Seeking the best SRI and Corporate Governance analysts in the world

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

Extel WeConvene and www.sri-connect.com announce that the IRRI 2014 Survey is now open for voting and that this year’s search for the best SRI & Corporate Governance analysts in the world is now underway. The IRRI 2014 survey (Independent Research in Responsible Investment) identifies and rewards the SRI and Corporate …

Be Prepared – For a LOT More Solar by 2025 | The Energy Collective Daily

Jay OwenGreentech

Be Prepared – For a LOT More Solar by 2025 | The Energy Collective Daily     Be Prepared – For a LOT More Solar by 2025 Posted: 11 Sep 2014 09:00 AM PDT 2025 may sound a ways off, but it’s only 11 years away. What will the world …

Stone Paper meeting today in South Africa

Jay OwenGreentech

Hello, One of the Blue Economy projects is to make paper without water or tree fibers, re-using mining waste.  This year the production of stone paper will move towards the one million ton target in China! Today the President of South Africa and the Minister of Mining is meeting with …

A View from Gansu

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News, Sustainability News

Dear Friends,   I hope you might take a few minutes out of your busy schedules to review the results of GIFT’s recent leadership programme in Gansu, China: Round-up:  China 2014 – Global Leaders Programme Photo Story: Gansu Modern Forage, Lanzhou China Participants worked hard to produce some excellent recommendations for a …

nvision Solar Announces First Digital Out Of Home (DOOH) Advertising EV ARC™ For FIAT

Jay OwenGreentech

DISCLAIMER:  Principals of Ethical Markets    are investors in envision Solar  Envision Solar Announces First Digital Out Of Home (DOOH) Advertising EV ARC™ For FIAT  SAN DIEGO, CALIF. – July 22nd, 2014 – Envision Solar International, Inc., (OTCQB: EVSI) (“Envision Solar,” or the “Company”), the leading renewable energy Media and Branding …

Utility Nightmares: Distributed Generation and Halving Electricity Consumption

Jay OwenResource Efficiency

While many utility executives attribute much of their predicted market challenges to the rise of photovoltaics and net metering, they actually have much more to worry about. In a 2013 survey of global utility companies by PricewaterhouseCoopers, the results revealed that the utility industry leaders anticipate major changes to their business model …

Financial Reform Newsletter :Another week, another too-big-to-fail bank pays billions to settle yet more claims for fraudulent and illegal conduct for contributing to the 2008 financial crash.

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance

  Financial Reform Newsletter March 28, 2014   Another week, another too-big-to-fail bank pays billions to settle yet more claims for fraudulent and illegal conduct for contributing to the 2008 financial crash.  It was announced this week that Bank of America is paying $6.3 billion (and buying back an additional $3.2 billion …

ExxonMobil’s climate change risk | SAP aims for 100% renewable energy

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

    26 March 2014 Share                   In the news           Exxon Mobil responds to investor concerns Company bows to pressure to report on preparations for climate regulation, but could this just be the start?       …

6 Cool Tools for Driving Behaviour Change and Innovation

Jay OwenCommunity Development Solutions

                              THE NEXT ECONOMY ASU Partners With Dutch City to Develop First ‘Circular Economy’ Regional Plan     Arizona State University (ASU) and the Dutch Municipality of Haarlemmermeer, along with private partners in the Haarlemmermeer region, …

What’s in your smartphone? | ExxonMobil’s climate change risk | SAP aims for 100% renewable energy

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

          26 March 2014 Share     I often think of something that our editor-at-large Marc Gunther once pointed out: all of us have supply chains, and most of us don’t know what’s in them. Guardian Sustainable Business decided to take a deep dive into the …