View this email in your browser As a lawyer, as a person of color, and as a concerned citizen, Van Jones is deeply committed to improving racial and economic equality while at the same time mitigating environmental degradation. In his 2007 book, The Green Collar Economy, Jones suggested that invention and …
Kenneth Fink joins Ethical Markets Advisory Board
Kenneth Fink, lawyer, author and interdisciplinarian, uses a myriad of interdisciplinary skills in raising consciousness, (including his own). He is a former corporate lawyer, author of an autobiographical account of men’s inner evolution, a Wharton graduate (cum laude accounting major), knowledgeable in the financial markets and learned in Eastern philosophies …
Sexism in the City of London Voting System Revealed
Sexism in the City of London as Men Rule in Elections By Simon Clark – Mar 24, 2013 8:01 PM ET Facebook Share LinkedIn Google +1 1 COMMENT Print QUEUE Q Some companies are flouting rules that say the employees they choose to vote in City of London elections should reflect the makeup of their …
The Trillion Dollar Coin: Joke or Game-changer?
We agree with lawyer Ellen Brown, president of the Public Banking Institute, in this important article. — Hazel Henderson, Editor The Trillion Dollar Coin: Joke or Game-Changer? By Ellen Brown, author, Web of Debt The trillion dollar coin actually represents one of the most important principles of popular prosperity ever …
QE4: Forgive Student Debt
We fully support this proposal by lawyer Ellen Brown, our esteemed Advisory Board member . We would add that GDP must also be corrected so that at last, “Education” is no longer categorized under “Consumption” , but acknowledged as the basic investment all societies make in their future, and included …
Polly Higgins – Lawyer for the Earth. Taking Ecocide to the ICC
Polly is on the course of making environmental destruction history – through law. While this idea may seem a hopeless dream to most, Polly’s proposition is already on its way to the International criminal court, adding to their list of … genocide, human rights abuses… and … the magical word: …
Chevron investors shrug off $8.6bn pollution fine
Newsletter from Environmental Finance News Forestry/REDD+ webinar series A reminder that the first of four forest carbon and REDD+ webinars is next Thursday 24 February. Click here for details. ——————————————————————————– ——————————————————————————– Republicans to block Obama’s green spending plan? Renewable energy and energy efficiency were major winners in President Barack Obama’s …
The Nobel family dissociates itself from the economics prize
From Jorge Buzaglo On October 11th Peter Nobel, a lawyer and descendent of Alfred Nobel, issued a statement dissociating the Nobel family from the so called Nobel prize in economics. Below is my translation of Nobel’s statement. The Economics Prize in memory of Alfred Nobel should be criticised on two …
Goldman v. United States: What it Really Means Goldman
Former Wall Streeter Says Let’s Roll on Reform – Ed. John Fullerton is also a member of Ethical Markets Advisory Board By John Fullerton, former Managing Director of JPMorgan and Founder of the Capital Institute. April 25, 2010 “It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but …