Women in Green Forum, August 26

Jay OwenPartner Announcements and News

Join us for the 5th Annual Women In Green Forum, scheduled for August 26 at the Luxe Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. The Forum is the largest international conference series highlighting women’s impact in the environmental arena and features executives and sustainability officers from AEG, Wal-Mart, Microsoft, Intel, BMW, and Subaru. Offering …

TBLI BLOG: Euros 700 Million Impact Investment

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

    TBLI CONFERENCE™: building a global community of ESG & Impact Investors TBLI BLOG Words by Robert Rubinstein Euros 700 Million Impact Investment 16 Jul 2014 12:44 pm | Robert Rubinstein TBLI Inspiration At our recent TBLI Club, Robert Dijksterhuis, Director International Programmes at the Netherlands Enterprise Agency spoke on the new …

Today’s Top Stories from GFI – The Tale of ‘Bitcoin Jesus’

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, Information Technology Issues

    Tuesday, June 17, 2014 From the Global Financial Integrity Blog:   Someone Gets Fired at BNP Paribas Why Swiss Banks Can’t Be as Secretive in 2014 as 1934 How Stopping Boko Haram Means Curtailing Illicit Finance   Event Recap: Why Illicit Financial Flows are Europe’s Common Enemy   …

Ceres Newsletter: The Cost of Corn

Jay OwenGreentech, Desert Greening

  Ceres Newsletter – June 2014 Press and Media Press Release: New Report Shows Decline in Carbon Dioxide and Other Pollutants from U.S. Power Plants, but State and Power Company Emissions Vary WidelyNews Story: More solar energy powering Corporate America (USA Today)Blog: The Quest For Sustainable Corn In Iowa (National …

When Nature Gets a Price Tag

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News, Beyond GDP

http://truth-out.org/news/item/24355-when-nature-gets-a-price-tag When Nature Gets a Price Tag Bachalpsee in the morning, Swiss Alps, a generally mountainous areas less affected by human activity. (Photo: Zach T. / CC; Edited: EL / TO) United Nations – How much does a forest cost? What’s the true economic value of an ocean? Can you …

The Slow Money Letter: Of Algorithms, People and Knowledge

Jay OwenCommunity Development Solutions

  The Slow Money Letter, June 2014     Of Algorithms, People and Knowledge by Woody Tasch — I arrived at this month’s inaugural Slow Money Canada meeting ready to share an excerpt of Michael Lewis’s new book, Flash Boys. Is there a more stark counterpoint for slow money, a …

IT’S NOT JUST GEORGE SOROS ANYMORE

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance

IT’S NOT JUST GEORGE SOROS ANYMORE By Chrystia Freeland* Earlier this year, the most reliable way for a billionaire to make the headlines was to compare suggested tax increases to Nazi Germany. Lately, though, the more interesting shift in the politics of the plutocracy has been more genteel. There will …

Thank you for an amazing TBLI CONFERENCE™ USA 2014

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity, SRI/ESG News

Ethical Markets is proud to  be a Media Partner of TBLI and to  count its pioneering founder, Robert Rubinstein as a member of our global Advisory Board  of experts  – Hazel Henderson, Editor Thank you! Our 25th TBLI CONFERENCE was another amazing experience! We like to thank our Location Sponsor, …

Crowdsourcing.org – Fundrise Announces $31M Funding Round

Jay OwenCrowdfunding

Wednesday, May 28 Top Stories Visit Our Site Follow Like RSS Fundrise Announces $31M Funding Round — Fundrise, the Washington, DC-based equity crowdfunding platform for real estate projects, announced this morning that it closed a $31 million funding round. The round was led by Chinese social networking site Renren, CEO …

Call for Papers – Geneva Summit on Sustainable Finance

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, SRI/ESG News, Sustainability News

May 31, 2014 is the deadline for submitting papers to the 2nd Geneva Summit on Sustainable Finance. The Geneva Finance Research Institute and the Institute For Environmental Sciences of the University of Geneva together with Sustainable Finance Geneva are pleased to announce the 2nd Geneva Summit on Sustainable Finance, which will …