What is Stewardship? And Why Does it Matter?

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, SRI/ESG News

Thursday 6th November 2014 10.00 am – 11.30 am Crypt of St Paul’s Cathedral One of the world’s leading experts on biodiversity and sociobiology in discussion with different sectors to form a clearer vision of the scientific, moral and economic imperatives that underpin the need for a shared sense of …

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News: What evolved first, a dexterous hand or an agile foot?

Jay OwenNature/Biomimicry

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News   What evolved first, a dexterous hand or an agile foot? Posted: 06 Oct 2013 05:41 PM PDT Resolving a long-standing mystery in human evolution, new research indicates that early hominids developed finger dexterity and tool use ability before the development of bipedal locomotion. Salt-tolerant bacteria …

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” …

ScienceDaily: Social amoebae travel with a posse: Tiny single-celled organisms have amazingly complicated social lives

Jay OwenEarth Systems Science

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News Social amoebae travel with a posse: Tiny single-celled organisms have amazingly complicated social lives Natural affinities — unrecognized until now — may have set stage for life to ignite Mini-monsters of the forest floor Ice-free Arctic winters could explain amplified warming during Pliocene Large Gulf dead …

The Resilience Imperative: Cooperative Transitions to a Steady-state Economy

Jay OwenBooks and Reviews

 by Michael Lewis & Patrick Conaty, New Society Publishers, 2012, ISBN: 9780865717077      Review by Shann Turnbull, EMM Advisory Board member and source of some of the ideas cited in the book. The Resilience Imperative is a must read for both leaders and followers seeking survival of society. The book …

In Memoriam Lynn Margulis

kristyEarth Systems Science

The world has lost one of the most brilliant scientists in the field of Earth Systems Science. Lynn Margulis, as a biologist extraordinaire, through her many books, explained so much to the aware public: that cooperation was a deep strategy of nature as species co-evolved; that the living biosphere of …