Occupy Network – Occupy Wall Street is above the electoral, but it impacts it, as indicated by a recent report.

Jay OwenGlobal Citizen

GET THIS FROM A FRIEND? SUBSCRIBE. SHARE:  Occupy Wall Street is above the electoral, but it impacts it, as indicated by a recent report. The Wall Street Journal relayed statements from a variety of NYC mayoral candidates about how they stand on the violent crackdown on Occupy. Of particular note, current frontrunner …

Good News for Alternative Energy Investors

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity, Trendspotting

Have electric cars lost their spark? Has the sun set on solar? It’s not easy being green. By the look of so many hyperbolic and overused mainstream media headlines these days, you’d likely come to the conclusion that the days of alternative energy integration are over. Quite frankly, nothing could …

Ten Economic Risks of Fossil Fuels : AltEnergyStocks.com

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, SRI/ESG News

Ten Economic Risks of Fossil Fuels : AltEnergyStocks.com Ten Economic Risks of Fossil Fuels Posted: 16 May 2013 07:19 AM PDT Garvin Jabusch A train, loaded with coal, crashed into the back of a passenger train in Czechloslovakia in 1868. Securities of fossil fuels firms, as an economic sector, may soon …

Renewables Investment Seen Tripling Amid Supply Glut

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity

Renewables Investment Seen Tripling Amid Supply Glut   By Louise Downing & Alex Morales – Apr 21, 2013, bloomberg.com   The plunge in the cost of wind and solar power that bankrupted more than two dozen manufacturers is forecast to spur a tripling of investment in renewables by 2030 and to …

Friday Video – CEO of Bloomberg New Energy Finance Focuses on Clean Energy

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance

Friday Video – CEO of Bloomberg New Energy Finance Focuses on Clean Energy   April 23, 2013 (Bloomberg) — Michael Liebreich, chief executive officer of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, talks about investment in clean energy and trends in power production. He speaks at the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit in …

In less than 24 hours, the Mosaic community has invested over $300,000 . . .

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity, Crowdfunding, Nature/Biomimicry

Dear Mosaic Community, We are writing to say one thing: YOU. ARE. AWESOME. In less than 24 hours, we fully funded our first publicly available projects, investing over $300,000. If anyone needed proof that people want to put their money into tangible investments that build the clean energy economy and …

Who Needs Third-Party Finance? Loan Programs Offer Low-Cost Direct Ownership Opportunities

Ethical MarketsGreentech

Direct ownership of solar systems offers an array of benefits generally not available to third-party finance. And new loan programs are making it easier to achieve that goal. Full Article Community Solar Shouldn’t Be this Hard by John Farrell | December 3, 2012 Sunlight falls almost anywhere, in every community. …

Will Sandy Trigger Our Great Transformation?

Ethical MarketsSustainability News, Trendspotting

In The Future of Finance two weeks ago, the Capital Institute’s John Fullerton explained how our response to Sandy will come in two phases.  Today, he expands on Phase Two in a new post, which originally appeared on The Guardian Sustainable Business blog. We are now a couple of weeks …

Vestas Wind Systems A/S and Bloomberg New Energy Finance are proud to announce the latest results from the Corporate Renewable Energy Index or “CREX”

Ethical MarketsResource Efficiency

Companies are increasingly becoming important drivers of demand for renewable energy worldwide. In addition to government mandated renewable energy purchases, which are usually well-tracked for legal compliance reasons, the voluntary demand for renewable energy results in significant investments in green energy worldwide. Read more…