Dear Advisors, Friends and Colleagues,

We are celebrating our 10^th Anniversary!  Congratulations to Hazel Henderson, Founder and President, for her prescience in founding a media company in 2004 which focuses on the good news about the sustainable, inclusive green transition to the Solar Age, missed by mainstream media and now finally gaining traction.  During the past ten years, Ethical Markets' mission has evolved from reporting the good news to continuing Hazel's active hand in reforming markets and metrics while helping accelerate and track the transition to the green economy worldwide.  While a challenge to capture all the invaluable work done over the past ten years, read the highlights which attest to the depth of leadership Hazel Henderson and Ethical Markets have offered to sustainability, finance and emerging economies.

Green bonds added to the $5.7 trillion privately invested in the green economy since 2007 - reported in the Green Transition Scoreboard®.  The 2014 mid-year update "Green Bonds Growing Green Infrastructure" focuses on the bond markets' addition of green, impact and ESG targeted bond issues.  These new bonds provide long-term investment opportunities to pension funds and other institutional investors as global policy makers, corporations and asset managers see demand for investments in infrastructure, environmental, social and human capital being integrated into financial markets.  This confirms the green economy is on track to reach $10 trillion in investments by 2020 to effectively scale innovations and reduce costs in green technologies as the world transitions to the Solar Age.

Films Media Group, the distributor for Ethical Markets videos to educational markets around the world, has made the third season of the series Transforming Finance a featured release in their Fall Business & Economics catalogue.  Ethical Markets 5: Transforming Finance 3.0 is described in the catalogue as "a 14-part series where author and visionary economist Hazel Henderson continues Ethical Markets' mission to promote the emergence of a sustainable, green, more ethical and just economy worldwide."  The series features discussions between Hazel Henderson and world-renowned experts such as Ellen Brown (Public Banking Institute), Amy Domini (Domini Social Investments), Michael Grunwald (senior correspondent, Time Magazine), Terry Mollner (Ben & Jerry's), Michaela Walsh (Women's World Banking) and many others.

 

The Jury and Council of Board Members of the World CSR Congress (MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "r20.rs6.net" claiming to be www.worldcsrcongress.com) will confer on Hazel Henderson the Global Sustainable Leadership Award at the World CSR Day (MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "r20.rs6.net" claiming to be www.worldcsrday.com), February18, 2015, at Taj Lands End, Mumbai. The Award is based on Hazel's "strategic and iconic leadership and contribution to society."  The theme for the Congress is Connecting Minds: Creating The Future.   

 

Recent posts from the EMM Team and Advisory Board members.  Don't forget - send us your updates:

• Greener Information Age Transforming Energy, Finance And Our Future by Hazel Henderson
• Hazel Henderson Guest on Conscious Millionaire
• Hazel Henderson Interview at World Future Society 2014 by Susan Sun Nunamaker
• Michaela Walsh, EMM Advisory Board member, Interview by Amy Duffuor
• Quality of Life Indicators in Context by Hazel Henderson
• Rebalancing the Economy - New book from Green Economics Institute edited by Christopher Brook and Miriam Kennet, with contribution by Hazel Henderson
• Restoring Trust: In Markets and Politics by Hazel Henderson
• UN Member States Receive Report on Finance for Sustainable Development Commentary by Hazel Henderson

 

Upcoming Events - Let's connect!

• The UK Family Office Forum, Robert Rubinstein, EMM Advisory Board member presenting, London, England, October 21-22
• VERGE 2014, Janine Benyus, EMM Advisory Board member presenting, San Francisco, CA, October 27-30
• SRI Conference on Sustainable, Responsible, Impact Investing, founded by EMM Advisory Board member Steve Schueth, Colorado Springs, CO, Nov. 9-11.  Also presenting the EthicMark® Awards!
• Slow Money 2014 Conference, Woody Tasch, EMM Advisory Board member presenting, Louisville, KY, November 10-12
• Prototyping the Future Conference & Expo, San Leandro, California, November 12^th; EMM correspondent, Danielle Lanyard, will be covering the conference.

We are pleased to be media partners with the following:

• Social Venture Network (SVN) Fall Conference, Greenwich, CT, October 23-26
• VERGE 2014, San Francisco, CA, October 27-30
• TBLI Europe, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 28-29
• Innovation Forum: How Business can Tackle Deforestation, London, UK, October 28-29
• Renewable Energy Crowdfunding Conference, London, UK, October 30
• Sustainable Innovation, Copenhagen, Denmark, November 3-4
• Local Futures' "Voices of Hope in a Time of Crisis",  New York City, November 8
• Innovation Forum: Business & Human Rights, London, UK, November 10
• Prototyping the Future Conference & Expo, San Leandro, California, November 12^th; EMM correspondent, Danielle Lanyard, will be covering the conference.
• ISSP Conference, Denver, CO, November 12-14
• Advanced Certified Sustainability (CSR) Practitioner Training, Atlanta, GA, November 13-14
• Renewable Energy Markets Conference, Sacramento, CA, December 2-4
• U.S. Solar Market Insight Conference, San Diego, CA, December 8-10
• Wall Street Green Summit, New York, NY, March 23, 2015

 

Warm Regards,

Hazel, Rosalinda and the Ethical Markets Team