May 2022 Issue

May 2022

7th Annual Videos Issue

DC Environmental Film Festival March 2022 Shorts Winner – Orgiastic Hyper-Plastic

An animated extravaganza of plastic collected from beaches, roadsides, attics and junk shops. This is an elegy to a love affair that has gone sour, a fond farewell to that most beautiful material that has enslaved our planet – plastic. This experimental film showcases Paul Bush’s pioneering technique of animated photographs and stop frame animation of objects.

Welcome to our 7th Annual Videos Issue. The GreenMoney team has curated a collection of interesting and inspiring films and discussions featuring a variety of innovators from the interconnected worlds of Impact Investing, Corporate Responsibility and Environmental Sustainability.

As one of my favorite issues each year, I hope this May 2022 issue engages you in many different ways, because in these days and times it is vital to have eyes and ears that can perceive the current realities of our world. Your feedback on the videos is welcome.

See you next month as we continue our 30th Anniversary Year with our annual Sustainable Agriculture and Food issue for June.

– Cliff Feigenbaum, founder/publisher

How Does Allbirds Approach Reducing Carbon Emissions?

GreenBiz 22 conference – Eco-friendly footwear and apparel brand Allbirds is known for its data-driven, collaborative approach to reducing carbon emissions. The public company has their sustainability principles embedded in their mission statement and has made its carbon accounting methods available to the world, even sharing technical innovations with competitors to help improve practices across the apparel sector.

The Ocean Solution Live Premiere and Discussion

Patagonia Provisions – Bren Smith is an ocean farming pioneer whose vertical kelp and shellfish farms can transform the way food is produced. Taking lessons he learned over the years, he developed a new method of restorative ocean farming. Discovering a way to produce large quantities of nutritious food that fights the climate crisis, cleans the ocean, creates aquatic habitat and sustains his way of life. Short film by Darcy Hennessey Turenne.

Gold Medal award to architect and sustainability visionary Ed Mazria

American Institute of Architects – Before Edward Mazria, AIA helped launch Architecture 2030 in 2002, the industry had little to no impetus to act on climate change. Then Ed, with a background in sustainable design, discovered architecture’s outsized role in emissions as designers of the built environment. By making these findings public, he spurred the industry to change its approach — and began helping the industry get to zero carbon emissions by 2030.

Fjällbete: A Landscape for Every Body

Savory Institute – For 20 years, Jörgen Andersson has been the driving force behind Fjällbete, a farm in Sweden with a mission to close the gap between the land and its people. As the learning site for Holistic Management Sverige – the Savory Hub in Sweden – Fjällbete is facilitating a Nordic network for regenerative agriculture and helping people of all ages explore their “caring capacity” as farmers and community builders.

Paul Polman On What It Means To Be a Net Positive Company

GreenBiz 22 Conference – In his new book, Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take, sustainable business icon and visionary, Paul Polman, asks the question, “Is this world better off because your business is in it?” Joel Makower of GreenBiz and Paul explore what’s behind that question, what it means to be a net positive company, and your role as a leader in the journey to net positive.

Eradicating Forced Labor from Solar Supply Chains

Eventide – Thoughtful investors aim to avoid human rights issues, like forced labor. But what if an entire supply chain is riddled with forced labor issues? This question faces the solar industry and investors as much of the Chinese solar supply chain is entrenched in the forced labor of the Uyghur people in Xinjiang, China, but clean energy is essential for meeting our growing global energy needs. Learn more about what investors can do.

Reframed: Built by Women

Patagonia Films – Did you know that Women make up less than five percent of US carpenters by trade? By sharing her skills with a group of women apprentices, timber framer Jenna Pollard is changing the narrative — one dovetail joint at a time. Watch this “Reframed” documentary from Director and Producer Luisa Conlon to learn more and donate to the Steger Center’s Women’s Natural Building Scholarship Fund.

Future of Food at SXSW 2022 – Jim Hightower, Author, Commentator and Activist

The Future of Food, was an official SXSW 2022 event presented Foodtank, who is building a global community for safe, healthy, nourished eaters. They aim to educate, inspire, advocate, and create change. Spotlighting and support environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable ways of alleviating hunger, obesity, and poverty and create networks of people, organizations, and content to push for food system change.

Investing in Saltwater Agriculture with Hazel Henderson

Wall Street Green Summit 2022 – Hazel Henderson is a world-renowned futurist, evolutionary economist, a worldwide syndicated columnist, consultant on sustainable development, and author of the award-winning book Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy (2006) and eight other books. She leads the Transforming Finance initiative, co-manages the Green Transition Scoreboard and is the founder of Ethical Markets Media.

The ESG Investing Outlook (Nasdaq, The S of ESG Conference)

After JUST Capital celebrated the JUST 100 in April at the Nasdaq, moderator Andrew Ross Sorkin sat down with C-Suite Leaders Jennifer Grancio, CEO of Engine No. 1; Doug Sieg, CEO & Managing Partner of Lord Abbett; and Karen Snow, Senior Vice President and Head of U.S. Listings and Revenue at Nasdaq, to discuss the strategic imperative, now and in the future, of the “S” in ESG – Environmental, Social and Governance.