Peace is good for business & business is good for peace

kristyGlobal Citizen, Beyond GDP

Structures of Peace We are thrilled to release Structures of Peace, a research report produced by the Institute for Economics and Peace identifying key economic, political and cultural determinants that foster peaceful societies. Through an empirical and statistical analysis of the Global Peace Index, the report details eight key factors …

Structures of Peace: Identifying What Leads to Peaceful Societies

kristyBeyond GDP

The Structures of Peace is a new conceptual framework for understanding and describing the factors that create a peaceful society. This conceptual framework has been derived from an empirical and statistical analysis of the Global Peace Index (GPI). Over 300 cross country datasets were used to define the key economic, …

Transforming Finance To Grow Green Sustainable Economies

kristyGreen Prosperity, Sustainability News, Articles by Hazel Henderson, Crowdfunding

By Hazel Henderson (*) SAINT AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA, Oct (IPS) “We recognize finance as part of the global commons,” affirms the Transforming Finance statement, signed by financial professionals worldwide critical of today’s casino capital markets. Financialization has produced the global debt bubble. Needed now are write-offs and haircuts to bond-holders and …

Two years after the Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi report, What Well Being and Sustainability Measures

Ethical MarketsBeyond GDP

Ethical Markets Correspondent Lisa Cowan attends the conference “Two years after the Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi report, What Well Being and Sustainability Measures,” held at the OECD, Paris on 12th October 2011. I attended this event with great interest; my hope was to witness the beginnings of a shift towards a new paradigm …

CFED Announces Launch of the New JoinBankOn.org

kristyCommunity Development Solutions

CFED, National Partners Announce New Bank On Website First-Ever Local Unbanked Population Data Tool Released JoinBankOn.orgCFED, with support from the U.S. Department of the Treasury and in partnership with the San Francisco Office of Financial Empowerment, the National League of Cities and the New America Foundation, has launched a new-and-improved …

Living Well in a World of 7 Billion

kristyTrendspotting

Living Well in a World of 7 Billion Humanity has reached a new milestone as we hit 7 billion. Never before have there been 7 billion people on planet earth, all at the same time. As we welcome the 7th billion global inhabitant, we also acknowledge the challenges we will …

Hold on, you move too fast

kristyTrendspotting

old on, you move too fast ‘The most massive energy programme ever proposed anywhere in the world outside war-time conditions.’ That’s how energy analyst Andrew MacKillop, the author of today’s new publication on European Energy Review, describes current EU energy and climate policy. This is not, in fact, how EU …