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Category Archives: Global IssuesIn early April, 650 leaders from around the world met at the UN in New York for a High Level Meeting on Wellbeing and Happiness: Defining a New Economic Paradigm. Yes Magazine provides a good overview of the meeting, which … Continue reading In this in-depth interview from The Browser, Francis Fukuyama, author of The End of History, discusses five recent books that he feels offer a comprehensive look at the roots of the global financial crisis of 2008 and beyond, as well … Continue reading
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This week, the Investor Network on Climate Risk joined similar groups from around the world in releasing a comprehensive call for energy policies at the national and international level that will encourage increased investment in renewable energy solutions. The Global … Continue reading By Malaika Maphalala Impact Investment , what Natural Investments has termed Regenerative Investment, is an emerging market that is becoming recognized as a new asset class in its own right. It’s generally defined as direct investment aimed at solving social … Continue reading In a recent NI newsletter, Malaika Maphalala highlighted the great work being done by Mission Markets to link high net-worth investors with impact investments around the world. In August, Mission Markets featured an in-depth interview with Malaika on their website, which … Continue reading By Hal Brill I’m not much of a football fan, but around playoff time I perk up and start rooting for underdog teams to dethrone the champs. With all the problems that Big Energy has been having lately, the odds … Continue reading
Posted in By Hal Brill, Global Issues, Green Living, The Economy
Tagged energy, global, Green Investing, socially responsible investing, sri, sustainability
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By Michael Kramer Evolving capitalism is a long-term process, and quite a roller-coaster ride, so each victory along the way is all the more meaningful. After spending a year with other SRI colleagues in dialogue with senior Costco management, I … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, By Michael Kramer, Global Issues
Tagged corporate responsibility, food, sustainability
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By Jim Cummings This week’s Sunday Times features a profile of Jeremy Grantham, one of the country’s more successful asset managers, whose last two quarterly letters to investors (widely read in the financial world) have shed some decidedly mainstream light … Continue reading
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By Hal Brill Those of you who have followed my columns over the years know that Allison and I started a green “intentional neighborhood” here in Paonia back in 2001 (www.hawkshavenllc.com). Since my name, Hal, is forever associated with the … Continue reading By Scott Secrest A U.S. economy slowly putting itself back together set the tone for the markets over the past year. While short- term economic indicators continue to be mixed, we are in agreement with the camp of economists focusing … Continue reading
Posted in By Scott Secrest, Global Issues, The Economy
Tagged financial crisis, Green Investing, policy, sustainability
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By Jim Cummings The excellent Think Progress blog clued me in about the UN’s 2011 World Economic and Social Survey, which highlights the importance of investing in new technology to ensure a sustainable, safe, and prosperous future for our planet: “The … Continue reading By James Frazier If the current economic paradigm were a person, he would be someone we’ve known long and well. He believes that the world economy only goes in one direction: up. Any setbacks are viewed as temporary and are … Continue reading
Posted in Big Picture Personal Planning, By James Frazier, Global Issues, The Economy
Tagged Green Investing, sri, sustainability
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By James Frazier The Earth. A scintillating, heavenly blue orb with conditions miraculously ideal for abundant life. Not until just a few decades ago were we able to behold images of our small jewel of a planet, alone in the … Continue reading By Malaika Maphalala Alex Counts, founder of Grameen Foundation, delivered a great speech at Portland’s ReVisioning Value conference this year that gave new insight on the remarkable and unexpected side effects of microfinance in poor communities around the world. Grameen … Continue reading
Posted in By Malaika Maphalala, Community Investing, Global Issues
Tagged Green Investing, microfinance, sri
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By Hal BrillThis article first appeared in the June 2009 edition of the Natural Investing newsletter It’s good to be home! In the last issue I wrote from beautiful Patagonia and shared some of the environmental issues we learned about. … Continue reading
Posted in By Hal Brill, Community Investing, Global Issues
Tagged bolivia, Green Investing, microfinance, travel
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