Crowdnetic closes its seed round, Can Reg A replace the small cap IPO?, LendIt’s pre-conference cocktail are nearly sold out

Jay OwenCrowdfunding

NowStreet Wire – The Leading Resource for Crowdfinance   Crowdnetic Closes $1.6 Million in Seed Funding Signifying the investment community’s growing enthusiasm for crowdfinance, Crowdnetic, leading provider of market data solutions for the global crowdfinance industry and parent of NowStreet Wire, announced this week that it has closed a $1.6 …

Maximpact e-News | Issue 09: Biomimicry

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity, Nature/Biomimicry

Bringing Biomimicry to Market: Impact Investing Inspired by Nature by Marta Maretich Biomimicry has captured the world’s imagination. From the momentJanine Benyus’ seminal book on biomimicry appeared in 2002, hopes have been high for this new approach to design and engineering. Twelve years on, where are biomimicry and bio-inspired design today? …

Prospering in Common

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

Stuart Williams is back on the international conference scene and instead of his very successful conferences for 300,000 global corporate executives, he is bringing together environmentalists, architects and financial managers to reinvent the new SRI, Socially Responsible Investing, from the bottom up. As an international environmental consultant now focused on …

The Edge: “Creating Resilience in a Time of Extremes”

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, Global Citizen

EVOLUTIONARY ROUND TABLE AT THE UNITED NATIONS Gregg Braden and Bruce Lipton address “Creating Resilience in a Time of Extremes” at event hosted by the UN Interagency Task Force on Engaging with FBOs for Development and the Interagency Framework Team on Preventive Action The Evolutionary Leaders followed up on their …

ACEEE:Examining the Net Savings Issue: A National Survey of State Policies and Practices

Jay OwenResource Efficiency

NEWS RELEASE    Media Contact: Patrick Kiker  [email protected]   202.507.4043 Examining the Net Savings Issue: A National Survey of State Policies and Practices    How much energy savings resulted from a given energy efficiency program? This is the fundamental question that program evaluators have faced since the days of the very …

Responsible Business Summit – save the date

Jay OwenTV Series

I am pleased to confirm our flagship Responsible Business Summit is back and will be taking place in London on May 19-20. As someone that’s attended one of previous summits I wanted to give you an update on what you can expect at RBS’14…  • Leading insight from CEOs: Board members give a different perspective …

Crowdnetic’s NowStreet Wire Announces Live Broadcast of Crowdfinance 2013

Jay OwenCrowdfunding

Crowdnetic’s NowStreet Wire Announces Live Broadcast of Crowdfinance 2013 Due to strong demand, NowStreet Wire will be providing a live broadcast of its sold-out crowdfinance event. We are astounded by the amount of interest Crowdfinance 2013 continues to generate and are pleased to be able to open the program to …

Making the Business Case for Energy Efficiency

Jay OwenResource Efficiency

NEWS RELEASE    Media Contact: Patrick Kiker  [email protected]   202.507.4043 Making the Business Case for Energy Efficiency The inherent conflict between a utility’s business objectives and the objectives of customer energy efficiency programs has long been recognized. Alternative regulatory mechanisms can be implemented that not only make utilities indifferent to the …

ESG Leaders Awards 2013 at TBLI CONFERENCE EUROPE Sees ESG and Impact Investing Reaching Tipping Point

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE esg Leaders Awards 2013 at TBLI CONFERENCE EUROPE Sees esg and Impact Investing Reaching Tipping Point Amsterdam, 25 November, 2013 TBLI CONFERENCE™, a global ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) and impact investing forum for asset owners and managers, presented the ESG Leaders Awards 2013 at …

SUMMARY OF THE GLOBAL LANDSCAPES FORUM 16-17 NOVEMBER 2013

Jay OwenEarth Systems Science

The first Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) convened on Saturday and Sunday, 16 and 17 November 2013, at the University of Warsaw in Poland, on the sidelines of the 19th session of the Conference of the Parties (cop 19) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The Forum combines …