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SEC Charges Four in ‘Green’ Investment Ponzi Scheme

Posted by Environmental Leader on 19/11/2009

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged four people in connection with an alleged $30 million Ponzi scheme that targeted more than 300 elderly and near retirement age investors who were seeking environmentally-friendly investments, reports the Philadelphia Business Journal.T ...

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Nike Tops Annual Climate Action Scores

Posted by Environmental Leader on 18/11/2009

Nike has topped Climate Counts’ third annual corporate climate performance scorecard with 83 points (out of a possible 100) for the second year in a row. Stoneyfield Farm followed closely with 81 points. Unilever received 80 points. The climate performance scorecard ranks 90 companies in 12 ...

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Queen's Speech: Bankers' bonuses had nothing to do with the financial crisis

Posted by Alex Singleton on 18/11/2009

Will Gordon Brown use the Queen’s Speech to fix Britain’s financial problems? No, of course not. Instead, he’ll use it was a way to scapegoat bankers, blaming their bonuses for the financial crisis, which was mostly of his causing.In fact, bankers’ bonuses – whatever yo ...

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Mafia Ties to Wind Fraud in Italy Investigated

Posted by Environmental Leader on 17/11/2009

Italian finance police have arrested two prominent businessmen — including one with ties to a former investor in the Cape Wind project in Nantucket — in the wind energy sector on charges of fraud. Arrested were Oreste Vigorito, head of the IVPC energy company and president of Italy ...

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‘Green’ Building Sector to Contribute $554B to GDP from 2009-13

Posted by Environmental Leader on 12/11/2009

While the green building industry added $173 billion to the U.S. gross domestic product from 2000-08, that’s just the beginning. From 2009 to 2013, that amount will more than triple to $554 billion, according to a new report from the U.S. Green Building Council and Booz Allen Hamilton.The r ...

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