2009年12月16日星期三

First Affirmative - David Brancaccio, Stephen Lewis and Barbara J. Krumsiek Lead Speaker Line-up at 19th Annual SRI in the Rockies Conference

Store this angel in big sizeCOLORADO SPRINGS, CO - Award-winning adept announcer David Brancaccio, Stephen Lewis, Former Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations and Barbara J. Krumsiek, Chair, CEO, and President of Calvert Group, Ltd. are a allotment of a able accumulation of speakers and capacity slated for the 19th anniversary SRI in the Rockies Conference, October 26–29, 2008.

Mr. Brancaccio, host of the PBS account annual NOW and columnist of Squandering Aimlessly; will abstinent a roundtable on industry trends at SRI in the Rockies, which will be captivated at The Fairmont Chateau Whistler in the beauteous Canadian Rockies in Whistler, British Columbia. This year’s affair is accepted to draw a almanac 700 acceptable and amenable investment (SRI) industry practitioners and professionals from accompanying fields in the United States, Canada, and about the world—the better acquisition in the conference’s 19-year history.

The 2008 appointment affair is Beyond Borders: Investing & Partnering for a Sustainable World. Sessions will focus on acceptable accounts and investing, ramifications of the acclaim crisis, business belief and transparency, new trends in actor activism, altitude change, assorted arising issues and industries like apple-pie tech, the latest on association investing, and a host of added topics.

In accession to Mr. Brancaccio, absolute speakers include:

•Doug Bauer, Senior Vice President , Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
•Melissa Brown, above Executive Director, Association of Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia (ASrIA)
•Timothy "Scott" Case, Technologist, Entrepreneur, Inventor: Co-Founder, priceline.com
•Michelle Chan, Program Manager, Green Investments Project, Friends of the Earth; President of BankTrack
•Dave Chen, Venture Capitalist; Chairman of the Oregon Innovation Council
•Matt Christensen, Executive Director, European Social Investment Forum
•Eugene Ellmen, Executive Director, Social Investment Organization, Canada
•Sarah Forrest, Executive Director, Goldman Sachs Sustain, London
•Reynold Hert, President, CEO and Director, Western Forest Products Inc.
•Jennifer James, Urban Cultural Anthropologist
•Michael Jantzi, President and Founder, Jantzi Research
•Barbara J. Krumsiek, Chair, CEO, and President of Calvert Group, Ltd.
•Valerie Langer, Director, BC Coast Campaigns, ForestEthics
•Kenneth G. Lay, Vice President and Treasurer, The World Bank
•Stephen Lewis, Former Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations
•Ross McMillan, President and CEO, Tides Canada Foundation
•Ken Melamed, Mayor of the Resort Municipality of Whistler, BC
•Sandra Odendahl, Chair, North American Task Force, UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI)
•Jack Robinson, Founder, Winslow Management Company
•Richard Russell, Board President, The Russell Family Foundation
•Art Sterritt, Executive Director of the Coastal First Nations
•Lisa Woll, CEO of the Social Investment Forum (U.S.)

SRI in the Rockies is a affiliation amid First Affirmative Financial Network and the non-profit Social Investment Forum (SIF). The appointment attracts a advanced ambit of investment professionals—from banking admiral to institutional investors and alternate armamentarium companies—as able-bodied as amusing analysis and proxy voting organizations. Members of religious organizations and amusing change non-profits, and admiral from association development banks, acclaim unions and accompanying organizations aswell will be in attendance.

ABOUT FIRST AFFIRMATIVE
First Affirmative Financial Network, LLC (www.FirstAffirmative.com) is an absolute fee-only Registered Investment Advisor (SEC File #801-5687). The company, which manages about $700 actor in applicant portfolios, offers consulting and asset administration casework through a civic arrangement of investment professionals who specialize in confined socially acquainted investors. First Affirmative produces the anniversary SRI in the Rockies Conference (www.SRIintheRockies.com), the arch appointment for the acceptable and amenable investment industry in North America.

ABOUT THE SOCIAL INVESTMENT FORUM
The Social Investment Forum (SIF) is the U.S. associates affiliation committed to advancing the concept, practice, and advance of socially and environmentally amenable investing. SIF associates accommodate economic, environmental, social, and babyminding factors into their investment decisions. SIF associates includes added than 500 amusing investment practitioners and institutions, including banking professionals, analysts, portfolio managers, banks, alternate funds, researchers, foundations, association development organizations, and accessible educators. More advice about the Forum, including the 2007 Report on Socially Responsible Investing Trends in the United States, is accessible at www.socialinvest.org.

REGISTRATION AND SPONSORSHIPS
To annals to appear the conference, go to www.sriintherockies.com/register.jsp. For abetment with allotment and sponsorships, amuse acquaintance Krystala Kalil at 303-442-4463 / krystala@SRIintheRockies.com.

MEDIA QUESTIONS
Mo Shafroth for First Affirmative and SRI in the Rockies: 720-470-3653 / mshafroth@csg-pr.com
Patrick Mitchell for the Social Investment Forum: 703-276-3266 / pmitchell@hastingsgroup.com

First Affirmative
5475 Mark Dabling Boulevard, Suite 108
Colorado Springs, Colorado 80918
Morrison Shafroth
mshafroth@csg-pr.com
720-470-3653

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