July 04, 2009
Greenpeace Releases Annual Green Electronics Rankings | Ethical ...
[Ethical Investments] where it ranks leading electronics companies on their policies towards toxic chemicals, recycling and climate change. This year, PC makers made up the bottom of the list, Apple floated somewhere in the middle and cell phone makers got the highest marks. Below is the list with each company’s score from 1 - 10 (10 being the best) with the brief explanation of the score provided by Greenpeace.
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Posted at 09:06 AM
Rector's Ramblings: Ethical Investments
[Rector's Ramblings] Britain’s largest retailer Tesco will today come under fire over 7p an hour garment workers in Bangladesh as shareholders prepare to hail the company’s record £3 billion profits at its annual meeting.
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Posted at 09:05 AM
July 01, 2009
Indonesia's First Socially Responsible Investment Index | The CSR ...
[The CSR Digest] The Indonesian Biodiversity Foundation KEHATI, supported by IDX, the Indonesian Stock Exchange today launched the First SRI Index for Indonesia. The KEHATI-SRI Index will track the performance of Indonesian Corporate Champions with good sustainable business practices and set a reference and benchmark for best practice performance for Investors and Corporations.
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Posted at 02:04 PM
Sustainable Stocks To Watch
[Investopedia.com Headlines] Of course, investors don't want to suffer losses on their investments, even if they are socially responsible ones. With that in mind, here are five stocks currently listed on the Dow Jones Sustainability United States Index as of May 31, 2009 that have produced positive returns year to date.
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Posted at 02:03 PM
June 27, 2009
Can a Synthetic Tree Beat the Real Thing? | Ethical Investments
[Ethical Investments] ability to capture CO2 without the aid of sunlight means they could be used in dark, enclosed places where most trees couldn’t survive. They could be used to retrofit coal plants or placed in other areas that are subject to high CO2 emissions to curb the amount reaching the atmosphere.
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Posted at 09:04 AM
Microsoft Unveils Energy Management Software | Ethical Investments
[Ethical Investments] Google has been releasing information on their smart meter management software called PowerMeter little by little, but we've yet to see a fully-completed.
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Posted at 09:02 AM
June 24, 2009
ACT not doing anything about ethical investment but we are paying ...
[The RiotACT] Where do you think the energy companies are getting the finance to put up their windmills from? Given that the investments the ACT government is making are using my and other ratepayers money, I would prefer it if they weren’t investing it in tobacco or leaded fuel.
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Posted at 02:03 PM
The Green Stationery Company: Recycled paper, sustainable forestry ...
[The Green Stationery Company] recycled pulp is fairly limited and we would urge people to use lower grade post-consumer waste papers where possible, to make use of the mountain of waste paper sitting around. In practice though, greyer paper is much easier to read than high white papers that often contain optical brighteners (dyes that absorb light in the ultraviolet and violet region, and re-emit it in the blue region) that reflect light back into the eyes.
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Posted at 02:02 PM
June 20, 2009
WKSU News: Plans unveiled for nuclear power plant in Southern Ohio
[WKSU News] Living On Earth® Steve Curwood hosts NPR's weekly environmental news and information program, offering features, interviews and commentary on a broad range of ecological issues. What's Playing Now?
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Posted at 09:03 AM
Save The Sacred Sites Alliance: Issues Digest Ecological Issues
[Save The Sacred Sites Alliance] Issues Digest Ecological Issues Malaysian Govt. Denies Well Documented Oil Palm Development Plans in Brazilian Amazon By Rainforest Rescue with Ecological Internet's Climate Ark http://www.regenwald.org/international/englisch/ ...
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Posted at 09:02 AM
June 17, 2009
Small Hydrogen City Car Will be Open Source | Ethical Investments
[Ethical Investments] The hydrogen fuel cell will only be 6kW and there will be electric motors in each wheel. A bank of ultracapacitors will take the place of a battery.
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Posted at 02:07 PM
Ethical investments: Profits or principles? | vote tags: Tracking ...
[vote tags: Tracking the Vote] Ethical investing didn’t catch on in Britain until 13 years after the launch of Pax World. Twenty-five years ago this week Friends Provident, then a mutual insurance company with a strong Quaker heritage, unveiled its “Stewardship”
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Posted at 02:05 PM
June 13, 2009
Socially Responsible Investing - Brief Analysis #657
[NCPA | Daily Policy Digest] For example, a socially responsible mutual fund may have holdings in a company that would normally be eliminated on a negative social screen, but that still has positive business practices. Conversely, it can mean an investor might eliminate renewable energy companies because of inadequate employee benefits, or invest in airlines that have progressive hiring practices but also have huge carbon footprints.
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Posted at 09:02 AM
Socially Responsible Investing - Here and Abroad - Conference ...
[montereycountyweekly.com | events | monterey county, ca] The event will explore the recent trends emerging in the domestic and global investment communities – that is, ‘Socially Responsible Investing’ (SRI) and ‘Micro-Financing’, featuring presentations from experts who are leading the path to a more environmentally sound and sustainable future through new, dynamic investment vehicles that are altering the landscape of the traditional investment community while providing the grist for a sustainable future and a more prosperous world.
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Posted at 09:01 AM
June 10, 2009
Financial Crisis Takes its Toll on Renewable Energy
[About.com Socially Responsible Investing] I wrote about this back in November when the eight worst performing funds through the third quarter under Morningstar's rankings of socially responsible funds were alternative energy and green funds. At the time the fund managers I .
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