PROBLEM #1

Michale Shuman of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies wrote in this month’s Yes! Magazine that while local businesses generate 50% of all economic activity, “local businesses receive none of our pension savings.  Nor do they receive any investment capital from mutual, venture, or hedge funds.  The result is that all of us, even stalwart advocates of community development, overinvest in the Fortune 500 companies we distrust and underinvest in the local businesses we know are essential for local vitality.  This situation represents a colossal market failure.”

SOLUTION #1

The EcoSector Portal is actually a carefully designed tool for solving the problem Shuman writes about by helping local investors find and invest in green businesses near where they live. The Portal can be used by community leaders now for free to help them organize and revitalize entire local economies.

If you like this reason, please join the EcoSector Industry Association today with your membership gift of $1 or whatever you like.

Tags: green entrepreneurs, green investing

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