[mattharney]

I’m one.

Through SEAL, we fund academic research and take on impact campaigns on specific environmental initiatives.

We just called on financial institutions to create an environmental charity rewards card (a portion of your credit card rewards go to charity, not airline miles):

https://sealawards.com/eco-rewards/

The potential here is huge - could raise even more funding than Jeff Bezos $10 billion climate fund. And the consumer survey data (n - 3,000) is very encouraging.

Now the tough part is convincing them - if you want to help please visit https://ecorewardscard.com/sign-up/

My overall summary of social entrepreneurship: expensive (I subsidize this), hard....but really fun and rewarding.

[greenfinance]

Hi Matt, any chance we could talk? I run a business which helps developing country communities set up and manage green community “banks”. This is in communities which are conventionally unbankable but can manage simple community funds. We build ecosystem restoration requirements into loan terms and it’s looking like a successful approach to environmental management. We need to provide seed capital to community banks in order to get them going, and had been thinking about using the mechanism you are developing. Maybe we could partner? Here’s a case study showing how it works. http://greenfi.org/?page_id=627

[mattharney]

Matt AT sealawards dot com