Can The Circular Economy Really Make The World More Sustainable?

Worldwatch Institute

October 4, 2017

Imagine that 100 percent of the recyclable materials that are currently headed for landfills are captured and re-processed into new products. This dreamy vision of the future is often referred to as “the circular economy,” and we aren’t there yet. Today, most countries with robust recycling programs have reached only around a 30 percent recycling rate (34.6 percent in the United States). But

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Reflections from a Field Builder: The Next 25 Years of Sustainable, Responsible and Impact Investing

GreenMoney Journal

September 20, 2017

While offering the standard disclaimer that past performance is no guarantee of the future, I nevertheless offer some predictions for, and reflections about, the future of sustainable and impact investing. The field has grown from $639 billion in assets in 1995 to $8.72 trillion in 2016. It will be very surprising if the next decade does not bring continued expansion in assets and in the types of investors who

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