Dear Colleague, Welcome to our August www.Community-Wealth.orgnewsletter. This month’s features include: The Democracy Collaborative, along with theResponsible Endowments Coalition, hosted awebinar on July 19 to announce our jointly published report Raising Student Voices: Student Action for University Community Investment. The Chronicle for Higher Education released a blog review of the report, highlighting how everyone …
Transforming Economics Into True Wealth
November 2012 The statement on TRANSFORMING ECONOMIES INTO TRUE WEALTH is an invitation to fully engage in the planetary whole-system shift now under way. Many SRI investment professionals recognize our human responsibility for the many breakdowns in our societies and enfolding ecosystems resulting from our limited consciousness: climate change, hunger, …
ECLAC – Economic Policies Must Consider Unpaid Work of Women – Need Data
“With thanks to our Advisory Board member, futurist Rosa Alegria” http://www.eclac.cl/notes/70/EnFoco_1.html ECLAC – United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, has 44 member States and 8 non-independent territories in the Caribbean, and reports to the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). It is one of five regional …
Australian Government Agency Admits Ban on Heterodox Economic Analysis
Australian Government Agency Admits Ban on Heterodox Economic Analysis by Peter Earl In some of the first posts on this blog I reported on how Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific Research Organization (CSIRO) was attempting to censor and ban from publication Clive Spash’s peer-reviewed paper ‘The Brave New World of Carbon Trading”. …
Nov 5th NYC/31st Annual Schumacher Lectures
The Thirty-first Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures will be held Saturday, November 5, 2011 from 10am-5pm. Speakers are Gar Alperovitz, Juliet Schor, and a Special Panel “Voices of Today’s Youth: Occupy Wall Street and the Call for a New Economy.” The location is the Community Church of New York, 40 …
Global crisis rooted in systemic failure of the financial and political elite
CEO George Friedman says the current economic problems in the United States, Europe and elsewhere are the result of systemic failure in two major communities: the financial and political elite. Colin: Another of those rollercoaster weeks on the stock market may have terrified the wits out of investors but it belies …
Five Questions about SRI – Weekly Expert Interview with Miroslaw Izienicki
An interview from Emerging Markets ESG Five Questions about SRI – Weekly Expert Interview with Miroslaw Izienicki, President & Group CEO, Fifth Capital, London, United Kingdom – July 15, 2011 By Geoffrey on July 15, 2011 Each week Emerging Markets ESG publishes an interview entitled, “Five Questions about SRI.” The …