Green Money: Fighting Climate Change Through Smart Investing—with Zach Stein | Ep. 59

In this episode, Forrest talks with Zach Stein, co-founder of Carbon Collective. Carbon Collective is the first online investment advisor that is 100% focused on combatting climate change. They help individuals and organizations to invest in diversified, low-fee, climate-focused portfolios. By helping investors to know which companies are truly operating in ways that are in keeping with a zero-carbon future, Carbon Collective helps people who want to live greener lives to collectively focus their resources and their influence as consumers in ways that work for the good of the planet.

Forrest and his daughter Kayra and I did a “test drive” of Carbon Collective by making an actual investment—to see if the platform is easy to understand, easy to use, and up front about all costs and fees. If you want to watch a video of that process, we’ll send you a link to anyone on the Circlewood e-mail list. If you aren’t yet on that list, go to circlewood.online and add your name to our growing, global community of earthkeepers; use this link to join the Circlewood email list.

Guest: Zach Stein - co founder of Carbon Collective - online investment platform 

Mentions: 
zero carbon future
Dr. Katharine Hayhoe - Earthkeepers' interview
minimum of $5 trillion/year investment into climate solutions needed
Project Drawdown
Climate Policy Initiative
McKinsey - $9 trillion/year investment estimate
Vanguard -investment firm; MSCI - analyticscompany
Carbon Collective's investment strategy
As You Sow - nonprofit in Berkeley, California
Pacific Garbage Patch
2018 IPCC report - United
Nations' scientific body for climate change
2017 fire season in Bay area - San Francisco, California
fossil fuel industry in decline; fossil fuels get more expensive to extract
solar, wind & batteries get cheaper as manufacturing issues get resolved
Vanguard index funds - market innovation ; new

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