Future 500 Newsletter: COME CELEBRATE FUTURE 500’S NEW DIGS

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News, Beyond GDP

Join us on November 6th for our Open House in San Francisco   Future 500 Newsletter October 2013 The bridge between corporations and NGOs COME CELEBRATE FUTURE 500’S NEW DIGS   Join us on November 6th at our new San Francisco office. Cocktail with our team and board, relax with a glass of wine and …

Public Banks Are Key to Capitalism

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, Community Development Solutions

“Kudos to Ethical Markets Advisory Board Ellen Brown for this wide reaching piece in the New York Times.”  EMM Editor To ask whether public banks would interfere with free markets assumes that we have free markets, which we don’t. Banking is heavily subsidized and is monopolized by Wall Street, which …

‘Liconomics’: China’s Green Revolution Arrives

Jay OwenTrendspotting

Hat tip to Paul H. Ray for this  news . Encouraging , except to see the Chinese still wasting billions on nuclear power , the stupidest , most wasteful, dangerous and expensive way to  boil water !   As we report in our Green Transition scoreboard® Update , coming out  August …

Publisher’s Column: Taibbi Vanquishes Vampire Squid

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, Community Development Solutions

  Publisher’s Column:  Taibbi Vanquishes Vampire Squid  This and other highlights of the Public Banking 2013 Conference now available for free viewing on the Public Banking Institute’s website here. As one of the many people producing the Public Banking 2013 Conference, Conversation and TPP Forum, it was satisfying beyond measure to …

May – Thriving in the Midst of Climate Change – other Updates from ILSR

Jay OwenCommunity Development Solutions

Friend on Facebook Follow on Twitter Forward to a Friend First Broadband Technology Opportunities Project Transforms Rural Georgia Communities When the North Georgia Network was constructed the community was searching for a strategy to grow as agriculture and manufacturing opportunities slowly left the region. In this episode of ILSR’s Community …

Winner Takes All: The Super-priority Status of Derivatives

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Ellen Brown Cyprus-style confiscation of depositor funds has been called the “new normal.”  Bail-in policies are appearing in multiple countries directing failing TBTF banks to convert the funds of “unsecured creditors” into capital; and those creditors, it turns out, include ordinary depositors. Even “secured” creditors, including …

Jay OwenCrowdfunding

Wednesday, February 27th, 2013 Top Stories Visit Our Site Follow Like RSS SEC Chair Says Crowdfunding Coming “Soon,” But When is That? — In a recent speech at the annual “SEC speaks” event, current Securities and Exchange Commission chair Elisse Walter placed the word “crowdfunding” immediately after the word “soon.” That seems like …

Wind News: What is Onshore Wind’s Future in Europe?

Ethical MarketsGreen Prosperity

The Big Question: What is Onshore Wind’s Future in Europe? by David Appleyard, Chief Editor, Renewable Energy World Magazine | December 12, 2012 | Post Your Comment Renewable Energy World asks leading players in the industry for their verdicts on a key question of the moment. In this edition we asked for …

New Chair Mayor Park of Seoul spearheads energy and emissions savings plan in cities worldwide

kristyGreen Prosperity, Community Development Solutions

In the run up to COP18, ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, the World Mayors Council on Climate Change and Seoul Metropolitan Government hosted a number of events including a World Mayors Dialogue. The Dialogue enabled local leaders to present their success stories and exchange ideas with international and Korean …

Young’s China Business Blog Daily Newsletter: October 19 ?????????????:10?19?

kristyTV Series

YOUNG’S CHINA BUSINESS BLOG ????????? DAILY NEWSLETTER October 19, 2012 China’s Speeds Up Solar Lifeline ???????????? A new Chinese media report shows that after more than a year of talk, Beijing is finally turning its aggressive talk on solar energy into action by more than doubling its approval of new …