We are very pleased to announce our first Wetland Mitigation Project Financing listing. Located in Skagit County, Washington State, the 396 acre wetland mitigation bank will offer an estimated 242 "general wetland credits" over the next ten years as the bank matures. The restored wetlands will be typical of bottom-land floodplain systems that provide fish, water quality, storm water storage, wildlife, and hydraulic and floodplain process functions, and endangered species habitat.
The mission of the Skagit Environmental Bank Project is to create and preserve 396 acres of critical habitat processes and functions in a way that contributes to achieving a net gain of those values and strengthens the integrity of those ecosystems, while successfully achieving economic and social development and increasing human health and well-being for our generation and for generations to come.
Here at Mission Markets we are promoting conservation finance as an investible sector to socially responsible impact investors. Conservation projects like wetland mitigation banking not only offer potential above market returns but also produce tangible social and environmental benefits. Specifically, this project conserves wetlands and the wildlife, allowing these vital ecosystems to continue to provide a wide range of critical environmental services.
This project is listed on our Sustainable Impact Investing Platform (SIIP). Accredited investors can gain access to this listing by registering at www.missionmarkets.com.
- The Mission Markets Team
Mission Market's goal is to increase awareness of and conversation about the social and environmental capital markets. Postings focus on ways to effectively develop viable investment asset classes within the subsectors that make up these markets, with the goal of increasing the flow of capital, information, and transparency, in support of environmental conservation and socially focused initiatives.
Friday, April 8, 2011
Friday, April 1, 2011
Mission Markets Musings: Rob Thomas
I realized Michael Van Patten was following me after the third conference.
Social Venture Network, Slow Money Gathering, and SRI In The Rockies are all conferences I have attended for quite some time. The beauty of these conferences is the opportunity to network with like-minded members of our community. Michael is the founder and president of Mission Markets, and we soon sat down together to learn more about each other’s business.
To say Michael is enthusiastic would be a gross understatement. He radiates a passion for his work. Mission Markets is an active and robust community marketplace for impact investments of all kinds. I heard Michael out for an hour, and when he finally stopped for a breath I chimed in. I told him that Mission Markets is much like Social(k), in that we are both building investment products to fulfill a demand for conscientious investing--a demand that has reached critical mass. Our two businesses also took root in the same community of innovators who are looking for investments that make more than one kind of return.
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