Max Deml (born 1957) is a German-Austrian writer for environmental and financial magazines, publisher and entrepreneur.
Since October 1991 he has been editor-in-chief of ''Ökoinvest'', a bi-weekly German-language
stock market newsletter concentrating on socially responsible, sustainable investments and
renewable energies
Renewable energy is energy that is collected from renewable resources that are naturally replenished on a human timescale. It includes sources such as sunlight, wind, the movement of water, and geothermal heat. Although most renewable energy ...
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solar power
Solar power is the conversion of energy from sunlight into electricity, either directly using photovoltaics (PV) or indirectly using concentrated solar power. Photovoltaic cells convert light into an electric current using the photovolta ...
. He developed green stock and fund indexes like in 2003.
Career
Deml studied psychology, philosophy and political science in
Regensburg and later in
Vienna
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He founded Öko-Invest Publishing Ltd. in June 1991 after dropping out of university. He went on to co-found companies like BioArt AG (organic and fair trade food), Fair Finance Holding AG, Grassmugg AG, GreenTec Invest AG and Prodigium Pictures. Additionally, he serves as chairman of the board of several Austrian companies. He is member of the Environmental Advisory Board of Oeco Capital Life Insurance in Germany and the fund committee of the World Wide Fund of Nature Austria. Since 1990, he has been co-author of the handbook ''Grünes Geld'' (English: Green Money).
His publishing work resulted in winning the Austrian SDG Award in the media category in 2020, a national prize in Austria issues by the
Austrian National Parliament in partnership with the United Nations'
Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
Since 2012, Deml has also been performing a standup comedy program entitled "Grünes Geld und Frische Blüten - ein C(r)ashkurs" (English : "Green Money and Fresh Dough - a C(r)ash Course").
References
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1957 births
People from Cham (district)
Austrian comedians
Sustainability advocates
Austrian male writers
Ethical investment
Austrian publishers (people)
Austrian investors
Austrian financial analysts
Austrian non-fiction writers
People associated with wind power
People associated with solar power
Living people
Male non-fiction writers