Comments on: Follow the money http://www.greenyear.org/2007/03/14/follow-the-money/ a keyboard, a calendar, and climate change Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:12:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: Troy Angrignon http://www.greenyear.org/2007/03/14/follow-the-money/#comment-54 Sat, 17 Mar 2007 19:20:02 +0000 http://www.greenyear.org/2007/03/14/follow-the-money/#comment-54 Tom, I am glad to see that you have come around. I studied at the University of Victoria, in their Environmental Studies program. I was the lone capitalist in the class, surrounded by somewhat militant eco-theosophists and philosophers, many of whom didn't appreciate capitalism's real agnosticisms with respect to "doing evil". It is a simple system. Go where the m oney is. If it's in building green and sustainable things, it will go there. If it is in resource industries and there is a free ride because we have no way to cost, and bill back for so-called "externalities", then it will go there. It is my goal to push on the triple (or quadruple) bottom line approach as hard as I can where we find and/or educate people to be capitalists with a conscience but I'm also extremely interested in those ventures that HAVE positive social and environmental outputs BUT that can be promoted to single bottom line investors who really just at the end of the day, want a high return. Ten your capital market is as large as possible. Anyway, glad that you posted this. And we still have to catch up but I'm travelling now for a while so we'll do it when I return. Troy Tom, I am glad to see that you have come around. I studied at the University of Victoria, in their Environmental Studies program. I was the lone capitalist in the class, surrounded by somewhat militant eco-theosophists and philosophers, many of whom didn’t appreciate capitalism’s real agnosticisms with respect to “doing evil”. It is a simple system. Go where the m oney is. If it’s in building green and sustainable things, it will go there. If it is in resource industries and there is a free ride because we have no way to cost, and bill back for so-called “externalities”, then it will go there.

It is my goal to push on the triple (or quadruple) bottom line approach as hard as I can where we find and/or educate people to be capitalists with a conscience but I’m also extremely interested in those ventures that HAVE positive social and environmental outputs BUT that can be promoted to single bottom line investors who really just at the end of the day, want a high return. Ten your capital market is as large as possible.

Anyway, glad that you posted this. And we still have to catch up but I’m travelling now for a while so we’ll do it when I return.

Troy

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