Fall 2013 – Integrating Sustainability

  New Report From the Sustainable Investments Institute Finds Growing Investor Support for Board and Workplace Diversity, Sustainability Reporting and Political Spending Disclosure Investors are filing more environmental and social policy resolutions in the United States than ever before, and more shares are supporting them, new research from the Sustainable Investments Institute (Si2) finds. As

  The US SIF Foundation will also release a Guide for Institutional Investors  In July 2013 the US SIF Foundation released Investing to Curb Climate Change: A Guide for the Individual Investor [1]. This guide seeks to meet the increasing interest of a wide range of investors in using their investment dollars to address the

  Horizons Sustainable Financial Services, a Santa Fe, NM based registered investment advisory firm, announced in July 2013 a new line of well-diversified mutual fund portfolios with no exposure to any companies directly involved in the production of fossil fuels. With these Zero Carbon Energy portfolios, Horizons joins a very small group of firms offering

>> Back to Fall 2013 Issue   Davines North America is pleased to announce a charitable initiative for salons across the US and Canada to celebrate our 3rd Sustainable Beauty Day, which will take place on Monday, October 7, 2013. On that day, consumers can visit participating salons and receive a cut and styling service

>> Back to Fall 2013 Issue by David Rose, Unified Field Corporation ORIENTATION Many thanks for the opportunity to share the following perspectives with GreenMoney’s thoughtful and caring readership. This article will present ideas, questions and suggestions gathered from a lifetime of attention and observation, and a deep commitment to finding ways to improve where

>> Back to Fall 2013 Issue   By Steven Hoffman and Nikki McCord If you’re anything like us, you’re probably enjoying a snack while checking your email and catching up on your blogs. If you’re eating a conventionally produced snack – that is, one that is not Certified Organic or Non-GMO Verified – chances are

  By Dr. Peter Graf, Chief Sustainability Officer and Executive Vice President, SAP AG and Dr. Christoph Huetten, Chief Accounting Officer and Sr. Vice President, SAP AG When SAP first began talking about the importance of sustainability to our business, some people – even inside our own company – were confused. What does SAP, one

>> Back to Fall 2013 Issue By Don Shaffer, RSF Social Finance   RSF Off-the-Grid When you are looking for the new or emergent, you usually have to look off-the-grid. In many ways as RSF Social Finance has grown, we too have had to go off-the-grid to develop our unique approach to finance. In 1984,

>> Back to Fall 2013 Issue   By Madalyn Metzger, Everence Financial and Praxis Mutual Funds The goal of most investors is to achieve a positive return – with success typically measured in annualized percentages. And while this is an important measure, a growing number of investors are looking for more. Specifically, they’re looking for

>> Back to Fall 2013 Issue by Jerome Dodson, Parnassus Investments Recently Cliff Feigenbaum, managing editor of the GreenMoney Journal, asked me to write about Parnassus Investments, so I decided to write about two of our funds: the Parnassus Workplace Fund and the new Parnassus Asia Fund. Parnassus Workplace Fund A good place to work