BE A SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL CAPITALIST (SEC)

How to use our profits meaningfully has always been a question we often ask ourselves. There are several ways to do this - 1) we can reinvest it, or 2) we can save it in the bank, or 3) we can use it to impact lives and help save the planet.

We feel each of us has a responsibility and the capacity to make this world a better place for our future generations, socially and environmentally. We need to focus our resources and work on the right priorities.

This is where becoming a Social & Environmental Capitalist (SEC) comes in. This is a term we coined for ourselves and we encourage you to be a Social & Environmental Capitalist with us soon.

What is being a SEC all About?

A Social & Environmental Capitalist is a capitalist with a higher purpose and has an ideology of liberty, equality, and justice for all. Our goals are to impact lives and save the planet through social and environmental improvements, rather than the accumulation of profits and increasing shareholders' value in the classical capitalist sense.

It is about investing and/or donating our corporate profits into green businesses and charitable organizations or social groups that provide market-based solutions to help solve our social and environmental issues. It is about using our corporate profits as a source for good.

How We Help Out

We help solve the social and environmental issues on 4 fronts:

• We Invest in Green Technology and Businesses

Capital investments in technology have brought us to where we are today since the Industrial Age. As such, we believe further investments in green technology will see us through climate change, food and freshwater security, and energy issues facing us today.

To date, through investments in green technology, we have achieved technological breakthroughs in sustainability - like Solar and Wind Energy, Sea Water Desalination, Agrivoltaics, Aquaponics, Agriculture, Aquaculture, and Geoengineering, etc. Although these technologies have not reached full scale yet, we believe it is a good start in the right direction.

• We Reduce Our Consumption

Reducing our consumption means consuming less of almost everything - less beef, less meat, less fish, less seafood, less driving, less bottled water, less electricity, less plastic, fewer leather goods, less fast fashion, etc.

We believe that reducing our consumption has the greatest and most immediate impact on reversing the climate situation facing us today. No effort is too small - imagine each of us eats 1 beef burger less each week, buy 1 bottled water less each week, and drive 1 day less to work each week. These small actions add up to a huge benefit environmentally.

• We Buy the Change We Want to See

Mahatma Gandhi once said, "Be the change you want to see in the world." This statement is so profound and true that not only do we believe in it totally, it has become a part of what we do in our personal and professional lives. It is our movement we call, "Buy the Change."

To further our "Buy the Change" movement, we only buy products and services from businesses that are socially and environmentally responsible. We believe that if we collectively buy only products and services from businesses that are socially and environmentally responsible, businesses that are not will get hit in their bottom line. They will eventually get the idea to become more socially and environmentally responsible or to go bust.

• We Donate to Charitable Organizations and Social Groups

We believe in giving back to our local community and society at large - to help people across cultures unite together as one and to advance their good causes - like helping with the seniors, the homeless, the hungry, and animal rescue and shelter, etc.

However, we do not work with any specific charitable organization or social group. We believe in giving whenever the need is felt and to whichever charitable organization or social group regardless of their religion, nationality, culture, race, or language, etc.

The next social and environmental hero is the capitalist, the entrepreneur. YOU.