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New Zealand Herald, 9 June 2009 Privately-owned New Zealand businesses score poorly compared to overseas counterparts in their willingness to spend money on environmentally-friendly practices that hurt the bottom line.

New Zealand Herald, 8 June 2009 A High Court decision to block applications to import and develop genetically engineered material has been hailed as a landmark by GE-Free New Zealand.

Written by Katie Fehrenbacher, 14 April 2009 from earth2tech Thanks to funds from the stimulus package and renewed attention to energy savings, 2009 is the year companies are planning to launch wireless energy dashboards that will sit in your home, monitor energy data from your…

Katie Fehrenbacher, 3 June 2009 U.S. carbon regulation is looming, but many large publicly traded companies will be caught with their pants down. According to a report from the not-for-profit Investor Responsibility Research Center Institute (IRRCi) and research company Trucost, a good 66 percent of…

Hideyoshi Kume, Nikkei Electronics, 2 June 2009 The Japan Franchise Association (JFA) announced its plans to introduce solar power generation systems and electric vehicles at convenience stores as part of its measures against global warming.

Tetsuo Nozawa, Nikkei Electronic, 29 May 2009 DuPont Displays Inc announced that it developed new OLED materials designed for coating process. They are the company’s third-generation OLED materials. Among them, a green light-emitting material has a luminance half-life of more than one million hours when…

New Zealand Herald, 01 June 2009 Australia’s first television glass recycling plant is calling for Kiwis’ old tellies, as environmental organisations on both sides of the Tasman try to stem the flow of toxic TVs to rubbish dumps. Increasing numbers of people are dumping lead-containing…

GoodCleanTech, 18 May 2009 “We don’t want to be clean energy followers worldwide, we want to be clean energy leaders worldwide,” Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says. And as one of the first steps to gain recognition as a leader in clean energy, Australia announced…

It just happened that I had to make myself familar with the Kyoto Protocol and it’s implications for New Zealand. If you are interested in it, a good resource is at The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade website: http://www.mfat.govt.nz/Treaties-and-International-Law/03-Treaty-making-process/National-Interest-Analyses/0-Kyoto-Protocol-Part-I.php

GoodCleanTech, 15 May 2009 Japanese shipping line Nippon Yusen KK (NYK) made headlines during the third quarter of 2008 for announcing the company’s investment in the development of a solar-powered cargo ship. The significance of the announcement lies in the fact that NYK was planning…