>> Back to June 2014 Issue In April 2014 Rodale Institute announced the launch of a global campaign to generate public awareness of soil’s ability to reverse climate change, but only when the health of the soil is maintained through organic regenerative agriculture. The campaign will call for the restructuring of our global food
>> Back to June 2014 Issue Long-time shareholder advocate and executive director of the Tri-State Coalition for Responsible Investment, Sister Patricia Daly, OP has been awarded the sixth-annual Joan Bavaria Award for Building Sustainability into the Capital Markets. The announcement was made recently at the annual 2014 Ceres Conference in Boston, MA. A pioneer
>> Back to June 2014 Issue By John Roulac, founder of Nutiva The issue of how we grow and process our food, while it’s always been important, is now a hot topic both at the kitchen table and on Wall Street. From the recent scandal about a chemical used in yoga mats being found in
By Vicki Pozzebon, Prospera Partners and Delicious NM Back to June 2014 Issue Many years ago, over a locally sourced meal of free range chicken and roasted root veggies, while sampling New Mexico wines, a group of food activists and nonprofit leaders came together in my kitchen to discuss how we might further move
By Laura Batcha, Executive Director and CEO of the Organic Trade Association (OTA) Back to June 2014 Issue As more and more world attention focuses on threats from global warming and its impact on agriculture, organic production practices and principles are providing hope to an environmentally challenged planet. Studies continue to mount showing that
Back to June 2014 Issue By Theo Ferguson, founder, Vital Systems Why Care about Food and Farming? As food writer Michael Pollen says, “We are what we eat.” And the way our food is grown becomes both our bodies and the living land we eat. In the gastrological cycle, we eat and we uptake
Everence and the Praxis Intermediate Income Fund have recently purchased a total of $3.5 million in the auto industry’s first-ever asset-backed Green Bond through Toyota Financial Services. Issued in March 2014, the $1.75 billion Toyota Financial Services Green Bond offering (which was increased from its original $1.25 billion due to strong investor demand) is
The Impact Economy is Global and Diverse: Companies From 15 Countries and 31 Industries Recognized As Leaders in Redefining Success in Business Recently, 92 companies worldwide were recognized for creating the most positive overall social and environmental impact by the nonprofit B Lab with the release of the third annual ‘B Corp Best for
New Fund Targets Risk-Averse Investors Seeking Income and Diversification from Equity Income and Fixed Income Portfolios Community Capital Management, Inc. (CCM), recently announced the availability of its new open ended, mutual fund – the CCM Alternative Income Fund (Ticker: CCMNX) – a multi-strategy fund combining absolute-return-oriented and income-producing strategies. “CCMNX was specifically created for
New Technologies and Business Models like the Medicines Patent Pool that Challenge Conventional Pricing, R & D and Intellectual Property Paradigms Seen as Critical if Pharmaceutical Industry is to Meet Health Care Needs in Developing and Emerging Markets On April 7th, 2014 in commemoration of World Health Day 2014, members of the Interfaith Center
