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  • 1.  I attended Al Gore in Melbourne last week

    Posted 09-23-2007 18:58
    Al Gore was promoting his Generation "Sustainability investment fund"
    last night.

    He has a great presence.

    Despite the commercial nature of his presentation he said all the
    things you would expect him to say about saving the environment and
    society. He had a positive message about doing something to solve the
    problems and leading the rest of society towards better investment
    practices involving longer term decision making that truly integrates
    a
    full spectrum of financial and non-financial considerations.


    Lionel Boxer CD PhD MBA BTech(IndEng) - 0411267256
    Supervisor/Lecturer - lionel.boxer@rmit.edu.au
    Graduate School of Business
    What's up?: http://intergon.net/events.html
    Mother&Child Relief Foundation see events page
    http://www.myspace.com/thesustainableway


  • 2.  I attended Al Gore in Melbourne last week

    Posted 09-23-2007 22:44

    Lionel:

     

    In Gore's presentation, did you get a sense of his perception on the following issue?

     

    Does Al Gore believe that sustainability investments (naturally) have better returns than other, regular investment funds or does he believe that introducing nonfinancial criteria might be associated with lower econ. returns (at least in short run)?  Is it a win-win in his opinion or a zero-sum game? 
     

    Thanks,
     
    Marc
     
    Marc Orlitzky, Ph.D.
    (ph) (909) 708-7618
    e-mail: marcorli2007@yahoo.com


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    From: Lionel Boxer <lionel.boxer@RMIT.EDU.AU>
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    Subject: [ONE-L] I attended Al Gore in Melbourne last week

    Al Gore was promoting his Generation "Sustainability investment fund"
    last night.

    He has a great presence..

    Despite the commercial nature of his presentation he said all the
    things you would expect him to say about saving the environment and
    society.  He had a positive message about doing something to solve the
    problems and leading the rest of society towards better investment
    practices involving longer term decision making that truly integrates
    a
    full spectrum of financial and non-financial considerations.


    Lionel Boxer CD PhD MBA BTech(IndEng) - 0411267256
    Supervisor/Lecturer - lionel.boxer@rmit.edu.au
    Graduate School of Business
    What's up?: http://intergon..net/events.html
    Mother&Child Relief Foundation see events page
    http://www.myspace.com/thesustainableway


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