I realised today that I hadn’t posted about Welectricity’s success in the GE Ecomagination challenge. So here it is: Welectricity, an innovative, award-winning social network that helps users track and reduce their electricity consumption at home, has been named by GE as one of the 10 award-winners of their global Ecomagination Smart Grid Challenge. In [...]
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vacancy: deputy executive director, caribbean regional fisheries mechanism secretariat
Via the IUCN Caribbean Initiative comes news of a vacancy in the CRFM Secretariat: Applications are invited from interested and suitably qualified nationals of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Member States and Associate Members of the Caribbean Community to fill the abovementioned position in the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) Secretariat with assigned duty station in St. [...]
conserving “epicentres of imminent extinction” in the caribbean
One of the big pieces of environmental news in recent days has been the success of negotiations (see also) at the 10th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity. According to Reuters news agency: Nearly 200 nations agreed on Saturday to a sweeping plan to stem the loss of species by setting [...]
whaling in st. vincent and the grenadines, a tradition that must go
In this lengthy piece for Caribbean News Now, Paul Lewis argues that it’s time for the whale hunting tradition in St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) to end: I believe that whaling in Vincentian waters should be phased out as soon as possible. We all recognize 150 years of a whaling tradition; the development of [...]
welectricity is a “green game-changer”
A couple of days ago I received an e-mail with the news that WWF-UK has acclaimed Welectricity as a “green game-changer”: Welectricity, an innovative, award-winning social network that helps users track and reduce their electricity consumption at home, has been listed by UK-based WWF as a “Green Game-Changer” in their recently launched sustainable innovation initiative. [...]
