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.
by Jerilyn Klein Bier
CBIS invests CBIS invests big in an effort to get companies with poor ESG performance to change their ways.
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.
by
Dorothy Hinchcliff
Fifteen entrepreneurs get a chance to pitch their start-up business plans to a group of 150 impact investors.
Sarah Endline asked Golden Seeds, a group of mostly women angel
investors, to help contribute $1.5 million to expand her candy company...
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.
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 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 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.
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.
by
Dorothy Hinchcliff
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.
by Jerilyn Klein Bier
Fixing the broken system is an economic and human rights imperative, says coalition.
by
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.
by
Green Century Capital Management announced the Eastman Kodak Company has
agreed to improve disclosure of its political spending with corporate
funds.
by
Dorothy Hinchcliff
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 are likely to be sustained this year because of high
oil costs and smaller harvests, said the United Nations Food &
Agriculture Organization.
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.
by Jerilyn Klein Bier
Genetically modified food continues to leave a bad taste for shareholder advocates.
by Ellie Winninghoff
These community impact notes help finance green and affordable housing--and the revitalization of communities.
by Ellie Winninghoff
Impact investors scale to solve the world's social and environmental problems.
