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Should You Buy an Expensive Home on Balboa Island or Near a Coastal Area?

Picture by: Steven Yamshon By:  Steven Yamshon, Ph.D., Managing Principal Balboa Island is a coastal community located in Newport Beach, California, that is popular among tourists, vacationers, and full-time residents. Prior to development in 1921, Balboa Island was a swamp with large wetlands being removed to make way for Newport Harbor. Developers dredged millions of tons of silt and...

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Congrats Dr. Steven Yamshon on your new certificate “Climate Change Awareness & Leadership”

“Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.” – Brian Tracy We are proud of BFSG’s Steven Yamshon, PhD, for his new graduate certificate “Climate Change Awareness and Leadership”. This adds to his other degrees in environmental resources and advanced certifications in sustainability and climate change. BFSG’s Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing...

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Restore our Earth and Start Reducing Your Carbon Footprint

Today we celebrate Earth Day and sticking to the theme of this year’s Earth Day, "Restore Our Earth”, this blog post is focusing on restoring the world’s ecosystems by helping you reduce your carbon footprint. Did you know that meat and cheese are some of the most carbon-intensive foods to produce?(1) Globally, 77% of agricultural land is used to produce meat and dairy and according to The Land...

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Is Pot Growing Environmentally Friendly?

Now that cannabis is legal in many states, it may be the case that pot users and investors think that cannabis is environmentally friendly, but it is not! Growing marijuana indoors takes an enormous amount of electricity, water, and chemicals. In other words, growing cannabis is energy-intensive and unfriendly to the environment. Evan Mills writes in Slate, that a Colorado Study looked at the...

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Is Bitcoin an ESG Nightmare?

If some of the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) rating agencies were to apply an ESG risk rating to Bitcoin, it would probably be a laggard and would be a nightmare to assign a risk rating to. The energy-intensive process by which computers solve complex algorithmic problems to verify blockchain transactions is an undeniable “Environmental” offender, the E of ESG.1 The carbon...

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