CDFI Roundtable – Now in Baton Rouge!

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, Community Development Solutions

Serving the Underserved: Building Alternative Financial Services  in Low-Income Communities    When:  April 15, 2015 | 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Where: Westerfield Conference Center | 1800 S. Acadian Thruway  Baton Rouge, LA Cost:     $45 per person   The National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions, sponsored by …

Public Banking Institute: New Web Site Launched / Symposium Tomorrow

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, Community Development Solutions

Hi  – Check out our new web site – just in time for the Santa Fe symposium Saturday! Check Out Our New Website! After months of work, the new Public Banking Institute web site is finally LIVE. Click here to see it.  We have moved it to the Nationbuilder platform …

Nature Connection: The Rewilded Child – Reconnection with Nature, 20 -24 October

Jay OwenSustainability News

Nature Connection This autumn we look at the benefits of consciously developing a connection to nature in different parts of our lives and society. The Rewilded Child – Reconnection with Nature, 20 -24 October With Jay Griffiths, David Bond, Chris Salisbury and Lemn Sissay How to reconnect our kids with …

The Green Economy Barometer

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity, Beyond GDP

We at ethical markets are members of the Green Economy Coalition and are happy to  present this new Green Economy Barometer which complements our own Green Transition Scoreboard® , which measures private investments worldwide since 2007,  Hazel Henderson, editor Dear friends,   How are governments, north and south, responding to …

World Forum on Natural Capital: A BIG THANK YOU!

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, SRI/ESG News

              A huge thank you! It is now four weeks since the inaugural World Forum on Natural Capital brought 500 people from 35 countries together in Edinburgh. We would like to extend a huge thank you to all the partners, supporters, sponsors, speakers, volunteers and delegates …

World Forum on Natural Capital November 21 – 22

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity, Nature/Biomimicry

                16 days to go: 30+ countries so far With endorsement from the United Nations and the World Bank, the concept of natural capital accounting is rapidly becoming an essential concept to understand. If you haven’t seen it already, take a look at our …

CleanTech Nation Webinar: 3-D Printing, Clean Tech, and Sustainability

Jay OwenGreentech

3-D Printing, Clean Tech, and Sustainability. This session with Ethical Markets Advisor and partner Janine Benyus, author of Biomimicry and co-founder of Biomimicry 3.8, looks at the positive possibilities of 3-D printing – beyond making more junk with unknowable, likely toxic chemical goops.   You can view the recorded session here: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/recording/4403428973503456257. Many …

The Dream I (and WE) still have – share your Dream now for 11 Days of Global Unity!

Jay OwenGlobal Citizen

  Many thanks to all who have been submitting your organizations, events and videos from around the world for 11 Days of Global Unity. We will be featuring our 2013 Partner Highlights on the 11 Days pages in the next few days. On the 50th Anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr’s …