Community
Investing Achiever in the Social
Investment Forum 1% For Community campaign since 2002. Calvert
Foundation Advisor of the Year in 2004. Learn more!
This section is meant to help you better understand your
investing in general and related trends. Ideally you might even be better able to explain it to your friends, family, and colleagues!
The "Move Your Money" campaign is a new movement started by a group of friends over dinner urging citizens to move their money from the big four "Too Big to Fail" banks to smaller local community banks and credit unions.
Check out their 4 minute video below illuminating the striking similarities between the current banking crisis and the timeless storyline of "It's a Wonderful Life."
Are you with Potter or Bailey?
WAMU public radio's The Kojo Nnamdi April 2009 show on socially
responsible investing: http://wamu.org/programs/kn/09/04/22.php#25423
For decades, ethical investing meant shunning "sin stocks" like tobacco and gun-makers. Today, it also means going green--buying into companies atuned to climate change. But the question remains: does conscience interfere with profit? Kojo examines socially responsible investing in this era of economic collapse.
Guests: Barbara Krumsiek, President and CEO, Calvert Group; Pietra Rivoli, Professor of Finance and International Business, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University; and Author, “The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade” (Wiley)
The United Nations’ Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI)
signatories represent assets approaching $10 trillion. With signatories from more than 200 investment organizations
in 25 countries, the appeal is clear and compelling. But are the Principles driving real change? The UNPRI’s
Working Capital Report (July
2007), and the report from the UNPRI’s Awareness to Action Roundtable
(October 2007) provide answers to this question. Both offer evidence that incorporating environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria into investment
practices has motivated companies worldwide to embrace ESG reporting, analysis,
and policies.
SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE INVESTING ROUNDTABLE, Baby boomers
and their investments
MARKET-RATE, SCHMARKET-RATE! The New Risk-Return
Paradigm
A NEW KIND OF VOTER EDUCATION PROJECT, Responsible
Equity Ownership & The Public Interest.
"Who
are Community Investors?"
Fascinating report from a survey
conducted by Calvert Foundation to find out more about the people who choose
to include community investing in their portfolios.
Moskowitz Prize winning SRI
studies
Researchers from Erasmus and Maastricht universities collaborated on a study
finding significant and positive relationships between Innovest eco-efficiency ratings and both market-based and accounting-based financial performance
results. Several other studies about SRI as well.
Talking
points
Confronted with common myths and critiques of SRI? This piece was published by
Social Investment Forum after a critical piece appeared in
Common Ground.
Social
Investment Forum News
The SRI trade organization's press
room. Includes recent reports and studies conducted that illustrate
the growth and success of SRI.
Academic
Research on SRI
A resource for people interested in the impact of social screening on investment
performance and in other technical quantitative aspects of SRI.
Assetlock.net,
Legacy Locker, or Deathswitch.com
"Hamlet, that lucky stiff, only had to worry about being or not
being--what a nice, binary Denmark he lived in. We modern mopes, on the
other hand, must consider not only our too, too solid flesh but also our
online infinitude..." continues in article titled,
"Lifesavers" of March 2010 Wired
Magazine.
Disclaimer. We've not personally tested each of these. We don't know how
well or even whether they deliver as promised. Please do your own research
before subscribing to these types of services.
Responsible
Wealth
A project of United for a
Fair Economy, RW is a network of business people,
inheritors, and individuals in the top 5% in terms of income and/or wealth
in the US and working for economic fairness and shared prosperity.
Centerpoint Institute for Life and Career Renewal An educational not-for-profit organization dedicated to changing the way we live and work.
They help people find the work they love and create ways to balance that work with the rest of their lives.
Democracy Now! Weekdays at 8:00 AM and 3:00 PM on KBCS 91.3 FM
throughout King County, WA. Seattle Comcast cable channel 77 (SCAN) 9:00 AM.
Check here
for other local stations across the country carrying this program. Hosted by Amy Goodman, this national news show is committed to bringing the voices of the marginalized to the airwaves on issues ranging from the global to the local.
Daily headline alert e-mail available.
DailyKos.com The number one weblog. Former Dean for Pres supporter now maintains one
of the most informed political information sites out there.
truthout.org
Just go look. You'll see why I list them here. Daily alert e-mail available.
Projectcensored Explores and publicizes the extent of censorship in our society by locating stories about significant issues of which the public should be aware, but is not, for one reason or another.
Mind Over Matters KEXP 90.3 FM Seattle or
streaming. Airs each weekend morning from 6 to 9 AM with a variety of locally-produced interviews in addition to lectures and nationally-syndicated programs.
The mission is to provide programming that encourages greater understanding of and participation in our multicultural society and to illuminate the important social, political, spiritual, and cultural issues of our times.
Worth getting up for!
Air
America Radio
Airing on AM radio of all places, hosts the progressive
and left-leaning antidote to conservative talk-radio! We haven't tuned in
much but it comes highly recommended by clients and friends including Jeremy
Smithson of Puget Sound Solar.
Independent Media
Center
Collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage. Indymedia is a democratic media outlet for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of truth.
The Commonweal Institute Multi-issue research and educational institute - a think tank - committed to advancing moderate and progressive principles through policy analysis, and strategic marketing and communication of ideas.
Monthly newsletter available.
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specializing exclusively in sustainable and
responsible
investing since 1986
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of First Affirmative Financial Network, Social Investment Forum,
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