What if your job, your finances, and your community were all aligned with what you value? SOCAP has created a special one-day event, SOCAP: Soul, to help answer that question and explore how change starts within us. SOCAP: Soul Boston – Social Capital Market’s first east coast event – will be held on Saturday, March 9th at MIT’s sustainably...

580. This is the number of times you have to multiply the lowest paid McDonald’s employee salary in order to arrive at the CEO’s salary. Twenty years ago, that number was 230. Reading this article from a few weeks ago in Bloomberg was distressing to say the least and really highlights the day-to-day impacts of the pay disparity between the highest and lowest...

That’s the headline Fortune Magazine used to describe its annual ranking of the nation’s 500 largest corporations. It certainly didn’t apply to the average American. While unemployment remained stubbornly high, the incomes of the middle class who were lucky enough to be employed stagnated and income inequality reached ever higher levels. The Fortune 500...

In one of our few economic and environmental successes last year, global alternative energy deals climbed 40% to $53.5 billion. Reuters recently reported that: “Solar, wind and energy efficiency overtook hydropower as the main deal drivers for the first time. Hydro power has dominated renewables deal flow, but deals worth $1 billion or more in wind, solar,...

Having not broken my obsession with the print version of The New York Times, I was thrilled to greet Black Friday by opening to a full-page ad from Patagonia that urged readers “Don’t Buy This Jacket.” To the best of my knowledge, Patagonia has never purchased a full-page ad in the Times, and for this, the first time that they did, they are...

The implications of the US government annually investing 90% less than the Chinese have in developing and manufacturing alternative energy technology has doomed America to lose the battle for the energy future. While we bemoan the loss of a $527 million federal loan guarantee, China is eating our lunch when it comes to developing solar, wind and energy storage...