Scottish voters will go to the polls on September 18th to decide whether scotland should become an independent country. As video blogger Ian R. Crane colorfully puts the issues and possibilities: [T]he People of scotland have an opportunity to extricate themselves from the socio-psychopathic global corporatists and the temple of …
ACEEE: GERMANY, ITALY, EU, CHINA, AND FRANCE TOP GLOBAL ENERGY EFFICIENCY RANKINGS
For Immediate Release Media Contact: Patrick Kiker, pkiker@aceee.org, 202.507.4043 ACEEE: GERMANY, ITALY, EU, CHINA, AND FRANCE TOP GLOBAL ENERGY EFFICIENCY RANKINGS U.S. Places 13th Out of 16, Behind Australia, India, and South Korea; Germany Wins “World Cup” of Energy Efficiency: 2nd International Scorecard Evaluates 16 Leading World Economies on …
Envision Solar?s EV ARC? and European Partner Aconfort selected for the European Business Awards for the Environment
One of Ethical Markets principals is an early investor in Envision Solar Envision Solar’s EV ARC™ and European Partner Aconfort selected for the European Business Awards for the Environment SAN DIEGO, CALIF. – June 12, 2014 – Envision Solar International, Inc., (OTCQB: EVSI) (“Envision Solar,” or the “Company”), the leading …
Earth Policy Institute: Denmark, Portugal, and Spain Leading the World in Wind Power
Denmark, Portugal, and Spain Leading the World in Wind Power J. Matthew Roney www.earth-policy.org/data_highlights/2014/highlights46 Earth Policy Release Data Highlight May 27, 2014 Denmark produced one third of its electricity from the wind in 2013. In no other country has wind’s share of annual electricity generation yet topped 30 percent. But …
New facts about employee ownership in April 2014
EFES NEWSLETTER – APRIL 2014 Listed and non-listed companies It was sometimes told, based on the observation of specific examples, that non-listed employee-owned companies could have been more resilient than others through the financial crisis. Employee-owned companies might have fared better. This idea is even a cornerstone of the British …
EFES NEWSLETTER: New facts about employee ownership in March 2014
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 …
“Regional Foresight 2.0” Launched by the European Nodes of The Millennium Project
“Regional Foresight 2.0” Launched by the European Nodes of The Millennium Project The European Regional Foresight College and the European Millennium Project Initiative met in Warsaw, Poland to develop plans for improving foresight with focus on Eastern Europe and the EU 2020 strategy, and launching of the “Regional Foresight 2.0 …
Video: The Mondragon Experiment – Corporate Cooperativism (1980)
Ethical Markets is happy to post this early film documenting Spain’s legendary cooperative Mondragon enterprises. ~ Hazel Henderson, Editor Published on Apr 19, 2012 The MONDRAGON Corporation is a corporation and federation of worker cooperatives based in the Euskadi. Founded in the town of Mondragón in 1956, its origin is …
Other News: United Nations Still Popular in Most Countries
United Nations Still Popular in Most Countries By Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON, Sep 18 2013 (IPS) – On the eve of the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly, a newly released survey of 39 countries shows that the world body remains relatively popular around the globe. …
Earth Policy Institute: U.S. Bike-Sharing Fleet More than Doubles in 2013
U.S. Bike-Sharing Fleet More than Doubles in 2013 Janet Larsen www.earth-policy.org/data_highlights/2013/highlights40 Earth Policy Release Data Highlight August 28, 2013 The opening of the San Francisco Bay Area bike share on August 29, 2013, brings the combined fleet of shared bikes in the United States above 18,000, more than a doubling since …