Further corroding trust and confidence in government and government officials, another senior government official takes his turn through the highly lucrative revolving door onto Wall Street

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, SRI/ESG News

Further corroding trust and confidence in government and government officials, another senior government official takes his turn through the highly lucrative revolving door onto Wall Street:Former Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), who stunningly lost a recent primary election largely due to his cozy ties to Wall Street, has landed …

Hazel Henderson speaks to John Thomas during Living In Oness Summit, May 2014

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity

Hazel Henderson speaks to John Thomas during Living In Oness Summit, May 2014 Hazel Henderson spoke in the Business/Professional track which addressed on how a new way of conducting business is emerging, a kind and compassionate approach to business. It is spiritually conscious business. What does this mean for you? …

Update from Crazy Abu Dhabi: green bonds part of UN Climate Summit / Jeffrey Sachs lays out 7 Step Survival Plan / Ban Ki Moon’s soft power

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity, SRI/ESG News

Climate Bonds has posted a new item, ‘Update from Crazy Abu Dhabi: green bonds part of UN Climate Summit / Jeffrey Sachs lays out 7 Step Survival Plan / Ban Ki Moon’s soft power‘ Abu Dhabi is indeed a crazy place: gold-leaf covered 7 star hotels surrounded by desal-water fed …

Impact Fundraising Webinar Coming + Much More

Jay OwenCrowdfunding

It wasn’t until I stood in a burning apartment with a woman that I realized what real change is… Hi! My name is Mozart. I’m a community builder, poet and dad working with Jonathan on the social entrepreneurship Clinic. I’m a trained social worker who got my first job out of school …

A Dangerous Game Of Us vs. Us Played With Our Life Savings : AltEnergyStocks.com

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance

  A Dangerous Game Of Us vs. Us Played With Our Life Savings Posted: 15 Mar 2014 07:22 AM PDT Tom Konrad CFA US law requires that money managers put their clients’ interests first. Investment advisers and money managers almost universally assume this means that they must try to make as …

“Harvard Quality with BuzzFeed Agility” – Chief Digital Officers Explore Digital Disruption in Education (VIDEO)

Jay OwenWealth of Networks

“Harvard Quality with BuzzFeed Agility” – Chief Digital Officers Explore Digital Disruption in Education (VIDEO) academia and caused as much hype, consternation, and panic in such a short period.” The technology in question relates to MOOCs: Massive Open Online Courses. And that pronouncement was made by Sree Sreenivasan, former Chief …

A billion-dollar company eliminates managers | SMART PLANET Daily

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News, Wealth of Networks

    smartplanet DAILY A DAILY BRIEFING OF THE NEWEST STORIES ON SMARTPLANET, FIVE DAYS A WEEK. January 03, 2014 FROM THE DESK OF … At the end of this blessedly short week, can you imagine your place of work going holocratic? No managers, no job titles, just radically-transparent self-governance. …

[Climate Bonds] European Investment Bank’s climate financier Chris Knowles joins Climate Bonds Advisory panel

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity

  Climate Bonds has posted a new item, ‘European Investment Bank’s climate financier Chris Knowles joins Climate Bonds Advisory panel‘ Christopher Knowles, Head of the Climate Change & Environment Division in the european investment bank (EIB)’s Operations Directorate since 2006, has today joined the Climate Bonds Advisory Panel. Chris leads …

Women in Leadership – FREE Virtual Issue

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

Virtual Issue – Women in Leadership Enjoy FREE access to relevant research by visiting our Women in Leadership virtual issue today.* Rethinking the “think management- think male” paradigm Journal: Gender in Management: An International Journal Beyond gender role stereotypes and requisite managerial characteristics: From communal to androgynous, the changing views of women Do androgynous …

How Science Is Telling Us All To Revolt

Jay OwenEarth Systems Science

How Science Is Telling Us All To Revolt by Naomi Klein Waste land: large-scale irrigation strips nutrients from the soil, scars the landscape and could alter climactic conditions beyond repair. Image: Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto/ Flowers, London, Pivot Irrigation #11 High Plains, Texas Panhandle, USA (2011) In December 2012, …