Starting with Methodist Healthcare in Memphis, my partner Joy Anderson and I are beginning to look into the issue of medical debt. It’s the number one cause of bankruptcy in the U.S.

Can we create a financial instrument, a bond or other mechanism, that introduces new capital into the equation and serves as a lever […]

Frank Galea works in a bank and is on an interesting journey trying to reconcile his values and the way his company manages it’s $100 billion plus in assets. Here’s an excerpt from his blog: “There remains a serious gap in the area of values. I was very disappointed when examining the proxy voting record […]

The first megatrends book, back in 1982 was a major hit and spawned a new way of looking at things for some people, me included. It was my first time to see long sweeping societal and economic trends and try to find my place in them. The second one failed to have the same impact […]

Talking with my new friend Naseem Badley, a student at Queen Elizabeth House in the Department of International Development at Oxford got me looking more closely at issues of power in the good capital market. Seh’s in the Refugee Studies Centre, which uses a mix of anthropology and economics to look at complex issues like […]

As we try to accelerate the flow of capital to good through xigi and learn how to encapsulate value in an open source container, I’ve got a curious relationship going on with Yahoo. Iam deeply committed to helping Deli.icio.us evolve. I lurk on the developer’s list, for this bookmark sharing web service application. […]

Spent about three hours yesterday with my friend Trathen Heckman who publishes Ripples and runs a non profit Daily Acts which focuses on on putting on tours of things like sustainable agriculture or green building sites and architects. His goal is to help people become more conscious of the rippling impact of daily acts, from […]

Wikipedia, under attack on several fronts because it’s starting to be taken seriously, is defending itself as a community, a transparent, open source, constantly evolving community. First an old line journalist jumped on them for a bio on himself that was defamatory. The commmunity corrected it. Then people began denigrating them for their accuracy compared […]

There is an increasing willingness to talk in the tech community about business consciously and purposely doing good. The latest print edition of the Red Herring, the recently resurrected Silicon Valley investment pub, highlights my friend David Green, who is one of our partners at xigi. After working in global health for years, he […]

Had a long and good two hours with Martin Fisher of Kickstart (formerly aprotec) treadle irrigation pumps in Kenya that help subsistence farmers become cash crop farmers. Showed him the early alpha view of the xigi database by which we intend to map the good capital market. He loved the concept, sees the need […]

Just saw an impressive presentation and got a ppm on a potential invesment targeting the deeply broken process of Mexicans sending money back home to mamma in Jalisco from Fresno…. Immigrants often pay 10 percent to a payday check cashing company for the service and often don’t trust banks and other institutions. It’s a […]