Does your business need money to thrive?

Jay OwenCrowdfunding

A Letter From The Crowdfund Capital Advisors Team April 30, 2013 This one is for the Entrepreneurs! What would it feel like to have enough money to really get your small business up and running, with all the capital you need to advertise, to rent the space you need, and …

Towers Watson, EIOPA, PKA, IMF, John van Markwijk, Environment Agency, Credit Suisse, Townsend

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

        Dear Dr Hazel Henderson                 Today’s top stories             Brussels unlikely to base IORP on any of three QIS scenarios, says Towers Watson   EUROPE – Consultancy notes differing impact of scenarios, with one resulting …

HELIO Monthly Digest – March

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity

Mar. 2013 Monitoring Progress on Energy & Ecodevelopment  Innovation  Two articles in this month’s Digest highlight innovations that can be used to support the provision of clean, safe, energy services. One is the use of crowdfunding to quickly raise needed capital for clean, energy projects.  The other is the idea …

Ending Climate Silence

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News, Sustainability News

Corporate-NGO Engagement in times of rising Activism.    Future 500 Newsletter March 2013 The bridge between corporations and NGOs ENDING CLIMATE SILENCE Earlier this year we presented our Top 10 Stakeholder Issues for 2013. Issues such as health and obesity, fracking, GMOs, and digital freedom present risk to all companies, but in …

What Solar and Offshore Wind Can Do Together; When cities are running at full speed, a combined approach to renewables might be needed.

Ethical MarketsGreentech

ToYou from NewEnergyNews: Today’s Headlines   NewEnergyNews Daily Headlines click here for main page: http://ww.NewEnergyNews.net/   ON-THE-ROAD-READING, Monday, October 29: While NewEnergyNews is on the road covering The U.S. Solar Market Insight Conference, check out these pieces written earlier this year for Greentech Media. Back soon. * On-the-Road-Reading: What Solar and Offshore Wind Can Do Together; …

ENB Vol. 9 No. 574 – Second meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Nagoya Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity – Issue #1

kristyNature/Biomimicry

Second MEETING OF THE intergovernmental committee for the nagoya protocol ON ACCESS AND BENEFIT-SHARING to the convention on biological diversity: 2-6 JULY 2012 The second meeting of the Open-ended Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Committee for the Nagoya Protocol (ICNP) on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of …

Black brant geese show lifetime relationship good for goose and gander

kristyNature/Biomimicry

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News ——————————————————————————– Black brant geese show lifetime relationship good for goose and gander Posted: 20 Jun 2012 07:10 AM PDT Not all birds mate for life, but for those species that do, wildlife biologists have found a clear benefit to the birds from such long-term relationships: Greater …

Lily Cole Takes on the Impossible

kristyWealth of Networks, Poetry by Hazel Henderson

Lily Cole Takes on the Impossible Lisa Cowan, Ethical Markets European Correspondent, reports on an exciting project led by London’s Lily Cole. A recent post shares a fascinating interview by Becky Anderson, a high profile Anchor for CNN news, with Lily Cole and Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSGn097HZ00 . …

IIRC Secretariat – Pilot Programme & Communications

kristySRI/ESG News, Global Citizen

IIRC Secretariat – Pilot Programme & Communications The Pilot Programme is an opportunity for a select group of companies to demonstrate their leadership in Integrated Reporting through participation in a two-year programme, starting in October. Integrated Reporting makes clear the linkages between an organization’s strategy, governance and financial performance and …