KOSMOS NEWS: Is Sharing for Sale?

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News, Global Citizen

MAY 27, 2014 NEWSLETTER Is Sharing for Sale? Dear Readers, Our featured author this week is Elisabet Sahtouris, an eloquent teacher of evolution biology and also a futurist. Like many of us, she senses that global transformation is underway in our hearts and minds, our communities, and slowly in our social …

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News : Frogs, salamanders and climate change

Jay OwenNature/Biomimicry

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News Frogs, salamanders and climate change Reading rock to understand how climate change unfolds Invasive species: ‘away-field advantage’ weaker than ecologists thought Frogs, salamanders and climate change Posted: 18 May 2013 12:37 PM PDT Increasingly erratic rainfall patterns can lead to declines in southeastern frog and salamander …

Carbon budgets and sub-prime assets

kristyReforming Global Finance, SRI/ESG News

The concept of fossil fuel reserves exceeding the carbon budget continues to gather acceptance. Last week the IEA published its World Energy Outlook 2011. In the Climate Change Chapter, the IEA uses the same approach as Carbon Tracker to show that thee numbers don’t add up. See attached extract for …

3 New Loans, Moving Your Money, and America’s Best Brownies!

kristyCommunity Development Solutions, SRI/ESG News

Inspiration from Bank Transfer Day November 5 was Bank Transfer Day, an initiative asking motivated individuals to move their funds from large commercial banks to community banks and credit unions. We’re excited to see a grassroots movement like this, reaching tens of thousands of people (over 70,000 people posted on …

What Makes Bankers Happy?

Ethical MarketsReforming Global Finance

This article was first published by the Network for Sustainable Financial Markets at www.sustainablefinancialmarkets.org as part of the NSFM opinion series in which contributors write in a personal capacity, proposing specific steps towards real and sustainable market reform. NSFM opinion: What makes bankers happy? Penny Shepherd writes: Since the financial …