UK: Town launches its own currency

Oliver Dudok van Heel, of the Lewes Pound Group, said: "The Lewes Pound was introduced to give people a reason to shop locally and to boost the town economy. It can only be used with local traders, not chain stores.

"Money spent in local shops will be used again and again. It will also have a positive environmental impact at a time of increasing climate change."

Investor relations professionals want to save the world from trace amounts of CO2

Roberta Mackintosh, executive director of global voice, unified communications and collaboration at Verizon Business, said, “This study shows the increasing weight that investor relations professionals are giving to climate-change issues. Verizon Business sees a tremendous opportunity and responsibility to help our customers work smarter. We can help them make better use of technologies to work more efficiently for their business and for the environment.