Podcasts
How solar’s explosive growth is starting to make electricity free
Zero: The Climate Race podcast – In the next three years, 1TW of solar power will be added to the global grid and competition is driving solar prices even lower. And after years of innovation in China, Japan and Germany, the U.S. is finally getting in the game in a major way through its IRA which offers incentives to manufacture cleantech in the U.S. In early 2023, the South Korean company QCells announced it would build a domestic supply chain in the U.S. to gain access to enormous tax credits. But in a global marketplace, is this worth doing? Despite solar’s potential, manufacturing its parts has never been a reliable business.
In this episode, Akshat talks to Jenny Chase of BloombergNEF and an expert on the solar industry about its boom/bust cycle, why solar’s growth means electricity may soon be free during the day, and what QCells is up against. We also hear from Lindsay Cherry of QCells about how the company will achieve its ambitious goal to build a solar supply chain from scratch.
Pieter Van Midwoud: Combating Climate Change the Ecosia Way
Next Economy Now Podcast – Reforestation is a crucial tool in the fight against climate change, with benefits ranging from absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to supporting the planet’s intricate web of life. These efforts not only contribute to healthier and more resilient ecosystems, but also help to mitigate the damaging effects of climate change. To help unpack the benefits of reforestation, podcast host Erin Axelrod is joined by Pieter Van Midwoud, the Chief Tree Planting Officer at Ecosia. After finishing his studies, Pieter developed a certification scheme for forest carbon projects and joined Ecosia as their first tree-planting officer, creating a varied portfolio of reforestation efforts. Over 150 million trees have been planted to date, helping promote landscape restoration, community nourishment, wildlife protection, and carbon neutrality. Full Show Notes
Redesigning Food Series – How can farmers help to regenerate nature?
Ellen MacArthur Foundation – What is regenerative production? And how can farmers help address the damaging effects our industrialized food system has on the climate and biodiversity? In this episode, you’ll hear from Philippe Birker, co-founder of Climate Farmers, an organization working to empower farmers. also visit Nunwell Home Farm to learn how they are using regenerative methods to improve biodiversity and soil health on their farm.
Redesigning Food Series – Is there a better way to produce our food?
The Circular Economy Show Podcast – Welcome to the first episode of our new series looking at the need to redesign our food system. In this episode, we look at what’s wrong with the current system, and learn how a circular economy for food can help address some of today’s biggest global issues, such as biodiversity loss and climate change. We’re joined by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Food Lead, Reniera O’Donnell and Ecology, Social, Governance Advisor, Dr. Catherine Chong and we’ll also hear from Climate Farmers Co-Founder, Philippe Birker.
The Future of Sustainable Air Travel
A Conversation with American Airlines Vice President of Sustainability Jill Blickstein
Invest In Women Podcast – Women are great candidates for sustainable investing. This approach to long-term trends and themes falls in line with how women inherently see the world. Women naturally tend to stay more disciplined and trade less, creating better long-term planning abilities. In this episode, Kiley Miller, the director of ESG Solutions at Envestnet, explains the ins and outs of sustainable female investing and the benefits to their overall portfolio. Kiley unpacks some long-term trends, such as climate change, developments in renewable energy, and regenerative agriculture, while detailing how women are more likely to play the waiting game to achieve results in these areas. Kiley Discusses: • Why women are great candidates for sustainable investing • How sustainable investing practices align with the way women perceive the world • What you should know about personalization • The truth about emotions when it comes to investing • And more!
Sustainable Investing: the Most Opportune Route for Women with Kiley Miller
Invest In Women Podcast – Women are great candidates for sustainable investing. This approach to long-term trends and themes falls in line with how women inherently see the world. Women naturally tend to stay more disciplined and trade less, creating better long-term planning abilities. In this episode, Kiley Miller, the director of ESG Solutions at Envestnet, explains the ins and outs of sustainable female investing and the benefits to their overall portfolio. Kiley unpacks some long-term trends, such as climate change, developments in renewable energy, and regenerative agriculture, while detailing how women are more likely to play the waiting game to achieve results in these areas. Kiley Discusses: • Why women are great candidates for sustainable investing • How sustainable investing practices align with the way women perceive the world • What you should know about personalization • The truth about emotions when it comes to investing • And more!
Targeting the ‘Woman Factor’ in an ETF
ETF Working Lunch – etf.com’s biweekly podcast, where writers and analysts discuss the latest ETF news and trends with some of the smartest women in the business. In this episode Hypatia Capital’s founder and CEO Patricia Lizarraga talks with Heather Bell about her firm’s first ETF – Hypatia Women CEO ETF (NYSE: WCEO)
Tina Owens of the Nutrient Density Alliance and Green America’s Center for Sustainability Solutions
Regenerative Rising Podcast: Elevating Stories, Activating Change – Host Nisha Mary Poulose speaks with Tina Owens of the Nutrient Density Alliance and Green America’s Center for Sustainability Solutions. Tina’s extensive understanding of food supply systems and her experience at the forefront of its regenerative transformation enriches this conversation that spans a range of topics around the food system and what it takes to ensure a lasting shift. Tina provides valuable insight into the complexities of food certifications, the magnitude of the supply web, and the path to a more inclusive marketplace in the transition era. Join Tina and Nisha as they speak of how science, technology, and media can be leveraged to enable consumers to make informed choices in the supermarket, unencumbered by corporate greenwashing strategies, and how consumer behavior can be a force for good.
‘Raw Deal’ takes a hard look at the state of the American meat industry
NPR Fresh Air | Dave Davies interviews journalist and Forbes staff writer, Chloe Sorvino who says meatpacking workers today still suffer from low pay and poor working conditions, and the industry pollutes the environment, contributes to climate change, and leaves the meat supply chain vulnerable to major disruptions. In her new book “Raw Deal: Hidden Corruption, Corporate Greed, And The Fight For The Future Of Meat,” she also explores meat substitutes that are gaining a following and considers whether they have the potential to change the industry and slow global warming.
Marketplace Morning Report – One big bank halts new fossil fuel investments. Will others follow?
Marketplace Morning Report – Dec.29, 2022 Europe has been dealing with an energy crisis for much of this year, but there’s been some recent good news on the climate front on the Continent. HSBC, Europe’s largest bank, announced this month it will stop investing in new oil and natural gas fields. “It’s a pretty big deal,” McKibben said in an interview with Marketplace’s Nova Safo as part of our Economic Pulse series. “It’s the first time that one of the members of the club of really big banks has bowed to public pressure.
Radical Truth Podcast: 30 Years Pioneering Impact Investing with Amy Domini
Radical Truth with Robert Rubinstein | a TBLI Group production: When there were no ESG or Impact Investing ecosystem, Amy Domini started Domini Social Investments and the Domini Index. ESG and Impact have grown significantly in the past 3 decades, and are going mainstream. Nearly all financial institutions are offering their clients Responsible Investing products. How has the industry evolved? Have ESG and Impact improved things? What will the industry look like in the next 30 years. Pioneer Amy Domini will share her thoughts and vision for taking Impact to the next level.
Impact Investing, part 2: Can money meet morals?
THE INDICATOR from Planet Money: IMPACT INVESTING, part 2: Dec.7th – Katherine Collins, Head of Sustainable Investing at Putnam Investments and George Serafeim, Prof. of Bus. Admin. at Harvard Business School. 15 years ago, ESG was in its Wild West era. Almost no companies released data on the social or environmental impact of their operations, or even bothered to keep track. ESG investing jobs just didn’t exist. And since then, data shows that many ESG-focused portfolios outperform traditional investments. Social impact has become a much higher corporate priority.
Listen to part 1: Environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing has been *the* hot topic in the financial industry for a few years now. By making investment choices that emphasize social and environmental responsibility alongside profits, money managers claim to put their morals on the same level as their bottom lines. Critics argue that the trend is merely a publicity stunt, or that ESG investing inherently contradicts money managers’ legal fiduciary duty to make the most money they can for their customers. In part one of our two-part series, we talk to a former C-suite sustainable investing officer at BlackRock on why he thinks ESG, money and morals have a hard time getting along.
The Salmon People podcast – Skull and Crossbones
EPISODE 6: The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society offers to send a research ship to B.C. to help Alex Morton with her studies. At first, she rejects the offer as too provocative because Sea Shepherd is thought of as a contentious environmental organization. But Alex needs to get close to the salmon farms, so she changes her mind. Alex planned to visit all the fish farms off the east coast of Vancouver Island and collect water samples to test for diseases coming out of the farms. And then she got the idea to ask some First Nations people to join her. That was a game-changer.
The Salmon People podcast is a co-production between award-winning journalist Sandra Bartlett and Canada’s National Observer.
The Salmon People podcast – Hiding the Scientist
EPISODE 5: The salmon had been returning to the Fraser River for hundreds of years. In 2009, they didn’t. When whale biologist, Alex Morton’s day to testify at the Cohen Commission arrived, she was full of adrenaline. She could tell people what she had been seeing with the salmon for the past two decades. And she would reveal what she had found in the 500,000 pages of government documents submitted to the inquiry. Documents that had only been released to inquiry witnesses, and would go back under lock and key the moment the inquiry was over. It should have been a perfect Hollywood moment — like key scenes from Erin Brockovich, Dark Waters or even The Verdict. And when Alex made key documents public, they revealed how the health of wild salmon had been ignored by Fisheries and Oceans for decades.
The Salmon People podcast is a co-production between award-winning journalist Sandra Bartlett and Canada’s National Observer.
The Salmon People podcast – the Game Changer
EPISODE 4: The salmon had been returning to the Fraser River for hundreds of years. In 2009, they didn’t. Or barely did. Nine million sockeye salmon were missing. Stephen Harper, prime minister at the time, was not a man known for promoting science, but the catastrophic loss forced him to call an inquiry. For the first time, there would be money, time and people testifying under oath about events leading to the disappearance of the wild salmon.
The Salmon People podcast is a co-production between award-winning journalist Sandra Bartlett and Canada’s National Observer.
The Salmon People podcast – a 20-year battle to save Canada’s wild salmon
EPISODE 3: When Alex left the orcas behind to study deadly sea lice, she knew she couldn’t be everywhere, so she gathered an army of sea lice helpers — citizen scientists from all over northern Vancouver Island willing to collect smolts and count sea lice for her research. An unlikely detective, whale biologist, Alexandra Morton would be pulled into a battle against government, industry and multinational corporations. A story like this one should have been an “Erin Brockovich moment”. But it didn’t quite play out that way.
The Salmon People podcast is a co-production between award-winning journalist Sandra Bartlett and Canada’s National Observer.
The Salmon People podcast: The Gold Rush
EPISODE 2: If you take a boat along the coast of northern British Columbia, you’ll see towering deciduous trees and snow-capped peaks, small islands, big islands and scattered throughout it all … fish farms. Dozens of them. Alexandra Morton remembers their arrival — remembers the Gold Rush when anyone who wanted a fish farm license got one. And she remembers how the government tricked coastal people into pointing out the best wild salmon habitat. The Salmon People podcast is a co-production between award-winning journalist Sandra Bartlett and Canada’s National Observer.
The Salmon People podcast: The Unlikely Detective
EPISODE 1: Some victims don’t have voices. Off the coast of British Columbia, wild salmon started dying by the millions. Chris Bennett runs Blackfish Lodge, 300 kilometers north of Vancouver where Canada’s West Coast crumbles into the Pacific Ocean. His guests are from all over the world. They come to see B.C.’s wildlife, but especially the salmon. Chris was out with a group of tourists when he looked into the water alongside his boat and noticed young salmon — called smolts — acting strangely. He drove down the coast with a few smolts in a bucket to show to Alexandra Morton, a neighbor who studied orcas. It was the first clue in a mystery of disappearing salmon, and Alex, an unlikely detective, stepped up. The Salmon People podcast is a co-production between award-winning journalist Sandra Bartlett and Canada’s National Observer.
We All Live Downstream
Clean Water Action – Episode 23: Sustainable Investing: Save Money & Save the Planet.
Whether you’re currently an investor or looking to invest, learn more about how sustainable investing can help you fight climate change and protect clean water, while also earning you money. This episode features a conversation with Zach Stein, Co-founder of Carbon Collective; Vicki Benjamin, President and Co-founder of Karner Blue Capital; and Jon Scott, Director of Corporate Relations and Legacy Gifts at Clean Water Action. Clean Water Action recently launched a new member benefit, a sustainable cash management solution that lets you earn more on your cash and do it in ways that are good for our water and our climate.
Inside the Circle podcast – a four-part series exploring the circular economy in action
Episode 1: Circular Plastics Exploring innovative solutions to product design, packaging, business models, supply chains and advanced recycling technologies. So much plastic is designed to be single-use. A study by Pew Charitable Trusts highlights that plastic-related greenhouse-gas emissions are projected to account for around 19% of the global carbon budget by 2040. How can we develop innovative upstream solutions, and design products and packaging that promote circular models of production, consumption and waste management? To what extent have policymakers created an environment conducive to progress?
Cultivating Resilience – a new podcast discussing specific stresses today’s Farmers face
Farm Aid Cultivating Resilience Podcast – This first episode gets right into it, discussing a topic that causes stress both on and off the farm: finances. It features Valerie Woodhouse, social worker and owner and operator of Honey Field Farms in Norwich Vermont, on her own financial journey and how she addresses stress in her farming clients. You’ll also hear from university educators Maria Pippidis (University of Delaware- Cooperative Extension) and Jesse Ketterman (University of Maryland-Extension) on the essential building blocks of healthy finances.”
Capital Insight Podcast – Making Sound Investments for a Prosperous Planet with Nicole Middleton Holloway
In this episode, Capital Insight co-hosts and securities attorneys Jenny Kassan and Michelle Thimesch talk with Nicole Middleton Holloway, a hands-on, nurturing CFP (certified financial planner) with Natural Investments, who helps progressive investors live abundantly and make a positive impact with their wealth – in their families, in their communities, and in the world – through socially responsible investing.
That Made All the Difference – creating global access to clean water with Matt Damon and Gary White co-founders of Water.org and WaterEquity
Bank of America’s That Made All the Difference podcast with Host Alicia Burke – In this episode: “What if clean water could help women achieve true equality?” Learn about how actor/writer Matt Damon and engineer Gary White are combining practical solutions with storytelling to help create global access to clean water.
Find out more at water.org and waterequity.org.
GreenMoney Talks: Indigenous Peoples and Impact Investing
Carla Fredericks of First Peoples Worldwide is speaking with Dave Archambault II, a Senior Fellow for FPW and the former Chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. In 2016, he emerged as a global leader for Indigenous Peoples’ rights as he led the opposition to the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. They discuss indigenous entrepreneurship and economic development.
Aligning Your Money & Values with Kathleen McQuiggan of Artemis Advisors
Interview by GreenConnectionsRadio host Joan Michelson
Can we invest in ways that support advancing women and protecting the planet, while also earning the financial returns we want and need? “Yes, we can with ESG investing,” says Kathleen McQuiggan, “because your money is power, and women are changing the world of money and investing.”
How to Invest in a Better World with Marketplace Morning Report host Sabri Ben-Achour – interviewing US SIF CEO Lisa Woll
The US SIF Foundation recently released its 2020 report on Sustainable and Impact Investing Trends. The report focuses on how investors are increasingly considering environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues when deciding where to invest their assets.
Sustainable Business and Impact Investing with Cliff Feigenbaum
October 21, 2020
Cliff Feigenbaum is the founder and publisher of the award-winning GreenMoney Journal, now in its 28th year of covering SRI/ESG Investing and Sustainable Business topics. As a leading voice in Sustainability, Cliff is also the co-author of one of the first books on SRI back in 1999 entitled “Investing With Your Values” (Bloomberg Press, NYC).
Better Money Decisions Podcast with host Kate Stalter, CFP
July 17, 2018
Sustainable investing is becoming a revolution that many of us may not be well informed on. Learning to spend your money and profit only from companies that align with your values is fulfilling and impactful. Cliff Feigenbaum is the founder of GreenMoney Journal, and actively promotes sustainable investing. Tune into this episode to learn how to invest your money more sustainably and make a difference in your environment.
Caring about a company’s values has grown into a multi-trillion dollar industry
By David Brancaccio
August 22, 2017 | 6:36 AM
People generally like to measure a business’s worthiness based on its bottom line — not its values. But over the past couple of decades, socially responsible investing (SRI) has grown into an industry worth trillions. Cliff Feigenbaum, who founded GreenMoney Journal 25 years ago, joined us to talk about the increase in people who are matching their values with their portfolios.
Interview with Cliff Feigenbaum on The Wealth Confidant Podcast
As GreenMoney wraps up its 25th Anniversary Year, founder Cliff Feigenbaum gives a wide-ranging interview on The Wealth Confidant Podcast with its host John Christianson, of Highland Private Wealth Mgmt.
Liesel Pritzker Simmons: Stewarding Inheritance on the Stairway to Blue Haven
Liesel Pritzker Simmons, Co-Founder and Principal of Blue Haven Initiative, oversees their portfolio focused on holdings that generate competitive financial returns while addressing social and environmental challenges. Liesel is also Co-Founder of Chicago-based IDP Foundation, where she helped create the IDP Rising Schools Program, which leverages microfinance networks to empower nearly 450 low-cost private schools.
GreenMoney Journal’s 25th Anniversary with Cliff Feigenbaum
Cliff Feigenbaum: GreenMoney Turns 25 – The Evolution of Sustainable Business & Impact Investing
Lift Economy
Impact Boom
Impact Boom searches the globe to find the people, stories & inspiration to help you create maximum positive impact. Cliff Feigenbaum founder of GreenMoney Journal discusses his top tips for socially responsible investing, using your money to change the world, shareholder activism and his 25 year journey with GreenMoney.
The Money Life
The Money Life is about investing, handling, managing, planning for and protecting your money. Hosted by Chuck Jaffe, senior columnist for MarketWatch, in this podcast Chuck interviews Cliff Feigenbaum, founder of GreenMoney Journal, to discuss GreenMoney’s 25th Anniversary and the world of sustainable investing.
Next Economy Now (LIFT Economy)
Next Economy Now from LIFT Economy features Bren Smith, GreenWave Executive Director and owner of Thimble Island Ocean Farm– a pioneer in the development of restorative 3D ocean farming. Bren’s ocean farming model is designed to restore ecosystems, mitigate climate change, and create blue-green jobs for fishermen – while ensuring healthy, local food for communities.
Episode 45: Live from Silicon Valley, the future of the clean economy
This week on the GreenBiz 350 podcast: A glimpse into the future of energy, cities and jobs from VERGE 16 in Santa Clara, California.
Cliff Feigenbaum on The Prosperity Show
Joan Sotkin host of The Prosperity Show talked with Cliff Feigenbaum of the GreenMoney Journal on a recent Podcast. Cliff has been involved with sustainable and responsible investing for over 20 years — longer than most people.