The Frankfurt School – UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity, Reforming Global Finance

The Frankfurt School – UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance (the Centre) has now released its sixth newsletter to offer a transparent look into its recent activities and international project work. Please find attached the new issue and read about: The Centre’s project portfolio in the field …

The Turning Point: New Hope for the Climate

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity

This forecast agrees with my Mapping the Global Transition to  the Solar Age (2014) which is a freely-downloadable  56-page summary of forthcoming book,Hazel Henderson,Editor     In the struggle to solve the climate crisis, a powerful, largely unnoticed shift is taking place. The forward journey for human civilization will be …

OurCrowd Raises $25M, Largest Investment in an Equity Crowdfunding Platform Yet

Jay OwenCrowdfunding

Wednesday, April 30 Top Stories Visit Our Site OurCrowd Closes $25M Series B Round — OurCrowd, the Israel-based equity crowdfunding platform for accredited investors, announced earlier this week that it raised a $25 million Series B private funding round. The company claims this is the largest investment in an equity …

Earth Policy Institute: Fisheries and Aquaculture Fact Sheet

Jay OwenEarth Systems Science

  Fisheries and Aquaculture Fact Sheet Earth Policy Release March 27, 2014 The world fish catch is a measure of the productivity and health of the oceanic ecosystem that covers 70 percent of the earth’s surface. The extent to which world demand for seafood is outrunning the sustainable yield of …

[Climate Bonds] First Green Bonds Index launched by Solactive; opens up opportunity for ETFs and improved access for smaller investors

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity

Climate Bonds has posted a new item, ‘First Green Bonds Index launched by Solactive; opens up opportunity for ETFs and improved access for smaller investors‘ German Index company Solactive last week launched a green bonds index, the first to hit the market. The Index uses the Climate Bonds Initiative’s tracking list of green bonds …

Transforming Advertising: Nominations Open for EthicMark Awards Honoring Best Sustainable, Environmental Campaigns Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/1787045#ixzz2vruRwYYX

Jay OwenGlobal Citizen

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., March 12, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Nominations are open until June 8th for the 2014 EthicMark® Awards for ads and media campaigns that “uplift the human spirit and society.” The winners will be announced at the 25th annual SRI Conference on Sustainable, Responsible, Impact Investing on November 9, 2014, in Colorado Springs, Colorado(http://www.sriconference.com/). The …

TRANSFORMING ADVERTISING: NOMINATIONS OPEN FOR 2014 ETHICMARK® AWARDS

Jay OwenGlobal Citizen

For Immediate Release   TRANSFORMING ADVERTISING: NOMINATIONS OPEN FOR 2014 ETHICMARK® AWARDS 2014 EthicMark® Awards Call for Nominations honoring best sustainable, environmental campaigns now open.   St. Augustine, FL, March 3, 2014 – Nominations are now open, running until June 13, 2014, for the 2014 EthicMark® Awards for ads and …

California Dries Up as Brown Pushes $15 Billion Tunnel

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News, Earth Systems Science

California’s worsening drought is raising the stakes for a $15 billion plan endorsed by Governor Jerry Brown to build two 30-mile (48-kilometer) water tunnels under an ecologically sensitive river delta east of San Francisco Bay. The tunnels, each as wide as a two-lane interstate highway, would ship water more reliably …

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News: The weaker sex: Male honey bees more susceptible than females to widespread intestinal parasite

Jay OwenNature/Biomimicry

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News The weaker sex: Male honey bees more susceptible than females to widespread intestinal parasite Posted: 18 Jan 2014 09:25 AM PST A research team has found that male European honey bees, or drones, are much more susceptible than female European honey bees, known as workers, to …

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News: Clever chemistry improves new class of antibiotics

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity

  ScienceDaily: Top Environment News   Clever chemistry improves new class of antibiotics Posted: 17 Jan 2014 09:49 AM PST A new class of molecules called acyldepsipeptides — ADEPs — may provide a new way to attack bacteria that have developed resistance to antibiotics. Researchers have discovered a way to …