought I was OK as I always post my name?

Subject: BS: Green Economics
From: CarolC
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 05:06 PM

A thread on this subject was started by someone who is not allowed to start threads under the current rules pertaining to guests, but I think it's a very worthwhile subject, so here's what's been posted so far...

This is the link posted by the other poster...

http://www.greeneconomics.org.uk/


This was what I added to the thread...


Here's some more links on this subject. My son has decided to get an MBA in sustainable business. He's still figuring out which school he wants to go to. He said there's only two or three schools in the US that have that kind of MBA program, but it looks like a few more have sprung up since he started looking. This field is really taking off (and thank goodness for that).

Articles...

http://www.greenbiz.com/column/2006/12/02/rethinking-role-mba

http://www.planetizen.com/node/17805

http://www.triplepundit.com/pages/greenbiz-sustainable-mba-colum-002602.php

http://www.greenbiz.com/news/2005/10/19/survey-stanford-tops-list-sustainable-mba-programs

http://www.ehow.com/how_2107439_get-sustainable-agriculture-mba.html

http://www.sustainableindustries.com/sijnews/17287629.html


Some schools (I'm sure there's some in countries other than the US, but they didn't come up in the first few pages of my search)...

http://mba.sustainability.duq.edu/?gclid=CKnh6ovr9pUCFRhhnAodgA7b3w

http://www.bgiedu.org/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/

http://www.greenmtn.edu/graduate_studies/mba/

http://www.presidiomba.org/

http://greenmba.com/

http://www.kenan-flagler.unc.edu/ki/cse/newmbasec.cfm

http://www.mum.edu/mba/