The First Year of Equity Crowdfunding in Italy

Jay OwenCrowdfunding

Italy’s First Year of Equity Crowdfunding — italy was the first country in europe to enact crowdfunding legislation on a national level. One year on, how has crowdfunding fared? Alessandro Lerro writes in to recap the past year in equity crowdfunding, and shares some stats from the successful campaigns. OTHER …

PRESS RELEASE: SELECTION OF THE HOST CITY AND COUNTRY OF THE 8TH WORLD WATER FORUM

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News, Global Citizen, Sustainability News, Earth Systems Science

WORLD WATER COUNCIL                                                             PRESS RELEASESELECTION OF THE HOST CITY AND COUNTRY OF THE 8TH WORLD WATER FORUMbrazil as 2018 Forum’s hostsMarseille, France/Gyeongju, Korea, 26 February, 2014- This Wednesday, during its 51st Board of Governors meeting, the brazil to welcome the 8th World Water Forum …

Press Release: RBS sustainability report shows deliberate manipulation of truth by the state-owned bank

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

  Member of RBS sustainability report shows deliberate manipulation of truth by the state-owned bank Tuesday 16th April 2013 Press Release Commenting on an RBS sustainability report published last week (10th April 2013), Paul Daly, Corporate Accountability Campaigner, Friends of the Earth Scotland, said: “One third of RBS energy lending …

Taking the Long View: Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland’s Call for Citizen Action On the Road to Rio+20

kristyGlobal Citizen, The Power of Yin

Taking the Long View: Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland’s Call for Citizen Action On the Road to Rio+20 Her Excellency Gro Harlem Brundtland, founding chair of the world commission that launched the concept of sustainable development to the center of the global stage in 1987, recently shared her thoughts with Restorative …

Free online workshop on growing a Commons-inspired Occupy theory of a collective action

kristyGlobal Citizen, Wealth of Networks

SPECIAL NOTICE In collaboration with the OWS Forum on the Commons in New York (Feb 16-18) http://makingworlds.wikispaces.com/home Free online workshop on growing a Commons-inspired Occupy theory of a collective action we’ve just opened a free online workshop on growing a Commons-inspired Occupy theory of a collective action, here: http://thefutureofoccupy.org/strategy-and-commons-workshop/ Occupy …

SustainAbility Update: Uncovering ratings best practices

kristySRI/ESG News

A newsletter from SustainAbility Update – February 2011 Rate the Raters, Phase 3 Today SustainAbility releases phase three in our four-part research initiative Rate the Raters. Corporate sustainability ratings are going mainstream, but how they work in practice remains somewhat of a mystery. Our phase three research sheds light on …