Many call it paradise, but for the Native people of what was once the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi, being “priced out of paradise” is a very real threat. Official numbers put Hawaiʻi’s houseless population at about 6,500, the highest per capita in the country. This number is also likely an undercount, only accounting for those on […]
Puʻuhonua O Waiʻanae: A Village Without a Place No More Read More »
For anyone following the financial news cycle, it’s hard to miss the increasingly heated debate around sustainable, responsible, and impact (SRI) investing. Detractors—often speaking from an ideological position on the right—argue that SRI promotes progressive values in corporate boardrooms. Supporters counter that these strategies have generally performed in line with traditional portfolios while helping to
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I recently returned from a delegation to Emilia-Romagna in Italy and the Basque Country in Spain, organized by the Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI). CCI’s initiative, called Reimagining Scale, brought together a group of U.S.-based solidarity economy practitioners ranging from academics to organizers to investors. Emilia-Romagna is a region in Italy with a decades-old robust
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The last weekend in September, I drove from Washington, D.C. to upstate New York for the Black Farm Fund’s (BFF) annual Abundance in Autumn Festival, a special event for BFF’s community of farmers, funders, and investors. The event, held at the queer- and BIPOC-owned Rise & Root Farm, was a day of planting, listening, eating,
On Wall Street, the word “conviction” refers to one’s confidence that a given investment will be profitable. For example, a “high conviction” investment is one that an investor believes will ultimately be highly profitable and is worth holding—even at the cost of enduring losses along the way. Likewise, an investor could easily get shaken out
The political turmoil of 2025 had a profound impact on the economy and how investors think about their financial futures and investment choices. Americans’ views on the economy never recovered from pre-COVID levels; only 23 percent of Americans now view the economy favorably, a significant drop from public sentiment in early 2020 when 60 percent
With nearly a thousand published pages in three books over close to 35 years, what has been our impact? If you add in the more than 100 issues of this newsletter and all the related articles, blog posts, and social media posts, what difference have we made? And what can we learn going forward? I
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Let me tell you about the similarities between salsa dancing and regenerative investing. The first time I danced salsa I felt relieved and surprised. I thought to myself, “So this is what my body has been trying to do during the previous two years of trying to force it into lindy hop…” I grew up
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Natural investments’ clients know the value of socially responsible portfolio management— but what about friends or family who haven’t accumulated the capital for such services but still want the money they save to make a difference in the world? This is exactly why our firm continues to have a mutually strengthening relationship with Hope Credit
People on the economic margins in the united states are often unable to access loans from banks and credit unions when they encounter an unexpected expense. According to the Federal Reserve, in 2023, more than 35 percent of the U.S. population would not be able to cover a $400 emergency expense with cash. People without
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