Commonwealth Group

A New Paradigm:

aligning business & markets with sustainability

Commonwealth Group promotes triple bottom line (social, environmental and economic) approaches to business, banking, financial markets and economic development. We believe that the status quo must be replaced by a more realistic paradigm that improves everybody’s lives, not just a few, operates without harming our shared environment, and creates wealth and wellbeing for all.

We looked at the institutions that widely impact our lives and asked how we might change them to better serve society. Since money is at the heart of our economic systems, our programs relate to money and the institutions that manage and direct money. >>More

support programs

Facilitating Change
Our support programs target underlying structures such as corporate statutes, tax codes and metrics for valuing corporations. We work to align these with objectives that promote social responsiblity. >>More

Socially Responsible Stock Exchange

rewarding good behavior

By changing how corporations are measured -- and how they are rewarded by investors -- one changes corporate behavior.

We are launching a project to create a new stock exchange with applicable metrics that will reward corporations meeting a holistic set of standards that include, along with profit, environmentally and socially sound practices. >> More

Corporate Cooperatives

financing small business

Our concept of corporate cooperatives solves a number of problems while building a system to transform business into a more sustainable and beneficial structure that serves people and planet as well as profits.

It aggregates a number of small and medium sized private businesses into one public entity that provides the individual businesses with the increased health, viability and liquidity of a larger, public organization. >>More

CEED Program

community economic development

The CEED Program (Community Energy & Economic Development) is a coordinated system for revitalizing our nation’s economy, one community at a time, by enabling each community to proactively transition to a renewable energy-based economy.

It entails the creation of dozens of new green companies in each community with the need for hiring hundreds, if not thousands of new green collar workers, and the injection of millions of dollars of fiscal stimulus into those communities. >> More

Public Banking

Growing the Commons

At the heart of economic vitality rests the availability of money. Banks actually create money with each new loan they issue and are the source of about 97% of the money in our economy.

Publicly owned banks lend in a socially, environmentally and economically beneficial manner while preserving the best of the conventional for-profit model. They can make loans that are not viable for private banks, such as alternative energy projects with long-term payback -- in fact, any projects that will yield a public benefit. >>More