1. Leave the profit-to-giving line
“leaving the era of transactional finance vs philanthropy”
2. Plan on a 100-year horizon
“creating systems that have a 100-year vision must be the goal”
3. Finance community by community
“context of cooperative behavior, community by community”
Bellingham basin Open
4. Coordinate public and private institutions in a region
“seeks to connect venture capitalists across the LA basin with community development organizations”
S2 · Ethical Markets, 2019 Pledge LA
5. Build a new portfolio theory
“A new Modern Portfolio Theory must be constructed for the 21st Century”
6. Score the economy inside society and nature
“the economy rests within the fertile soil of society”
Development scoring Passphrase on request
7. Open deal rooms and innovation labs, bioregion by bioregion
“supporting place-based and bioregional initiatives; and creating Financial Innovation Labs”
- S1 Ethical Markets, EMM welcomes Greg Wendt to Advisory Board, 23 June 2016
- S2 Nick Sramek and Greg Wendt, Charting a New Course for Impact Investing: The Emerging New Paradigm of Living Systems for Capital Markets, Ethical Markets, 9 July 2019
- S3 Gregory Wendt, Catalyzing the Connection Economy, Ethical Markets, March 2013
- S4 Gregory Wendt, Gregory Wendt CFP, personal site
- S5 GaiaVision, home page
- S6 Greg Wendt, Sustainable Wealth (blog), Interview with Hazel Henderson, Futurist, June 2023