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Assessing Brick & Mortar Carbon Footprints

Buildings generate nearly 40% of annual CO2 emissions. [1]  Despite being the #1 contributor to greenhouse and carbon emissions, the built environment is often overlooked as a significant contributor. In this segment of The Great… Read more »

The Sustainable Fashion Revolution

Many people are unaware of how the fashion industry connects to climate change.  Yet, it is estimated to account for a staggering 2 – 10% of global greenhouse emissions,1 as it touches so many aspects… Read more »

2022 RIA Channel ESG Practice Playbook

Please join us for two new installments of our ESG Practice Playbook series with RIA Channel, specifically designed to help financial advisors deepen their ESG knowledge and grow their practices.  This complimentary online series will focus on current… Read more »

Earth Day: Thoughts from the Past About the Future

The history of environmental education parallels Earth Day and the modern environmental movement. Evolving from the Nature Study and conservation education, environmental education formalized in the late 1960s and gained traction in the 1970s. Climate… Read more »

Thoughts on People, Planet, & Profit

Amy Domini, Founder and CEO of Domini Impact Investments, is widely viewed by many as one of the earliest sustainable and impact investing pioneers.  Amy recently sat down with Jeff on TheIMPACT to talk about… Read more »

Time to Rethink ESG & EM

In response to the economic, ESG, and market consequences of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, we made the decision to exit our dedicated Emerging Markets exposure across our mutual fund and UMA model portfolios on March… Read more »

Accelerating the Transition to Net-Zero

In this week’s edition of TheIMPACT, Jeff is joined by Truman Seamans, Founder and CEO of Open Source Climate (OS-Climate).  While most ESG and climate focused data is proprietary and not shared between providers, OS-Climate… Read more »

Regenerative Solutions and Inclusive Innovation

The evolution of impact investing is the topic of this week’s interview with Jed Emerson, Chief Impact Officer at Tiedemann Advisors. Once exclusively linked to private markets, impact investing now brings a robust opportunity set… Read more »

Muni Bonds and Sea Level Rise

In this week’s edition of TheIMPACT, Eric Glass, Impact Investor and Advisor at Justice Capital, spoke with Jeff about how municipal bonds are uniquely positioned to create impact by addressing climate as well as social… Read more »