Conversations

Our "Copernican Moment"

 View this interview with Capital Institute Founder John Fullerton, produced by our friend Katie Teague, whose documentary Money & Life is in the final editing stage. John speaks candidly about the challenges we face as we navigate up against and beyond the planet's boundaries, and his fundamental optimism that a "Copernican moment" will give rise to a new economic system that operates within them before it is too late.

The National Manufacturing Renaissance

After having been written off as a declining, noncompetitive sector, manufacturing is now rising on the radar screens of American policymakers, social justice advocates, and a new breed of environmentalists who see it as both a catalyst for economic revival and as offering the solutions to many of our ecological and societal ills.

We believe the National Manufacturing Renaissance Campaign—an innovative collaboration among manufacturers, local communities, labor, education and government— first incubated in Chicago, is one of the most promising initiatives of the manufacturing “revival.” It will be the subject of our next Field Guide to Investing in a Resilient Economy study.

Read about Dan Swinney—managing director of the National Manufacturing Renaissance Campaign here, and read highlights from an interview with Mike Locker, a long-time business consultant to the manufacturing sector. Look for upcoming “work in progress” reports on the National Manufacturing Renaissance study at Capital Institute. (Photo credit: The Center for Labor and Community Research)

Healing Finance: The Patient Capital Collaborative Field Study

In 2007, after a 20-year investment management career that had culminated in his co-founding of a thriving private equity firm, Sky Lance found himself searching for ways he could use his investment skills for a higher purpose. Today Lance is one of two general partners in an innovative investment practice, the Patient Capital Collaborative. PCC brings to bear the collective expertise of a group of angel investors to help nurture and fund start-up and early-stage companies attempting to make meaningful social and environmental impact in the world. Download the pdf of the PCC Field Study or read it here.