Awake - Conscious Money ✨ 💸
Helping you have an impact while building generational wealth.
Apple produced 1.65 billion devices by the end of 2020. A billion of anything is huge. A billion grains of rice weigh 25 tons and take up about three full sized dump trucks.
Apple makes a LOT of the world's electronic waste. But how much?
That's the thing, we don't know. Electronic waste is can be devastating, so we'd like to see Apple publish figures on its TOTAL contribution to electronic waste. Getting concrete numbers is the first step towards fixing the problem. Click below to help us take action.
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We believe collective action can be leveraged to solve humanity’s largest problems. We’re inspired by activist hedge funds, petitioning platforms and the rise of Web3 suggesting that a new age of ownership is coming, one where we can align our money with our values.
The Basics ðŸ›
What’s ESG Investing? - [4 min article]
What's Shareholder Activism? - [2 min video]
Sustainable Investing - [15 min video]
New In Sustainable Finance 💸
Raise Green is the marketplace for impact investing in climate solutions
From solar farms on Maui, to water reuse systems in Phoenix, to geothermal power installations in Alaska, the solutions to climate change are taking shape all around us – powered by heroic entrepreneurs and innovators who are not content to wait for big energy and leaders in government to get their act together.
With Joro, manage your climate impact as intentionally as you manage your money.
We seek to make it accessible for anyone to live net zero and connect with a community of people doing the same thing. Together, we can live lighter.
The climate crisis was caused by humans. It will be reversed by us, too.
Long Reads 🔗
A Look Back at the 2022 Proxy Season - Harvard Law
The Role of Long-Term Shareholder Voice - Ben Colton, StateStreet
The Role of Activist Investors In Tech - Kyle Wiggers, TechCrunch
Diary of A Sustainable Investor - Tariq Fancy, Ex-CIO for Sustainable investing @ BlackRock
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