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Tag Archives: Green InvestingBy Malaika Maphalala I recently had the pleasure of meeting Kat Taylor, co-founder of One PacificCoast Bank, a “beneficial bank” newly arrived in Portland. A fan of banks with strong community-service visions, I was interested to hear about their work, … Continue reading A growing movement to recognize social and environmental benefits as a legitimate purpose of corporate activity, alongside making money, has added two new states to the growing roster of those adding “Benefit Corporation” as a state-recognized legal designation. Both Hawaii … Continue reading Our very own James Frazier is a movie star! Well, maybe he’s not the only one who can point to an online video with pride, but we’re excited to see him sharing his great work as part of a vibrant … Continue reading Andy Loving has once again received national recognition for his compelling approach to investing and investment advising. This time, the kudos came from Financial Planning magazine, which just named the winners of its second annual Influencer Awards. The editors of … Continue reading By James Frazier If you believe that positive change in the world must include fundamental changes in our economy and how we do business, and if you believe that the most power we have to affect real change lies right … 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 Christopher Peck Is your life humming along as you’d like it to? Do you whistle while you work? Do you need any fine-tuning? Do you march to the sound of a different drummer? Can you think of another clever … Continue reading By Jim Cummings Here at Natural Investing, we’ve been mighty inspired by the Slow Money movement from the moment Woody Tasch began sharing his earliest ponderings. So we’re especially excited to be one of several sponsors of the 3rd Slow … Continue reading
Posted in Green Living, Leading Edge Developments
Tagged Community Investing, farming, food, Green Investing
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By Michael Kramer Two emerging proxy voting websites are having an impact on shareholder activism, causing companies to take notice. This year marks the first proxy season that both ProxyDemocracy. org and MoxyVote.com are up and running. These websites aim … Continue reading 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 James Frazier Having recently returned from SRI in the Rockies, the annual conference for the socially responsible investing industry, I’m eager to report on a topic that generates more energy and excitement each year: Impact Investing. While it might … Continue reading
Posted in By James Frazier, Leading Edge Developments
Tagged Green Investing, sustainability
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By Christopher Peck I used to work at a native plant nursery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and folks would come in and ask about grass for their lawn: “it needs to be very drought tolerant, soft for my grandchildren … Continue reading |
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