Natural Capital Institute
Encyclopedia
The Natural Capital Institute (NCI) is a non-profit non-governmental organization based in Sausalito, CA. It was founded by the environmentalist
, entrepreneur
, journalist
, and author
Paul Hawken
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2. To "create tools for connecting the individuals, information, and organizations that create change."
and NGOs working for clean water and sanitization
. Created a database of organizations which directly address this issue.
- Pulished a report which analyzed socially responsible investing
(SRI). This report analyzed over 600 retail mutual fund
s.
- Created the public-education website responsibility.inverting.org , which is a database of socially responsible investing funds and what screening processes those funds use.
in 2007. WISER stands for "World Index of Social and Environmental Responsibility". WiserEarth is an open source directory of the world's environmental and social justice NPO and NGO's.
Environmentalist
An environmentalist broadly supports the goals of the environmental movement, "a political and ethical movement that seeks to improve and protect the quality of the natural environment through changes to environmentally harmful human activities"...
, entrepreneur
Entrepreneur
An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...
, journalist
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
, and author
Author
An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...
Paul Hawken
Paul Hawken
Paul Hawken is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, and author.-Life:Paul Hawken had a Swedish grandmother and a Scottish grandfather with a farm. His father worked at UC Berkeley...
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Mission statement
1. To "describe pathways of change in books and research reports,"2. To "create tools for connecting the individuals, information, and organizations that create change."
History
- Created a database of NPONon-profit organization
Nonprofit organization is neither a legal nor technical definition but generally refers to an organization that uses surplus revenues to achieve its goals, rather than distributing them as profit or dividends...
and NGOs working for clean water and sanitization
Sanitization
Sanitization can refer to* Data sanitization, has two distinct meanings:** the use of anonymization and other techniques to "sanitize" data to purge it of personally-identifiable information in order to protect user privacy; such techniques include:*** NULLing out*** masking data*** data...
. Created a database of organizations which directly address this issue.
- Pulished a report which analyzed socially responsible investing
Socially responsible investing
Socially responsible investing , also known as sustainable, socially conscious, or ethical investing, describes an investment strategy which seeks to consider both financial return and social good....
(SRI). This report analyzed over 600 retail mutual fund
Mutual fund
A mutual fund is a professionally managed type of collective investment scheme that pools money from many investors to buy stocks, bonds, short-term money market instruments, and/or other securities.- Overview :...
s.
- Created the public-education website responsibility.inverting.org , which is a database of socially responsible investing funds and what screening processes those funds use.
Current projects
NCI has created a community driven website WiserEarthWiserEarth
WiserEarth.org is a user-generated online community space for the social and environmental movement , tracking the work of non-profits around the world...
in 2007. WISER stands for "World Index of Social and Environmental Responsibility". WiserEarth is an open source directory of the world's environmental and social justice NPO and NGO's.