Green Notes October: New Missoula Group Focuses on Green Investing

Remember our great potluck and discussion last winter about sustainable investing practices? Are you among the folks who left the session interested in continuing the conversation?

If so, you’re in luck! Our experts, Michael Wood and Keith Fichtner of Missoula’s Families for a Livable Climate, are compiling an email list of local people who want to put their investments to work making the world a greener place. Their new Sustainability-Based Investing Working Group is – in Wood’s words – “a small group of people who envision a world in which financial investment is universally viewed as a powerful tool for improving environmental and social conditions while earning a competitive return.”

The group will pursue four main goals:

1. Assess the current demand for sustainability-based investing within three interrelated groups of Montanans, individual investors, our business community and financial advisors/managers. 

2. Develop tools and resources that address this demand. 

3. Offer ongoing educational opportunities via public and private presentations, webinars and workshops.

4. Generally advocate for sustainability-based investing in all areas and aspects of financial investment in Montana.

To that end, Wood is compiling an email list of “interested persons” to help him get the word out about upcoming activities, and to solicit ideas and opportunities from interested folks across Montana. “As an outgrowth of our events and activities, we are hoping to generate a network through which people can communicate, cross-pollinate and otherwise collaborate around sustainability based investing,” Wood said.

Interested? Even just a bit? Email Michael Wood and let him know you’d like to be added to his no-obligation list of Montanans who want to know more and do more to invest their money in sustainable, socially responsible ways. He’s mwood3211@gmail.com . Get involved! Go green! Put your beliefs into action.