"The future belongs to those who understand that doing more with less iscompassionate, prosperous, and enduring, and thus more intelligent, even competitive."- Paul Hawken According to an article in the Economist "Companies with an eye on their "triple bottom line" - economic, environmental and social sustainability - outperformed their less fastidious peers on the stockmarket, according to a new index from Dow Jones and Sustainable Asset Management."
DOW JONES SUSTAINABILITY GROUP INDEX The World's First Systematic Methodology For Identifying Leading Sustainability-Driven Companies World-Wide PAX WORLD FUND Pax World Fund Family / Empowering Socially Responsible Investors For Over 25 Years THE WOMEN'S EQUITY MUTUAL FUND Socially and Environmentally Responsible Mutual Fund
ARTICLES:
- SRI: INTEGRATING PERSONAL AND SOCIAL VALUES WITH INVESTMENT DECISIONS By Pax World Fund
- MANAGING YOUR INVESTMENT RISK By Pax World Fund
- SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE INVESTING What it is and Does it Matter. By the Women's Equity Mutual Fund.
NEW IDEAS IN POLLUTION REGULATION The World Bank's Site for Anyone Interested in Understanding and Improving Control of Industrial Pollution.
"Governments have yet to admit that degrading the environment is the same as running up a debt that must eventually be paid." - Craig Mclnnes
Ethics and spiritual principles should be the basis of everything we do in life. All that we say. All that we think. Every activity should be based on that -- including the selection of investments.
You wouldn't want to be an owner of a company that is producing harm for the public, and therefore, you wouldn't want to be an owner of a share of a company that's producing harm for the public. We should all give great attention to that, and probably it will be profitable to you, because companies that are harmful ordinarily do not prosper for very long.
You will be better off with companies that are truly beneficial. They will go up in price and grow more rapidly. - Sir John Templeton
"The twenty-first century will be anything but 'business as usual' and the institutions that are able tobalance the need to make a profit with the ability to honor the souls of those who work for them willemerge as corporate America's strongest leaders."
- David Whyte, The Heart Aroused
"Leave the world better than you found it, take no more than you need,try not to harm life or the environment, make amends if youdo."-- Paul Hawken
Solar Energy stocks Biomass Stocks
PUBLICLY TRADED ENVIRONMENTAL COMPANIES:
Company ECO PRODUCTSCelestial Seasonings - Herb Tea NASDAQ:CTEAFresh Juice Company NASDAQ:FRSHGardenburger Inc NASDAQ:GBURHansen Natural Corp - Sodas, Fruit Juices NASDAQ:HANS Hawaiian Natural Water Company NASDAQ:HNWC Healthy Planet Products NASDAQ:HPPHorizon Organic Holding - Dairy Products NASDAQ:HCOW Lifeway Foods Inc NASDAQ:LWAYNatural Alternatives Intl NASDAQ:NAIINatural Nutrition Group - Organic Food Products NASDAQ:NNGI Natures Sunshine Prods Inc NASDAQ:NATRNutrition For Life Intl NASDAQ:NFLIOrganic Food Products NASDAQ:OFPI Pacifichealth Laboratories Inc NASDAQ:PHLIPure World Inc NASDAQ:PURWRmed International - Gel Free Alternative Diaper OTCBB:TUSHUnited Natural Foods NASDAQ:UNFIWhole Foods Market NASDAQ:WFMI Wild Oats Markets NASDAQ:OATS RENEWABLE ENERGY Energy Conversion Devices NASDAQ:ENER Golden Genesis - Photocomm - Solar Electric NASDAQ:GGGOKenetech Corp - Utility-Scale Wind Powerplants OTCBB:KWND Real Goods - Green Catalog NASDAQ:RGTC Spire Corporation - Solar Eletric NASDAQ:SPIRPOLLUTION CONTROLEnvirometrics Inc NASDAQ:EVRM SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION Bikes Cannondale NASDAQ:BIKE GT Bicycles NASDAQ:GTBX ELECTRIC VEHICLES/BATTERIES Ballard Power Systems NASDAQ:BLDPF BAT International OTCBB:BAATElectric Fuel NASDAQ:EFCX ElectroSource NASDAQ:ELSI Maxwell Technologies NASDAQ:MXWL Unique Mobility NASDAQ:UQM SUSTAINABLE BUILDING CanFibre OTCBB:CNFBF Kafus Environmental AMEX:KS Southwall Technologies NASDAQ:SWTX
- Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. NYSE APD - Alanheri (Produkten) BV AEX - Albert's Organics NASDAQ UNFI - Arrowhead Mills, Inc. NASDAQ HAIN - Campbell Soup Company NYSE CPB - CHEP USA Sydney BIL - Chiquita Brands, LLC NYSE CQB - College Farm Organic Candy NYSE TQC - DeBoles, Inc. NASDAQ HAIN - Eclat Textile Co., Ltd Taiwan Stock Exchange 1476 - Engelhard Corporation NYSE EC - Eurofins GeneScan, Inc. Neuer Markt, Frankfurt, Germany GEP, WKN:586150 - Garden of Eatin' NASDAQ HAIN - Green Mountain Coffee Roasters NASDAQ GMCR - Hain Celestial Group NASDAQ HAIN - Hershey Import Co., Inc. NASDAQ UNFI - Horizon Organic NASDAQ DF - Mountain Peoples NorthWest NASDAQ UNFI - Natural Baby Catalog OTCBB KDST - Nike, Inc. NIKE - Pro Organics NASDAQ, TSE STKL - Simon Candy Company NYSE QGLY - Smucker Quality Beverages, Inc. NYSE SJM.A - Spectrum Organic Products NASDAQ HAIN - Stow Mills NASDAQ UNFI - SunOpta Ingredients NASDAQ STKL - SunOpta, Inc. NASDAQ STKL - SunRich, Inc. STKL - Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee Company TSE SWS.UN - United Natural Foods, Inc. NASDAQ UNFI - WhiteWave Foods NYSE DF - Whole Foods Market NASDAQ WFMI, WHOLEFD - Wild Oats Markets, Inc. NASDAQ OATS - Wild West Organic Harvest TSX/NASDQ SOY/STKL
"There is increasing investor interest in companies committed to the corporate sustainability principles - i.e., innovativetechnology, corporate governance, shareholder relations, industrial leadership and social well-being - because these companieshave superior performances and favourable risk/return profiles. We now have the quantitative tools for investors and companiesto integrate sustainability principles in both corporate and investment strategies to their mutual benefit". - Dr. Alois Flatz, Head of Sustainability Research, SAM Sustainability Group.
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