by Bruce W. Fraser
Water sustainability is likely to be a mainstream
issue this year for investors as growing pressures combine to force investments in
water infrastructure and technology.
The Solar Impulse aircraft, a pioneering Swiss bid to fly around the
world on solar energy, successfully completed its first test flight in
western Switzerland Wednesday.
by Eleanor O'Sullivan
Financial advisors who want to attract and retain younger investors may want to have their SRI ducks in a row.
by Bruce W. Fraser
Socially responsible equity funds get the lion's share of
attention these days, but SRI bond funds may be an attractive alternative for some of your clients' portfolios.
by Jerilyn Klein Bier
From retrofits to energy-generating endeavors and more, some
existing REITs aren't waiting for an economic rebound to step up
sustainability initiatives.
by
Dorothy Hinchcliff
A particular group of new mutual funds might be perfect for financial
advisors who aren't well versed in socially responsible investing but
who have some clients-or potential clients-who would...
Some directors manage to stay on corporate boards with barely any shareholder support. This proxy season, investors are pushing companies to enact "majority-vote" standards.
California has become one of the world's top solar power markets and has
attracted startup companies that make biofuels.
Senior White House and Obama administration officials say they are
worried the nation's economic recovery could stall if Congress doesn't
pass a climate bill this year.
The U.S. Treasury and the Department of Energy Wednesday
said federal investment grants for smart grid projects--artificially
intelligent power grid systems--will be tax exempt.
by
Dorothy Hinchcliff
A record 95 global warming shareholder resolutions with 82 U.S. and Canadian companies have been filed by U.S. investors this proxy season.
The Obama administration's suggested greenhouse-gas rules could make innocent bystanders of wind and solar projects.
by
Dorothy Hinchcliff
Coffee producers say they are getting hammered by global warming, with
higher temperatures forcing growers to move to prized higher ground,
putting the cash crop at risk.
by
Karen DeMasters
Walmart, among the world's largest retail chains, has set a goal of eliminating 20 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emission from its global supply chain by 2015.
Investors-many with the blessings of their financial advisors-have shifted their assets from the Wall Street financial institutions to
the little guys on Main Street.
The quarterly report of a French chemical company shows that the firm gets roughly a quarter of its profit from what it has agreed not to do: pollute.
by Bruce W. Fraser
Envestnet's innovative SRI platform gets praise from advisors who use it.
by Jon Quigley and Lyn Taylor
New research shows that SRI/ESG screens produce different results than many mainstream advisors perceive.
by Susan Preston
Seed-stage venture funds are attracting more interest from investors.
by
Dorothy Hinchcliff
Green Century Capital Management and others want more information from
natural gas companies on a controversial means that they are using to
drill new wells.
