{"id":483,"date":"2019-07-31T12:26:05","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T16:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buymuni.com\/?p=483"},"modified":"2019-07-31T13:09:42","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T17:09:42","slug":"forbes-municipal-bonds-a-holistic-view-of-a-communitys-environment-and-sustainability-sponsored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buymuni.com\/?p=483","title":{"rendered":"[Forbes] Municipal Bonds: A Holistic View Of A Community&#8217;s Environment And Sustainability [Sponsored]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>This is the fourth article in a series highlighting the most important aspect of municipal bonds: how the projects bonds finance helps the community.&nbsp; It appropriately started with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/investor\/2019\/07\/09\/municipal-bonds-investing-in-our-communities\/#15bca30a34f3\">Municipal Bonds: Investing In Our Communities<\/a>. This piece looks at how municipal bonds fund green and sustainable initiatives with quantifiable results with community wide benefits beyond the environment.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Natures Resources&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sensitive to the current impetus for sustainable environmental outcomes, municipalities seeking to demonstrate they are \u201cgreen\u201d are looking beyond environmental metrics. Sustainable environmental outcomes encompass the effective application and utilization of&nbsp;<em>all<\/em>&nbsp;public resources\u2014natural, human, economic and technological\u2014to improve service delivery and create sustainable outcomes in municipal operations and programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-color\">In rural&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/pendoreilleco.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pend Oreille County<\/a>&nbsp;(Moody\u2019s: Baa2; Standard &amp; Poor\u2019s: NR) in northeast Washington, the key resource is the natural beauty of the Selkirk Mountain Range.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Read (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/investor\/2019\/07\/30\/municipal-bonds-a-holistic-view-of-a-communitys-environment-and-sustainability\/#576364792068\" target=\"_blank\">Read<\/a> the full article at Forbes.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>To sponsor content on BuyMuni.com and our social media vehicles, contact Matt Brown at MBrown@buymuni.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the fourth article in a series highlighting the most important aspect of municipal bonds: how the projects bonds&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,8,12,60],"tags":[121,119,120,122],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-esg","category-investing","category-issuers","category-retail-investors","tag-clean-energy","tag-forbes","tag-green-bonds","tag-sustainability","wpcat-17-id","wpcat-8-id","wpcat-12-id","wpcat-60-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/buymuni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/barrier-blue-sky-boat-1259924.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buymuni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buymuni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buymuni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buymuni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buymuni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/buymuni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":488,"href":"https:\/\/buymuni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions\/488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buymuni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buymuni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buymuni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buymuni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}