5 favourite books: Sustainable Investing and Impact investing related

Cleona Lira
7 min readSep 7, 2020

These are some of my favourite Sustainable/SRI and Impact investing related books with you. In the industry, we call it sustainable investing so I may sometimes in my video, refer to it in this way.

I hope these books will help give you an overview of the values and approach to sustainability, business, economics and demonstrate how businesses can be financially sustainable, personally rewarding and healthier for the planet and all its inhabitants.

Transcript:

1. Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman — Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual by Yvon Chouinard

My first recommendation is Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman by Yvon Chouinard, who is an American rock climber, environmentalist, and outdoor industry billionaire businessman.

In this memoir, the founder of Patagonia reveals how he wove his personal values into the fabric of his company from the very beginning. Chouinard wanted Patagonia not only to cater to other rock climbing and surfing enthusiasts like himself but also…

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Cleona Lira

Passionate about investments, financial literacy, NVC. Blogs mainly about a conscious relationship with money at http://cleonalira.co.uk Loves chai & books