Companies pollute in a variety of ways and with varying degrees of harm. How can investors identify the greatest offenders and clean up their portfolio? We tackle that question in this month’s Tuesdays with Travis, exploring what it means to have a pollution-conscious portfolio and discussing the consequences of aiming for “zero waste.”

Fires in Sonoma, floods in Miami, droughts in Cape Town—how can investors create opportunity by building more resilient cities? I had the privilege of asking Jenna Nicholas, CEO of Impact Experience. She's an expert in connecting investors with opportunities to build cities for a changing climate.

Socially responsible investing is hard to overlook these days. There is roughly $12 trillion—or one out of every $4 of professionally managed assets in the U.S.—invested in line with impact strategies. For financial advisors, it also presents a tremendous opportunity to differentiate and modernize their firm.

Advisors have a key role to play in shepherding assets through changing climate conditions, which starts with paying close attention to businesses’ risk exposures.

Perhaps there’s no one better to ask than Matthew Weatherley-White, a sustainable finance advocate, practitioner, and legend. Tune in to hear his thoughts on what the coming decades will bring for the world of sustainable finance.

International Day for the Eradication of Poverty is an opportunity for financial advisors and their clients to identify, discuss, and potentially eliminate their investments in corporations that perpetuate poverty. We at Ethic put together some ideas to get you started.

I spoke with Rachel J. Robasciotti, a leader in social-justice investing, about how private prisons are a matter of racial justice and human rights. Investors eager to address this issue can look beyond just the operators to the various companies that support this continued incarceration-for-profit.

All of us have values informed by the cultures we grow up in and the experiences that shape us. But challenges arise when we assume that our particular set of values is universal or objective. In sustainable investing, applying local values to a global portfolio can have unforeseen and even counterproductive impacts. In this Tuesdays with Travis, we explore the culture-bound assumptions embedded in sustainable investment decisions.

While energy production is, of course, essential to our modern, “always on” society, most primary sources (such as coal and oil) are simply unsustainable in the long term. The fuels that we’ve traditionally relied upon are associated with a plethora of environmental impacts, including climate change, pollution and deforestation (keep reading).

Given that it’s the Climate Summit here in NYC, we wanted to chat quickly about the ways we believe investors should think about climate risks. We break these risks into two categories: Physical Risks and Transformation Risks. Investors who understand what these are and how they differ can build a portfolio that takes climate change into account.