{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Is Anything Real?","title":"Your Money Is Building Something: Sustainable Investing Isn’t Soft | Ep. 83 w/ Pete Krull","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1626,"description":"Investing is not neutral.\nYour money is not sitting in some ethical waiting room. It is building something, financing something, and rewarding something. Whether you meant to or not, your portfolio may be voting for yesterday, today, or tomorrow.\nIn this episode of Is Anything Real?, Adam W. Barney sits down with Pete Krull, longtime sustainable investing advisor and founder of Earth Equity Advisors, for a conversation about sustainable investing, legacy industries, greenwashing, long-term thinking, representation in finance, and why “safe” investing is often just nostalgia with better packaging.\nPete has spent more than 22 years in what he once called counterculture Wall Street: helping people invest not in the economy of yesterday, but in the cleaner, more resilient, more resource-efficient, and more equitable economy of tomorrow.\nThis conversation challenges the idea that sustainable investing is soft, niche, political, or simply values theater. Because every investment strategy has a worldview baked into it. The question is whether that worldview is honest about where the economy is actually going.\nAdam and Pete unpack why traditional finance often gets to hide its assumptions behind the word “normal,” why broad market indexes can reflect yesterday’s economy, and why future readiness matters more than nostalgia.\nThey also get personal: inherited money, inherited worldviews, fossil fuels, circular economies, generational change, and what happens when you start asking what your money is actually building.\nPete also shares practical questions investors can ask, including how to look beyond fund labels, why greenwashing requires better receipts, and how to start with one account instead of trying to overhaul an entire financial life in one weekend.\nNOTE: This episode is educational and not financial advice. Talk with a qualified financial professional before making investment decisions.\nIn this episode:\nWhy investing is not neutral\nWhy your money is already...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/ygROTLd9i0_eLtZIaqFi8L4-QpOmBc_9g4DQT9Zg2Ho/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lNGJh/NzkxYTJiZTljMTZm/M2YzZWZmZTA4YjFk/ZmJhNS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}