“Environmental Quickie”
How can you top a one-liner like that? Belgrave Trust member (and MediaBistro founder) Laurel Touby sure has a way with words.
“My whole life, I’ve felt guilty about not doing enough,” she says. But as she tells Halogen Life in an article today — with the help of the Belgrave Trust, that’s a problem that’s been fully satisfied.
Nicholas M. Baily at the Wall Street Green Trading Summit
A welcome surprise, finding this video in my inbox this morning. On April 1st I had the honor of presenting The Belgrave Trust to the Wall Street Green Trading Summit, the longest running and most comprehensive environmental market event in the industry. Thanks go to Peter Fusaro for giving us this fantastic opportunity to present at one of the most prestigious gatherings of green thought leaders.
Full text of the speech below the jump.
Belgrave Trust In Crain’s New York Business
This past Sunday it looks like we provided the cure to a malaise of the green-spirited Ms. Touby. Crain’s New York Business was there to document it.
Media Maven’s Eco-Anxiety
Feather-boa-sporting media entrepreneur Laurel Touby leaves for a six-month around-the-world sabbatical on Thursday, and she’ll be wearing her bleeding-heart environmentalism on her sleeve.
Ms. Touby, who two years ago struck a $20 million deal for her company, Mediabistro.com, is a self-described environmental obsessive. So she had to figure out how to continent-hop with her media columnist husband Jon Fine without leaving a global-warming trail.
“I have eco-anxiety,” says Ms. Touby (pictured), who just finished her two-year stint running Mediabistro for new owner WebMediaBrands.
She signed up with online carbon-footprint offset firm Belgrave Trust, which caters to “high-net-worth individuals” with a mutual-funds approach to fighting climate change, explains co-founder Jeff Stewart, “We help them build a diversified basket of offsets,” he says.
Which aids with guilt reduction. “It makes me feel a little better about abusing the environment,” Ms. Touby says.
A REALLY Inconvenient Truth
Dan Miller, Managing Director of the RODA group and part of Al Gore’s Climate Project, explains where we really are in terms of global warming. Miller’s version makes Gore’s documentary look like a Disney movie. You might want to sit down before you press play.
If this isn’t an urgent call to action, I’m not sure what is.
