Seattle Weekly's Investing for Change

Update: I've placed Google search ads on Gates Foundation related keywords so that readers interested in the recent Los Angeles Times report can learn about socially responsible investing from my Seattle Weekly article. The Gates Foundation says responsible investing is too hard for them but it's not. I think the article does a good job of explaining the ins and outs.

The Seattle Weekly has published my new story, Investing for Change, in which I share my recent exploration to re-allocate my investments for a healthier society. If the lesson of the 2004 election is that the facts don't matter to half the country, then we have to find other ways to create change.

On the surface, George W. Bush may be a likable guy - but there's never been a more obvious contradiction between his professed values and the anecdote I describe about his EPA revoking regulations on rat poison manufacturers which has led to a record epidemic of 50,000 sick children in 2004.

Read the full story. Please post your comments below.

If you're in Seattle, I encourage you to visit the Democracy School Web site to learn more about an upcoming lecture I'm co-hosting Thursday, February 10, 2005: "Old Stories, New Struggles: Transforming the Work of People Beguiled by the Corporate State" with Richard Grossman and Thomas Linzey.