Author Bio Dave mainly covers financial stocks, primarily banks and asset managers, and investment planning. He's covered mutual funds and institutional investments for Pensions & Investments, personal finance for S&P, and money markets and bonds for Crane Data. Dave has been a Fool since 2014. Follow @dhkovaleski Earth Day was established in 1970 to raise awareness about the state of our environment and is seen as the birth of the modern environmental movement. That movement has taken root in the world of investing. Environmental, social, and governance, or ESG, investing, has become increasingly popular as more people want to support companies that are helping to protect the environment.