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”
Over the past few years I\’ve looked ahead to this special 20th Anniversary Year of the GreenMoney Journal and realized that mostly, we need to talk about the challenges and opportunities in our collective future. We know where we’ve been, but where are we going? How will sustainable business and responsible investing build better communities,
Tessa Tennant, President and co-founder of The Ice Organisation, has been awarded the fourth-annual Joan Bavaria Award for Building Sustainability into the Capital Markets. The announcement was made at recent Ceres annual conference, which ran April 25-26, 2012 at the Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel in Boston, MA. “I can’t think of anyone more deserving to
By Terry Mollner, Chair of StakeHolders Capital The next layer of maturation of the socially responsible investment movement will be part of a deeper, wider, and more fundamental planetary movement that I am guessing will become called “the common good movement.” Anytime a group of human beings come together to do something they begin living
>> Back to Summer 2012 Issue By Don Shaffer, President & CEO of RSF Social Finance Recently, I met with an organic food entrepreneur at a large trade show in Anaheim, California. This entrepreneur, who is seeking a loan from RSF Social Finance to expand her business had just been interviewed by a journalist. She
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.
By Cheryl Smith, Managing Partner of Trillium Asset Management Over the past 20 years, U.S. assets invested using a Sustainable and Responsible Investing (SRI) framework have increased five-fold, from $639 billion in 1995 to over $3 trillion in 2010 according to the Trends Report from the US SIF. Concomitantly, institutional investors worldwide now recognize the
By Hal Brill, Managing Partner of Natural Investments It is with much warmth and gratitude that I offer these thoughts as we sail into a future that will confront us with unfathomable changes. Cliff Feigenbaum was my roommate at the 1992 SRI in the Rockies conference, and although the difference in the length of our
By Barbara Krumsiek, President & CEO of Calvert Investments Sustainable investing has always focused on the future, not the next trade or the next day or even the next quarter, but the longer-term horizon against which environmental, social and governance issues have an impact on stock prices and the larger world. Yet right now, I
