Fall 2012 Special 20th Anniversary Issue – The Next 20 Years of Sustainable Business & Investing (Part 2)

Recently, radio newscasters have reported that drought has captured 78% of America’s arable land. Resulting from our cultural decisions that have exacerbated climate change, every species’ habitat is impacted, the glaciers are melting, and our global food production systems are stressed. At the current measure of 392 parts per million of CO2 equivalent, we must

Article by Bill Summers, CEO of the Permaculture Credit Union Barclays, Peregrine Financial Group, Madoff Investment Securities and Galleon Group are instantly recognizable organizations whose actions, over the last several years, have significantly affected the confidence the public has in our financial markets and institutions. With Barclay’s it was manipulation of LIBOR rates, Peregrine was

Article by Ben Bingham, Founder & CEO of 3Sisters Sustainable Management, LLC Prologue From Jean Ritchie’s apocalyptic mountain song, The Cool of the Day: My Lord, he said unto me Do you like my garden so fair You may live in this garden if you\’ll keep the waters clean [1] And I\’ll return in the cool

>> Back to Fall 2012 Issue By Robert Zevin, Chairman, Chief Investment Officer & Portfolio Manager at Zevin Asset Management Shortly after registering my own investment advisor firm in 1967, I found myself offering to apply socially responsible selection criteria to my clients’ portfolios, as well as helping my clients exercise other shareholder powers in

By Hazel Henderson, Founder & President, Ethical Markets, ® 2012 Janine Benyus, Co-Founder & President, Biomimicry 3.8 * This is the precursor document to our Principles for Ethical Biomimicry Finance™. We the signers hold these biological truths to be self-evident that the human species is interdependent with all other life forms on Planet Earth. Therefore,

>> Back to Fall 2012 Issue By Timothy David Karsten, founder of TDKA Group Excerpt © 2012  All Rights Reserved Freedom may be elusive, but it has inspired a passion in people so intense that peaceful men have revolted and gone to war in order to obtain or protect it, rightfully measuring a government\’s greatness

By Doug Arent, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory In late June, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, two decades after its predecessor, the 1992 Earth Summit, was held to advance sustainable development through international cooperation.

By Lisa Hall, President and CEO of Calvert Foundation Throughout the course of this year, I have found myself attending numerous conferences and participating in panel discussions where attention has been focused on impact investing. I believe that in 20 years we will look back and consider these past few years as the turning point