Summary Review of Katherine Collins’ newly released “The Nature of Investing”. Review of Jonathon Porritt’s “The World We Made”. Correcting current investing methods to methods based on nature for the benefit of future generations. THE NATURE OF INVESTING by Katherine Collins, Bibliomotion, Inc., Brookline, MA, 2014 THE WORLD WE MADE …
GreenMoney Mar14_Sustainable Business Leaders & Trends
The State of Green Business Report by Joel Makower, Chairman & Executive Editor, GreenBiz Group The State of Green Business Report, seventh annual assessment of corporate sustainability trends and metrics, was released earlier this year. It paints a picture that is both optimistic and highly problematic – a perfect metaphor …
Maximpact e-News | Issue 09: Biomimicry
Bringing Biomimicry to Market: Impact Investing Inspired by Nature by Marta Maretich Biomimicry has captured the world’s imagination. From the momentJanine Benyus’ seminal book on biomimicry appeared in 2002, hopes have been high for this new approach to design and engineering. Twelve years on, where are biomimicry and bio-inspired design today? …
The Next Frontier of Sustainable Investing: Evolution in This Anthropocene Age
The Next Frontier of Sustainable Investing: Evolution in This Anthropocene Age Today, we humans have so altered conditions on Earth that scientists now term our era as the Anthropocene Age. Every investment we make is “a vote for the kind of world we want to live in,” says conscious investor Stuart …
CleanTech Nation Webinar: 3-D Printing, Clean Tech, and Sustainability
3-D Printing, Clean Tech, and Sustainability. This session with Ethical Markets Advisor and partner Janine Benyus, author of Biomimicry and co-founder of Biomimicry 3.8, looks at the positive possibilities of 3-D printing – beyond making more junk with unknowable, likely toxic chemical goops. You can view the recorded session here: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/recording/4403428973503456257. Many …
Sustainable Brands: Green Investments to Reach $10 Trillion by 2020
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 …
GTS Mid-year Update August 2013
For immediate release Green Transition Scoreboard® Shows Dramatic Mid-year Surge August 30, 2013, St. Augustine, FL –The Green Transition Scoreboard® tally jumped from $4.1 trillion reported in February to $5.2 trillion as of July 2013. The Green Transition Scoreboard® tracks private investments, since 2007, in creating cleaner, greener economies globally. …
BIOMIMICRY, Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine M. Benyus
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature Review by Alan F Kay Biomimicry by Janine Benyus deals with the clear and fascinating, yet little understood and vast, reality of the processes of life and living beings. The book summarizes these ideas this way: Virtually all living creatures: plants, animals, microbes, etc., …
Second Nature: The Biomimicry Evolution to Air on Public Television
See EMM Advisory Board member Janine Benyus featured in Second Nature! Second Nature: The Biomimicry Evolution explores the emerging discipline of biomimicry, the science of emulating nature’s best ideas to solve human problems. Set in the wilds of South Africa, the film follows biologist, author, and Time magazine “Hero of the Environment” …