The Sustainability Journal Vikram R Chari Volume 2011 Issue 57

How will your company’s own sustainability story stand out from the crowd?  http://fb.me/14jUSGFxP

In spite of cost, eco-impact and health woes, America is chowing down on more burgers than ever before. http://bit.ly/pfr2mq

This is pretty cool! MIT generates photovoltaic power without sunlight http://t.co/e6Lrr0q Solar for Vampires: MIT Creating Low-Cost 24/7 Solar Power http://bit.ly/pfjAko

CEO of ConEdison Solutions: Debt Ceiling Crisis May Hamper Greener Energy-http://www.cnbc.com/id/43971315  

Cree Demos Impressive 152 Lumens Per Watt LED Bulb Concept: http://jgrn.co/mQlVd9

Fastcompany explains why you should learn to love the #smartgrid http://bit.ly/nUOCsg

Green groups launch blistering attack on US debt deal http://bit.ly/nbCXnt

GOP Investigating Obama’s New Fuel Economy Rules http://bit.ly/qQDayZ

Is Raising the Debt Ceiling Economically Sustainable? http://bit.ly/nHm63L

Top VC: We’ve got bigger problems than Europe vs USAhttp://ow.ly/1e4fSU

Illegal Road Built Through Protected Wetlands for Unapproved $500 Million Coal Terminal http://ow.ly/1e4gik

Chart: Defense Cuts in Debt Deal Are Not the Security Threat We Should Be Worrying About  http://bit.ly/nhd0m8

Shanghai Stock Exchange to Launch Index for Low-Carbon Companies http://grn.bz/puo2c6

Green Economy and Green Jobs in China: Current Status and Potentials for 2020 report by @WorldwatchInst http://bit.ly/naKQ4Z

Chinese Government Announces Solar Feed-In-Tariff Prices: China's National Development and Reform Commission. http://bit.ly/odscel

How GRI Can Bring the Other 90% of Companies to the CSR Table http://grn.bz/pzXuSd

How to Tell Your Sustainability Story: the Messier the Better http://ow.ly/1e3Tub

Update on EPRI's Smart Grid Demo Initiative http://bit.ly/pFFqNK

South African soldiers battle rhino poachers in Kruger green http://yhoo.it/oJprqo

Australia's New Energy Regime http://bit.ly/oZamgd

Smart grid platform player gets ARRA loan http://bit.ly/oVJ5dm

EnergyAxis Today we announce with our partners, the formation of the Smart Grid Voltage Conservation Alliance (SGVCA) learn more: http://bit.ly/ogrF1M

Huge energy company profits, and huge subsidies. http://nyti.ms/qyDE6L

Why shutting down 800 federal data centers won’t be easy http://bit.ly/pNqWr9

Virtual store enables commuters in Seoul to multitask while waiting http://smrt.io/nRrnlS

Protesters Continue To Block Mountaintop Removal At Coal River green http://bit.ly/p50ixW

Green: Japanese Amateurs Track Radiation http://bit.ly/qGqGqF

Forget fighting off scurvy. Orange juice can power billboards. That's some juicy biofuel.  http://bit.ly/rfoYX9

Green: Why Climate Scientists Are So Perturbed http://bit.ly/qHfTkU

Tube City: A Sustainable Water-Purifying City for Delhi http://bit.ly/oAuele

Scientists name world's most important marine conservation hotspots green  http://bit.ly/oBvyQb

Ambient Corporation Announces Listing on NASDAQ http://ow.ly/5SXEu

Singapore agencies, Panasonic partner for green public housing - eco-business.com  http://t.co/DUC1xhy

Show me the money: How Energy Efficiency Financing makes dollars and sense  http://wp.me/p1m45A-4Y

Vattenfall slots final REpower wind turbine into place at Ormonde http://bit.ly/qVYYcA

Sustainability Due Diligence... Over Coffee http://t.co/GDUQrxs

UK slipping as European attitudes on sustainability improves http://t.co/Me0QW9o

Thames Water's solar partner warns utility's £7m PV plans are "at risk" http://bit.ly/nTABdJ

Solar Powered EV Chargers Keep SolarCity One Step Ahead of the Pack http://bit.ly/rnCyn6

SOCAP11 Convenes Hundreds of Global Innovators from 75 Countries to Confer, Partner & Shape the ...http://bit.ly/ndmaP6  sustainability

Aerosols affect climate more than satellite estimates predict green http://bit.ly/nZWgGz

Applications: the Missing Link in Data Center Efficiency http://ow.ly/1e3YWb A sneak peek into Google’s servers and energy efficiency http://ow.ly/1e471B Data Center Power Use Drops as Green IT, Recession Take Effect http://grn.bz/nT8mjZ Report: data centers accounted for just 1 to 1.5 percent of electricity use last year, Google claims less than http://engt.co/puQMWm

Celebrities endorsing green…this is when it becomes real for middle America  http://bit.ly/pmBmGo

UPS takes its role as a green supply chain seriously http://grn.bz/mPwyWR

Trip to rainforest yields new way to degrade plastic http://tw.physorg.com/231498158

Gunter Pauli - Rethinking Energy Production with the Blue Economy green  http://bit.ly/okqDTr

The CFO is Important to Sustainability http://ow.ly/5T8WL - @CSRware supports the CFO champion who wants to measure what they manage.

Solar Market Snapshot: Four Videos, Five Experts and One Story To Make Sense Of Them All: For Intersolar North ... http://bit.ly/rpoGyl

The importance of social for greentech http://ow.ly/1e43vY

Fuel cell makers eye data centers http://dlvr.it/dYX4Y

New post at SciAmBlogs: Building knowledge (and stuff) ethically: the principles of “Green Chemistry”. http://t.co/8Z7O2cI

Is a NABCEP Certification Really Necessary?: My first encounter with NABCEP (North American Board of Certified ... http://bit.ly/oMZ0Fg

Federal Energy Efficiency Legislation Slowly Moving Forward, but Will the Clock Run Out?  http://ow.ly/1e471y

Which Brands Do Consumers Think Are Greenest? http://ow.ly/1e471A

Alternate Energy Choices and Challenges in Vermont http://ow.ly/1e471C

INTERVIEW: We Talk Hemp with South African Materials Expert Tony Budden  http://bit.ly/qXlCdX

Here is one more totally awesome reason that we should be switching out incandescent lamps for LED light bulbs: http://bit.ly/nQ8dPH

Timberland keeps stretching with ambitious 2015 csr http://grn.bz/pYM7Uc

Online document management = sustainability for smaller businesses http://smrt.io/rm1ROW

GRI is taking a very strategic approach to advancing sustainability reporting in the U.S. and it sounds as though. http://fb.me/1bufawpil

Four Ways to Make Smart Meters Work for Customers: The California Public Utility Commission adopted rules on. http://bit.ly/r9kz9H

TX grid operator issues another call for conservation this afternoon; wholesale prices shooting up again above $1,000 http://t.co/CPBMtfs

Barclays to help fund K Road's solar power projects http://bit.ly/nnfdGT

Could a Carbon Tax Emerge from the Debt Ceiling Crisis? - Photo: thewritingzone, Flickr/CC BY-SA So, the Senate has... http://ow.ly/1e4iHQ

Stakeholder Engagement in Mining Operations http://ow.ly/1e4iHP

ECB's Weber: Tough part still ahead in debt marathon - Reuters.

Debt is the millstone around the neck of all the industrialized world - starting from the Americas to Europe to Japan. The world would be better off with debt discipline - do not leverage more than you can pay in a reasonable time frame.

(Reuters) - ECB policymaker Axel Weber said on Monday that debt-strained euro zone countries must make the most of the breathing space bought by aid measures and warned them the hardest part of the reform process was still ahead.

Weber, who earlier this month said he was stepping down from the Bundesbank and ruled himself out of the running to become the next ECB president, compared the austerity drives by countries like Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain to running a marathon.

"The fiscal stabilization measures (of EU/IMF) have bought time. Time that has to be used," Weber said in a speech to be given at the Nordrhein Westfaelischen Academy of Economics and Arts in Duesseldorf.

"If compared to a marathon the problem countries have made it through perhaps the first 10 or 15 kilometers. In my experience of running these kind of distances I can say that the most painful moments come at a later point in time."

Weber added that the euro remained a stable currency and said the euro zone debt crisis was down to over-spending by individual countries rather than a fundamental problem with the single currency.

Countries that need to repair their finances need to make the choice of going through the necessary pain or else accept they will have to pay higher borrowing costs on financial markets, he said.

There was also a message to euro zone politicians to bring in tough new debt rules when they finalize details of the region's post-2013 fiscal safety net in the next couple of months.

"Aid should be tied to a strict consolidation program. In my view it should be seen positively, the aid should only be given after a unanimous decision by those countries providing the help that it should have preference over the rest of the sovereign debt except for IMF credits," he said.