by
Dorothy Hinchcliff
Self-Help Ventures Fund, one of the oldest and largest community development financial institutions in the United States, has received a high rating from the CDFI Assessment and Rating System.
Chesapeake Energy Corp., the most active U.S...
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Dorothy Hinchcliff
A very clever song featured on a YouTube video posted about a month ago
is bringing more attention to "fracking," a controversial means of
extracting natural gas that has raised environmental...
Advisor uses socially-responsible, fixed-income investments for SRI clients.
CRD Analytics' sustainability algorithm incorporates 200 financial, environmental, social and governance indicators that drive the bottom line.
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Jeff Schlegel
Sustainable investing seeks profits by focusing on the positive--rather than shunning the negative--in corporations, say experts at a recent conference panel.
Advisory firm with SRI bent is efficiently growing its practice.
Deforestation rates in the Amazon, the world's biggest rain forest, morethan doubled in May as Brazilian farmers become more confident they'll be granted amnesty for illegal logging.
First Solar Inc., the world's largest maker of thin-film solar modules, won $4.5 billion in conditional loan guarantees from the U.S...
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Dorothy Hinchcliff
In Saudi Arabia, women are not allowed to drive cars and a courageous
group of women are trying to fight the ban...
A group campaigning for an end to Saudi Arabia's ban on driving by womencalled on Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd.'s Subaru cars unit to pull out of the kingdom until the prohibition is lifted.
by Tom Kostigen
You are going to be hearing a lot more from Al Gore. He has a new
opinion column that will be distributed by Bloomberg News, and he is
shifting his focus to the business and investing world...
Short sellers are flocking to solar power, dumping record levels of stock in First Solar Inc. of the U.S. and competing equipment makers.
Richer countries have failed to supply the $30 billion of climate financing they pledged at the Copenhagen summit in 2009, developing world officials and NGOs said.
by Bruce W. Fraser
There are certifications on food that carry weight, and then there are words like "organic" and "green" that don't in themselves necessarily have any value. How do you know the difference?
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Dorothy Hinchcliff
The Social Investment Forum has changed its name to US SIF: The Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment.
Drillers in the U.S. must disclose ingredients used in fracking, a shale-gas extraction technique that environmentalists say contaminates drinking-water sources, Talisman Energy's CEO said.
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Jeff Schlegel
The Marcellus Shale provides opportunity-and controversy-for natural gas investors.
by Jerilyn Klein Bier
Socially responsible asset managers scour emerging markets for investments with ESG appeal.
