Green Money

[tedbundy]

I'm trying to learn more about how to be socially and environmentally conscious about my money and investments. I listen to The Joan Kenley Show regularly (talk radio on iTunes, great subjects, progressive and in depth conversations) and last week there was an episode on greening your money and they had Peter Liu (I tried to post the Time article on him and New Resource Bank but no links for me yet) on talking about shifting financial attitudes and how it makes more business sense to invest in sustainability these days. Anyone have any good tips? Have you used New Resource Bank? Am I putting myself at any risk through working with them or are they like any other bank?

[responduser]

I have heard about white money, black money.

Green Money!

New to me.

[jc3900]

I'm trying to learn more about how to be socially and environmentally conscious about my money and investments. I listen to The Joan Kenley Show regularly (talk radio on iTunes, great subjects, progressive and in depth conversations) and last week there was an episode on greening your money and they had Peter Liu (I tried to post the Time article on him and New Resource Bank but no links for me yet) on talking about shifting financial attitudes and how it makes more business sense to invest in sustainability these days. Anyone have any good tips? Have you used New Resource Bank? Am I putting myself at any risk through working with them or are they like any other bank?

Do not fall for this scam! If a company is cutting costs greatly by some improvements that happen to be environmentally friendly then great. However, if their only selling point is "sustainability" and "environmentally conscience" then I would pack my bags. When looking at different companies you must key in on Earnings. I don't care about sustainability if there are no earnings or will not be any in the future.

[tedbundy]

Yeah, I agree that if it is the only selling point than it does not make sense. I think that the modern, wider version of sustainability demands that an idea make MORE money for being environmentally friendly than it would for not - at least that's how I envision it from listening to that episode.