Communities Co-Evolving Toward Resilience

Jay OwenCommunity Development Solutions, Global Citizen

Communities Co-Evolving Toward Resilience By Greg Wendt, CFP, Stakeholders Capital; founder, Green Economy Think Tank “The road from here to sustainable, resilient cities and regions is hardly a straight one — there’s no one-size-fits-all recipe for success. Infrastructure, politics and finances — not to mention the uniqueness of resources, geography …

Climate Change’s Silver Bullet? Our Interview With One Of The World’s Top Geoengineering Scholars

Jay OwenEarth Systems Science

Climate Change’s Silver Bullet? Our Interview With One Of The World’s Top Geoengineering Scholars By Ari Phillips on ClimateProgress blog September 6, 2013 at 1:10 pm MELBOURNE, Australia — Since coming to Australia almost two months ago I’ve heard about Clive Hamilton in the process of reporting just about every …

Shifts in Global Water Systems – Markers of a New Geological Epoch: the Anthropocene

Jay OwenEarth Systems Science

  A new geologic epoch, “The Anthropocene,” is characterized by humanity’s growing dominance of Earth’s environment and a planetary transformation as profound as the last epoch-defining event — the retreat of the glaciers 11,500 years ago.   By way of illustration: Humanity has cleared an area the size of South …

Ethical Markets rolls out Ethical Biomimicry Finance™

Ethical Markets - RReforming Global Finance, Nature/Biomimicry

Ethical Markets rolls out Ethical Biomimicry Finance™   In partnership with Biomimicry 3.8, Ethical Markets Media, LLC, has developed Ethical Biomimicry Finance™, an investment methodology, consulting and due diligence for identifying technologies and enterprises accelerating the green transition to the Solar Age – as we now track in our Green …

Measuring the Sustainability of Business: From Economism To Earth Systems Science

Jay OwenEarth Systems Science, Articles by Hazel Henderson

By Hazel Henderson When US astronaut Dr. Sally Ride returned from her space trip in 1983, she exclaimed that NASA should have a Mission To Planet Earth! This led to NASA’s “Earth”, an ongoing program of research into how our planet functions based on Earth Systems Science. I was a science …

Tamera Newsletter April 2013

Jay OwenGlobal Citizen

Tamera Newsletter (click here to read online)                                                        April 2013 Dear friends of Tamera, with most warmhearted greetings from Tamera we want to inform you about two initiatives and invite you to take part: 1. The TERRA NOVA SCHOOL will …

Transforming Economics Into True Wealth

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, Transforming Finance

November 2012  The statement on TRANSFORMING ECONOMIES INTO TRUE WEALTH is an invitation to fully engage in the planetary whole-system shift now under way.  Many SRI investment professionals recognize our human responsibility for the many breakdowns in our societies and enfolding ecosystems resulting from our limited consciousness: climate change, hunger, …

A deepening systemic crisis and rising social response

kristyReforming Global Finance, SRI/ESG News

A deepening systemic crisis and rising social response In the third quarter of 2012, several climate records were broken, in the US, India, the Arctic and many other parts of the world. The economic crisis has gotten worse in Europe and has begun to knock on the doors of the …

STATEMENT ON TRANSFORMING FINANCE BASED ON ETHICS AND LIFE’S PRINCIPLES

Ethical MarketsReforming Global Finance, Nature/Biomimicry, Transforming Finance

June 27, 2012  © 2012 The STATEMENT ON TRANSFORMING FINANCE BASED ON ETHICS AND LIFE’S PRINCIPLES begins with the biological truth that the human species is interdependent with all other life forms on Planet Earth.  A joint collobration with Biomimicry 3.8, the statement shows how human societies, cultures, values and …

‘Dear Mr. UN Secretary-General …’ COMPETITION RESULTS

Ethical MarketsGreen Prosperity, Global Citizen

As part of the lead-up to Rio+20, The Living Rainforest invited children around the world to tell us what they think governments and world leaders should be doing to build a more sustainable future on planet Earth. We were delighted to receive 885 entries from 59 countries! First Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime trip …