UN Member States Receive Report on Finance for Sustainable Development

Ethical Markets - RGreen Prosperity, Reforming Global Finance, SRI/ESG News, Sustainability News, Articles by Hazel Henderson, Beyond GDP

Commentary by Hazel Henderson, Editor-in-Chief Good News from Mr. WU! The UN Report on Finance for Sustainable Development shows the global economics paradigm shifting: from today’s financial model of the global casino dominated by high-frequency trading and multi-trillions in derivative positions far exceeding the real world economy’s GDP – to …

Prospering in Common

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

Stuart Williams is back on the international conference scene and instead of his very successful conferences for 300,000 global corporate executives, he is bringing together environmentalists, architects and financial managers to reinvent the new SRI, Socially Responsible Investing, from the bottom up. As an international environmental consultant now focused on …

GreenMoney Feb 2014 issue on ‘The Sustainability Outlook’

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

The February 2014 Issue of GreenMoney is now available – its theme is ‘The Sustainability Outlook’. See the whole issue here –  http://bit.ly/1eHeVTP Below are the links to 6 individual articles that are Well Worth Your Time. -Cliff Feigenbaum, founder, GreenMoney 2014 Outlook for Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) by Amy …

Shelton Green Alpha Fund Conference Call – Investing for the Next Economy (Thursday, December 19th, at 9 AM Pacific)

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity, SRI/ESG News

Green Alpha Advisors (sub-advisor to the Shelton Green Alpha Fund) believes the green economy is the economy of the future.  Green economy companies work to improve human well-being, while reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities. Learn more about Green Alpha Advisors’ unique investment philosophy and outlook on the green economy by joining …

ESG in the Asset Manger Selection Process – New York

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

Responsible Investor upcoming seminar provides valuable information for asset management firms to get selected more frequently by pension funds. Responsible Investor’s ESG in the Asset Manager Selection Process seminar, taking place in New York on Friday, October 18th will feature presentations from some of North America’s largest asset owners and most …

Shelton Green Alpha Fund (NEXTX)

Jay OwenGreentech

  The Shelton Green Alpha Fund (NEXTX) seeks to achieve long term capital appreciation by investing in stocks in the green economy.  The fund’s three month performance of +15.47% (as of 6/30/2013) makes it the top performer in Morningstar’s Large Growth category in the second quarter.  The Shelton Green Alpha Fund was ranked …

Investing Fossil Free

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News, Greentech

The Shelton Green Alpha Fund has been recognized by 350.org and their Fossil-Free campaign as a truly fossil fuel-free mutual fund. As 350.org founder, Bill McKibben, has said “You can have a healthy fossil-fuel industry or a healthy planet, but you can’t have both”. Garvin Jabusch, Portfolio Manager for the Shelton Green Alpha Fund …

Measuring the Sustainability of Business: From Economism To Earth Systems Science

Jay OwenEarth Systems Science, Articles by Hazel Henderson

By Hazel Henderson When US astronaut Dr. Sally Ride returned from her space trip in 1983, she exclaimed that NASA should have a Mission To Planet Earth! This led to NASA’s “Earth”, an ongoing program of research into how our planet functions based on Earth Systems Science. I was a science …