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 …

The Slow Money Letter: Of Algorithms, People and Knowledge

Jay OwenCommunity Development Solutions

  The Slow Money Letter, June 2014     Of Algorithms, People and Knowledge by Woody Tasch — I arrived at this month’s inaugural Slow Money Canada meeting ready to share an excerpt of Michael Lewis’s new book, Flash Boys. Is there a more stark counterpoint for slow money, a …

The Economic Case for Divesting from Fossil Fuels

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News, Resource Efficiency

Garvin Jabusch, Co-Founder, Chief Investment Officer, Green Alpha Advisors   The fossil fuels industry, big oil, big coal, natural gas, and its allied sectors, including some large financial institutions, will not quietly or willingly retire into the history of ideas whose time has passed. That fossil fuels represent the single …

SEARCH FOR COMPREHENSIVE DESIGN SOLUTIONS TO HUMANITY’S CRITICAL PROBLEMS LAUNCHED!

Jay OwenTrendspotting

SEARCH FOR COMPREHENSIVE DESIGN SOLUTIONS TO HUMANITY’S CRITICAL PROBLEMS LAUNCHED! The Buckminster Fuller Institute formally announces the Call for Proposals to the 2014 Fuller Challenge. Recognized as “Socially-Responsible Design’s Highest Award”, the Challenge invites activists, architects, artists, designers, entrepreneurs, students and planners from all over the world to submit their innovative solutions …

Transforming Advertising: Nominations Open for EthicMark Awards Honoring Best Sustainable, Environmental Campaigns Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/1787045#ixzz2vruRwYYX

Jay OwenGlobal Citizen

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., March 12, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Nominations are open until June 8th for the 2014 EthicMark® Awards for ads and media campaigns that “uplift the human spirit and society.” The winners will be announced at the 25th annual SRI Conference on Sustainable, Responsible, Impact Investing on November 9, 2014, in Colorado Springs, Colorado(http://www.sriconference.com/). The …

March 12th: Tamera Co-Founder Dieter Duhm at Whole Earth Summit

Jay OwenGlobal Citizen, Sustainability News

  March 12th, 6:30 PM EST, Tamera co-founder Dr. Dieter Duhm will be meeting up with the pioneering Austrian “Rebel Farmer” Sepp Holzer to talk about “Healing Water, Healing Love, Healing the Earth.” We’d like to welcome you to join us. This is part of the free online Whole Earth Summit. They are gathering with 42 …

Earth Policy Institute: Can the World Feed China?

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News, Trendspotting, Earth Systems Science

Can the World Feed China?  Lester R. Brown www.earth-policy.org/plan_b_updates/2014/update121 Earth Policy Release Plan B Update February 25, 2014 Overnight, china had a grain surplus and was exporting 10 million tons. What caused this dramatic shift? It wasn’t until 20 years ago, after I wrote an article entitled “Who Will Feed …

Revealed: The Full Membership List of Wall Street’s Secret Society

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance

Revealed: The Full Membership List of Wall Street’s Secret Society Share on email Back in January 2012, I crashed the annual induction ceremony of Kappa Beta Phi, a secret society for elite financiers. You can read the story of what happened here. In addition to writing down details of what I …