ARM is delighted to announce that Professor Alyson Warhurst has kindly accepted to be Senior Advisor on strategic issues to ARM and that Maria Laura Barreto, Victor Manuel Reinoso and Wilson Mutagwaba were unanimously elected as new members of its Board of Directors. Please follow the link for the full press release in English or

I just returned from a four day Business and Consciousness conference where some of the most visionary leaders in the business world, from Steven Covey to Bill Strickland, spoke about how we can transform our relationship to economy, ecology and community. Yet the conference also faced the issue around sustainability, global warming and the fragmentation

In this article from the Seattle Times, written by Jon Bridge, the CEO of the 78 chain store, Ben Bridge Jewelers, discusses initiatives to reform the 1872 mining law using the “golden rules”. “Jewelers support common sense mining reforms,” he writes. Here’s the link: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2004154796_jonbridge31.html