Web version New York Jul 7 2015 1:00PM UN News Centre with breaking news from the UN News Service Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses the opening of the Oslo Summit on Education for Development. UN Photo/Rick Bajornas EDUCATION ‘ESSENTIAL TO VISION OF A LIFE OF DIGNITY FOR ALL,’ SAYS …
AT HIGH-LEVEL FORUM, UN OFFICIAL CALLS FOR FINAL PUSH TOWARDS NEW SUSTAINABILITY AGENDA
New York Jul 6 2015 1:00PM UN News Centre with breaking news from the UN News Service A wide view of the ECOSOC Chamber. UN Photo/Paulo Filgueiras AT HIGH-LEVEL FORUM, UN OFFICIAL CALLS FOR FINAL PUSH TOWARDS NEW SUSTAINABILITY AGENDA The international community stands on the cusp of …
In support of the “No” in the Greek Referendum: 5) James Galbraith
In support of the “No” in the Greek Referendum: 5) James Galbraith Property Rights, Inequality and Commons The Real Question of the Referendum: The Enclosure of the Greek Commons Trailer: The Altruism Revolution More Recent Articles Search P2P Foundation Prior Mailing Archive In support of the …
A Revolutionary Pope Calls for Rethinking the Outdated Criteria That Rule the World
A Revolutionary Pope Calls for Rethinking the Outdated Criteria That Rule the World Posted on July 3, 2015 by Ellen Brown Pope Francis’ revolutionary encyclical addresses not just climate change but the banking crisis. Interestingly, the solution to that crisis may have been modeled in the Middle Ages by Franciscan monks …
Review of the 5th Global Infrastructure Basel Summit
Review of the 5th GIB Summit Presentations, Pictures and Session Reports are Available Now! Following the very successful 5th GIB Sustainable Infrastructure Summit, we are glad to share with you the official Summit Report, which gives a detailed overview of the summit and highlights the key statements as well …
THE WALL STREET COACH: Empathy for Ourselves & Others
“ Ethical Markets is proud that author Kim Ann Curtin is a member of our distinguished global Advisory Board ,Hazel Henderson, Editor” Dear Friends, In the last e-mail you received, I elaborated on the first of my Five Practices to Become More Awake: Self-Responsibility. I invited you to take …
Quality of Life Issues in Context – July 2015
USA Update: July 2015 By Hazel Henderson, originally posted at EthicalMarketsQualityofLife.com Total nonfarm payroll employment in June rose by 223,000 after a revised 254,000 jobs in May and 187,000 in April. The unemployment rate is down to 5.3% with 8.3 million people still looking to join the labor force, a …
Ancient wisdom helps Maori students navigate business
Not far from the sparkling Waitemata harbour sits the University of Auckland Business School, where sharp modern lines contrast with the carved portals of the university’s marae (meeting house). Chellie Spiller, the New Zealand school’s associate dean for Maori and Pacific, evokes the journey of the waka, the Maori oceangoing …
Financial Reform Newsletter: SEC addresses bonus culture on Wall Street, too-big-to-fail banks submit ‘living wills’, and more
Financial Reform Newsletter July 2, 2015 SEC finally begins to address the corrupt bonus culture on Wall Street: The prospect of hundreds of billions of dollars in bonuses incentivized pervasive reckless, illegal and criminal conduct all across Wall Street in the years before the 2008 crash. For too many, getting …
ZAM Investment Update – Greece: Dead End or Fresh Start?
“ We at Ethical Markets are glad to forward Robert Zevin’s good sense commenting on the travails of the Greek people . Hazel Henderson, Editor “ Zevin Asset Management Investment Update June 2015 For a pdf copy of this update, please clickhere. For five years Greece has been subjected to …