Can money be green? Photo: Henrik Ström (CC: by-sa)
The Rio+20 conference on sustainability is drawing closer, and the world’s eyes are directed towards Brasil, where things like a new, greener economy will be discussed in a few days.
What a green economy really is, isn’t always easy to define. I think there are as many definitions as there are groups using the term.
But somewhere that “green economy” could be used with confidence is at the office of the Swedish bank Ekobanken. This bank, which was founded in 1996, is owned by a large part of its costumers and has the ambition to
“help changing our view on money, capital and what the role of a bank can and should be”
