GreenMoney Oct14_Positive Impacts of Community Investing

Jay OwenCommunity Development Solutions

  Why Not in Your Backyard?  New opportunities to invest for impact in your own community         by Cece Derringer, Homewise   A new survey published in May by the Global Impact Investing Network and J.P. Morgan offers clear evidence of the impressive growth of impact investing. The survey, …

WHEB invests in Mcor Technologies Ltd.

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News, Nature/Biomimicry

London and Munich, 2 June 2014   WHEB Partners, the London and Munich based private equity fund manager, has invested €6.6m of growth capital in Mcor Technologies Ltd (Mcor). Mcor provides the world’s most affordable, full-colour and eco-friendly 3D printers. The company is based in Dunleer, Ireland. While most 3D …

Green BUzz: Finance powerhouses Michael Bloomberg and Mary Schapiro to lead SASB

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, SRI/ESG News

Reporting Spotlight Finance powerhouses Michael Bloomberg and Mary Schapiro to lead SASB By Elsa Wenzel The 108th New York City mayor and the 29th chair of the SEC are taking leadership roles with the Sustainable Accounting Standards Board. …Read More 5 top reporting frameworks: A crash course By Anne Shiraishi …

SEARCH FOR COMPREHENSIVE DESIGN SOLUTIONS TO HUMANITY’S CRITICAL PROBLEMS LAUNCHED!

Jay OwenTrendspotting

SEARCH FOR COMPREHENSIVE DESIGN SOLUTIONS TO HUMANITY’S CRITICAL PROBLEMS LAUNCHED! The Buckminster Fuller Institute formally announces the Call for Proposals to the 2014 Fuller Challenge. Recognized as “Socially-Responsible Design’s Highest Award”, the Challenge invites activists, architects, artists, designers, entrepreneurs, students and planners from all over the world to submit their innovative solutions …

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 …

Videos: Speakers at UN Leaders’ Summit 2013 Apply Lessons to a Hopeful Future

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity, SRI/ESG News, Global Citizen

20 Sep 2013 02:23:25 (Part 1) Plenary meeting – Global Leaders Summit 2013 (English)   20 Sep 2013 00:17:12 Ban Ki-moon, Global Leaders Summit 2013 (English) Opening remarks by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the Global Compact Leaders Summit: “Architects of a Better World”.    

Second Nature: The Biomimicry Evolution to Air on Public Television

Ethical Markets - RTV Series

See EMM Advisory Board member Janine Benyus featured in Second Nature! Second Nature: The Biomimicry Evolution  explores the emerging discipline of biomimicry, the science of emulating nature’s best ideas to solve human problems. Set in the wilds of South Africa, the film follows biologist, author, and Time magazine “Hero of the Environment” …

Smart Planet Daily: A New Age of Sail? Clipper ships are back in business

Jay OwenTrendspotting

    Manage my newsletters  |  Trouble viewing this mail? Read it online.  |  Previous Edition     SmartPlanet Daily July 31, 2013 A daily briefing of the newest stories on SmartPlanet, five days a week.   From the Desk of … But these aren’t your grandmother’s clipper ships. Plus, C.C. Sullivan asks whether …

National Black Chamber of Commerce Progress Report July 15 2013: Dealing with the Davis Bacon Act at Congress:

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

  Register on the $500 million Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture 20 Years of the NBCC NBCC 21st Annual Conference, July 24-26, Palm Beach, Florida-Four Seasons Resort [email protected] www.nationalbcc.org Progress Report 070213   1. Dealing with the Davis Bacon Act at Congress:  The House Small Business Committee is taking …

Triple Pundit: Creating Conditions Conducive To Life: The First Biomimicry 3.8 Global Conference

Jay OwenNature/Biomimicry

Creating Conditions Conducive To Life: The First Biomimicry 3.8 Global Conference By Tamsin Woolley-Barker, Ph.D – http://www.triplepundit.com/2013/07/creating-conditions-conducive-life-first-biomimicry-38-global-conference/ July 4th, 2013 This past weekend, I had the great pleasure of being a part of the 7th Annual Biomimicry Education Summit, and the first ever Biomimicry 3.8 Global Conference, hosted together by the University of …