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Response to NY Times Op-Ed: “Is Banking Bad?”
Response to NY Times Op-Ed: "Is Banking Bad?" Kathleen Paylor, Founder and Chief Spiritual Officer, Conscious Capital, LLC Rarely do I find myself disagreeing with Nick Kristof, but I must make an exception in response to his New York Times January 18 Op-Ed, “Is Banking Bad?” Kristof is asking the wrong questions and, not surprisingly, [...]
Rio + 20: Ethical Markets Advisor Thais Corral Hosts Resilient Cities Action Lab
Twenty years ago, Government officials from 178 countries and between 20,000 and 30,000 individuals from governments, non-governmental organizations, and the media participated the first UN Conference for Environmental Development in Rio de Janeiro to discuss solutions for global problems such as poverty, war, and the growing gap between [...]
Notes from Mandalay
Notes from Mandalay Wayne Silby, Ethical Markets Advisory Board Founding chairman of Calvert Funds, president of Calvert Social Investment Fund and chairman of SynTao Sustainability Solutions (January 10, 2012) I am in Mandalay now. Looking at the future possibilities of a social development fund here in Myanmar (Burma) -- and partly [...]
Making Life More Meaningful
Making Life More Meaningful It’s not competition and greed that makes the world go around – it’s cooperating and caring, writes Ed Mayo. It is tough out there. The economy is uncertain. Jobs are uncertain. The competition is out to get you. It is a dog-eat-dog world. Except it isn’t, is it? Our Sussex-born lurcher has a passing [...]
Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior – 2012.
Congratulations to Hazel Henderson, president and founder of Ethical Markets Media, for being named again in 2012 as a Thought Leader in Trustworthy Business Behavior. Hazel has pionered ethical business behavior, for example with the EthicMark®, which she also founded and guides, for advertising that uplifts the human spirit and society. She is [...]
Fannie And Freddie: The Elephants In The Room
FANNIE AND FREDDIE: THE ELEPHANTS IN THE ROOM by Sarah Stranahan, New Economy Network and Ethical Markets Advisory Board House Republicans recently introduced eight separate bills to limit and disempower the two big Government Service Enterprises (GSEs), Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Republicans in the House argue that failure to destroy the [...]
Economics of the Walk Out
Harvard Students Walk Out on Econ10 Class It is amazing that we continue to teach the same outmoded theories of economics in our most esteemed institutions of higher learning when it is almost universally acknowledged that the economic system spawned by those economic theories is broken. Last week a group of Harvard students said enough is [...]
Why the message from Rio+20 matters more than ever
Why the message from Rio+20 matters more than ever The upcoming summit must take account of the public's psychological dimensions if it is going to transform climate change cynics into champions of sustainable living George Bernard Shaw saw the world as divided into two sorts of people. Those who looked at it and asked "why?", and those [...]
Listening to Occupy Wall Street
John Fullerton is on the Ethical Markets Advisory Board and co-organized our TRANSFORMING FINANCE Statement. Join our many co- signers worldwide at www.transformingfinance.net. - Hazel Henderson, Editor Listening to Occupy Wall Street I went down to Liberty Park Plaza this week (bought and renamed Zuccotti Park in 2006) to listen, to show [...]
Breaking news: OccupyWallStreet and the Climate Movements revolts join hands in NY!
Dear friends, I'm writing from New York City, where the Occupy Wall Street movement is taking off. What started as a small group of young people with a vague call to action is evolving into something truly inspiring -- and our crew at 350.org is excited to support this nascent movement. Here’s what Bill McKibben had to say about “The [...]
