The Core Mission of Crowdfinance

Jay OwenCrowdfunding

Let’s talk Reg A+, liquidity, data bubbles & the heart of crowdfinance The Core Mission of Crowdfinance March 10, 2015 By Dara Albright I spend many waking hours advocating for crowdfinance and preaching about the economic repercussions of an unjust financial system that inhibits entrepreneurs from procuring growth capital and …

Ocean Power Technologies Riding The Waves : AltEnergyStocks.com

Jay OwenGreentech

  Ocean Power Technologies Riding The Waves : AltEnergyStocks.com Ocean Power Technologies Riding The Waves Posted: 04 Apr 2014 07:41 AM PDT by Debra Fiakas CFA Shares of Ocean Power Technologies (OPTT:  Nasdaq) have traded off over the past two weeks, after setting a new 52-week high in early March 2013.  Investors …

Fort McMurray Evicts Oil Sands Companies that Helped it Grow

Jay OwenTrendspotting

Fort McMurray Evicts Oil Sands Companies that Helped it Grow  The Canadian town of Fort McMurray, population 76,000, is the heart of Alberta’s oil sands largesse–but the town is bursting at its seams with nowhere to expand because the land surrounding it is owned by oil companies. The government’s answer to this …

EFES NEWSLETTER – APRIL 2013 For the first time since the financial crisis occurred…

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

     EFES NEWSLETTER – APRIL 2013 For the first time since the financial crisis occurred…  … the number of employee shareholders in Europe didn’t increase last year, and the democratization rate of employee ownership went down. A new differentiation appears between top executives and other employees since the beginning of …

Financing Social and Environmental Innovation

Ethical MarketsGreen Prosperity

Impact investors, venture philanthropists and Impact Investing ecosystem members are working to reform traditional financial systems. By linking investment and financing to quantifiable measures of social and environmental returns, the investment ecosystem is setting the stage for a more sophisticated framework that will scale impact and inclusive growth through efficient capitalization …

Employee ownership was continuously progressing across Europe since the financial crisis

kristySRI/ESG News

A newsletter from European Federation of Employee Share EFES NEWSLETTER – APRIL 2011 Employee ownership was continuously progressing across Europe since the financial crisis The number of employee owners was nearly 10 million in 2010 in large European companies (out of 32.6 million employees). The number of companies that have …