Community Gardening: Organic, Green and Sustainable

Ethical Markets - RCommunity Development Solutions, Poetry by Hazel Henderson

by Maria Pinochet, Ethical Markets Advisory Board Because so many individuals lack the time, space and know-how to plant their own gardens, community gardens are gaining members. Such an effort to green the local food chain, and make Jacksonville that much more sustainable, is underway by Ethical Markets friend, Thomas …

EMM congratulates The Story of Bottled Water, the 2010 winner of the EthicMark® Award

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Ethical Markets Media congratulates The Story of Bottled Water, the 2010 winner of the EthicMark® Award Saint Augustine, FL, November 18, 2010 – Ethical Markets Media congratulates The Story of Bottled Water, the 2010 winner of the EthicMark® Award which recognizes socially responsible media campaigns by businesses, non-profit organizations or …

What’s Really Behind QE2?

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More Good Sense from Ellen Brown.  Let’s Hope the US Can Really Focus on Direct Job -Creation  : for a start , to rebuild our infrastructure , invest in our  growing green sectors,  prevent  company subsidies to outsourcing and  curb the money leaving our country through Wall Street’s carry trade.  …

Deficit Proposals by Nat. Taxpayers Union and USPIRG (PDF)

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TWO VIEWS ON CUTTING US FEDERAL DEFICITS : the Draft from the President’s Deficit Commission v.  The National Taxpayers Union and US PIRG.  A good place to start the needed national debate! The President’s Draft finds $100 billion to cut from Defense Budgets v. NTU-USPIRG’s  $ 115 billion of cuts …

SB 2010 Power of “&” Meets Power of Emerging Measures

Ethical Markets - RBeyond GDP, Poetry by Hazel Henderson

Hazel Henderson presented at the Sustainable Brands 2010 conference in Monterrey, California, on Re-Defining the Metrics of Success: The Emerging Measures of Qualitative Growth, presenting some of her newest thinking on why GDP serves poorly as the ultimate measure of progress.  In this video of her presentation, she offers a …

Green Investing Conference the New Site of the Global EthicMark® Award

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Press Release SRI in the Rockies to host EthicMark® Award Presentation Colorado Springs – November 4, 2010 — SRI in the Rockies, the largest and longest-running conference for the sustainable and responsible investment (SRI) and green investing industry, has announced that the EthicMark® Award will be presented at its 22nd …

REAL ECONOMIES AND THE ILLUSIONS OF ABSTRACTION

Ethical Markets - RReforming Global Finance, Articles by Hazel Henderson, Beyond GDP

World Affairs: The Journal of International Issues, Vol. 15 No. 1 Winter Hazel Henderson © 2010 The yawning gap between the real world and the discipline and profession of economics has never been wider.  The ever-increasing abstractions in finance and its models based on “efficient markets” and “rational actors”: capital …

The SRI Conference Hosting 2010 EthicMark® Award Presentation

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Green Investing Conference the New Site of the Global EthicMark® Award Colorado Springs – November 5, 2010 — The SRI Conference, the largest and longest-running conference for the sustainable and responsible investment (SRI) and green investing industry, has announced that the EthicMark® Award will be presented at its 21st annual …

Financial Transaction Taxes: The Commonsense Approach by Hazel Henderson

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For Responsible Investor, October 19th, 2010 Despite the special pleadings of high frequency traders (HFT), the SEC’s initial report on the May 6, 2010, “flash crash” shows them as bogus. “Providing liquidity” claims for HFT turned out to be false – liquidity disappeared when needed. Price discovery was hampered by …