News – Webcast alert: Watch Latin America’s biggest corporate social responsibility conference live

Ethical MarketsSRI/ESG News

2012 CSRAmericas opens tonight in Quito Three-day conference to discuss ways to incorporate small producers into value chains, youth skills, and methods to measure the social impact of businesses and multi-stakeholder alliances Watch Webcast QUITO – CSRAmericas, Latin America’s biggest corporate social responsibility conference, will be transmitted live over the internet. The …

URGENT – Call to Action – 5th UN World Conference on Women in 2015

kristyThe Power of Yin

A Call to Action in support of a Fifth World UN Conference of Women in 2015 (5WCW) Become part of its realization! April 2012 A statement by Elly Pradervand – WWSF CEO Member of the core lobby group since 2005 for a 5WCW For the past decades, a series of …

Global Outlook on Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) Policies

kristySRI/ESG News, Global Citizen, Sustainability News

Global Outlook on Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) Policies Launch of Executive Summary The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the European Commission (EC) will be releasing the main findings of “The Global Outlook on SCP Policies”, on Wednesday, 21 March 2012, in New York, in the margins of the …

Transforming Finance To Grow Green Sustainable Economies

kristyGreen Prosperity, Sustainability News, Articles by Hazel Henderson, Crowdfunding

By Hazel Henderson (*) SAINT AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA, Oct (IPS) “We recognize finance as part of the global commons,” affirms the Transforming Finance statement, signed by financial professionals worldwide critical of today’s casino capital markets. Financialization has produced the global debt bubble. Needed now are write-offs and haircuts to bond-holders and …