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by Marc de Sousa-Shields (Author)
It's time to make money and give a damn
You give a damn, right?
You want your money to do good, but your pension is riddled with oil and defense companies. Besides, investing is a pain in the ass. It's tedious, and most sustainable and responsible investing books are as much fun as a root canal. You're fighting the urge to bury your head in the sand. What to do?
There is a better way.
Invest Like You Give a Damn is a different kind of investment book. It tells real life stories of people just like you. People who give a damn but who have stomped the devil of inertia and chosen to align their money with their values. Coverage includes:
- Why you need to give a damn about your investments
- Engaging investor stories to guide financial planning and investment decisions
- A ground-breaking financial and socially responsible investing asset allocation tool for profit and sustainability impact maximization
- Money makeover profiles
- How-to investing from one-click to deep-dive portfolio building
Authored by a leading socially responsible investing expert and replete with humor and irreverence, Invest Like You Give a Damn is for everyone from college graduates waiting tables, to mid-life generation Xers, to baby boomers who want to live their ideals.
Get it, read it, give a damn
Marc de Sousa-Shields is co-founder of the Social Investment Organization (SIO), a UN and World Bank advisor, and contributor to online corporate sustainability magazines including Triple Pundit and Sustainable Brands . He's worked in eighty countries, blogs at The Sustainable Century, and when not on the road, he lives in Mexico.
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It's time to make money and give a damn
The investment guide for everyone with a pension or portfolio, no matter how modest JOEL SOLOMON, author, The Clean Money Revolution and Chairman, Renewal Funds
A masterful argument for why and how investors can and should use their voice. AMY DOMINI, founder, Domini Impact Investments and co-author, Ethical Investing
You give a damn, right? You want your money to do good, but your pension is riddled with oil and defense companies. Besides, investing is a pain in the ass. It's tedious, and most sustainable and responsible investing books are as much fun as a root canal. You're fighting the urge to bury your head in the sand. What to do?
There is a better way.
Invest Like You Give a Damn is a different kind of investment book. It tells real life stories of people just like you. People who give a damn but who have stomped the devil of inertia and chosen to align their money with their values. Coverage includes:
- Why you need to give a damn about your investments
- Engaging investor stories to guide financial planning and investment decisions
- Investment portfolio makeover profiles
- How-to investing from one-click to deep-dive portfolio building
Written by a leading SRI expert, with humor and irreverence, Invest Like You Give a Damn is for everyone from college graduates waiting tables, to mid-life Gen Xers, to Boomers who want to live their ideals.
One of the most insightful personal finance book of the past decade. BOB WILLARD, AUTHOR, The New Sustainability Advantage
Gives the lie to Rhett Butler's most famous line! JOHN ELKINGTON, author, The Breakthrough Challenge
Marc de Sousa-Shields is co-founder of the Social Investment Organization (now Responsible Investor Association), UN and the World Bank advisor, and contributor to on-line corporate sustainability magazines including Triple Pundit and Sustainable Brands . He's worked in 80 countries, blogs at TheSustainableCentury.net, and when not on the road he lives in Mexico.
Author Biography
Marc de Sousa-Shields is an international sustainable development and investment consultant. He co-founded and was first Executive Director of the Social Investment Organization (SIO) of Canada. He has been an advisor to the United Nations and was a Member of the US Social Investment Forum International Committee. He wrote Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Emerging Markets for the World Bank-International Finance Corporation and led a USAID project on Transitions to Private Capital. He has written for leading on-line corporate sustainability magazines including Triple Pundit and Sustainable Brands and is author of The Sustainable Century by Design or Disaster (forthcoming), TheSustainableCentury.net blog, and the Sustainable Century Podcast. The hardest things he has done are convincing his mother-in-law to make social investments, and organic urban gardening in a semi-tropical climate. He has worked and traveled in over 80 countries and when not on the road, Marc lives in Mexico.
