The hidden cost of freezing Russia out of finance By Gillian Tett – Financial Times Instead of having one major cross-border payments system there could eventually be many This week, a milestone was passed on the road of globalisation. The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial …
Limiting global warming to 2 °C – why Victor and Kennel are wrong
Ethical Markets posts this debate on the 2 degree Limit while we continue to focus on what all 191 UN member countries already agree : to shift away from fossil energy and non-renewables to cleaner,inclusive sustainable green economies worldwide . This is what we track in our Green Transition Scoreboard® …
Saving our Seas – Tapping into the Wisdom of OceanElders
by Martha Shaw (New York, NY) – For 10,000 years, the ocean has been the life support system that has generously supplied us with air, food, and shelter in the embrace of a livable climate. In a perfect world, human beings might have fit nicely into the Earth’s ecosystem, in …
GFI Welcomes Global Witness Report on “The Great Rip Off” from Anonymous Companies in America
September 30, 2014 Latest GFI Blogs Opportunity Knocks to Address Illicit Financial Flows The “Big Mo” in the Drive to Address Illicit Financial Flows Photographs from GFI and MIND’s Joint Conference in Rio de Janeiro China’s Illicit Outflows Were US$1.08 Trillion from 2002-2011 Voices from Delaware Are Speaking Out Against …
Interviewed: The World’s First Tiny House Hoteliers
Interviewed: The World’s First Tiny House Hoteliers Deb Delman and her partner Kol Peterson, the creators of Caravan, may have the first hotel of its kind in Portland, Oregon. > CITIES Kentucky Town Beats High Gas Prices by Opening a Public Gas Station. Controversy has erupted in Somerset as …
Victory: Google kicks ALEC to the curb
Hi there—Over the past year, MoveOn member Marisol Garcia from Phoenix, AZ, has campaigned hard to get Google off the board of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the organization behind some of the worst pieces of legislation to come out in recent years, including “stand your ground” laws. Earlier …
MEDIA RELEASE: Time to re-engineer the UN Staff Pension Fund
Ethical Markets has long advocated the UN Pension Fund take the lead by re-structuring its portfolio in line with its employees ‘ values ! I recall my meeting in 1998 at the UN H.Q. with John Ruggie and Georg Kell , arranged for me by my friend Maurice Strong .I …
ECONOMIC GROWTH AND ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE CAN NOW BE ACHIEVED TOGETHER, FINDS GLOBAL COMMISSION
Ethical Markets welcomes this report which conforms to our own research in our Green Transition Scoreboard®. Hazel Henderson, Editor New report aims to drive action by world leaders, business executives and investors ahead of major summit on climate change Editor’s note: The “Better Growth, Better Climate” report, including infographics …
Two Fall Cohorts of the Caring Economy Leadership Program are now forming
Ethical Markets is proud to be part of the coalition for a Caring Economy Campaign and that founder Riane Eisler is on our Advisory Board, Hazel Henderson, Editor Join us starting September 25 or October 11, 2014 Two Fall Cohorts of the Caring Economy Leadership Program are now forming Learn …
News @NEON – New Observatory Director, new airborne data, and more
Fall 2014 In this issue Observatory Director New airborne data available New higher education video on LiDAR data Construction updates Fall into Phenology 2014 NEON summer intern blogs Call for papers: Understanding uncertainty in remotely sensed vegetation data products New jobs in NEON science NEON hires new Observatory Director …