The Buckminster Fuller Institute have announced their 2014 Challenge Semi-Finalists.

Jay OwenSustainability News, Trendspotting

Newsletter:Our friends at The Buckminster Fuller Institute have announced their 2014Challenge Semi-Finalists. Congratulations to the project teams answeringBucky’s call to “make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortestpossible time without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.”Take a look here to see the outstanding projects in the …

GreenMoney: 2014 Outlook for Socially Responsible Investing (SRI)

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity, SRI/ESG News

  2014 Outlook    for Socially Responsible Investing (SRI)  by Amy Domini, Founder & CEO of Domini Social Investments     What lies ahead for responsible investors during 2014? Certainly new products, particularly those that are cleaner or more local, certainly a more predictable stock market, and probably enhanced interest in the value …

SlowMoney October

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

Social capital investor Joel Solomon says Slow Money helps people understand how money can be used in a soulful way to help build the economic changes we need. Click above to find out more. Solomon is the chairman for Renewal Funds and president and CEO of Renewal. Please send us …

Raising Dough by Elisabeth Ü

Jay OwenBooks and Reviews

The complete guide to financing a socially responsible food business, Chelsea Green, 2013   “Starting a food business?  Raising Dough provides an extremely useful roadmap through the financial landscape.  This is a wonderful overview of the tools and techniques for capitalizing your small food enterprise.”   ~ Woody Tasch, chairman of Slow Money …

SRI Conference 2013: The Future of Investing

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

  The Future of Investing Please mark your calendar and plan to attend The SRI Conference—the oldest and largest gathering of Sustainable, Responsible, Impact (SRI) investors and investment professionals in North America. Join us for the 24th annual SRI Conference: October 28-30, 2013, at The Broadmoor, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Agenda Tracks: ? …

CROWDFUNDING INVESTING FOR DUMMIES by Sherwood Neiss, Jason W. Best and Zak Cassady-Dorion, John Wiley & Sons, 2013

Jay OwenBooks and Reviews, The Power of Yin, Conferences

CROWDFUNDING INVESTING FOR DUMMIES by Sherwood Neiss, Jason W. Best and Zak Cassady-Dorion, John Wiley & Sons, 2013 All you need to know about crowdfunding investing by three of its leading pioneers! Sherwood Neiss, Jason W. Best and Zak Cassady-Dorion, all MBAs from the International Thunderbird Global School of Management, …

Musings, videos and resources from the Slow Money National Gathering

Jay OwenCommunity Development Solutions

Hundreds of Slow Money National Gathering attendees spilled out of the Boulder Theater after the Closing Town Hall Meeting. Evolutionary Revolutionaries Take the Stage at Slow Money National Gathering Carlo Petrini said it best, as he does most things—not least because he says them in lyrical, baritonal Italian. Early one …

Meetings Of The Minds

Jay OwenTrendspotting

Business and environmental leaders brainstorm sustainable solutions to the world’s biggest problems. by Martha Shaw           (San Diego, CA) – May 15, 2013 – What would happen if you sequestered big business leaders and entrepreneurs with environmental thought leaders and encouraged them all to brainstorm ways to reduce our tread on the …

Please join us for the Slow Money webinar on Credibles: Funding Food Businesses with Edible Credits

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News, Crowdfunding

Having trouble viewing this page? Click here. Slow Money Webinar Announced!  “Credibles: Funding Food Businesses with Edible Credits” Register online here Please join us for our third webinar, “Credibles: Funding Food Businesses with Edible Credits,” from 10 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. Pacific Time, Tuesday, February 26. That’s 11 a.m. Mountain, 12 Noon Central, …