David Lauer, Consultant on Technology Architecture and Equity Markets

Jay OwenAdvisors' Forum

Ethical Markets welcomes Dave Lauer to our Advisory Board     Dave Lauer is a Market Structure and Technology Architecture Consultant. He is an expert on the new electronic marketplace, with extensive experience helping to design and build the infrastructure that underpins many modern electronic trading systems as well as …

Media Reform Daily: Bigger and Badder?

Jay OwenWealth of Networks

  News of the movement for April 26, 2013   Journalism and Beyond Sinclair Broadcast Group: Bigger and Badder? Today in fat-cat consolidation news comes a report that Sinclair Broadcast Group is on the verge of owning more TV stations in the U.S. than any other company. Amy Kroin, Free …

Is American Nonviolence Possible?

Jay OwenGlobal Citizen

        Is American Nonviolence Possible?   By TODD MAY* – The New York Times The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence. – Martin Luther King Jr.   We are steeped in violence.   This past week was of course a searing reminder: Monday’s bombing …

Jay OwenWealth of Networks

  News of the movement for April 11, 2013     National Conference for Media Reform Taking on Murdoch, SOPA and the FCC From the digital divide to media consolidation to Net Neutrality, Craig Aaron, president and CEO of Free Press, is on the front lines of media reform. BillMoyers.com …

Saving the World on Earth Day

Jay OwenCommunity Development Solutions, Advisors' Forum

Ethical Markets welcomes this Earth Day news from Advisory Board member Terry Mock Here’s a warm up. Stay tuned…   http://www.oryana.coop/blog/saving-the-world-on-earth-day Saving the World on Earth Day April 9, 2013   Earth Day is April 22 and one Oryana-ite in Northern Michigan is marking the day in grand style, by …

Earth Policy Release – Full Planet, Empty Plates Chapter One

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News, Earth Systems Science

We also draw attention to the role of speculative long positions in commodity futures by institutional investors as tracked by the New England  Complex Systems Institute www.necsi.edu – Hazel Henderson ,Editor in Chief Chapter 1. Food: The Weak Link  Lester R. Brown www.earth-policy.org/books/fpep/fpepch1 Earth Policy Release Full Planet, Empty Plates April 9, 2013 …

Today’s Top Stories from GFI: No Species Is Safe From Illicit Wildlife Trade

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

  Tuesday, March 12, 2013 HSBC, Panama: “Exit, Stage Right” Video: Raymond Baker at the Wilson Center on Illicit Financial Flows from Russia Senator Carl Levin to Retire After 2014 Denmark Increases Corporate Transparency One Thing We Learned From The Senate’s Too Big To Jail Hearing Yesterday Congress Must End …

How Crowdsourcing Could Save the DOE – GTM Daily Newsletter

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity, SRI/ESG News

March 1, 2013 LATEST NEWS: OneRoof Adds $100M More in Home Solar Rooftop Financing  Eric Wesoff – February 28, 2013 The surge of financing money flooding into residential solar continues. Guest Post: Why the Telecom Sector Should Take Renewables Seriously  David King – February 28, 2013 How market forces are …

The 14 worst fossil-fuel projects for the climate

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

The 14 worst fossil-fuel projects for the climate By David Roberts | Grist, Jan 22, 2013 In a justly famous Rolling Stone piece, Bill McKibben popularized the notion of “Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math.” We have a “carbon budget,” between now and 2050, of roughly 565 gigatons of carbon dioxide. If we emit …

The heat is on as the New York Times closes its environment desk

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

The heat is on as the New York Times closes its environment desk The paper risks much by folding its environment desk – just at the moment when climate change has never been more pressing The New York Times shut down its environment desk earlier this month, after the hottest …