Carbon Less Investments

Advocating resource management has been an uphill challenge. Economic growth has been driven by consuming while a new marketplace of conserving is the tenor of the times.  Growing in Washington DC I (see www.robertarner.com) have witnessed an effluent America.  Assisting with various pollution prevention/recycling programs has addressed just the tip of the iceberg. Unless we forestall climate change and foresee new opportunities in environmental protection our future is in question.

Ingenious investments lessening carbon is imperative.  Profiting from pollution prevention requires a financial  tipping point since our survival also is being challenged by a climate tipping point..  Unfortunately there are few incentives to save.  A new economic frontier exists once we transform from “consumers” to conservators” 

Best management of resources coupled with designing sustainable forms of commerce where we will replace “Use it or Lose It” to ``Pay as You Throw”.  More people recycle than vote, however unless we reduce our footprint then it's clueless. Just examine America’s health care system in the last few years where trillions of dollars were lost due to excess and inefficiency (estimated at one-third to half wasted ).

When “recycling” was first introduced on Earth Day 1970 it was the beginning to address our affluent American disposal mentality.  However reduction and reuse have not been best applied in tackling our out of sight and out of mind mentality.  Without sustainable design future generations will incur astronomical clean up.  Lessening waste is futile unless there are substantial funds to combat our throw away culture subsidization. A Thrift Fund will cultivate thousands of ways we profit from efficient resource management.  

Presently there is roughly over $40 trillion in pension funds.  Why not establish a Thrift Fund to monetize the incentive to save instead of disposing? Government is too reactive to vanguard future prospects.  Monetizing clean air, water and land is still in it’s infancy. Many environmental ESG funds or green chip stocks presently do not address lessening waste as critical in pollution control and climate remediation.