]> http://www.greenedia.com/tags/socially-responsible-investing Blog Articles Tagged with 'socially-responsible-investing' at http://www.greenedia.com en http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/marc-gunther/154633?rsstype=tag&tag=socially-responsible-investing No, Robert Graves fans, I don't mean to suggest that 2008 was as bad as trench warfare during WWI. But it was an undeniably dismal year in the world of business and sustainability. We had the financial crisis, the depressing recession, plummeting sto... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/marc-gunther/154633?rsstype=tag&tag=socially-responsible-investing Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:43:43 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/marc-gunther/148275?rsstype=tag&tag=socially-responsible-investing I don't know about you, but when I get financial statements in the mail these days, I don't look forward to opening them. An exception arrived recently my statement from the Calvert Foundation, which was followed soon after by the nonprofit's annu... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/marc-gunther/148275?rsstype=tag&tag=socially-responsible-investing Sun, 09 Nov 2008 23:43:37 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/marc-gunther/147344?rsstype=tag&tag=socially-responsible-investing What an extraordinary night for America! Here's a brief dispatch from the streets of Washington, D.C., before getting to today's column: The U Street neighborhood was known as Black Broadway in the 1920s Duke Ellington grew up nearby, jazz cl... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/marc-gunther/147344?rsstype=tag&tag=socially-responsible-investing Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:11:05 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/marc-gunther/146515?rsstype=tag&tag=socially-responsible-investing The business of carbon finance has huge potential. If all goes according to plan, a market approach to lowering carbon emissions can help curb global warming, transfer clean technology to the developing world and help alleviate global poverty. What's... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/marc-gunther/146515?rsstype=tag&tag=socially-responsible-investing Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:11:37 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/alt-energy-stocks/129644?rsstype=tag&tag=socially-responsible-investing The International Center for Appropriate andSustainable Technology (iCAST) helps communities use local resources tosolve their own problems. I've been a fan of iCAST's approach of teachingpeople how to fish (or, in this case, how to apply sustainab... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/alt-energy-stocks/129644?rsstype=tag&tag=socially-responsible-investing Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:33:33 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/marc-gunther/92058?rsstype=tag&tag=socially-responsible-investing You don???t have to be a Latin scholar to know that Pax means peace. So why, with the United States bogged down in an unpopular war that claimed its 4,000th casualty a few days ago, is the Pax World family of mutual funds investing in a defense contr... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/marc-gunther/92058?rsstype=tag&tag=socially-responsible-investing Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:53:41 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/marc-gunther/67570?rsstype=tag&tag=socially-responsible-investing Most money managers simply want to outperform the market. The people behind Generation Investment Management have bigger things in mind.Generation is the investment firm led by Al Gore and Goldman Sachs alum David Blood. They want to deliver market-b... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/marc-gunther/67570?rsstype=tag&tag=socially-responsible-investing Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:21:04 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/65467?rsstype=tag&tag=socially-responsible-investing That's a reasonable question to ask in light of the results of the Sustainability Report Card 2008 which examines colleges and universities dedication to sustainability, on campuses and in endowment portfolios, and which indicates that the green spir... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/65467?rsstype=tag&tag=socially-responsible-investing Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:00:48 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/economists-view/58971?rsstype=tag&tag=socially-responsible-investing Ben Stein has Felix Salmon so upset that he has lost track of what month it is. I have to admit that I didn't actually read Stein's column, and still haven't, thereby avoiding a similar fate:Ben Stein Watch: October 30, 2007, by Felix Salmon: I'm a u... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/economists-view/58971?rsstype=tag&tag=socially-responsible-investing Sun, 30 Sep 2007 22:11:00 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/marc-gunther/50900?rsstype=tag&tag=socially-responsible-investing Not being in the demo, as they say in the media biz, I didn't hear about AT&T's censorship of the rock band Pearl Jam until a friend in the social investing world told me about it. If you were not not paying attention to the Lollapalooza music ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/marc-gunther/50900?rsstype=tag&tag=socially-responsible-investing Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:00:47 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/marc-gunther/38280?rsstype=tag&tag=socially-responsible-investing Hearst and Fidelity Investments don't get it, to use an overworked expression. They don't understand that today even private companies have to be transparent about their operations if they want the public's trust.Instead, these two companies are mode... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/marc-gunther/38280?rsstype=tag&tag=socially-responsible-investing Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:08:46 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/marc-gunther/33413?rsstype=tag&tag=socially-responsible-investing Facing sustained pressure to divest its holdings in companies supporting the goverment of Sudan, Fidelity Investments appears to have reduced its stake in PetroChina, the No. 1 target of the divestment campaign, by 91%.In a regulatory filing this wee... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/marc-gunther/33413?rsstype=tag&tag=socially-responsible-investing Wed, 16 May 2007 23:19:27 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/marc-gunther/32710?rsstype=tag&tag=socially-responsible-investing An intriguing twist last week in the campaign to get Fidelity Investment to shed its holdings in companies doing business in Sudan: The New York Times, CNN, Newsweek, Business Week and the Boston Globe all turned down anti-Fidelity ads sponsored by t... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/marc-gunther/32710?rsstype=tag&tag=socially-responsible-investing Sun, 13 May 2007 21:45:25 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/marc-gunther/32148?rsstype=tag&tag=socially-responsible-investing Imagine, if you will, a world in which public companies would be rewarded by investors for being well-prepared to deal with climate change.Investors who look at traditional ways to value companies their price/earnings ratios, return on invested c... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/marc-gunther/32148?rsstype=tag&tag=socially-responsible-investing Wed, 09 May 2007 22:33:53 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/marc-gunther/26459?rsstype=tag&tag=socially-responsible-investing Could Warren Buffett s Berkshire Hathaway be helping to support genocide in Darfur? The Sudan divestment movement which has persuaded Harvard, Yale and Stanford, among others, to sell holdings of companies doing business in Sudan says Berkshir... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/marc-gunther/26459?rsstype=tag&tag=socially-responsible-investing Fri, 06 Apr 2007 20:15:31 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/marc-gunther/25167?rsstype=tag&tag=socially-responsible-investing The Computer TakeBack Campaign, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, US PIRG and a whole lot of smaller environmental groups are challenging former Vice President Al Gore to use his clout to get Apple to become more green.Gore is a board member at Apple... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/marc-gunther/25167?rsstype=tag&tag=socially-responsible-investing Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:01:37 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/16128?rsstype=tag&tag=socially-responsible-investing In this guest post, model and sustainable business consultant Summer Rayne Oakes recounts her recent interview with socially responsible investing expert Thomas Van Dyck. (Read more about Oakes in a Grist profile.) I first met Thomas Van Dyck in J... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/16128?rsstype=tag&tag=socially-responsible-investing Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:31:53 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/economists-view/11279?rsstype=tag&tag=socially-responsible-investing Not too long ago the topic of socially responsible investment wasdiscussed here, in particular the practices of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as described in the Los Angeles Times. Brad Plumer has more on this topic in this follow-up to the Los... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/economists-view/11279?rsstype=tag&tag=socially-responsible-investing Wed, 17 Jan 2007 05:34:00 -0500