Our bank believes that economic development that does not consider the underlying health of ecosystems and communities is fundamentally flawed.
Healthy businesses help integrate human and natural environments.
Unhealthy ones do not. The financing of sustainability means supporting economic activity that generates high standards of living and social equity while conserving and restoring environmental integrity and human health. Banking starts with baseline economic objectives of meeting shareholder expectations by wisely using customer deposits to make loans and provide services to borrowing customers. A bank with an eye on the opportunities in financing sustainability takes these fundamental business objectives a step further to include longer-term needs of the communities it serves. These needs include healthy air and water, thriving diverse business districts and healthy neighborhoods.