‘Global Citizenship’
News on groups, NGOs, companies seeking to take responsibility for the common good and whole human family and the planet.
Relates to: SRI News, Transforming Finance, GTS, Sustainability News, Earth Systems Science, Beyond GDP, Power of Yin
IIRC Secretariat – Pilot Programme & Communications
IIRC Secretariat - Pilot Programme & Communications The Pilot Programme is an opportunity for a select group of companies to demonstrate their leadership in Integrated Reporting through participation in a two-year programme, starting in October. Integrated Reporting makes clear the linkages between an organization’s strategy, [...]
Book of the Day: The Good of Everyone. The Sharing Economy as a Way Out of the Crisis
Book of the Day: The Good of Everyone. The Sharing Economy as a Way Out of the Crisis This is a very important book, in the process of being translated from the Italian: Enrico Grazinni: “The thesis of this book is that, to overcome the current dramatic economic and ecological crisis, it is necessary to create and develop a polycentric [...]
Future Fee – 0.1 Thousandth for our Future
Let's plant a million trees in each country of the world! www.plant-for-the-planet.org Update from the Plant-for-the-Planet Children Initiative NEWS Future Fee - 0.1 Thousandth for our Future First producer commits to the Future Fee The Change Chocolate We're putting our first climate neutral and fair trade chocolate on the [...]
Free Teleconference Dialogue with Rinaldo Brutoco: Economics & Peace
The National Peace Academy invites you to join us for a special Peacebuilder Teleconference Dialogue featuring: Rinaldo Brutoco "Economics and Peace" with Special Guest Dialogue Moderator Michael Shank Tuesday, February 7, 2012 (7:00 - 8:30pm) Free, advanced registration is required Click here for more information and to [...]
Towards 2025: The view from 2012
It has often been said that all the world needs is love. But imagine, unless we apply it, like hope, a peaceful, sustainable future may well remain a mirage. By 2025 about fifty percent of the world population will be 25 years old or less - the great majority will live in developing countries and fifty percent of them will live in cities. Add into [...]
Top Risks and Ethical Decisions 2012 with Ian Bremmer
January 19, 2012 Happy New Year to all! We are pleased to announce that the latest edition of the best selling textbook, World Politics: Trend and Transformation (2012-2013 edition), contains a multimedia glossary with resources provided by Carnegie Council. These resources are also available to everyone, free of charge, on the Council's [...]
Obama Rejects Keystone XL Pipeline
When Big Oil threatened “huge political consequences”, our movement countered with a message of hope. Today, President Obama stood up for the generation that put him in office. Today is a victory for the thousands of people across the country who summoned every ounce of courage and creativity they could muster, and resoundingly declared [...]
This weekend near you: A chance to help Get Money Out
This Saturday will be historic for all the wrong reasons. It's the second anniversary of Citizens United, the Supreme Court decision that paved the way for billionaires and special interests to spend unlimited money on super PACs—the same so-called independent organizations that have spent twice as much money in the presidential primaries as [...]
Newsletter 1/2012 English
It’s the year 2012 and still more than 1.6 billion people around the world have no access to electricity. Reason enough for the United Nations to declare 2012 the “International Year of Sustainable Energy for All” . Especially Africa faces big challenges but also great opportunities. 650 million people live without access to energy on the [...]
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 [...]
