{"id":877,"date":"2005-08-28T13:58:30","date_gmt":"2005-08-28T18:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=877"},"modified":"2005-08-28T13:58:30","modified_gmt":"2005-08-28T18:58:30","slug":"innovest-research-shows-returns-on-natural-capitalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=877","title":{"rendered":"Innovest research shows returns on &#8220;natural capitalism&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doing some homework on alternative energy and sustainable investing, I came across a paper in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.innovestgroup.com\/pdfs\/2005-04-26_Eco-efficiency_Puzzle.pdf\">Financial Analysts&#8217; Journal using data from Innovest<\/a> showing superior returns for a portfolio of companies rated highly on environmental metrics.<br \/>\nThe difference between this study and earlier research is that green performance is measured, not just by reducing pollution, but by eco-efficiency, &#8220;defined as the ratio of the value a company adds (e.g., by producing products) to the waste the company generates by creating that value.&#8221;   This makes some sense &#8212; attention to material efficiency, like supply chain efficiency, would improve a company&#8217;s performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doing some homework on alternative energy and sustainable investing, I came across a paper in the Financial Analysts&#8217; Journal using data from Innovest showing superior returns for a portfolio of companies rated highly on environmental metrics. The difference between this study and earlier research is that green performance is measured, not just by reducing pollution, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=877\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Innovest research shows returns on &#8220;natural capitalism&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-e9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}