December 2014 – Special 100th Issue

Why Monsanto Will Never Rule the Food World: The Three-Prong Movement That’s Stopping the Beast in Its Tracks

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 Subway bread to the rising awareness […]

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An Open Letter to the Financial Services Industry From a Concerned Millennial

As a Millennial, I have recently noticed a flurry of studies, articles, and reports about my generation, authored by a diverse range of interested parties. Quite a bit of the pure sociological data suggests that the 80 million of us born between 1980 and 2000 are narcissistic, lazy, and optimistic to the point of being delusional – it’s enough to make me want to delete that selfie!

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The Next 20 Years of Organics

 By Gary Hirshberg, co-founder and chairman, Stonyfield Yogurt When thinking about our future, I can’t help but think of the past. I often joke that back when we started Stonyfield in 1983, you couldn’t even use the words “organic” and “industry” in the same sentence. With just seven cows and hardly any consumers understanding “why”

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From Growth Capitalism to Sustainable Capitalism: The Next 20 Years of Sustainable Investing

By Joe Keefe, President and CEO, Pax World Management Twenty years from now, we will have either successfully transitioned from our current economic growth paradigm to a new model of Sustainable Capitalism or we will be suffering the calamitous consequences of our failure to do so. Likewise, sustainable investing will either remain a niche strategy

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The GreenMoney Interview: Muhammad Yunus

Grameen Bank founder interviewed by Holly Mosher, producer of the films Bonsai and Pay2Play   When award-winning filmmaker Holly Mosher read about 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus and the story of Grameen Bank’s microcredit for women in Bangladesh, she was fascinated. Why had an economist and a bank won the prize for peace

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2014 Outlook for Socially Responsible Investing

by Amy Domini Founder and CEO of Domini Social Investments What lies ahead for responsible investors during 2014? Certainly new products, particularly those that are cleaner or more local, certainly a more predictable stock market, and probably enhanced interest in the value added by utilizing social and environmental considerations when choosing investments. These trends are

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In Mandela’s Footsteps: The Long Walk Continues

“Eliminating poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice… Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. People have created and tolerated poverty. And it is people who will overcome it.” – Nelson Rolihlhla Mandela   On July 18, 2013 Nelson Mandela’s 95th birthday, children with crayons in Kazakhstan draw

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The GreenMoney Interview: Philippe Cousteau

Explorer, social entrepreneur and environmental advocate interviewed by Cliff Feigenbaum, founder of GreenMoney Journal One of the more enjoyable tasks at GreenMoney is interviewing true leaders in our world. This interview features Philippe Cousteau, the son of Jan and Philippe Cousteau Sr. and grandson of Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau. As a member of this legendary family,

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Megan Epler Wood - Cambodia

The Future of Ecotourism

Twenty-five years ago travelers were just beginning to think about the environmental impacts of their travel. Ecotourism became a catch-all term in the 1990s for making travel environmentally and socially beneficial — that both conserved the environment and sustains the well-being of local people.

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