January 2014 – Sustainable Solutions & Strategies

>> Back to January 2014 Issue Public, Searchable “IA 50” Features Experienced Impact Investment Managers     ImpactAssets ( www.impactassets.org ) recently launches the “IA 50,” a free online resource for impact investors and their advisors. The annual compilation includes experienced fund managers representing a broad range of investment opportunities that deliver social and/or environmental […]

>> Back to January 2014 Issue From Green Century, 350.org, and Trillium   Green Century Capital Management (Green Century), 350.org, and Trillium Asset Management, LLC (Trillium) recently the published a new paper, Extracting Fossil Fuels from Your Portfolio: A Guide to Personal Divestment and Reinvestment. You can download a copy of the new Guide at

>> Back to January 2014 Issue   Calvert CEO discusses why so few women are top corporate leaders and provides insights to navigating three distinct phases in women’s careers At the recent fourth annual Tedx BayArea Global Women Entrepreneurs event in December 2013, Calvert CEO Barbara Krumsiek addressed an important question for women building their

>> Back to January 2014 Issue By Rebecca Adamson and First Peoples Worldwide   Are extractive companies operating on Indigenous land overvalued? First Peoples Worldwide released its Indigenous Rights Risk Report at the recent 2013 SRI Conference on Sustainable, Responsible, Impact Investing. The report analyzed 52 U.S.-based extractive companies listed on the Russell 1000® Index

>> Back to January 2014 Issue By Chuck Carlson, CFA CEO, Horizon Investment Services   Let me just start by saying that what you are about to read may anger and possibly even offend you. That is not my intent. My goal is to bring a newbie’s perspective to the topic of socially responsible investing

>> Back to January 2014 Issue By Tony Juniper, book author   When a catastrophe like the recent typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines draws public attention towards the sublime power of Nature to wreak havoc in human affairs, we can see clearly how our livelihoods, both existential and financial, depend upon a healthy relationship to

>> Back to January 2014 Issue By Joe Keefe, President and CEO of Pax World Mgmt, and Pax World Funds   The federal government in Washington, DC is at an all-time low in public esteem. This has to do with a lot of things, from intransigent right-wing ideology (e.g., debt ceiling debacle) to bureaucratic incompetence

By Hunter Lovins and John Fullerton for the Capital Institute Back to January 2014 Issue   Summary: The global economy, which is driving humankind beyond the limits of the planetary boundaries, is itself driven by the theoretical construct and practice of global finance. A perpetually growing economy is at some point in conflict with a