Spring 2013 – Sustainable Business & Investing

Boston Common Asset Management\’s Approach to the Energy Sector (January, 2013)

In Brief: In the last few weeks, we\’ve heard from many of you regarding a growing debate over the appropriate way to invest in the fossil fuel sector.  Many of these questions have emerged from a fossil fuel divestment campaign led by Bill McKibben\’s 350.org.  In this piece, we lay out how Boston Common aims […]

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IFC $1 Billion Green Bond Marks Largest Climate-Friendly Issuance

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, in February 2013, issued a $1 billion green bond that will be used to support IFC climate-friendly projects in developing countries. The bond sets a precedent as the largest green bond issue to date and was principally allocated to socially responsible investment portfolios. By making the three-year

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Financing Our Foodshed: Growing Local Food With Slow Money

by Carol Peppe Hewitt On a sunny spring day in 2010, Woody Tasch, came to our small town of Pittsboro, in the Piedmont of North Carolina, to peddle the idea that we should all invest in our soils. He was on a three-year walkabout, promoting his book, Inquiries into The Nature of Slow Money, and

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2012 Report on Sustainable and Responsible Investing Trends in the United States with Reflections on Sustainable and Responsible Investment, 2012

by Lisa Woll of US SIF – The Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment With a vision of a world in which investment capital helps build a sustainable and equitable economy, US SIF looks forward every two years to the release of our Trends Report. The report anchors our understanding of the investment assets moving

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Now More Then Ever, Wise Investing Begins at Home

By Cece Derringer of Homewise, Inc.   “Back yard” community investing is as central to American history as the Framers’ creation of our Federalist system, the rights movements that have brought equality to an increasingly diverse country, or the westward expansion that bestowed early riches upon our land. Since the early 1700’s, when the innovative

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ICONS Interview Series

Rebecca Adamson of First Peoples Worldwide interviews Bennett Freeman of Calvert Investments Welcome to the sixth edition of GreenMoney’s Icons Interview Series, where we invite Sustainable Investment and Business leaders to interview other leaders in their field. This issue features Rebecca Adamson, Founder and President of First Peoples Worldwide. She is a leader, activist, and

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Publishers Note: From Getting Fired to Winning Awards

By Cliff Feigenbaum, founder and Publisher, GreenMoney As we celebrate this special 20th Anniversary Year, the media and individuals often ask me why and how I started the GreenMoney Journal (GMJ). I have often shared a story that began when I worked in a large regional hospital in the Northwest. After working and saving for

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