Stuart Williams: Living & Working in The Impact Age

Living & Working

in

The Impact Age “The Higher The Number of People Consuming At The Table We Call Planet Earth The Faster We MUST Change The Menu” ~ Stuart M. Williams, 1993

Presented by: Stuart M. Williams www.swilliamsllc.com Charleston, SC, February 11th, 2016

THE IMPACT AGE: AN AGE OF OPPORTUNITY

“MAKING A PROFIT WHILE MAKING A DIFFERENCE

Witnessing The Dawning of A New Age • The Migration From Conscience to Common Sense •

Population Explosion

When Gandhi said “The Earth Provides Enough for Everyman’s Needs But For For Everyman’s Greed” there were 2.5 billion people on earth. Today there are 7 billion

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Climate Change Is Now Real In The Minds of Billions

Global investors and consumers are rightly concerned about the quality of life for the future generations of their families

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The Internet

The ubiquity of information is making business and investment practices more transparent providing consumers and investors with the ability to make choices that mirror their values

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The End of The Baby Boomer Generation

We are entering the final laps of leadership based upon the values system of the Baby Boomers

Witnessing The Dawning of A New Age • The

Impending End Of The ”Extractive” Age

The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones – current value of hydrocarbon equities & their effect on fund values

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Reemergence of Local Living Economies

Living, working and investing within the confluence of environmental conservation, conforming and compliant investing, sustainability and social change architecture e.g. Sharon Springs New York & The Beekman Boys

• Exponential

Growth In The Use of Social & Environmental Screens

Investors and consumers are using appropriate screens to determine which investments to make and products and or services to buy

• Divest/Invest/Democratization Financial Profit = A Focus People & Planet = Social & Environmental Entrepreneurship. Uber, Facebook, AirBnB

• Stranded Assets Stranded assets are not just in ground reserves of hydrocarbons. Watch out real estate.

Witnessing The Dawning of A New Age •Emerging

Markets

Emerging market countries are choosing to build their entire emerging market economies on the principles of People, Planet, Prosperity

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Rise of The Millennial’s

- 80,000 Millennial’s in The US now becoming our leaders, decision makers, investors, consumer and donors - they out number Boomers by 8,000,000 and growing!

- 24% of the entire US Population - Over 60% believe that corporate profits and investment returns should be values based - Over next 25 years they will inherit $30 Trillion - 98% of the inheritors will NOT use their parents advisors

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Investment, Business, Humanitarian & Environmental Thesis of “Making A Profit While Making A Difference”

- The futures highest and most sustainable returns (including financial) will be delivered by leaders who embrace being the platinum standard of stewarding financial, human and environmental resources they use to run their ecosystems.

Impact Real Estate As A Buyer/Owner •

Avoid Buying or Owning What is or Could Become A Stranded Asset

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Simply put do not buy a home that is not sustainable or cannot be converted to being sustainable

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Efficient markets and rule of 72 point towards a 10% return (7 year pay back) on investments in Solar and Geothermal

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Look for homes surrounded by conservation easements

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A 20,000 sq/ft Living Building was just opened in New Jersey & was built for $325 sq/ft

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Ensure that the materials used to build the house are sustainable and produced in a cradle to cradle manner

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Follow what is happening in the energy industry – “The Stone Age Did Not End Because We Ran Out of Stones”

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Use public sources of data and research to see what the geography of your potential home will look like in 5, 10, 15, 20 years e.g. NASA Earth Sciences Group

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Understand and follow the next gen trend toward smaller footprints

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Make sure you can get your home insured

Impact Real Estate As A Developer •

Avoid Building A Stranded Asset

- For most people their home is the biggest asset on their personal balance sheet •

Fully Understand The Trend Toward LEEDs and Living Buildings

- A 20,000 sq/ft Living Building was just opened in New Jersey & was built for $325 sq/ft - “The numbers are in, and green homes continue to enjoy phenomenal growth. According to McGraw-Hill’s recent report, Green Multifamily & Single Family Homes: Growth in a Recovering Market, 73 percent of single-family builders and 68 percent of multifamily builders report that consumers are willing to pay more for green homes”.

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The 1% = “Environmentally Conscious Wellness Homes"

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Focus on Building and or Supporting Local Living Economies With A Focus on Impact, Sustainability and Environmental Conservation

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Embrace The Fact The The Futures Highest and Most Sustainable Profits Will be Delivered by Leaders that Embrace People & Planet

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Always look to use conservation easements to protect the communities you build

How To Position Yourself As A Broker “The People Who Are Crazy Enough To Think They Change The World Are The Ones That Do" • Identify A Market You

Can Readily Help

- Use cause marketing to the next “global superpower” • Massively

Disrupt Something That Needs Change

- Systemic change by inference means changing the way we approach change •

Immerse Yourself in The Genre

- Let your passion shine through • Small

Groups of Purposed Collaborators Can Change The World

- We are migrating from an economy of compete to one of collaborate • Walk

The Walk

- Be the platinum standard of stewarding your own human, environmental and financial resources

Risks, Rewards, Trade-Offs Risks • First time ever Climate Change is the number 1 global risk • Number 2 of the list – mass human migrations driven by number 1 (Humanity’s Next Great Migration, Lets Make It Virtual Not Physical) • Also on the list Civil unrest Financial collapse (again)

Trade-Offs • The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

Rewards -

None unless we transform global finance and the way it is run so lets use this as an example as how we can all participate in solving problems and ensuring a sustainable future

Get The Problems To The Front Of The “Spot Book”

If We All Understand The Problem We Can All Participate in The Solution

Eradicating The Term “Other Peoples Money”

In Summary Nothing Is The Absence of Something

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules.

And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do