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Subject: Re: Organic Finance
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 14:55:48
From: "richard norton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Organic Finance
>
>This is notes from the last section of "Organic Living".
>
>the phrase "organic finance" is defined as: investing in your
>beliefs and helping the environment through investments. Here
>are the strategies recommended:
>
> 1. trade with a "green" bank
> 2. Buy fairly traded goods.
> 3. Invest in ethical/eco areas
> 4. Tailor investments to beliefs.
>
>Some other options that appeal to me are:
>
> 1. Look at local needs and community needs.
> Often these can be turned into win-win investments.
> 2. Make a list of why money is needed and ask
> if it is more efficient to satisfy these needs
> by other ways.
These are good sentiments, Jeff, but I will ask the question that I have
asked elsewhere. "How do we implement these ideas?" I mean besides
shopping at 'Wild Oats'.
These are ideas that have been written about since the 60's (or before), and
are good for talk but apparently not for reality. Why is this?
Richard Norton
> 3. Understand the finance markets and ways they
> are manipulated. Then invest and be prepared
> to monitor. Consider avoiding large funds and the
> army of middle men that siphon money.
>
>jeff
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