NEW REPORT: Mobile Is Pulling Customers Away From Branches And Online Banking

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, Wealth of Networks

New Report Alert   THE MOBILE AND ONLINE BANKING REPORT: Mobile Is Pulling Customers Away From Branches And Online Banking To Read The Full Report, Sign Up For A Free Trial Today » John Heggestuen | [email protected] The relationship between consumers and their banks is in a period of dramatic upheaval …

Scandal of Glyphosate Re-assessment in Europe

Jay OwenEarth Systems Science

Preposterous verdict of “acceptable” risks for glyphosate Germany, acting as the European Union rapporteur member state (RMS) submitted their glyphosate renewal assessment report (RAR) to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) in January 2014, recommending re-approval of glyphosate for use in Europe with increase in the acceptable daily intake (ADI) …

Empowering Women – For Progress and Profit

Jay OwenThe Power of Yin

  Empowering Women – For Progress and Profit Impacting Companies, Changing the World In this plenary session, three dynamic women will explore how investors can mobilize our tools and influence to help corporations understand the importance of women’s empowerment, its relevance to the company’s value proposition, competitive advantage, and long-term …

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 …

G4 Online puts sustainability reporting at your fingertips

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

Press release For immediate release, 7 November 2013 G4 Online puts sustainability reporting at your fingertips G4 Online, a web-based tool to support organizations preparing sustainability reports using the latest generation of the Global Reporting Initiative’s Sustainability Reporting Guidelines, is launched today. The free to use website presents the content of the G4 …

The Globalist: American Power in Global History: Three Perspectives

Jay OwenGlobal Citizen

  Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Google+     American Power in Global History: Three Perspectives Was America Ever Exceptional? Patrick Smith | How it hurts a nation that cannot distinguish between strength and power. The U.S.-Russian Tug of War Martin Sieff | Lessons from Serbia 1913 for Syria 2013. American Diplomacy and …

IDB: Latin American public banks show strong potential to help address climate change and foster productive development

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, SRI/ESG News

June 18, 2013 – Webstories Latin American public banks show strong potential to help address climate change and foster productive development Public development banks represent 10 percent of lending in Latin America and the Caribbean Public Development Banks (PDBs) in Latin America and the Caribbean provide more than $700 billion in …

Inrate and Covalence to enter strategic collaboration

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

       Media Release Development in the ESG market Inrate and Covalence to enter strategic collaboration Zurich and Geneva, April 9th, 2013 – Swiss agencies Inrate and Covalence announce their strategic collaboration in the field of environmental, social and governance (ESG) analysis of stock-quoted companies. The cooperation gives Inrate access to …

ON FIRST INTERNATIONAL DAY OF HAPPINESS, BAN CALLS FOR INCLUSIVE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

Jay OwenBeyond GDP

ON FIRST INTERNATIONAL DAY OF HAPPINESS, BAN CALLS FOR INCLUSIVE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT New York, Mar 20 2013 10:00AM Marking the first ever International Day of Happiness, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on the international community to commit to an inclusive and sustainable human development that will improve the well-being of …

GreenMoney Spring13–Sustainable Investing With Impact–

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

  In This Issue: GreenMoney Interviews Rebecca Adamson and Bennett Freeman Nothing Could Be Simpler — By Woody Tasch Now More Than Ever, Wise Investing Begins at Home — by Cece Derringer 2012 Report on Sustainable & Responsible Investing Trends in the United States GreenMoney Links exclusive online info  Extensive …