As I write this column, the whole world seems to be coming apart. Unruly mobs of British youths rampaged through the streets of London, Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester, looting and torching. A bill everyone agrees is inadequate emerged from a divided U.S. Congress, raising the debt ceiling and calling for spending cuts of $900 billion [...]

Do you know what’s in your investment portfolio? If Trillium to manages your investments, you probably do. You have likely also thought about your values, and are confident that your money is working to have a positive impact through shareholder activism and investing in low-income communities and sustainable businesses.
But do you know what’s in your [...]

Matt Patsky, CFA, CEO
It is exciting for me personally and for Trillium to be involved in the emergence of Impact Investing as a vital piece of the larger Sustainable and Responsible Investing (SRI) industry.
I recently had the privilege of attending both the Skoll World Forum and the Social Venture Network’s spring conference. These organizations, among [...]

Everyone remembers his or her first car. Mine was the 1951 Raymond Loewy-designed Studebaker Champion. My father was also a Studebaker owner. The 1951 model was a big hit with designers, and it had respectable, if not sensational, sales. But the company went out of business in 1963 when it closed down its factory in [...]

Milton Moskowitz
I recently saw The Informant, starring Matt Damon as Mark Whitacre, the Archer Daniels Midland whistleblower who exposed his company’s blatant conspiracy to fix the price of lysine, an additive given to feedlot cattle and other livestock.  I remember reading the book of the same name by New York Times reporter Kurt Eichenwald, and [...]

Your investment career started in 1984 at Lehman Brothers.  How did you find your way into SRI?
My first experience with socially responsible investing (SRI) came a bit early in life. Growing up I had a keen interest in the stock market and actually made my first investment in a mutual fund at age eleven.  With [...]

Knowledge is power? Not according to Google and Microsoft. These firms and many others have recently rolled out energy efficiency tools designed for consumers to use on the emerging smart grid. The hope is that knowledge will bring less power, fewer blackouts and reduced carbon emissions.
Investors are beginning to sit up and take notice of [...]

It’s been 64 years since the end of World War II but Holocaust stories in popular culture continue to cascade. Kate Winslet won an Oscar this year for her portrayal of a concentration camp guard in The Reader. John Demjanjuk, who served as a guard at three different death camps, was deported from the United [...]

While it’s easy to blame paltry U.S. gas taxes on auto executives and the craven politicians who work for them, in fact low gas prices are wildly popular in the United States, particularly among the poorer half of the income distribution. What we environmentalists often have missed in the debate over policy is the pressure [...]

New Book Captures the Culture of a Wall Street High-Flier
by Milt Moskowitz
My stepson worked for 17 years at Bear Stearns before it disappeared last year into the bowels of JPMorgan Chase in the shotgun marriage arranged by the U.S. government. He is doing very well today, taking time off to consider his options.
He misses the [...]