The Principles for Responsible Investment, the Responsible Investment Initiative and the Canadian Business Ethics Research Network are delighted to invited you to the 4th Annual Academic Network Conference on Responsible Investment which will be held at York University in Toronto, Canada on October 1-3, 2012. Featured keynote speakers include Ola …
How can the general public take the climate crisis more seriously?
Here are two articles here that take climate crisis seriously, but argue from the premise that most people don’t: They don’t get the right market signals; it interferes with their preconceived ideas and ideology; it’s inconvenient; it’s outside their mental boxes — even when the evidence is right before their …
NYC’s Delta Building Uses Smart Tech To Provide Its Own Power | The Energy Collective Daily
Welcome to the party, New York! With the completion of the Delta building at 142 W. 9th Street in Brooklyn this month, the Big Apple has gained its first “self-powered” (i.e., net zero) building. Read more…
Kandi Technologies Bags Largest Single Electric Vehicle Order Ever
Kandi Technologies Bags Largest Single Electric Vehicle Order Ever Posted: 21 Jul 2012 10:52 AM PDT Tom Konrad CFA The city of Hangzhou just signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Kandi Technologies (NASD:KNDI) and nine other companies to supply 20,000 electric vehicles (EVs) for the city’s “pilot” EV leasing program. Kandi is the …
US Drought Disaster Will Cause Global Food Insecurity
When National Climate Disasters Go Global: On Drought, Food, And Global Insecurity ThinkProgress.org/Climate : 18 Jul 2012 02:49 PM PDT by Francesco Femia and Caitlin Werrell, via The Center For Climate and Security The national Drought Monitor recently declared [abnormally dry conditions or] a drought for almost 80% of the …
Food vs. Fuel and the Midwest Drought | The Energy Collective Daily
It was bound to happen. As long as US corn output continued to climb year after year, the federal mandate to blend steadily increasing quantities of ethanol into gasoline could be accommodated without creating a shortage of this staple grain. Read more…
Hazel Henderson Keynotes MUM Business Symposium
Hazel Henderson keynoted the July 2012 Deep Green Sumposium on Sustainable Business Management. Watch her presentation. http://youtu.be/A1S_1OxGjuU Congratulations to Hazel who was given a Lifetime Achievement Award at the end of her presentation.
Final Report of the Kay Review Launched Today – read the NSFM response
Network for Sustainable Financial Markets has posted a new item, ‘Final Report of the Kay Review Launched Today – read the NSFM response; Rob Lake on getting serious about long-term responsible investment; Andrew Clearfield on corporate misbehaviour‘ Later on today (23 July) Professor John Kay will be launching the final …
Eyewitness Report from Meeting with the SEC
We at Ethical Markets are happy to bring you an inside look at the SEC and the Crowdfunding issues from our colleague and expert, Mark Perlmutter, Hazel Henderson, Editor Washington, DC: July 18, 2012 : Eyewitness Report from Meeting with the SEC By Mark Perlmutter CEO Microangels : On July …
The Way Out: Hunter Honored with Multiple Awards!
We at Ethical Markets congratulate our good friend and colleaugue Hunter Lovins for these prestigious and well-deserved Awards! – Hazel Henderson, Editor Natural Capitalism is gaining recognition east and west. Last month Hunter received the Rachel Carson Award in New York City. This month NCS is focusing on Employee Engagement …