Three big breakthroughs from central banks

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, Community Development Solutions, Global Citizen, Wealth of Networks, Beyond GDP

“We at Ethical Markets are encouraged by this news,  and saddened to see the confusion of Britain’s voters, forced by an impoverished, binary political debate to  choose between “IN”  or “OUT “ of the EU, manipulated by power-seeking politicians.  The Conservatives demonized big government, regulation and bureaucrats by scapegoating Brussels.  In …

[Millennia2025 Women Foresight] Le livre “Ensemble pour l’égalité !”, par Marie-Anne Delahaut, Préface par Mme Irina Bokova, Directrice générale de l’UNESCO

Jay OwenGlobal Citizen, The Power of Yin, Beyond GDP

  It is a pleasure to present you with the book “Together for Equality!” in subscription until September 6, 2016. It will be launched at Wallonie-Bruxelles International in Brussels on September 7, 2016 with the support of Ms Pascale Delcomminette, WBI General administrator. We will also present it in Paris with …

Pollinator Week with Citizen Science

Jay OwenGlobal Citizen, Sustainability News

Celebrate Pollinator Week with Citizen Science This week we celebrate National Pollinator Week, in honor of the bees, butterflies, beetles, and other animals that provide essential services to ecosystems and agricultural lands everywhere. Citizen science is at the forefront of pollinator research, and below we highlight six projects that you …

How Does The Commons Work? Our new animation elaborates on David Bollier’s next system

Jay OwenGlobal Citizen, Sustainability News, Wealth of Networks, Beyond GDP

          From commons to “commoning”: Animating David Bollier’s proposal for a new system David Bollier, in his paper for our “New Systems: Possibilities and Proposals” series exploring viable political-economic alternatives to the present order, suggests that a commons-based framework could provide a critical template for de-commodification, mutualization, and the organization and …

Trailer of The World is My Country

Jay OwenGlobal Citizen

The film The World is My Country tells the amazing true story of how one little guy, a song and dance man, helped trigger a people-power movement which helped precipitate unanimous passage of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: World Citizen #1 Garry Davis. How did Danny Kaye’s Broadway understudy …

Forum 2000 Bulletin

Jay OwenGlobal Citizen

FORUM 2000 BULLETIN June 2016   20th Annual Forum 2000 Conference This year´s Forum 2000 Conference will take place in Prague between 16-19 October 2016. The topic will be “Courage to Take Responsibility”. READ MORE Festival of Democracy The associated program of this year´s 20th Forum 2000 Conference will be …

POSITIVE NEWS: Rethinking consumerism

Jay OwenGlobal Citizen, Sustainability News

“We applaud POSITIVE NEWS in covering conspicuous consumerism. We add that our campaign to phase out cruel, polluting and now obsolete and unnecessary global gem mining addresses similar issues: with our standard certifying ONLY gems NOT mined from the Earth but created by science, see www.ethicmarkgems.com .  These diamonds, rubies, sapphires, emeralds created in labs …