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 ted.com/tedx

[@GoldIRA]

Nice insight provided here. She seems knowledgeable and genuinely cares about sustainability. Green not only has profitable opportunities for the future, but also sometimes can have tax incentives and even grant. Best of all you're doing a good thing for our planet. 🌎

[@kepler1175]

As a huge computer nerd im so glad she brought up ARM and intel, love how thats coming around as a huge deal right now as apple is making their own ARM processors for macs Edit: This was also just another great speech.

[@wayofthinkin]

Wow !! Intelligence and beauty. Amazing woman.

[@maameyaa8303]

Excellent! I enjoyed listening to you. I am excited about this paradigm shift having read a course on Business and Environmental law during my master’s in law degree. I’m currently researching on “Responsible Investment: Gender inclusion in the Extractive sector” for my thesis. I look forward to learning more.....!

[@waellerbe]

I appreciate the insight that was shared in this presentation. In my effort to learn more about another aspect of Green Investments, I take this opportunity to ignore trolls and naysayers in effort to come up with my own *positive* conclusion based upon my hunger to learn more about investing.

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[@etfguide1003]

While impact investing to have an environmental and financial benefit is currently being hyped it's still a great framework that work being supported for the social good. I'd appreciate even more transparency and more concrete ideas there.

[@yvonnehyatt8353]

Very good message.

[@karenhern9398]

Great speech, thankyou

[@ste5402]

Great speech, very inspiring and opens up a path to a new mentality

[@wuestion9473]

All people need to start caring about others along with themselves.

[@hollycumming]

Fascinating!!

[@jahnimai]

slaughterhouse is the biggest polluter & greenhouse gas producer!

[@AmitTiwari-wf1xj]

she is absolutely right..

[@Fenmum]

an inspiring talk on how we can invest our money profitably and sustainably

[@waellerbe]

Elicia Maine I was inspired by her presentation as well. As an Investor, I like to have a better understanding of what a company does, and have a better sense of whether it would be worthwhile to purchase a share of the company when the time is right. I don’t understand how any company hoping for the best image possible, could not find the courage to *care* about the environment around them. Education makes the difference concerning this topic.

[@felicaporko1582]

I still haven't understood how stock investments can affect companies. Could someone explain? I've only found arguments against its effectiveness thus far. I get SRI as an investment strategy but as a form activism I feel that everyone tells to do so without ever explaining how it matters.

[@kenneth6102]

Feliĉa Porko It doesn’t, profits are based on consumptions. There is no stopping of people buying cheap goods, whether environmentally friendly or not. If the mass boycott non-green companies in the stock market, the share price drops, with the same profits it makes, it becomes undervalued, there will be investors taking the opportunity. The company would probably buy back some of those undervalued shares, hence more profits for the major shareholders.

[@Ozhar1]

Heck

[@mesoncharles7560]

first again yes

[@wilmapretorius5985]

sustainable investments

[@ttmallard]

"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?

[@yonkersfugitive]

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.

[@exsammy84]

lol, maybe u just wasted 17 years in the future

[@BlueHopi144]

your profile picture tells another story ......did u see that coming ?LOL

[@-dms4653]

No she is saying invest in and develop business advantages using the environmental solutions. It’s shocking that you are judging through the comments not because of you, but because the women literally said “People think we can’t have them both, let’s say AND not OR”. which you and the others commented. Boy focus on your mind health more often

[@sawyerm345]

Hello. I enjoyed your speech. I'm interested in your opinion about crypto currency. I have invested in cardano. I appreciate any feedback. Thank you

[@floydchusset3143]

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[@911Salvage]

Intersex.

[@kenneth6102]

This is pretty much wishful thinking. Investments are mainly opportunistic and short term. Customer loyalty is mainly based on price, that’s why it’s called mass-market. What we think is not important, it is what we do. Cheap stuff always win. Cut cost is the essential of manufacturing. Sustainability is an investment with little return. I don’t drink any beverages, but I buy Coca Cola shares. Investment is investment, all investment does is to maximise profit. It has nothing to do with ideology. Government regulation is the only way for sustainable industries and it’s hard with all the cartels out there. Talk to people about that.

[@machtundrebel3127]

You're basically proven wrong every day by tesla.

[@vwazp]

wth is she babbling about, it's all about the bottom line and near future earnings, nothing else.

[@alessandroscott5584]

Its a nice idea but it doesnt seem radical enough to halt the destructive momentum of our past.

[@RubbaDubbaDooskie]

Your IQ and perspective might be superior had previous generations not been such lazy slobs with their ideology.

[@yvonnehyatt8353]

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