The EthicMark Awards

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Broadcasters Drop Fight Against Campaign Ad Transparency
by Michael Winship, February 9, 2015, Moyers & Co.

One of the best recent FCC decisions was the requirement that all broadcast television stations make available online the public inspection files that used to be accessible only if you were willing to travel to your local TV station and wade through filing cabinets full of paper documents.
Now you only need to go as far as your personal computer to search, an especially valuable tool for those who want to know who’s paying for all those political ads that jam the airwaves during election season and deliver a fortune to broadcasters. While not a perfect system, with the ever-increasing secrecy over the sources and amounts of campaign contributions, the FCC rules are one way to try to figure out who’s writing the checks. read full article

Ethical Markets Media Celebrates 10th Anniversary!
By Rosalinda Sanquiche, Executive Director
October 2014, www.ethicalmarkets.com

Ethical Markets Media, LLC, USA and Brazil, is celebrating its 10th Anniversary! Congratulations to Hazel Henderson, Founder and President, for her prescience in founding a media company which focuses on the good news about the sustainable, inclusive green transition to the Solar Age, entirely missed by mainstream media in 2004 and now finally gaining traction. read full article

Government by Mediocracy and the Attention Economy
By Hazel Henderson, 1996

This classic work is as relevant today as in 1996 as advertising has become a $500 billion global industry.  As we continue to watch-dog advertising and marketing with the EthicMark(r) Awards for advertising, this chapter from Henderson’s Building a Win-Win World illuminates the issues and the importance of advertising toward a sustainable economy.

EthicMark® Awards Honor Best Socially Responsible Advertising Campaigns of 2014
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO. (November 9, 2014) — Thai Life Insurance from Thailand and ALiterofLight.org from the Philippines are the 2014 winners of the EthicMark® Awards for advertising and media campaigns that “uplift the human spirit and society.” read full article.