Dear Advisors and Colleagues,

We are happy to announce that Ethical Markets Media has been elected to help spearhead the Green Economy Coalition, a worldwide group including WWF, IUCN, Global Footprint, TEEB and other path-breaking groups who are supporting the "Green New Deal," the Green Economy Initiative (see keynote address) launched and supported by UN agencies, including UNEP, UNDP, ILO and the Rio+20 conference to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in July 2012.

We invite you all to join in this global effort which is helping break many climate change log-jams by supporting the private investors since 2007 who have already invested over $2 trillion in growing low-carbon green economies.  Watch our Green Transition Scoreboard® (GTS) at MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "r20.rs6.net" claiming to be www.greentransitionscoreboard.com and our daily news of additional public and private progress on our pages: Green Prosperity Funds, Energy Efficiency, GreenTech and Sustainability News.  We agree with the new summaries for policymakers from UNFCCC, WMO and IPCC that much progress on climate change can come from the transition to renewable energy and focusing on curbing regional emissions of soot (black carbon), methane, VOCs and ozone.  These newer policies can improve human health directly while pollution can be reduced rapidly and less expensively in many localities!

Ellen Brown, Ethical Markets advisory board member, launched the Public Banking Institute (PBI), a non-partisan think-tank, research and advisory organization dedicated to developing publicly-owned banks at all levels -- local, regional, state, national and international. Public banks have played a historic role in fostering access to cheap and readily available credit for governments, businesses and individuals. PBI members include past and present community and civic leaders, businesspeople, educators, political economists, writers and banking professionals. The group shares a concern over the destabilizing actions of a private banking industry that, through its corporate business model, has precipitated the economic imbalances now witnessed across the US economy. I am honored to serve on Ellen's PBI advisory board.

Welcome new advisors!

A special welcome to veteran financial journalist Ellie Winninghoff (see "Broadening Fiduciary Duty" and "New Tools for Investing").  Ellie will serve to keep us abreast with her in-depth ethical investment analyses and coverage of the new RI Academy in Australia, providing courses in ESG asset valuation models for portfolio managers.

We also welcome Dr. Susan Linn to the EthicMark® advisory board, which I co-chair with Rinaldo Brutuco, president of the World Business Academy.  Dr. Linn, author of Consuming Kids and co-founder and director of Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood, and will participate exclusively on the not-for-profit category of the EthicMark®.

Link to my book reviews in Seeking Alpha:

Review of World 3.0 by Pankaj Ghemawat

Review of The Globalization Paradox by Dani Rodrik

Review of Consumptionomics by Chandran Nair

Events:

May:    I will be giving the commencement address for Wilson College, which has a strong sustainability program, May 22. 

Ethical Markets advisory board member Riane Eisler and I will give a joint presentation to the Conscious Partnering Conference on May 26 at 8:30 p.m. ET. Whether birthing a business or building a movement, true partnership is essential for success. Yet, most of us never learn how to create GREAT partnerships.  The Conscious Partnering Conference 2011, May 23rd-May 27th, features world-class pioneers like Riane, Gary Zukav, Gay & Kathlyn Hendricks, Deva Premal and many other leaders and phenomenal couples sharing stories, insights and practices to create amazing relationships in all areas of work, family, friendships and business. Register for free here.

June:    Rosalinda Sanquiche, Ethical Markets executive director, will be presenting at the Northeast Florida Green Chamber on June 3. Rosalinda is on the executive council of this new Green Chamber, one of many forming throughout the US in response to the counterproductive lobbying of traditional chambers unable to recognize the value of ESG and the green transition in business.

We are media partners with the Clean and Green Investment Forum, June 6-7.  Touch base with our friends from Cleantech and Solaria, pioneers in the green transition. 

Martha Shaw will be reporting on the REFF-Wall Street meeting, June 21-22, co-organized by our friends at the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE).

I will be presenting on the Green Transition Scoreboard® to SIO - The Canadian Association for Socially Responsible Investment, June 22.  We have a few spaces for those on this mailing who may want to listen in via WebEx.  If you attend in person, connect with our advisory board member Bob Monks, also speaking, or with Tim Nash, our director of sustainability research for the GTS.

July:      Judi Schweitzer, Ethical Markets' senior sustainability advisor, will be attending Sustainable Brands 2011, where sustainability, brand and design communities come together to shape the future, discover how to make smart strategic choices, improve problem solving skills, and inspire others to help bring healthier, smarter brands to market. Monterey CA, June 7-10. MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "r20.rs6.net" claiming to be SustainableBrands11.com.  Use nwemsb11 to register with a 20% discount.

I am teaching again at Schumacher College for their course "Rethinking Finance: Good Servant, Bad Master?" with Ethical Markets Advisory Board members Tessa Tennant and Ann Pettifor, as well as Nathalie Buschor, Mark Burton and Julie Richardson.  July 11-15, 2011.

If you are attending any of these events, introduce yourself to the other dynamic members of the Ethical Markets Media family.

Warm wishes,

Hazel

HAZEL HENDERSON

D.Sc.Hon., FRSA, author, futurist, president - Ethical Markets Media, LLC

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