Investing Sustainably in the Financial Sector

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity

I love clients who push me towards new ideas in sustainable investment. Currently, I’m working with a lovely couple in Toronto who hold the honour of being my ‘deepest’ green clients so far. They are adamant that not a single dollar be invested in fossil fuels, and won’t tolerate any …

BIOMIMICRY, Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine M. Benyus

Ethical Markets - RBooks and Reviews, Nature/Biomimicry

  Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature Review by Alan F Kay  Biomimicry by Janine Benyus deals with the clear and fascinating, yet little understood and vast, reality of the processes of life and living beings. The book summarizes these ideas this way: Virtually all living creatures: plants, animals, microbes, etc., …

Shelton Green Alpha Fund

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity, SRI/ESG News

Summary:  The objective of the Shelton Green Alpha Fund is to achieve long-term capital appreciation by investing in stocks in the green economy.  Green Economy companies are those that work to improve human well-being and social equity while significantly reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities.  The fund invests globally in …

15-17 January 2013: the Renewable Energy World meets in Abu Dhabi at ADIREC

Ethical MarketsGreen Prosperity

At the end of 2012, this fourth 2012 edition of the REN21 newsletter provides you with a comprehensive overview of recent activities of the REN21 Secretariat as well as its network members. We look back at an eventful year which saw further growth of renewable energy globally as well as …

A Time of Change – June 2012 Newsletter

kristyEarth Systems Science

We at Ethical Markets recommend Schumacher College and its whole-systems, hands-on approach. I have been teaching course there for many years. Hazel Henderson, Editor A Time of Change – June 2012 Newsletter “Whatever we dream we can attain. We just need to direct our energy and our actions towards creating …