“Ethical Markets highly recommends this Sept. 10th webinar from our partner the Conscious Business Institute, with David Brooks, author of “The Second Mountain”. The Institute, founded and led by veteran business executive and venture investor, Peter Matthies, who also serves on our global Advisory Board. Enjoy! ~Hazel Henderson, Editor“ Join …
Reporting Exchange Newsletter – the latest in ESG reporting
On 29 July, we hit this year’s Earth’s Overshoot Day – the earliest ever. In other words, we’ve already used up the resources that planet Earth can regenerate in a year. We’re operating in a deficit. As companies are increasingly expected to shift the tide and contribute to sustainable development, …
DealBook Briefing: C.E.O.s Look Beyond Their Shareholders
“At last CEOs are pushing back on the Milton Friedman ideology of “shareholder value as primary“! As Prof. Lynn Stout has stressed in her books, e.g. “The Myth of Shareholder Value” there is no such legal requirement for management and they were always free to use the stakeholder model! Prof …
“ESG Data Drives Demand for Sustainable and Impact Investing”
“Ethical Markets highly recommends this comprehensive article in Investments & Wealth Monitor, July/August edition, detailing how ESG data drive demand for sustainable and impact investing, by Jeff Gitterman, co-founder of Gitterman Wealth Management, a pioneer in this field and Paul Ellis, J.D. featured columnist at Financial Advisor Magazine, host of …
Top Story: As climate change hits Florida agriculture, could the future be ‘carbon farming’?
“This story from Florida Trend and the Miami Herald helps focus on the best ways of capturing CO2 from the atmosphere to keep global temperature below 1.5 – 2 degrees Celsius: Shows how soil is the best place to store carbon, while renewing and enriching our soils, so it makes …
Healing the Capitalist Wound-Interview with Hazel Henderson, D.Sc.Hon., FRSA:
Sacred Earth’s Call ~ Healing the Capitalist Wound Can you believe it’s the second half of 2019? August is a perfect time to reflect on what to keep, shed, and initiate to reach your big beautiful goals by the end of this year—without compromising your well-being. That’s why I’m …
SDG Update – 13 August 2019
NEWS Diverging Views Delay Conclusion of Negotiations on Universal Health Coverage Declaration 9 August 2019: The political declaration on universal health coverage is still under negotiation after the latest draft failed to garner consensus approval. The text is being prepared ahead of the UN General Assembly’s (UNGA) high-level meeting on …
The JUST Report: The SEC Gets Interested in Human Capital
THIS WEEK: McKinsey shows that closing the racial wealth gap could increase GDP by $1.5 trillion. Morgan Stanley demonstrates there is lower downside risk and no financial trade-off in the returns of sustainable funds (helpful insight for this week’s market!). GM eliminates hybrids to concentrate on electric cars. Gap vows …
Success worth replicating: California’s bill inspires New York
PUBLIC BANKING INSTITUTE NEWS: AUG 15, 2019 Success worth replicating: California’s AB 857 inspires NY state bill to enable public bank charters Late last legislative session, Senate Banks Committee Chair James Sanders Jr. introduced a bill in New York State modeled after California’s fast-advancing, grassroots-developed Public Banking Act, AB 857. The New York …
“Neoliberalism Has Met Its Match in China”, by Ellen Brown
“Ethical Markets highly recommends this paradigm-shifting article by our monetary expert, lawyer Ellen Brown, founder of the Public Banking Institute, author of The Web of Debt; The Public Bank Solution and Banking on People (2019). As a frequent visitor and lecturer in China, I have witnessed the economic policies Ellen …