Green Matters – October 19, 2020

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Insights for the conscious investor.

October 19th, 2020

Sustainable Investing: Align your dollars with the rest of your life.

  • Sustainable investing is changing the world faster than you think (barrons)

  • The case for impact investing in public equities (blackrock)

  • No such thing as “passive investing” (marketwatch)

  • How to measure a company’s real impact (hbr)

 

Trends by Generation: History is seasonal. 

  • NextGen Chamber of Commerce roundtable calls for a new kind of capitalism  (yahoomoney)

  • Teens are buying fewer clothes, less food as their spending hits two-decade low (cnbc)

  • Millennials control just 4.2 percent of US wealth, 4 times poorer than Baby Boomers were at age 34 (newsweek

 

Tech & Innovation: Unlimited possibility; the good, the bad, the transformative. 

  • Is technology actually making things better? (pairagraph)

  • First there were boomtowns, now there are Zoomtowns (fastcompany)

  • Digital transformation (DX) – the fourth Industrial Revolution? (techzooka)

  • How many jobs do robots really replace? (MIT

  • Yesterday’s anti-trust laws were not built to rein in today’s technology platforms (stratechery)

 

Markets & Economy: The dismal science. 

  • 5 biggest startup trends for 2021 (thestartup)

  • House prices vs national average wage index (calculatedrisk)

  • Is your risk formula capturing the full picture? (sustainablebrands)

  • America’s Main Street revival goes into reverse, cutting a small-town lifeline (WSJ)

 

Carbon, Climate, and the Environment: The not so silent crisis. 

  • Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA (carbonbrief

  • Wind and solar supply more than 50 pct of Australia’s main grid for first time (reneweconomy

  • The Amazon rainforest is near a survival tipping point (fastcompany)

  • New data shows climate risk is rising among executives’ biggest concerns (greenbiz)

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