Video: Peter Liu, founder of New Resource Bank
Ode Editors | December 2008 issue Peter founded the bank after nearly two decades of experience in the banking and energy industries. Peter had been a Senior Vice President and Vice President, respectively, of Credit Suisse First Boston and the Chase Manhattan Bank, where he completed $6 billion Read More...
A different kind of home security
Community financial institutions can help take the edge off the credit crisis. Amy Domini | November 2008 issue While its influence has touched the world, the financial crisis created by subprime mortgage lending has its roots firmly planted in the U.S. Because the crisis serves as a warning to Read More...
A book excerpt from Slow Money, by Woody Tasch
Excerpts from "Reconnoitering" in Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered by Woody Tasch. Reprinted with permission of the publisher, Chelsea Green Publishing. Ode Editors | November 2008 issue If there had been a manual of civilization way back Read More...
Broken homes
What the subprime crisis tells us about the importance of community financial institutions. Amy Domini | October 2008 issue Across the U.S., people are losing their homes. In just the month of July, more than a quarter-million American households received a foreclosure-related filing, Read More...
Silent spring, again
Speaking up to protect the voices of the wilderness. Amy Domini | July 2008 issue Silence can be a source of healing, a refuge from the stress of modern life, a pathway to enlightenment. Or it can have a more sinister meaning. In 1962, Rachel Carson, an accomplished biologist and popular writer, Read More...
The gospel according to Adam Smith
Is doing good compatible with making money? It is if you practise spiritual capitalism. Carleen Hawn| June 2008 issue Art DeLorenzo and I were having a hard time connecting. He’s a 67-year-old retired financial adviser in the New York City area whose budding consulting practice keeps him from Read More...
Waking the sleeping giant
How institutional investors can create well-being along with wealth. Domini,Amy| March 2008 issue In 1929, when the U.S. stock market crashed, less than 10 percent of American families owned stock. Today, despite the increasing gap between rich and poor, roughly 50 percent of American families Read More...
Think outside the bank
How peer-to-peer lending helps entrepreneurs - and helps lenders make a difference. Janet Paskin | December 2007 issue For the first few months, Renaud Laplanche financed his software company with credit cards. Then he looked at the statements. “It’s painful when you realize you’re paying 18 Read More...
No more charity please
Moniek Zegers says we shouldn't be giving more but taking less. Marco Visscher | December 2007 issue Charity is in. Bill Clinton has written a bestseller about it and rock stars are organizing concerts. But Moniek Zegers, co-founder of the recently launched Dutch Comité tegen Goede Doelen Gekte Read More...