US Seed Libraries Mobilize to Protect Their Right to Share

Jay OwenCommunity Development Solutions

Received this from a friend? Subscribe to Shareable’s newsletter.   US Seed Libraries Mobilize to Protect Their Right to Share Seed Librarians come together to meet the new regulatory threat to their vital service. >> Read more How Land Trusts Can Counter New Urbanism’s Gentrifying Tendencies Interview with Aaron Bartley, co-founder of …

The China Greentech Report 2014: Greener, Smarter, More Productive

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity, SRI/ESG News, Greentech

 August 27, 2014   Dear Friends of China Greentech:   Today we release The China Greentech Report 2014: Greener, Smarter, More Productive, the fifth in a series that was first launched at the World Economic Forum in 2009. You can download the full Report in now by visiting: www.report.china-greentech.com   This year’s Report asserts …

Voices of Hope & Launch of the International Alliance for Localization

Jay OwenSustainability News, Beyond GDP

  Local Futures     International Society for Ecology and Culture   July-August 2014   Photo: Karim Ahmed Hasan (Egypt) Greetings from LOCAL FUTURES In This Update     – Voices of Hope in a Time of Crisis & the launch    of the International Alliance for Localization   – Announcing Planet …

Today’s Top Stories from GFI – IRS Nets Offshore Data From 77,000 Banks, 70 Countries In FATCA Push

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, SRI/ESG News

  Wednesday, June 4, 2014 From the Global Financial Integrity Blog: New York Regulator on BNP Paribas: Someone Needs to Get Fired Why Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s First Act Was To Go After Illicit Financial Flows Chart: Russian Bank Deposits in the U.S. Before and After Sanctions Credit Suisse, …

real-world economics review – issue no. 67″ : Loanable funds vs. endogenous money: Krugman is wrong, Keen is right

Jay OwenBeyond GDP

real-world economics review – issue no. 67 real-world economics review – Subscribers: 24,474       Subscribe here      Blog      ISSN 1755-9472  – A journal of the World Economics Association (WEA) 12,557 members, join here – Sister open access journals: Economic Thought and World Economic Review  – back issues at www.paecon.net    recent issues: 66 65 64 63 62 61 60 59 58 57  Issue no. 67, 9 May 2014     http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue67/whole67.pdf     You can download the whole issue as …

SEARCH FOR COMPREHENSIVE DESIGN SOLUTIONS TO HUMANITY’S CRITICAL PROBLEMS LAUNCHED!

Jay OwenTrendspotting

SEARCH FOR COMPREHENSIVE DESIGN SOLUTIONS TO HUMANITY’S CRITICAL PROBLEMS LAUNCHED! The Buckminster Fuller Institute formally announces the Call for Proposals to the 2014 Fuller Challenge. Recognized as “Socially-Responsible Design’s Highest Award”, the Challenge invites activists, architects, artists, designers, entrepreneurs, students and planners from all over the world to submit their innovative solutions …

Shareable: Join the Quiet Revolution

Jay OwenCommunity Development Solutions, Beyond GDP

Weekly Newsletter  Subscribe to Shareable’s newsletter.   Join the Quiet Revolution Want to be a Quiet Revolutionary? Help map the movement! >> Read more What’s Driving Free Coworking’s Epic Growth? And what does the future hold? 4 coworking leaders share their thoughts. >> Read more Let’s Take Back Our Economies The current …

EMM Welcomes Jean Houston to Advisory Board

Jay OwenAdvisors' Forum

            Dr. Jean Houston, scholar, philosopher and researcher in Human Capacities, is one of the foremost visionary thinkers and doers of our time. She is long regarded as one of the principal founders of the Human Potential Movement.    “In our time we have come to …

December 23rd, 2013, marks the 100th anniversary of the Federal Reserve, warranting a review of its performance. Has it achieved the purposes for which it was designed?

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance

December 23rd, 2013, marks the 100th anniversary of the Federal Reserve, warranting a review of its performance.  Has it achieved the purposes for which it was designed? The answer depends on whose purposes we are talking about.  For the banks, the Fed has served quite well.  For the laboring masses whose …