Sustainability News provided by 3BL

Are you the Picasso of fair trade?   Otherwise stated, how innovative are you at using a variety of media to creatively express why fair trade is important to you?  Find out with YourOliveBranch's I love Fair Trade Contest. I Love Fair Trade! invites you to creatively express how you feel about fair trade commerce. You can do this through a submission of words, video, …

Mike and Theda (our CEO and Director of Environmental Policy) are currently at the 3rd Annual Ecosystem Markets Conference in Raleigh-Durham introducing our latest creation: Mission Markets Earth!Mission Markets Earth is a private exchange for trading in the large and growing environmental credit markets. Carbon is the most well-known product in this space, but is really just the tip of the …

The Mission Markets Private Capital Marketplace is now in beta launch, open to social and environmental organizations looking to raise capital.How does it work? Contact us and we'll send you our beta agreement, making sure you have the minimum requirements we need (proving you're social/environmental, and getting your paperwork together). Once you have everything in order, sign the beta …

Over the past few months, the Mission Markets (MM) team has been criss-crossing the US, attending over 15 conferences and events, spreading the news about the MM exchange platforms.  We've shown demos of our platform to hundreds of interested viewers, both from these events and from meetings and calls at MM headquarters here in NYC. Feedback has been extremely positive from the issuer and …

As Albert Einstein said, "It is every man’s obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it."    From a sustainability perspective, that can take many forms.  As in, caring for the Earth's resources from a physical and material perspective, but also in how our individual thoughts and behavior shapes that caring.  A …

(3BLMedia/theCSRfeed) New York, NY - Wednesday, July 7, 2010 - Originally distributed on Wednesday, June 23, 2010 -  Mission Markets, Inc. a private investment exchange and provider of market insight, intelligence and market access to social and environmental capital markets will be demonstrating for the first time Mission Markets Earth, its private exchange for trading environmental …

(3BLMedia/theCSRfeed) July 7, 2010 -  Contributing to the formation of Sustainability trends worldwide, CSE, represented by Mr. Nick Andrews, Managing Director of CSE in North America was part of the UN Global Compact Leaders Summit discussions that supported the formation of sustainable markets and achievement of societal goals. CSE is proud to be a member of UN Global Compact since 2008 …

(3BLMedia/theCSRfeed) July 7, 2010 - The definition for Corporate Sustainability is a business approach that creates long-term shareholder value by embracing opportunities and managing risks deriving from economic, environmental and social developments.  Companies that do not have some sort of sustainability program incorporated are behind the times and will suffer to their …

(3BLMedia/theCSRfeed) July 7, 2010 - For too long, the Green transition has been left to the best efforts of a few appointed people who had no formal training in environmental principles.  Good intentions that are hampered by limited information will lead to a program that lacks integrity. Now, the Sustainability Training by the Green Business League is taught through an online program that …