2nd Annual Crowdfunding Symposium

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News, Crowdfunding

  2nd Annual Crowdfunding Symposium LIMITED TICKETS AVAILABLE – SEPT 11/12 @ UC BERKELEY Shortly after President Obama signed the JOBS Act into law, we co-founded the Center for Crowdfunding Research at UC Berkeley. Now the program is hosting its second annual Academic Symposium on Crowdfunding Research and Policy. The event will be …

New issue of “Green Growth the Nordic Way”: Focus on gender issues and fossil fuel subsidies

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity

New issue of “Green Growth the Nordic Way”: Focus on gender issues and fossil fuel subsidies The latest articles on nordicway.org focus on the coupling of development aid with climate policy and on gender issues as an integral part of the green growth agenda. Dec 20, 2013 NCM Secreatary General …

Dr. Ikeda’s Peace Proposal 2013

Jay OwenGlobal Citizen, Sustainability News

  Dr. Ikeda’s Peace Proposal 2013     Other News Dear Reader, We take the unprecedented step to circulate the last proposal for Peace from Dr. Ikeda, the Presiden of Sokka Gakai. We do this, because little progress, if any, the international community has been able to make on the …

A Personal Experience with the American Justice System

kristyReforming Global Finance, SRI/ESG News, Global Citizen

We at Ethical Markets publish this appalling story because Roberto Savio, as Founding Publisher of InterPress Service, the large global wire service, has published my editorials for the past 20 years! Hi experience with our US banking and legal system is embarrassing! Hazel Henderson, Editor “Other News” is a personal …

United Nations kept the light on, as Rio+20 negotiations continued through the weekend

Ethical MarketsGreen Prosperity

By Martha J. Shaw, Earth Advertising CSRwire correspondent to the United Nations Rarely is a more diverse collection of people found under one roof than the 500 or so working around the clock this weekend at the United Nations to hash out the document going to the Rio+20 ‘Earth Summit’ …

The 2011 State of the Future

Ethical MarketsTrendspotting

The 2011 State of the Future is now available at: http://millennium-project.org/millennium/2011SOF.html The executive summary can be downloaded at no cost. Invaluable insights Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations Fascinating read Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald and co-winner Pulitzer Prize A must read for any decisionmaker Enrique Peña Nieto, Governor of the State …

Japan: Responding Creatively To Crisis

kristyGlobal Citizen

“Other News” is a personal initiative seeking to provide information that should be in the media but is not, because of commercial criteria. It welcomes contributions from everybody. Work areas include information on global issues, north-south relations, governance of globalization. Roberto Savio //Reproduction in whole or in part without permission …

World Population to Hit Seven Billion by October

kristySustainability News

“Other News” is a personal initiative seeking to provide information that should be in the media but is not, because of commercial criteria. It welcomes contributions from everybody. Work areas include information on global issues, north-south relations, governance of globalization. Roberto Savio //Reproduction in whole or in part without permission …

Global Poll Shows Public Support for Taliban Negotiations

kristyGlobal Citizen

In light of President Barack Obama’s forthcoming address regarding troops in Afghanistan, the BBC World Service and GlobeScan will be releasing their latest global issues poll (embargoed until tonight, Wednesday 22 June 2300 GMT, 1900 EDT). This timely poll from the BBC and international research consultancy GlobeScan indicates that more …