The Loomio Handbook: A roadmap for worker-owned cooperatives The handbook serves as an overview of a pioneering digital cooperative and a roadmap for other worker-owned cooperatives. If you’re creating a worker-owned co-op, or platform co-op, this will be a good resource to have in your toolbox. US DOT issues guidelines for shared …
SJF Ventures Leads Investment in Portfolium
We are pleased to share SJF’s latest bulletin, which announces a new investment in Portfolium. The bulletin also provides portfolio updates and shares upcoming events. Sincerely, The SJF Team Durham * New York * San Francisco SJF Leads Equity Financing Round for Portfolium Raise Featured in BuzzFeed Solera Health Highlighted …
Press release – SIGEF 2016
Horyou Announces SIGEF 2016, a leading side event of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP22) The Social Innovation and Global Ethics Forum will take place at Palais des Congrès Marrakesh, in Morocco, from 9 to 11 November, 2016 Geneva, September 15, 2016 – Horyou, the social network for social good, …
IIRC Newsletter
IIRC Newsletter Market welcomes appointment of Richard Howitt as new IIRC CEO Senior market leaders from across the world have welcomed the announcement that Richard Howitt, Member of the European Parliament (MEP), has been appointed as the IIRC’s next Chief Executive Officer. Mr Howitt will succeed outgoing CEO Paul Druckman …
This Week at the Dallas Institute
Upcoming Events at the Dallas Institute This week at the Dallas Institute “Ethical Markets CEO, Hazel Henderson is a Fellow of the Dallas Institute, Editor “ This Week at the Dallas Institute Democracy in America During a series of presentations and discussions grounded in Alexis de Tocqueville’s classic Democracy in America, Dr. …
When It Comes to Conservation, Size Matters – Fossil Fuels: At What Price?
When It Comes to Conservation, Size Matters Emilio Godoy When the communities living in the Tatamá y Serranía de los Paraguas Natural National Park in the west of Colombia organised in 1996 to defend their land and preserve the ecosystem, they were fighting deforestation, soil degradation and poaching. Twenty years …
September News from the WFC!
The United States and China, the world’s biggest emitters of greenhouse gases, have announced they will formally ratify the Paris climate change agreement at the G20 Summit in Hangzhou, China. This commitment could be a huge step forward in the efforts to combat climate change. To hear more encouraging updates on the path …
Can there be Climate Smart Agriculture?
Innovation Forum is holding a complimentary webinar on climate smart agriculture with Kellogg & Bunge, Tuesday September 13th. We will address the future of food production in our changing climate, discussing the role of business, technology and climate smart agriculture. You can sign up to listen to the webinar here:http://bit.ly/2cakClU …
CALLING FOR G20 SUPPORT, BAN STRESSES IMPORTANCE OF FINANCING MECHANISMS FOR 2030 GOALS
UN News Centrewith breaking news from the UN News Service CALLING FOR G20 SUPPORT, BAN STRESSES IMPORTANCE OF FINANCING MECHANISMS FOR 2030 GOALS United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today stressed the importance of financing and other support mechanisms to implement the global goals for sustainable development and climate …
Millions of Honeybees Killed in Attempt to Prevent Zika, FDA Finally Bans Toxic Triclosan, Oil Giant Pulls Plug on Sandpiper Pipeline…
TOP NEWS OF THE DAY Quote of the Day “My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.” — Aldous Huxley Millions of Honeybees Killed in Attempt to Prevent Zika Aerial spraying of the pesticide naled in a South Carolina county, done in an attempt to prevent… …