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[MasterResource] BP Fools the “Socially Responsible” Investors ('Green' Enron did ...: or lobbying the Bush/Cheney administration to regulate CO2 emissions, receiving a “climate protection award” from the EPA, or a “corporate conscience award” from the Council on Economic Priorities; advancing the interventionist agenda of the President’s Council on Sustainable Development, Business Council for Sustainable Energy, Pew Center on Global Climate Change, and Heinz Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment;

[RSS Feed for Sustainable Industries] Paul Hawken: Growing 'wiser' | Sustainable Industries: In 2002, Hawken also founded the Natural Capital Institute, a research group that focuses on socially responsible investing, global civil society and environmental funding opportunities. And Hawken is still a businessman, heading up PaxIT, PaxTurbine and PaxFan, three companies associated with Pax Scientific, a California-based company using natural models to design technologies for moving air and water [see “Natural Selection,”

[zmotion] Green Investment Caveat | zmotion: Green investing can be as tricky and as problematic as any other type of investing and that is why you need a plan. Create a strategy for your green investment to help you make an informed decision that is in line with your belief system and that has the potential to be financially lucrative.

[Carla Voorhees] Investigating Socially Responsible Investing: Historically, SRI investing is an offshoot of values-based investing, and has at its core an issue-base screening system. This means that investors can select investments which filter (in or out) companies that produce alcohol or tobacco, perform testing on animals, have human rights violations, produce toxins, or a multitude of other issues.

[GreenBiz.com Green and Sustainable Business News] Introducing ULE 880 - Sustainability for Manufacturing ...: The deeper reason why I believe no company, product or even individual can claim "absolutely sustainability" any time soon is that what may be sustainable with three, five or seven billion people on the earth may not be sustainable once we reach a population of nine billion with the same material aspirations as the West.

[Socially Responsible Investing] Green Investing Tips | Socially Responsible Investing: Green investing can be as tricky and as problematic as any other type of investing and that is why you need a plan. Create a strategy for your green investment that will help provide you with the information you need to make a wise and informed decision that is in line with your belief system and will be also prove to be financially lucrative.

[Musings from an Independent Marketing Provocateur] Four Points : Will CSR become a marketing fad yet again? « Musings ...:  Findings published in the 2009 Social Responsibility Survey done by Dinar Standard and Dar Al Istithmar with the support of the Accounting and Auditing Organisation for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI) benchmarked 13 aspects of social responsibility such as client engagement, employee welfare, charity, environment, investment quotas etc across IFI’s (Islamic Financial Institutions) in order to obtain empirical data to benchmark trends. This survey clearly shows:

[BP Oil News | Independent Reporting on the BP Deepwater Horizon Gulf Oil Spill] Beyond Petroleum or Greenwashing? You Be The Judge.: Detractors have made a strong case for the fact that British Petroleum’s “big green spend” is merely greenwashing, an effort to cover up a multitude of sins. Here are just a few of the highlights of BP’s decidedly non-green behavior since the company rebranded themselves as “Beyond Petroleum” in 2000:

[Rainforests and Rainforest Animals, Additions and Updates Straight to Your Computer] Environmental Investing - Overview: While socially responsible funds may include stocks that best meet the SRI’s criteria from a number of industries, pure environmental funds are exclusively focused on the companies which are actively seeking to improve the state of the environment. (3)

[MoSo Technology Blog] Using Automated Currency Trading Robots | MoSo Technology Blog: wind tubines Hidden values what is the cost Best answer: Answer by minnmassYes. There are hidden costs to anything, .

[Guy Fawkes' blog] Time to Cut Carbon Cutting - Guy Fawkes' blog: The ensuing monetary collapse and social disorder gives the Fabian new world governance loonies an oportunuty to rebuild global society upon the ruins of ‘failed capitalism’. They may need to confiscate your assets and/or liquidate you first.

[Change2 Blog Posts - Change2] UNPRI: Are investors taking the initiative? - Change2: If the sheer number of parties to the initiative - 529 at the latest count, 79 of them from Australia - provided a gauge of its success, the principles would be very close to mainstreaming responsible investment. But it doesn’t take much digging beneath the surface to conclude that many of these signatories are, at best, giving ESG factors cursory attention.

[Ecopreneurist] Ecopreneurist » Blog Archive » Nobody's Really Going Green - Most ...: As a result, upbeat stories on environmental achievements are easy to find in any number of glossy, corporate publications. However, a closer look at the reporting of sustainability performance and the corporate strategies supporting it reveals that, in many companies, the response to the challenge of sustainability is only skin-deep.

[Proviction - Responsible Leadership Blog] 45 Forces Driving Corporate Social Responsibility | Proviction ...: But Generation Y is also helping to drive CSR forward because, more than any generation before, they are demanding jobs which are meaningful, companies that are responsible, work-life balance, and an environment that makes them feel good, respected, and appreciated. Even with youth unemployment between 15 and 20%, many first-time job seekers are declining second-best job offers, instead waiting for companies offering a better experience.

[Helen Chang] Helen Chang » Blog Archive » Top 7 Rules for Investing in Green Funds: This includes understanding the fund's parent company, investment goals, track record and criteria, said Schueth. “Due diligence on these new products is really critically important”¦to realize whether you're being 'greenwashed' or not.” .

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