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California Signs Flex Corp and B Corp into Law
From Ellie Winninghoff, Ethical Markets Advisory Board "California Governor Jerry Brown Sunday night, Oct. 9, 2011, signed into legislation a new corporate form that marries money and mission. The idea is to allow social enterprises, which are often organized as nonprofits or for-profit/nonprofit hybrids, to access capital from mainstream [...]
Robert Monk’s Keynote Address at ICGN Conference
Robert Monk’s Keynote Address at ICGN Conference Posted: 29 Sep 2011 12:03 AM PDT Here is the full-text of Robert Monks keynote address at the 2011 Annual Conference of the International Corporate Governance Network. L’Appel This is a call to those responsible for the savings and dreams of hundreds of millions of trust [...]
How Investors Are Rebuilding New Orleans
Steve Schueth, Ethical Markets Research Advisory Board The current issue of the Green Money Journal features an excellent article on Sustainable Investing in New Orleans. It discusses how the responsible investment industry is helping to rebuild and reshape this historic city. Not coincidentally, hundreds of investors and investment [...]
Philanthropy’s Bermuda Triangle
A publication from Inflection Points Inflection Points asked Stephen Viederman, retired president of the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation and presently a member of the finance committee of the Christopher Reynolds Foundation, for his views on the power of philanthropic foundations to utilize their investment funds for change. Philanthropic [...]
Calling Wall Street to Account
“Calling Wall Street to Account” by Alan F Kay, PhD © 2011 In 1967 I started “AutEx” with a name that reflected the function of my Company. Automation would bring computerization to the financial industry way beyond an Exchange, a place where floor traders went face-to-face to complete a transaction. Brokers, dealers, and [...]
The 21st Century Corporation: The Ceres Roadmap for Sustainability
The 21st Century Corporation: The Ceres Roadmap to Sustainability is a vision and practical roadmap for integrating sustainability into the DNA of business—from the boardroom to the copy room. It analyzes the drivers, risks and opportunities involved in making the shift to sustainability, and details strategies and results from companies who are [...]
Could Waste Heat Be the Secret for Carbon Capture? Is using waste heat to power emissions absorbers a preposterous idea whose time has come?
Herman K. Trabish, April 7, 2011 (Greentech Media) Herman Trabish, writing for Greentech Media, interviewed Graciela Chichilnisky, author of the carbon market of the UN Kyoto Protocol that became international law in 2005, about her current work on carbon capture. Chichilnisky is a member of the Ethical Markets Advisory Board and of the [...]
EMM Covering REFF-Wall Street
Ethical Markets Media correspondent Martha Shaw will be covering REFF-Wall Street to New York City, June 21-22, 2011. Euromoney Energy Events and the American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE) , with whom Ethical Markets is a media partner, are hosting this 8th edition. At the 7th REFF-Wall Street in June 2010, over 700 attendees from 23 [...]
Achieving Environmentally Sustainable Prosperity
Shann Turnbull International Institute for Self-Governance February 24, 2011 Abstract: The contribution of this paper is to explain how to achieve a universally prosperous environmentally sustainable global society. This objective is incompatible with traditional economic policies dependent on environmentally exploitive growth in the [...]
Francis Koster: Finding Local Investments That Pay Off for You & Your Community
"Locally there are lots of nice, tidy, quarter-of-a-million-dollar investments sitting there that the large companies will not do because their overhead is too high. So one of my themes is look in your own backyard -- focus on fiscally conservative sound investments and focus on local employment. You will be surprised at the opportunity that just [...]
