Today’s Stories from GFI: Heads of UN, World Bank, WHO explicitly reference Illicit Financial Flows as Part of Develeopment Solutions

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance

  July 13, 2015 Latest GFI Blogs GFI Engages, Second Quarter 2015 Norway Latest Country to Adopt Public Registry of Beneficial Ownership Illicit Flows in the Poorest of Places What’s Going to Happen to the FIFA Forfeiture Money? Can FIFA Victims Sue for Damages? FIFA: The Bribery Case with No …

Fiscal incentives are indispensable prequisite

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

EFES NEWSLETTER – SEPTEMBER 2014 EFES’ Manifesto 2014:     Fiscal incentives are indispensable prequisites     Worldwide practical evidence and a wide range of academic research support the view that a proper legal environment and the provision of suitable fiscal incentives are indispensable prerequisites for any policy truly aiming the development …

Energy Self-Reliant States: Why Aren’t Rural Electric Cooperatives Champions of Local Clean Power?

Jay OwenCommunity Development Solutions, Resource Efficiency

I spoke yesterday at the Illinois Renewable Energy Fair in Oregon, IL, and the presentation will be posted shortly on ILSR.org. Being out in rural Illinois made me wonder, Why Aren’t Rural Electric Cooperatives Champions of Local Clean Power?  A few thoughts shared on the blog… Keep your energy local! …

Energy Self-Reliant States: On the air talking solar ownership!

Jay OwenCommunity Development Solutions, Resource Efficiency, Greentech

On the air talking solar ownership! Community solar gardens are now set to grow in Minnesota, but the PUC decision shows a few weeds that were planted in the original rules for solar adopted in 2013. And I’m on the air talking solar ownership with Arnie Arnesen on WNHN. If …

Plug-in Electric Vehicles

Jay OwenGreentech

Plug-in Electric Vehicles   TABLE OF CONTENTS Popular Models  Plugging into the Grid   Battery Outlook  PEV Incentives   Download this fact sheet in PDF format   View this fact sheet online     Plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) use electricity from the energy grid to charge large battery packs, then …

ACORE Releases Outlook for Renewable Energy in America: 2014, Jointly Authored by U.S. Renewable Energy Trade Associations

Jay OwenGreentech

Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ACORE Releases Outlook for Renewable Energy in America: 2014, Jointly Authored by U.S. Renewable Energy Trade Associations Report Forecasts Industry Growth and Highlights Policy Recommendations to Advance an American Renewable Energy Economy Washington, D..C, March 31, 2014 –The American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE) today announced …

EFES NEWSLETTER: New facts about employee ownership in March 2014

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

EFES NEWSLETTER – MARCH 2014    NOW AVAILABLE !            EUROPEAN SURVEY 2013 The whole information about employee ownership and employee share plans, top executives and common employees in European companies, corporate governance and profit-sharing, employee representation on boards and discrimination in employee shareholders’ voting rights, and a comparison between listed companies …

EFES: Still more employee share plans in Europe

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

     Subscribe  /  Unsubscribe  /  Membership                                                        EFES NEWSLETTER – FEBRUARY 2014   Still more employee share plans in Europe The EFES Survey of employee ownership in 2013 is soon available, showing that still more and more of European companies organize employee share plans. In 2013, 85% of all large European companies had …

INVESTING IN HURRICANE SANDY

Jay OwenCommunity Development Solutions

INVESTING IN HURRICANE SANDY   By Ellie Winninghoff   Community Capital Management’s flagship fund, CRA Qualified Investment Fund (CRAIX), will dedicate $100 million of fund assets to invest in disaster recovery and redevelopment projects in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. “We have some …

The Sun Breaks Through Stormy Skies of China/EU Trade : AltEnergyStocks.com

Jay OwenTrendspotting

The Sun Breaks Through Stormy Skies of China/EU Trade : AltEnergyStocks.com The Sun Breaks Through Stormy Skies of China/EU Trade Posted: 29 Jul 2013 07:28 AM PDT Sun breaks through trade war clouds China and the West broke a decades-old pattern of troubled trade relations over the weekend with a …