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Solar Power Conversion Record |  |
Martin Green (Australia, RLA 2002) and his research team at the University of New South Wales helped set a new record in conversion efficiency for solar power cells.
The new solar cells combine different materials to better capture the sunlight's full spectrum of colours of different energy levels.
The five-cell combination converts 43% of the sunlight into electricity.
Read more at Energymatters.com
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Shareholders urged to stop bauxite mine | |
In late July, Bianca Jagger (RLA 2004) and Survival International (RLA 1989) made news by backing indigenous people who protest against the opening of a bauxite mine in a sacred part of India.
Among the shareholders of the mining company Vedanta is the Church of England. The shareholders are asked to use their power as investors to hold Vedanta accountable for the company's ethical behaviour.
Watch a video at Survival International's website to learn more, or
Read an op-ed by Bianca Jagger in The Guardian.
"Until governments worldwide force companies to respect human rights, it is up to shareholders, consumers and ordinary individuals to hold corporations to account for their action." Bianca Jagger
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Edward Goldsmith - An Obituary | |
by Paul Ekins, Vice-Chair of the Right Livelihood Award Foundation
The Right Livelihood Award Foundation was deeply saddened to learn of the death of its 1991 Award recipient, Edward Goldsmith.
Goldsmith was one of the earliest visionaries who clearly foresaw the coming of today’s environmental crises. In the early 1970s he was already very active in environmental and political circles – being one of the earliest activists in the UK Ecology Party, which became the Green Party - and publishing the influential Blueprint for Survival in the magazine he founded and edited for many years, The Ecologist.
Unfortunately society has largely ignored his warnings and the positive proposals he put forward for an ecologically sound world order. We are all the poorer for it having done so – but all the richer for his life, which has helped us to understand the problems and given us inspiration to continue his work to try to overcome them. Teddy – as he was usually called – will be sorely missed by many of us who continue to work in the field in which he was such a towering figure.
 Learn more about Edward Goldsmith
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