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Event Insights
In case you missed it or just need a refresh, here is where you'll find the recaps from our latest events. Additionally, we go beyond the highlights to share the key takeaways, expert perspectives, and actionable ideas that emerged from the conversation. Whether you were in the room or following from afar, catch up on what you need to know and discover how these dialogues are shaping our collective work.
Climate Investing: When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going
In turbulent times, true climate investors don’t back down — they double down. Market volatility and policy uncertainty only sharpen the case for bold capital that drives clean energy, resilience, and regenerative solutions. The toughest moments create the most transformative opportunities.
Richard Zimmerman
4 min read
From Waste to Wisdom: “ Consciousness, Capital, and the Call for Circularity”
What if waste isn’t just a materials problem — but a mindset and capital problem? Our latest Impact Insights explores how rethinking waste through the lens of consciousness, capital, and circularity can help us regenerate both the planet and our perspective.
Richard Zimmerman
7 min read
The Spirit of the Earth: Climate, Consciousness, and Wisdom Traditions
The Spirit of the Earth: Climate, Consciousness, and Wisdom Traditions explores how ancient teachings, from Indigenous knowledge to spiritual heritage, can inform modern solutions. By integrating time-tested principles with today’s science and systems thinking, we can foster resilience, regeneration, and a renewed sense of interdependence between people and planet.
Richard Zimmerman
6 min read
East Coast Gathering: Implementing the Next Trillion
The East Coast Gathering: Implementing the Next Trillion co-hosted by Gratitude Railroad brought together impact investors, funders, and entrepreneurs to accelerate capital flows into ventures addressing climate change, food systems, affordable housing, and social well-being. With over $30 million already invested, the gathering focused on scaling solutions toward the next trillion dollars in impact investments.

Foundation House
4 min read


Biodiversity and Nature’s Blueprint: Embracing Natural Solutions for a Thriving Planet
iodiversity and Nature’s Blueprint explores how investing in living systems is not just an environmental imperative, but a pathway to social equity, economic vitality, and a thriving planet.
Richard Zimmerman
5 min read
Carbon: Element of Life, Mirror of Consciousness
Carbon is more than a molecule—it’s a mirror. We explore how this elemental force connects chemistry, climate, and consciousness—and what it reveals about our relationship to life, energy, and the Earth.
Richard Zimmerman
4 min read
Water: Essence of Life and Pathways to Sustainability
Water is more than a resource. It is relationship, rhythm, and renewal. Long revered as sacred, water is now a frontline witness to climate disruption, injustice, and ecological imbalance. This Impact Insights paper explores water not just as a commodity, but as a living essence—holding the key to both survival and regeneration. As droughts deepen and access grows more unequal, how we relate to water reflects how we relate to life itself.
Richard Zimmerman
4 min read
The Inner Climate: Understanding the Psychology of Climate Change
Our thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors shape our ability to act on climate change. This Impact Insights piece explores how shifting human consciousness may be the missing link in solving our environmental crisis—and why aligning inner change with outer solutions is key to a thriving future.
Richard Zimmerman
6 min read
Climate Anxiety: A Growing Concern for Younger Generations
Climate Anxiety: A Growing Concern for Younger Generations explores how climate anxiety, a chronic fear and distress about environmental collapse, is rapidly rising, especially among Gen Z and Millennials.
Richard Zimmerman
4 min read
The Housing Divide: Addressing Connecticut’s Affordable Housing Crisis
Across the country and in Connecticut, the cost of housing has soared beyond the reach of many individuals and families. What was once a pathway to security and upward mobility is now an escalating barrier for low- and middle-income residents. The affordable housing crisis is not simply an economic challenge—it is a justice issue that cuts across race, class, geography, and generation.
Richard Zimmerman
5 min read
Generation in Crisis: Addressing the Youth Mental Health Emergency
Across the US, youth mental health has reached a breaking point. Rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide are rising at alarming levels, and the systems meant to support young people are under strain. This crisis cuts across all backgrounds, but its burden falls especially hard on marginalized communities: low-income youth, LGBTQ+ individuals, and youth of color, who face compounding barriers to care. The growing mental health emergency isn't merely a health issue; it's a pr
Richard Zimmerman
5 min read
Rooted in Resilience: Place-Based Investing for Community, Climate, & Justice
Place-based investing (PBI) is an investment strategy that directs financial resources into specific geographic areas to support local economic development, environmental sustainability, and social equity. It aligns capital with the unique needs of a place, building long-term community resilience. As climate instability, economic inequity, and social fragmentation intensify, place-based investing offers a grounded strategy for systemic change.
Richard Zimmerman
3 min read
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