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Eco‐investing: Financing sustainable economic development
Many Canadian communities are facing resource depletion and high unemployment as a result of a model of economic development which has consistently promoted large capital‐intensive, resource‐based companies. A new model of sustainable community development is required which incorporates ecological, economic and social concerns. One aspect of sustainable community development is the use and promotion of locally‐based and controlled financing mechanisms, including community loan funds, community bonds, and peer lending circles providing micro‐credit. Widely successful across the USA and Canada, these ‘alternative’ financing mechanisms use local control and a proximity to local ecosystems to foster small businesses which are less resource‐intensive and create long‐term jobs within communities. Improving these financing tools through broader government facilitation of them as innovative public policy instruments, and the incorporation of specific ecological lending and investment screens, could dramatically further the development of healthy communities.
Eco‐investing: Financing sustainable economic development
Many Canadian communities are facing resource depletion and high unemployment as a result of a model of economic development which has consistently promoted large capital‐intensive, resource‐based companies. A new model of sustainable community development is required which incorporates ecological, economic and social concerns. One aspect of sustainable community development is the use and promotion of locally‐based and controlled financing mechanisms, including community loan funds, community bonds, and peer lending circles providing micro‐credit. Widely successful across the USA and Canada, these ‘alternative’ financing mechanisms use local control and a proximity to local ecosystems to foster small businesses which are less resource‐intensive and create long‐term jobs within communities. Improving these financing tools through broader government facilitation of them as innovative public policy instruments, and the incorporation of specific ecological lending and investment screens, could dramatically further the development of healthy communities.
Eco‐investing: Financing sustainable economic development
Mathewson, Anna (author) / M'Gonigle, Michael (author)
Local Environment ; 2 ; 155-170
1997-06-01
16 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
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