Sustainable Investing: What you didn't know could make you money. | Karina Funk | TEDxWilmington

Using numerous examples, this talk makes the point that sustainable investing could make you money. Karina Funk, CFA has extensive environmentally-oriented investment experience spanning early-stage ventures to debt and public equities. She was previously an equity research analyst for Winslow Management Co, a principal at Charles River Ventures, and an investment manager at the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust. Karina is the founding mentor and judge of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Ignite Clean Energy Business Plan Competition. She its on Investor Advisory Board of Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center, and she is a fellow of the International Women's Forum Leadership Foundation. Karina holds degrees from Ecole Polytechnique, MIT andPurdue University. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

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1. Heck
2. Great speech, very inspiring and opens up a path to a new mentality
3. Thank you for a great talk! For all who are interested. Please find attached a link to a Harvard paper that goes into the same direction. (https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/14369106/15-073.pdf?sequence=1)
4. "sustainable" as a designer means to me, a person into heat-transfer physics any kind, of using solar-HVAC or it's not "sustainable" doesn't matter if it's a LEEDS certified home or not the place doesn't collect-store and use solar for heat, duh ...
   
   So my design work uses same methods & materials to go off-grid, off-water, off-sewer and recycle the water is without funding and to battle a way into building codes the need or it's a game, yet real estate, the game has a long history.
   
   That began in the Phoenix, AZ, area 'bout the end of the Civil War and boom-bust cycles recorded 'bout every decade since in local demographics, we just are watching massive hoarding of capital, that's not "capitalism" using it for trading disparate services-products fairly it's stashing it and grabbing even more starving the "economy".
   
   Too bad about that ... maybe somebody needs to tell them to back off yet look at the fkn Dakota Pipeline they dig up people's graves to dig under the water supply of millions of people with guns and anti-personnel tanks to fkn with people praying, go to hell ok?
5. This woman got up on stage to tell people that they could invest in companies that are "green" and not just oil companies and such... WOW. glad i read the comments before i wasted 17 mins of my life.
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7. wth is she babbling about, it's all about the bottom line and near future earnings, nothing else.
8. Intersex.
9. slaughterhouse is the biggest polluter & greenhouse gas producer!
10. she is absolutely right..
11. an inspiring talk on how we can invest our money profitably and sustainably
12. first again yes