Milestones
...Merging Microfinance and the Environment

2000
Conducted two years of research on the intersection of environment and microfinance, which led us to form GreenMicrofinance in 2002

2002
Facilitated first-ever
Environment and Microfinance Focus Group during SEEP Annual General Meeting

2003
Published
An Overview of Microfinance and Environment Managemen (A. Lal), Environmental Colours of Microfinance Theory and Practice

2004
Organized and facilitated cutting-edge conference through Eastern University in Valley Forge, PA on
Microenterprise and the Environment

Developed
Guiding Principles for Microenterprise and Development during the Valley Forge Conference by participants

Presented during Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) Brown Bag Lunch on Environmentally Sustainable Microfinance

2005
Hosted Panel on
Environmental Microfinance at the Latin America/Caribbean Microcredit Summit  in Santiago, Chile



Summit Opening Ceremony                                                  Team Photo with Dr. Yunus                             Team Interview with Bob Christen and wife, Consuelo Muñoz
GMf Team Attending Summit: Joan Hall, Dan Lundmark,
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Welcome by Temuco Woman                                          Meal in a Local Restaurant                                           Meet with Mapuche Leader                         Visit Reforestration Project                                                                   GMf Team Visiting Temuco: Dan Lundmark, Thomas Israel, and Elizabeth Israel

2006
Co-hosted the GreenMicrofinance Wharton Roundtable - Microfinance and the Environment: Setting the Research and Policy Agenda

Presented paper for Halifax Microcredit Summit How MFIs  and Their Clients Can Have a Positive Impact on the Environment (J. Hall)

2007
Project Finance Demand Study Haiti: Conducted study for Solar Electrication for Small and Medium Enterprises in Haiti

2008
Organized Panel and Associated Session at the Asia-Pacific Regional Microcredit Summit Bali;
Official Blog for USAID microLINKS

Hosted USAID MicroLinks Speakers Corner #29 “Microfinance and Climate Change: Can MFIs Promote Environmental Sustainability? (B. Teutsch)

Wrote leading article, The Missing Bottom Line: Microfinance and the Environment (J. Hall)

Panelist during American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Boston:
It Takes a Bank to Raise a Village, Financing Technology and Science for Sustainable Development

Project Finance Demand Study India: Visited MFIs in Kerala, south India

Making Baskets with natural dye (ESAF)              Aquaponics (WESCO Credit)                              Waste Management Plant (ESAF)                         Agro-Forestry Nursery (ESAF)


2009
Presented at the USAID After Hours Series Financing Clean Energy for the Bottom of the Pyramid

Presented in Mexico at the
PRECESAM-REAP workshop (B. Yager) on Rural Microfinance, sponsored by El Colegio de México & UC-Davis

Morgan Stanley Reception and Presentation featuring GreenMicrofinance and Ingrid Munro from Jamii Bora, Kenya

Ingrid Munro Highlights Kaputiei

 

Presented on panel at the LAC Microcredit Summit Campaign Colombia, panel on "How MFIs and Their Clients Can Have a Positive Impact on the Environment"

Presented Workshop entitled The Ladder Out Of Poverty, Princeton Microfinance Organization, Princeton University



GMf Panelist, Dr. Bill Yager, joins Dr. Yunus                                                                                                                                                                Presenter Betsy Teutsch at Princeton with Students 
LAC Microcredit Summit Campaign, Colombia                                                                                                                                                              Princeton University, Princeton, NJ