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Michael Kramer

Michael has demonstrated a lifelong commitment to personal and global sustainability. His efforts in the fields of social services,education, environment, economics, and planning reflect his holistic and creative capacity and his passion for creating positive change in the world.
Currently the only investment advisor exclusively managing SRI portfolios and the first Accredited Investment Fiduciary® in Hawai`i, Michael maintains considerable focus on corporate behavior and policy, community development, and regenerative investing. He is known within the SRI community as a proponent of higher and more uniform standards for the SRI industry, and he is also very active at home, where he created the Kuleana Green Business Program , a social and environmental performance program for the 700-member Kona-Kohala Chamber of Commerce.

Michael earned a Master's degree in Education from Harvard University in 1990, and his life purpose since then has been to educate people locally and nationally about the importance of regenerative consciousness and lifestyle. Initially, interest in child development and education led to positions in public school teaching and social service program management.

Michael founded Youth Ecology Corps, a program dedicated to youth leadership, service, and sustainability,and helped spawn two others, Rocky Mountain Youth Corps and the New Mexico Youth Conservation Corps Leadership Program. He has taught sustainable design, via permaculture, to youth and adults for fifteen years through schools, colleges and institutes, and is now recognized as a leading U.S. permaculture teacher trainer, having often collaborated with long-time friend and fellow NI advisor Christopher Peck.

He has also been a proponent of service learning in education, having published national research in this field, taught the pedagogical approach to over 1200 educators, and coordinated several initiatives in this area.

Michael has founded several non-profit organizations and coalitions, and has been an Executive, Development, and Program Director, as well as a consultant to dozens of organizations and government agencies. He has effective leadership and strategic planning skills, has created many new projects and initiatives, and has raised millions of dollars for the numerous causes he supports.

A strong social change advocate, Michael has organized political parties and state and national conferences, served as a prestigious National Service Fellow during the Clinton Administration, developed and advocated for youth and fatherhood legislation, and served on numerous commissions and boards that promote youth leadership, community service, and sustainability.

Currently, Michael is Chair of the Kuleana Green Business Program on Hawai`i Island, he is a co-founder of the Kona Earth Festival and serves as a Commissioner to the Hawai`i State Commission on Fatherhood, appointed by the Governor to represent Hawai`i Island. He writes extensively on natural investing and sustainability issues in state and national publications. Michael is happily married to his beautiful wife Angela and enjoys his wonderful sons, Ezra and Zakai.