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[EthicalMarkets.com] Calvert Social Index Actions | EthicalMarkets.com: (NASDAQ: CA), a company in the Calvert Social Index Universe, has recently been reviewed and now meets the Index’s governance criteria. CA has addressed significant weaknesses in the company’s management and internal controls by implementing substantial changes that demonstrate the company’s commitment to a strengthened governance structure.

[Wealth Manager Magazine] A Clear Vision - Build - Wealth Manager: Sandor, a Ph.D who is chairman, CEO and founder of the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) which, in turn, owns the Chicago Climate Futures Exchange (CCFE), is an acknowledged pioneer in the design and implementation of market-based mechanisms to address environmental concerns. The CCX, for example, claims to be the world’s first and is definitely North America’s only voluntary, legally binding registry and trading system for integrated greenhouse gas emissions reduction.

[Personal Dividends] Socially Responsible Investing for "Values" Investors | Personal ...: There are a number of indexes now (including the Dow Jones Sustainability Index) that are composed solely of socially responsible companies. The fees on socially responsible ETFs and index funds are generally lower than the fees charged by their mutual fund counterparts.

[Katie Patrick] Katie Patrick » Blog Archive » Good Green Investment Tips: - Check the Dow Jones Sustainability Index to see what companies are performing best in their sector. - If investing in a specific company of technology, look for companies that are well managed.

[Indigenous Portal News] Calvert Divests Weyerhaeuser | Business: Weyerhaeuser stands as an increasingly isolated industry laggard on the Grassy Narrows issue. On June 3 of 2008 David Paterson, CEO of AbitibiBowater, then the largest newsprint producer in the world, informed the Ontario Minster of Natural Resources, Donna Cansfield, that the company would discontinue using wood from Grassy Narrows Territory and relinquish its license to log in the area.

[New Energy World Network (NewNet)] NewNet CSR Profile: Standard Chartered: In this role, Chung leads the environment and climate change team, which looks after the Bank’s operational impacts including energy use, stakeholder engagement and governance procedures on sustainable lending. Prior to this role, Chung was a mining analyst at Sustainable Asset Management in Switzerland and was responsible for the mining investment portfolio for the Dow Jones Sustainability Index.

[Pulse Point - Networking from Ethical Junction] Sustainable Finance - Ethical Pulse: In this update, we identify the current issues surrounding sustainable investment, also known as ”˜socially responsible’ investment (SRI) or ”˜responsible’ investment. This form of investment has grown enormously in the past decade, with an increase in sustainable funds and sustainable options.

[Aviva plc] Aviva - Media - News Releases: experience, Aviva is a global insurer of European origin: it is the leading provider of life insurance and pension products in Europe with substantial positions in other markets around the world, particularly in North America and Asia, making it the world's fifth largest insurance group based on gross worldwide premiums at 31 December 2007. Aviva's principal business activities are life insurance and long-term savings, fund management and general insurance, with total sales of €56.7 billion and €455 billion of assets under management at 30 June 2008.

[Transport Intelligence] UPS named leader in carbon disclosure index - Transport ...: "Our employees take pride in our commitment to being a socially and environmentally responsible company," said Bob Stoffel, senior vice president of strategy, sustainability, engineering and environmental affairs. "We are grateful to the Carbon Disclosure Project, one of the world's most respected organizations that judge environmental performance, for honouring us with this credential."

[KLD BLOG] KLD BLOG » Investors Should Look Beyond the Letter of the Law ...: The Norwegian Ethics Council has an excellent screening system, better than any I know of. However, one should always make it clear that Norway’s pension fund invests the money its earns (trillions of kroner) from the state-owned oil resources.

[Carbonfund.org Blog» Carbon Offsets & Climate Change News] Failure to Green-up Your Business Impacts Competitive Advantage: “We’re at a point where socially responsible investing is evolving beyond avoidance strategies””eliminating companies that are involved in tobacco, for example””to ones that take an integrated look at ESG. This is all part of the same movement to understand how to harness this information for better returns.” - Paul Hilton, Interim Director Social Investment Strategy at Calvert, a leading socially responsible investing firm.

[PR Hub] British American Tobacco Selects Teliris Telepresence 6G Platform: Countries mull ban on selling cigarettes on NetGENEVA ”” More than 130 countries met Monday to consider whether to ban the sale of tobacco on the Internet as part of an effort to crack down on the multibillion dollar market in contraband cigarettes. As well as stopping direct sales to consumers, the draft treaty being considered in Geneva this week could ban online vendors from offering raw tobacco or cigarette manufacturing equipment.

[All pages] The Forrester Blog For Interactive Marketing Professionals: The Tower (Centralized): We refer to this centralization as the “tower” ”” a standalone group within a company that's responsible for social media programs, often within corporate marketing or corporate communicaitons. ...

[KLD BLOG] KLD BLOG » Some Carbon Footprints are More Equal than Others ...: Why do some funds that seek to hold strong environmental performers actually deliver worse-than-average carbon efficiency? To understand this, consider how Trucost constructed its study, and also note that there is more than one way for investors to support lower global carbon emissions.

[The Housing Bubble Blog] The Housing Bubble Blog » Bits Bucket For June 14, 2009: A mob of 150 ACORN mobsters stormed the capitol in Albany NY to “protest” and prevent the transfer of power from Democrats to Republicans due to the caucusing of two dissident Democrat Senators with the Republicans, which effectively gives the GOP control of the NY State Senate when certified. As a result of the two Democrats switching “sides” as it were - the ACORN rent-a-mob was dispatched to storm the capitol and intimidate the Senators.

[SmallCapVoice.com] 6-3-09 Daily Small Cap Market News and Stock Highlights from ...: Mantra, through its group of sustainable energy, carbon reduction and consumer product subsidiaries, is active in the green technology marketplace with an innovative, multi-faceted approach focused on profitability through sustainability. By aggressively seeking out new technologies and innovating solutions for a cleaner earth for everyone, Mantra intends to provide a highly profitable and, more importantly, socially and environmentally responsible investment for its shareholders.

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