Sustainable Business Model
What’s New at the Evergreen Cooperatives
We spoke last week with Ted Howard, co-founder with Gar Alperovitz of the Democracy Collaborative and a key strategist of The Evergreen Cooperatives, the subject of our second Field Guide to Investing in a Regenerative Economy study. Evergreen is a remarkable experiment in anchor-institution-based cooperative enterprise, rooted in sustainable practices and dedicated to true wealth building in inner city Cleveland.
Fellow Reports from the Field
Capital Institute fellow Liana Scobie has taken a job at the innovative company TerraCycle and has sent us these thoughts from the field on how their work is making a real diferences in the core areas of Capital Institute's focus - sustainability for a full world and a more equitable distribution of wealth.
Proof That It Is Working
On January 12, 60 employees at TerraCycle stopped their regular work to stuff 3,500 charitable donation checks into envelopes.
Diana Propper de Callejon on Integrated Value Investing
In her paper, "Integrated Value--A New Private Equity Model for Driving Value Creation," adapted from an article published in Private Equity International, Diana Propper de Callejon, a General Partner of Expansion Capital Partners LLC and a member of Capital Institute’s Board of Directors, reports on the emerging opportunities for investing in sustainability that her venture capital firm is accessing as it identifies the “next wave” companies that are truly embedding sustainable practices into the core of their business models. (In an upcoming Profile we will talk with Propper de Callejon in depth about her personal journey from clean tech investor to integrated value investor.)
