"The future belongs to those who understand that doing more with less is
compassionate, prosperous, and enduring, and thus more intelligent, even competitive."
- Paul Hawken
According to an article in the Economist "Companies with an eye on their "triple bottom line" - economic, environmental and social sustainability - outperformed their less fastidious peers on the stockmarket, according to a new index from Dow Jones and Sustainable Asset Management."
DOW JONES SUSTAINABILITY GROUP INDEX The World's First
Systematic Methodology For Identifying Leading Sustainability-Driven Companies World-Wide
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Over 25 Years
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ARTICLES:
- SRI: INTEGRATING PERSONAL AND SOCIAL VALUES WITH INVESTMENT DECISIONS By Pax World Fund
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- SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE INVESTING What it is and Does it Matter. By the Women's Equity Mutual Fund.
NEW IDEAS IN POLLUTION REGULATION The World Bank's Site for Anyone Interested in Understanding and Improving Control of Industrial Pollution.
"Governments have yet to admit that degrading the environment is the same as running up a debt that must eventually be paid." - Craig Mclnnes
Ethics and spiritual principles should be the basis of everything we do in life. All that we say. All that we think. Every activity should be based on that -- including the selection of investments.
You wouldn't want to be an owner of a company that is producing harm for the public, and therefore, you wouldn't want to be an owner of a share of a company that's producing harm for the public. We should all give great attention to that, and probably it will be profitable to you, because companies that are harmful ordinarily do not prosper for very long.
You will be better off with companies that are truly beneficial. They will go up in price and grow more rapidly. - Sir John Templeton
"The twenty-first century will be anything but 'business as usual' and the institutions that are able to
balance the need to make a profit with the ability to honor the souls of those who work for them will
emerge as corporate America's strongest leaders."
- David Whyte, The Heart Aroused
"Leave the world better than you found it, take no more than you need, try not to harm life or the environment, make amends if you do."-- Paul Hawken
PUBLICLY TRADED ENVIRONMENTAL COMPANIES:
Company ECO PRODUCTS Celestial Seasonings - Herb Tea NASDAQ:CTEA Fresh Juice Company NASDAQ:FRSH Gardenburger Inc NASDAQ:GBUR Hansen Natural Corp - Sodas, Fruit Juices NASDAQ:HANS Hawaiian Natural Water Company NASDAQ:HNWC Healthy Planet Products NASDAQ:HPP Horizon Organic Holding - Dairy Products NASDAQ:HCOW Lifeway Foods Inc NASDAQ:LWAY Natural Alternatives Intl NASDAQ:NAII Natural Nutrition Group - Organic Food Products NASDAQ:NNGI Natures Sunshine Prods Inc NASDAQ:NATR Nutrition For Life Intl NASDAQ:NFLI Organic Food Products NASDAQ:OFPI Pacifichealth Laboratories Inc NASDAQ:PHLI Pure World Inc NASDAQ:PURW Rmed International - Gel Free Alternative Diaper OTCBB:TUSH United Natural Foods NASDAQ:UNFI Whole Foods Market NASDAQ:WFMI Wild Oats Markets NASDAQ:OATS RENEWABLE ENERGY Energy Conversion Devices NASDAQ:ENER Golden Genesis - Photocomm - Solar Electric NASDAQ:GGGO Kenetech Corp - Utility-Scale Wind Powerplants OTCBB:KWND Real Goods - Green Catalog NASDAQ:RGTC Spire Corporation - Solar Eletric NASDAQ:SPIR POLLUTION CONTROL Envirometrics Inc NASDAQ:EVRM SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION Bikes Cannondale NASDAQ:BIKE GT Bicycles NASDAQ:GTBX ELECTRIC VEHICLES/BATTERIES Ballard Power Systems NASDAQ:BLDPF BAT International OTCBB:BAAT Electric Fuel NASDAQ:EFCX ElectroSource NASDAQ:ELSI Maxwell Technologies NASDAQ:MXWL Unique Mobility NASDAQ:UQM SUSTAINABLE BUILDING CanFibre OTCBB:CNFBF Kafus Environmental AMEX:KS Southwall Technologies NASDAQ:SWTX"There is increasing investor interest in companies committed to the corporate sustainability principles - i.e., innovative technology, corporate governance, shareholder relations, industrial leadership and social well-being - because these companies have superior performances and favourable risk/return profiles. We now have the quantitative tools for investors and companies to integrate sustainability principles in both corporate and investment strategies to their mutual benefit". - Dr. Alois Flatz, Head of Sustainability Research, SAM Sustainability Group.
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