The Centre for Sustainability and Excellence to host its Advanced CertifiedSustainability Training in San Francisco

Jay OwenSustainability News

The Centre for Sustainability and Excellence to host its Advanced CertifiedSustainability Training in San Francisco Chicago, August 26th, 2014 – The Centre for Sustainability and Excellence, a boutique firm specialized in global sustainability (CSR) consulting, coaching and training, after having hosted its Certified Sustainability (CSR) Practitioner Training in 25 countries and trained more than …

CrowdSourcing.org – As Seen On TV’ Enters Crowdfunding Space

Jay OwenCrowdfunding

Wednesday, October 30   Follow Like RSS As Seen on TV Opens Crowdfunding Platform to the Public — Everyone knows the iconic As Seen on TV brand. Earlier this week, the company launched its crowdfunding platform (powered by white label solution Launcht). We chat with As Seen on TV’s CEO Ron Pruett to …

LOHAS Highlights Love and Profit as Motivation to Sustainability

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity, Advisors' Forum

LOHAS Highlights Love and Profit as Motivation to Sustainability By Claudine Schneider, Ethical Markets Advisory Board member and correspondent   Report on the June 2013 LOHAS Conference, Boulder, Colorado “You protect what you fall in love with”, so said one of the featured presenters at the recent LOHAS conference (Lifestyles …

Global mobile penetration: near 96% | SmartPlanet Daily

Jay OwenGlobal Citizen, Wealth of Networks

  SmartPlanet Daily A daily briefing of the newest stories on SmartPlanet, five days a week.   From the Desk of … In a world with 7 billion people, there will be 6.8 billion mobile phone subscriptions by the end of this year. Could there soon be more subscriptions than …

SmartPlanet Daily: There are (almost) as many cell phone subscriptions as people

Jay OwenGlobal Citizen, Wealth of Networks

  SmartPlanet Daily A daily briefing of the newest stories on SmartPlanet, five days a week.   From the Desk of … In a world with 7 billion people, there will be 6.8 billion mobile phone subscriptions by the end of this year. Could there soon be more subscriptions than …

CSR ASIA: Participate, network and learn from our speakers to explore key CSR issues and strategies across Asia.

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

HIGHLIGHTS 15% Early Bird Ends next Saturday! Participate, network and learn from our speakers to explore key CSR issues and strategies across Asia. Confirmed speakers from Coca-Cola, Standard Chartered Bank, New Britain Palm Oil Limited, Sompo Japan Insurance, Oxfam, Forest Peoples Programme, Shell, CLP Holdings, VSO, Rio Tinto, The Asia Foundation, …

CrowdConf 2012: Customers Take The Stage October 23

kristyCrowdfunding

Kickstarter, the world’s most popular crowdfunding website, unveiled a multitude of new rules for project creators last week. The new guidelines are meant to emphasize the creative nature of the site over its function as a destination to pre-order products. OTHER HIGHLIGHTS CrowdConf 2012: Customers Take The Stage October 23 …

CSR Asia Weekly: Land rights and forest peoples/VSO: Employee volunteering in Asia

Ethical MarketsSRI/ESG News, Conferences

50+ Competent Speakers Will be Presenting at CSR Asia Summit 2012 Accor, CLP, Coca-Cola, DHL, GIZ, LRQA, Nokia, Standard Chartered Bank, State Street Corporation, Tencent, Total, UNICEF, World Food Programme and more are confirmed to speak at the CSR Asia Summit 2012. Don’t miss this must-attend gathering of over 500 …

These corporations don’t want you to vote

Ethical MarketsSRI/ESG News

For years, the right wing has been trying to stop people of color, young people, and seniors from voting in order to help Republicans get elected — and now some of America’s biggest companies are helping them do it.1 These companies have helped pass discriminatory voter ID legislation by funding a …

Queen’s Speech promises to deliver electricity market reforms

kristyGreen Prosperity, SRI/ESG News

09 May 2012 BREAKING NEWS Queen’s Speech promises to deliver electricity market reforms Legislation to enable launch of Green Investment Bank also confirmed in annual agenda for next year of parliament READ» ALSO IN THE NEWS WWF leading corporate giants to epic carbon cuts Companies including Coca-Cola and IBM cut …