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Discover your role in the $50-trillion "clean money" revolution that is bringing true prosperity to the world. By 2050, $50 trillion will change hands in North America in the largest generational wealth transfer ever. It will remake the world and be the biggest money-making opportunity in history. "Business as usual", founded on exploitation and environmental ruin, is over. Climate catastrophe, reactionary politics, and widening inequity have put the world on edge. Meanwhile innovations are shifting the economic ground, and an entire generation is pounding the table for real change. Capitalism is evolving into a force that can restore the planet, transform the global economy, and bring justice to people. Joel Solomon, impact investor and change agent, lays it on the line.The Clean Money Revolutionis part memoir of an inspiring thought leader's journey from presidential campaigner to pioneering investor, part insider's guide to the businesses remaking the world, and part manifesto for a new vision of profit, power, and purpose. Meet some of the people behind this massive shift, and discover the role you can play in the $50-trillion movement toward true prosperity. A must-read for investors, wealth advisors, aspiring entrepreneurs, and all who want their values and money to work together to transform the future. The Clean Money Revolution is on. Join it!
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Nothing less than the antidote for modern finance. – DON SHAFFER, CEO, RSF Social Finance
Ride the $50 trillion wave of “clean money” changing the face of business and the world for good
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Amplifies the urgent need for capitalism to redefine its purpose.
JOEL SOLOMON is chair of Renewal Funds, a $98 million mission venture capital firm in Vancouver, Canada. His lifetime of investing in over 100 early-stage companies has delivered above-market returns and positive change. During the late 80’s in Nashville’s declining urban core, he co-founded Village Real Estate, Core Development, and Bongo Java Cafes. As Senior Advisor to RSF Social Finance in San Francisco, he co-leads Integrated Capital Fellows to empower a new wave of social change investing. Solomon is a founding member of the Social Venture Network, Business for Social Responsibility, Tides Canada, and is Board Chair of Hollyhock. He blogs at www.JoelSolomon.org.
TYEE BRIDGE is a Vancouver-based writer whose work focuses on progressive change-makers, ecological issues, and the power of story. His writing has received many honors, including four National Magazine Awards and seven Western Magazine Awards. He is the founder of literary non-fiction press Nonvella, and of Arclight, a custom publishing firm for values-aligned leaders and businesses.
— KAT TAYLOR, co-founder and co-CEO, Beneficial State Bank
An economic and spiritual booster shot! – JULIA POPE, co-founder, Hylo
A high-yield investment of your time and attention. — Mayor GREGOR ROBERTSON, Vancouver
A profoundly sensible 21 century roadmap. st
— GARY HIRSHBERG, chairman and former president and CEO, Stonyfield Farm
It’s aspirational, it’s unsettling, it’s demanding – but revolutions are like that. — DANIELLE LAPORTE, author, The Desire Map and White Hot Truth
Answering the most salient and unanswered question in our quest to transform as a civilization.
$50 trillion will change hands in North America alone by 2050.
— ALFA DEMMELLASH, CEO and co-founder, Rising Tide Capital
Decades of wisdom are distilled in this book…prepare to be transformed. — ZIYA TONG, host, Daily Planet, Discovery Channel
A fresh vision, insightful, wise and profoundly hopeful. — WADE DAVIS, UBC Leadership Chair in Cultu