Sustainable Brands: Green Investments to Reach $10 Trillion by 2020

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity

Investing at least $1 trillion per year until 2020 could lead from the fossil-fueled industrial era to a technologically advanced solar age based on ethical principles of equity, efficiency, biomimicry and earth systems science, according to the mid-year update to the Green Transition Inflection Point: Green Transition Scoreboard 2013 Report. As …

Guardian Sustainable Business: Exclusive Events Update for Guardian Sustainable Business Members

Jay OwenSustainability News

  21 August 2013 Exclusive Events Update for Guardian Sustainable Business Members There are some great courses and events coming up over the next month bringing together businesses from around the world to discuss the future of sustainability. We’ve picked out a selection of these events below, and you can also visit our …

Sustainable Brands: New Metrics Poised for Growth: Program Now Available!

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News, Sustainability News, Beyond GDP

  SB News & Updates Share on: Upcoming Events News & Views Memberships Learning Library Solutions UPCOMING SB EVENTS: New Metrics Poised for Growth: Program Now Available! SB Corporate Members represent some of the best brand names in business. By virtue of their membership, they are demonstrating themselves to be …

Future 500 Newsletter: 10 Tips for Stakeholder Engagement with Activists

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News, Sustainability News

Future 500 Newsletter June 2013 The bridge between corporations and NGOs HUMANIZING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN DIVERSE GROUPS  This June we were pleased to partner with Sustainable Brands for their annual conference in San Diego. The conference motto was from “Revolution to Renaissance” and as Sustainable Brands founder KoAnn Vikoren Skrzyniarz explained, companies no longer strive …

Friday Video: A Conversation with William McDonough at SB’13

Jay OwenSustainability News, Advisors' Forum

Insights from William McDonough, advisor to the Ethical Markets Qualify of Life Indicators   VIDEO OF THE WEEK:     McDonough Collaboration Announced at SB’13         During his plenary presentation on June 4th at the Sustainable Brands ’13 conference, designer, author and sustainability thought leaderWilliam McDonoughannounced a new partnership …

Alternative Energy: Siemens Installing America’s First Regenerative Energy Storage Unit

Jay OwenGreentech

Alternative Energy Siemens Installing America’s First Regenerative Energy Storage Unit Japanese Solar Energy Industry Soaring Minneapolis Climate Change Grant Turns Up The Heat For Local Food Service Energy Efficiency Efforts Alternative Energy Mutual Funds And ETFs Show Solid Gains Changes to Ontario’s green energy strategy make a whole lot of …

Alternative Energy: Community Power: Loans for Community-Based Renewable Energy

Jay OwenGreentech

Alternative Energy Community Power: Loans for Community-Based Renewable Energy Growth Of Distributed Electricity Systems On Verge Of Transforming Utility System — “Real Dialogue” At Princeton LA Solar / CLEAN LA Infomercial $10 Million For Swiss Geothermal Exploration Solar Stock Trading Alert; Canadian Solar (CSIQ) on the Run New endurance record …

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE : Solutions Expo at Sustainable Brands 2013 to Spotlight Industry Leading Tools and Resources

Jay OwenSustainability News

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Katherine Arnett Saatchi & Saatchi S 415.871.2005 [email protected] Solutions Expo at Sustainable Brands 2013 to Spotlight Industry Leading Tools and Resources BMW i, SAP, HP among over 2,000 attending Conference & Expo showcasing product/service solutions as examples of brand innovation for sustainability SAN FRANCISCO, California, April …

Civic App Turning Residents into Agents of change

Jay OwenCommunity Development Solutions

From The Ground Up How a civic app is turning city residents into agents of change By Kristine Wong Communities across the U.S. are collapsing the gap between needed services and civic improvements through an innovative citizen-to-city communications system. …Read More Why we should enable the autocatalytic city By Benjamin …

Ending Climate Silence

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News, Sustainability News

Corporate-NGO Engagement in times of rising Activism.    Future 500 Newsletter March 2013 The bridge between corporations and NGOs ENDING CLIMATE SILENCE Earlier this year we presented our Top 10 Stakeholder Issues for 2013. Issues such as health and obesity, fracking, GMOs, and digital freedom present risk to all companies, but in …