Democratizing Decision Making

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Democratizing Decision Making in the Market
Place The Prize Program, Our Daily Bread, What
Does It REALLY Cost?
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Democratizing Decision Making in the Market
Place The Prize Program, Our Daily Bread The
winning study will provide a systemic analytical
framework based on the environmental, social and
financial costs associated with a loaf of bread
a grain-based staple that most everyone eats on a
daily basis. . After the winning study is
disseminated to the public for dialogue and use,
beneficial owners will be able to understand the
implications of their daily decisions and, thus,
have more influence in their financial affairs.
With this information, individuals also will be
able to make more informed choices in their
selection and use of products and services.
Sustainable Ventures (SV) is a non-profit
organization dedicated to inspiring and educating
beneficial owners the people who have pension
and trust funds invested in their names to take
an active role in the management of their
investments.
A sustainable venture realizes positive,
integrated, fiscally sound, environmentally
vital, and socially just performance.
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Jurors Johann Klaassen, PhD, First Affirmative
Financial Networks, Colorado Springs, CO, Juror
Foreperson Malaika Edwards, Peoples Grocery,
Oakland, CA Margaret Shockley Gandy, East West
Healing Arts Center, Talent, OR Jonathan Harris,
PhD, Global Development and Environment
Institute, Tufts University, Medford, MA Ken
Meter, Executive Director, Crossroads Resource
Center, Minneapolis, MN Vicki Peck, Vicki Peck
Associates, Placitas, NM Lance Pierce, Kennedy
School of Government, Boston, MA Elizabeth
Tuckermanty, Food Security Consultant, Chevery,
MD Arlin S. Wasserman, Changing Tastes,
Minneapolis, MN
Advisors L. Hunter Lovins, J.D.,
Natural Capitalism, Inc. Eldorado Springs,
CO Sara Olsen, SVT Consulting, San Francisco,
CA Deborah Groban Olson, J.D., Capital Ownership
Group, Grosse Pointe Park, MI
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Winner of the Prize, Our Daily Bread, What Does
It REALLY Cost?
Dr. Murray Rudd, Assistant Professor, Canada
Research Chair in Ecological Economics, Memorial
University of Newfoundland, Sr. Wilfred Grenfell
College, Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Canada.
Murrays current research program focuses
primarily on three issues assessing the
non-market economic value of natural capital
quantifying the costs of environmental
conservation to private and public sectors and
incorporating the full spectrum of true economic
values in policy models that explore when, where,
and how to best invest societal resources to
achieve ecological and socio-economic
sustainability. Part of his research will focus
on untangling consumer preferences for healthy,
risk-reducing, natural, and ethical Atlantic
Canadian foods. 
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Many Heartfelt Thanks to Gil Friend, Natural
Logic, Inc., Facilitator, Berkeley, CA, Juror
Design and Planning Meeting Neva Goodwin, PhD,
Global Development and Environment Institute,
Tufts University, Medford, MA, Moderator, June
Candidate Forum Friedman School of Nutrition
Science and Policy, Tufts University, sponsor,
ODB June Candidate Forum Paul S. Sheldon,
Presidio School of Management, San Francisco, CA,
Moderator, Juror On-Line Forum James Turner,
esq., Swankin Turner, Washington, D.C.,
Moderator, June Candidate Forum Staff and
Consultants of Sustainable Ventures ALL OF THE
ODB PRIZE CANDIDATES!! Our Donors Lindy L.
Beasley, Emerging Practices Susan Davis, Capital
Missions Theodosia H. Ferguson, Sustainable
Ventures Margaret Shockley Gandy, East West
Healing Arts Center Johann Klaassen, First
Affirmative Financial Network Scott Klinger,
Corporate Accountability International Carol
Malnick, Stanford Investment Group Chm. Brian
Wallace, Washoe Nation of Nevada and
California Arlin S. Wasserman, Changing Tastes