‘Wealth of Networks’
Tracks the emerging information-sharing, open-source cooperative sectors of economies in the USA, Canada, Europe, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Korea and other countries. In this new sharing, cooperative economy, sectors are exchanging information, bartering and using new forms of currency in order to make their money stretch further. The Wealth of Networks balances the older competitive sectors based on money.
Relates to: Global Citizenship, Community Development Solutions, Beyond GDP, Partners/Links, EthicalMarkets.tv – The Money Fix and Money Innovation, Power of Yin, Articles by Hazel Henderson
FOCUS | Is the FCC Plotting a Giveaway to Rupert Murdoch?
Craig Aaron, FreePress Aaron writes: "What if I told you the Obama administration's first major post-election policy move was a big, fat gift for Rupert Murdoch?" READ MORE
Story of Change – This video from the Story of Stuff Project
Story of Change - This video from the Story of Stuff Project, is a call to action, providing tangible direction for influencing policy to address the issues we care about: pollution, chemical contamination, resource use and more. Produced by Ethical Markets' friend and colleague Annie Leonard, along with EthicMark® Award-winner Free Range [...]
The Future of Occupy – Our NEW Website & Magazine
The Future of Occupy, which began as a simple website in October 2011 and launched the FoO newsletter in January of this year as a newsletter, has undergone a considerable transformation over the spring to re-emerge as a fully-fledged community platform and interactive electronic magazine. This process has been a joy as well as a learning [...]
RIO+20: UN AND PARTNERS HOLD GLOBAL ONLINE FORUM ON SUSTAINABILITY
We at Ethical Markets are Happy to see our Friends at UN agencies coming together online!, Hazel Henderson, Editor RIO+20: UN AND PARTNERS HOLD GLOBAL ONLINE FORUM ON SUSTAINABILITY ISSUES New York, Jun 19 2012 5:05PM People from all over the world today took part in an all-day online forum discussing how technology and social media can be [...]
Jerome Goldstein: 1931-2012
Ethical Markets Media honors the life of visionary sustainability pioneer Jerome Goldstein. He and Hazel Henderson, our editor-in-chief, enjoyed many conversations about ecoentrepreneuring. Jerome Goldstein -- 1931-2012 Publisher and Editor Emeritus of BioCycle - reporting on sustainability news since 1960 Jerome Goldstein — [...]
Lily Cole Takes on the Impossible
Lily Cole Takes on the Impossible Lisa Cowan, Ethical Markets European Correspondent, reports on an exciting project led by London's Lily Cole. A recent post shares a fascinating interview by Becky Anderson, a high profile Anchor for CNN news, with Lily Cole and Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSGn097HZ00 [...]
Magazine Lily Cole’s ‘Impossible’ network wants its users to help each other out
Lily Cole's 'Impossible' network wants its users to help each ... Wired.co.uk Impossible is in beta and is still self-funded, and its advisers include Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and economist Hazel Henderson. "The average Londoner knows just one neighbour," says model and actress Lily Cole. "I travel a lot and I'm always surprised by the [...]
Reform in the Age of Corporate Lawyers
Media Policy at the FCC Reform in the Age of Corporate Lawyers The FCC decision requiring television broadcasters to post data about political ad spending online is a milestone in the fight against political dominance by traditional media and the one percent. It defies every ounce of conventional wisdom in Washington by proving that [...]
Naval crowdsourcing; virus power; the maker movement
Click here for the SmartPlanet Weekly newsletter Designing better products for an aging global population HONG KONG -- The world is growing old at an unprecedented rate, and businesses are paying attention. Read the full story
Occupy Wall Street Updates for the Week of May 23
Last weekend, scores of occupiers took buses from New York to Chicago to join thousands of people from the social justice movement, peace advocates, occupiers, students, and labor to face the forces of the self-appointed world police: NATO. The demonstrators protested the culture of militarism, war, and oppression pursued by NATO, by creatively [...]
