Sustainable Investing

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New Tools For Investing In A Black Swan World

by Ellie Winninghoff

A new online course aims to help financial advisors learn what responsible investing is and understand which ESG issues drive their clients.

Christian Brothers Puts Money Where Its Mouth Is

by Jerilyn Klein Bier

CBIS invests CBIS invests big in an effort to get companies with poor ESG performance to change their ways.

Putting SRI On The Radar Screen

by Jerilyn Klein Bier

How large the SRI industry is and how much it's under the radar surprises this financial advisor, who's been trying to make it more visible for investors and other advisors.

The Next, Next Thing

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Fifteen entrepreneurs get a chance to pitch their start-up business plans to a group of 150 impact investors.

Wall Street Women Of Golden Seeds Help To Cultivate Female CEOs

Sarah Endline asked Golden Seeds, a group of mostly women angel investors, to help contribute $1.5 million to expand her candy company...

BP To Get Heat At Annual Meeting Tomorrow

BP Plc, whose share price has dropped 29% since last year's Gulf of Mexico oil spill, will face opposition from two of the U.S.'s largestpension funds at the company's annual general meeting tomorrow.

FSTE Launches ESG Ratings

FTSE Group, manager of the FTSE4Good Index series of responsible investment products, has launched a new data service to objectively measure the environmental, social and governance practices of over...

Google, Buffett May Be Wind Turbine Buyers, Say Suzlon, Vestas

Google Inc. and Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. have shown interest in buying wind turbines to supply power along railroad lines and at computer server farms.

Solar Power May Already Rival Coal, Prompting Installation Surge

Solar panel installations may surge in the next two years as the cost ofgenerating electricity from the sun rivals coal-fueled plants, industryexecutives and analysts said.

Social Impact Bonds Hit U.S.

by Tom Kostigen

Buried deep within this year's fiscal federal budget is a $100 million line item that may be the best bridge between public and private investing ever invented.

PowerShares ETF Takes A Lead

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The PowerShares Cleantech Portfolio ETF finished firstlast year among 36 public equity funds focused on clean energy and/or clean technology, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.

Investors Press Immigration Reform

by Jerilyn Klein Bier

Fixing the broken system is an economic and human rights imperative, says coalition.

SEC Says ExxonMobil, Southern Co. Must Include Proposals On Proxies

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The SEC has rejected attempts by ExxonMobil and Southern Co. to keep transparency proposals off their 2011 annual meeting proxy ballots, according to Green Century Capital Management.

Kodak Agrees To Disclose Political Contributions

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Green Century Capital Management announced the Eastman Kodak Company has agreed to improve disclosure of its political spending with corporate funds.

Advisor Takes A Stand

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An advisory firm has divested its entire holding in a leading natural gas producer because of the company's "poor environmental record and its lack of accountability to shareholders."

Record Food Prices Likely to Be Sustained

Record food prices are likely to be sustained this year because of high oil costs and smaller harvests, said the United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization.

Toyota Chief Targets Emerging Markets, Risk Management

Toyota plans to sell half of its vehicles in emerging markets and roll out ten more hybrid models as part of efforts to make at least $12 billion in operating profit by 2015.

Food For Thought

by Jerilyn Klein Bier

Genetically modified food continues to leave a bad taste for shareholder advocates.

The New Candy

by Ellie Winninghoff

Impact investors scale to solve the world's social and environmental problems.

Where Will All The People Live?

by Ellie Winninghoff

These community impact notes help finance green and affordable housing--and the revitalization of communities.

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