Just getting off a press conference call with Calvert Foundation and InCapital. Both entities just announced that they are now live on a month to month basis with Calvert Community Investment Notes available through Incapital’s 400 broker dealer firm network. See release.

This is a critical barrier removed for global community development, microfinance and social […]

My friend Jed Emerson is asking the following question on his Blended Value Blog: “What do YOU see? I’m curious to hear what you all see as the “best new thing” you have heard about in the last two months.”

As he works on a paper he will present at the World Economic Forum at Davos, […]

Investing is more powerful and sustainable than giving, and Fortune magazine is starting to get it. “Like millions of Americans, you probably donated to charity after Hurricane Katrina. To make a long-lasting difference–not just to the Gulf Coast but to distressed communities across the nation–consider making a deposit in a bank or credit union committed […]

I’d love to start a fund focused on ICT (information communication technology) for development. An acronym starting to get traction is ICT4D. Here is one example in Mozambique, where we have our malaria project. It will not likely be the first thing Good Capital does, but it is something that I want to […]

October 17, 2005: Effective October 1, Farmers Insurance Group “announced it is the first in the US to offer an insurance discount to customers who own a hybrid or laternative-fuel vehicle. The discount amount will be 5% for auto customers in California.” They didn’t say why they’re doing it but it got props […]

Why do economists insist on treating information and creative works as scarce √¢‚Ǩ‚Äú while making the opposite mistake with respect to the depletable services of nature, which they treat as limitless by pricing at zero? How you think about things that are free is an important concept to the people creating xigi.net, because we are […]

Irving Walladsky Berger is one of IBM’s top thinkers; a deeply respected guy in the tech industry. Here is what he says about his experience with jams and the upcoming Habitat Jam starting later this week. “For me personally, Jams reflect the best of our hopes for the Internet and World Wide Web: a global […]

It seems unlikely that the Coca-Cola company will be granted permission to use groundwater as a result of water scarcity in an area in the Indian state of Kerala where it has one of its largest bottling plants, reports One World As Gil Crawford, who has tons of experience in the investment climate in the […]

The recently issued Joint Investor Statement on Human Rights is an interesting expansion of social investors’ demand on how their money is used. A coalition with $21 billion in investible assets are holding information technology companies accountable for defending human rights and freedom on the internet, especially against repressive regimes, points out Business Ethics blog. […]

Multinational corporations act globally but only give locally says a new Harvard study; a troubling fact in light of consolidation. Outside of headquarters towns, the money stops flowing. “There is currently a lot of talk about how companies support programs in all communities where they have employees, but our interviews and prior studies just […]