June 2021 – Sustainable Agriculture & Food

Future 500s Force for Good Forecast 2021-Sustainability and Stakeholder Trends

Future 500’s Force for Good Forecast 2021: Sustainability and Stakeholder Trends

Each year, we publish our forecast to help corporate leaders navigate and lead on the year\’s most notable ESG advocacy trends like: Racial Justice, Biodiversity, Chemical Recycling, ESG Disclosures, Building Electrification, a K-Shaped Recovery, Net Zero, Community Resilience, and Companies & Democracy.

Future 500’s Force for Good Forecast 2021: Sustainability and Stakeholder Trends Read More »

Giants of Social Investing-John Streur and Jack Robinsion by Bruce Piasecki

Giants of Social Investing: John Streur and Jack Robinson

This book offers clear-eyed portraits of two successful and intriguing major world investors. These profiles offer the immediacy of oral history, the hard-won knowledge of lived experience, with direct quotes from the major investors. This covers world history as their investments have influenced over 5,000 companies during their careers.

Giants of Social Investing: John Streur and Jack Robinson Read More »

Calvert Impact Capital Invests in Sunwealth for Solar Access, Energy Savings and Jobs-GreenMoney

Calvert Impact Capital Invests in Sunwealth for Solar Access, Energy Savings & Jobs

Clean energy investment firm Sunwealth has received a $3M loan from CIC to support their solar access work. They’ll be using the financing, together with a tax equity investment from private investors, to support 18 solar projects on the rooftops and parking lots of NGOs, Apt. buildings, Churches and office buildings in underserved areas.

Calvert Impact Capital Invests in Sunwealth for Solar Access, Energy Savings & Jobs Read More »

Domini 2020 Impact Report-GreenMoney

Domini 2020 Impact Report: Opportunities for Positive Change in a Challenging Year

Domini Impact Investments LLC, a women-led impact investment firm, has published their 2020 Impact Report, which highlights how investors came together to harness the power of finance to build a better world—despite the world 2020 delivered. The report underscores—our climate crisis, the COVID pandemic, and racial and gender inequality.

Domini 2020 Impact Report: Opportunities for Positive Change in a Challenging Year Read More »

2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30 List of Sustainability Leaders

2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30 List of Sustainability Leaders

Their dreams are bright: Walkable, equitable cities. Clean energy for Native American communities. Planet-healing fast food. Circular outdoor gear. Decarbonized buildings. Electrified mobility. That’s only a sampling of the ambitions of the sixth class of the GreenBiz 30 Under 30. The honorees for 2021 are intrepid startup founders, tenacious corporate innovators and determined public servants.

2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30 List of Sustainability Leaders Read More »

Organic Valley Launches Clean Energy Fund for its Farmers-GreenMoney-June 2021

Organic Valley Launches Clean Energy Fund for its Farmers

Advancing its commitment to regenerative farming systems, Organic Valley is partnering with the Clean Energy Credit Union to provide loans for farmers seeking to reduce their reliance on fossil fuels with renewable energy and efficiencies. The program is first of its kind for both cooperatives, pioneering a unique clean energy loan fund for over 1,700 farmers across the country.

Organic Valley Launches Clean Energy Fund for its Farmers Read More »

Can We Pay Farmers to Store Carbon Emissions - by Marcello Rossi-CCM

Can We Pay Farmers to Store Carbon Emissions in Their Fields?

Simply cutting CO2 emissions is not enough, says the UN IPCC. To slow global warming, we need to actually remove carbon from the sky. But how? As companies turn to the latest carbon-capture technologies, one low-tech solution has been gaining ground: Carbon farming, or regenerative agriculture.

Can We Pay Farmers to Store Carbon Emissions in Their Fields? Read More »

Speed of Trust-A Native American Investment of Restorative Ag and Economics by Theo Ferguson

Speed of Trust: A Native American Investment Example of Restorative Agriculture and Economics

Indigenous people are on a journey together. Money is love. Money is medicine. These enterprises are cultural capital. We undertake these entrepreneurial deals as Native Americans. This regenerative agricultural enterprise is taking back the Buffalo, our relatives, and bringing our people back to their health.

Speed of Trust: A Native American Investment Example of Restorative Agriculture and Economics Read More »

Betterment Harvest-Ag-Tech in Appalachia

Betterment Harvest: Ag-Tech in Appalachia

Betterment Harvest is currently building on the regional momentum to bring a scalable and community-based approach to sustainable Ag which utilizes state-of-the-art, science-based practices that maximize productivity and profit while minimizing environmental damage, like installing indoor hydroponic systems in renovated industrial buildings in KY.

Betterment Harvest: Ag-Tech in Appalachia Read More »

Investing in Local Sustainable Ag and Food by Dorothy Suput-the Carrot Project

The Carrot Project: Investing in Local Sustainable Ag and Food

During the pandemic, farmers and food producers selling locally showed their strength, as the global food system showed weakness. Local farms provided good food, while stewarding the land and strengthening communities. Our local food ecosystem’s resilience is a result of the incredible work ethic of farmers, buoyed by varied collaborations and the growing role of investors.

The Carrot Project: Investing in Local Sustainable Ag and Food Read More »