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• The Future of Renewable Energy and Cleantech under an Obama Administration; Investorideas.com Themes Online Investor Conference for 2009 - click here
• CEO of Algae-to-Oil Technology Company, OriginOil, Inc. (OTCBB: OOIL) Reminds Investors of the Bright Future for Advanced Biofuels - click here
• Investorideas.com Green Investor Podcast Series; Interview with CEO of Solar Company, BrightSource Energy, Inc. - click here
• Investorideas.com Green News Service:” Be the News Story of the Day” in Renewable Energy, Cleantech and Water and Sectors - click here
• RenewableEnergyStocks.com Updates Directory of Renewable Energy and Green Stocks; Global Solar Stocks, Wind Stocks, Biofuels and More - click here

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Cleantech Research and Articles

• Sonic Technology Solutions Inc. (TSXV: SNV) – Initiating Coverage; Advancing new applications in the energy and materials sectors - click here
• MicroPlanet Technology Corp. (TSX-V: MP) –Initiating Coverage –A clean technology companytransitioning from R&D to commercialization - click here
• U.S. Market for Environmental Biotechnology Products for Waste Treatment Worth $261.3 Million by 2013 - click here
• India and China Providing Escape Velocity to Global Aerospace - click here
• Divcom Lighting Inc. (TSX: DVQ) Rated a Speculative Buy with a 12-month Target Price of $0.60 per share. - click here

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• The Future of Renewable Energy and Cleantech under an Obama Administration; Investorideas.com Themes Online Investor Conference for 2009 (Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:00:00 PDT)  Investing in Renewable Energy Stocks for 2009- Solar Stocks, Wind Stocks, Biofuel and Energy Efficiency
• OriginOil Named Among Top 100 Clean Energy Technologies (Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:00:00 PDT)  OriginOil, Inc., the developer of a breakthrough technology to transform algae, the most promising source of renewable oil, into a true competitor to petroleum, announced that the company has been named as one of the Top 100 Clean Energy Technologies by the New Energy Congress. NEC ranks OriginOil as the top algae company.
• XsunX VP of Engineering to be on Thin Films Panel at the Green Power Conference, Solar Innovation and Investment USA December 2-3 (Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:00:00 PDT)  XsunX, Inc. (OTCBB: XSNX), a solar technology Company engaged in the build-out of its multi-megawatt thin film photovoltaic (TFPV) solar manufacturing facilities.

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• Green IPO Watch at Renewableenergystocks.com: South Dakota Community-Wind Development Company, Dakota Wind Energy, Announces Intrastate Public Investment Offering (Tue, 28 Oct 2008 06:00:00 PDT)  www.RenewableEnergyStocks.com, a leading investor news and research portal for the renewable energy sector within Investorideas.com, reports on South Dakota Community-Wind Development Company, Dakota Wind Energy Intrastate Public Investment Offering.
• Green IPO Watch at Renewableenergystocks.com - WCRF.OB enters into agreement with Apollo Solar Science Technology Co. Ltd (Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:00:00 PDT)  www.RenewableEnergyStocks.com, a leading investor news and research portal for the renewable energy sector within Investorideas.com, reports on the reverse merger of WCRF.OB entering into agreement with Apollo Solar Science Technology Co. Ltd.
• Hoover's IPO Scorecard Reveals Increasing Decline in New Offerings for 2008 (Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:00:00 PDT)  Find Out Which Stocks Larry Connors and David Penn Are Looking At On A Daily Basis.

Driving Green with Dawn Van Zant 
• Driving Green; Electric Minis Charge Up Consumers (Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:00:00 PDT)  BMW has Mini fans charged up with news that they plan to sell the much talked about all-electric versions of the Mini car in the U.S., starting summer 2009.
• Driving Green; Fueling the Green Movement for Smaller Cars and Hybrids (Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:00:00 PDT)  As gas prices rise and impact all of us on a daily basis, we are all going to have to face the shift to green cars sooner or later. As Toyota’s numbers show us, the green movement is on.
• Driving Green; Our First Green Family Car- the Honda Fit , Rated as one of Greenest Vehicles of 2008 by American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:00:00 PDT)  Well, we did it – we made a family decision and now have a white Honda Fit in the driveway, proudly driven my 21 year old daughter.

The plan increases logging by 400% and would target 100,000 acres of old-growth forests for destruction. Oregon Governor Kulongoski is the only elected official standing between the Bush Administration and western Oregon's forests, rivers and salmon. He is allowed a 60-day "consistency review" period to propose recommendations for changes to land use plans. Please encourage the governor to propose significant amendments, pushing this decision to the Obama administration. TAKE ACTION!

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• Jump-starting the climate agenda (Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:22:39 +0000)  Obama’s energy adviser, Jason Grumet, said before the election that environmental issues would highlight his agenda. Obama would first need to issue an executive order directing the Environmental Protection Agency to make an endangerment finding, confirming that carbon emissions are a danger to human welfare. And that would probably pressure Congress to pass additional emissions legislation, [...]
• Energy blueprints are short-list green lights (Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:19:26 +0000)  If you’re eyeing a top energy post in the new Obama administration, releasing a national energy plan seems to ensure your name is at least floated on some sort of short list of contenders. Google climate director Dan Reicher and Dow Chemical CEO Andrew Liveris had been off the radar for either secretary of energy or [...]
• NBC Confirms That “Clean Coal” is an Oxymoron (Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:16:43 +0000)  It’s Green Week at NBC (and all other NBC-Universal properties) and thus we’re treated to an extra helping of energy and environment stories from Nightly’s globe-trotting, business savvy environment correspondent, Anne Thompson. Tonight’s report included some serious straight talk about so-called “clean coal.” Brian Williams began with a remarkable lead-in: “Coal. While you might have heard the [...]

Green Building News and Research

• Environmental Building News
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• Green Building Resource Center
• Green Home Guide
• GreenerBuildings.Com
• Rocky Mountain Institute
• The United States Green Building Council

Environmental News and Research Resources

• A Green Directory
• BBC Enviironmental News - "The Green Room "
• Climate Change and Global Warming Portal
• Climate Ark - Climate Change and Global Warming Portal.
• Climate Change Investment Research, JP Morgan
• Climate Hot Map
• ClimateWire.org, updated daily, is a leading multi-sectoral, international news service specifically focusing on the issue of climate change.
• CorpTech - Database of over 50,000 high- tech companies
• Daily Grist
• Earthtoys - Alternative And Renewable Energy News, Emagazine And Library
• EarthTrends is a comprehensive online database, maintained by the World Resources Institute, that focuses on the environmental, social, and economic trends that shape our world.
• Ecologic Investor
• edie - environmental news service, which includes information on renewable energy, waste management and carbon trading.
• Electronics, Design, Technology and News Network
• Energy & Environment News - The day's top energy-related news stories, including coverage on the impacts of deregulation.
• Environmental Finance
• EnviroLink News Service
• Environmental & Alternative Media Guide
• Environment Canada's Internet resource for weather and environmental information. The Green Lane TM helps connect Canadians, exchange information and share knowledge for environmental decision-making.
• Environmental News Bits
• Environmental News Information UK
• Environmental News Network (ENN)
• Environment News - PR Web
• Powering the Planet at CNBC.com

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• The Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan professional organization that provides training, information, and networking opportunities to thousands of environmental professionals in 65 countries.
• American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE) works to bring all forms of renewable energy into the mainstream of America's economy and lifestyle.
• American Solar Energy Society (ASES) is a national organization dedicated to advancing the use of solar energy for the benefit of U.S. citizens and the global environment. ASES promotes the near-term and long-term use of solar energy. In addition to the National Solar Energy Conference, ASES publishes SOLAR TODAY magazine and Advances in Solar Energy, organizes the National Tour of Solar Homes, promotes sound government policy and has regional chapters throughout the country. ASES is the United States Section of the International Solar Energy Society.
• The Apollo Alliance provides a message of optimism and hope, framed around rejuvenating our nation’s economy by creating the next generation of American industrial jobs and treating clean energy as an economic and security mandate to rebuild America. America needs to hope again, to dream again, to think big, and to be called to the best of our potential by tapping the optimism and can-do spirit that is embedded in our nation’s history.
• Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law. The Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law was established on 15 February 1996 by the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore on the initiative of the Faculty of Law and the Commission on Environmental Law (CEL) of the World Conservation Union (IUCN), in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). APCEL was established in response to the need for capacity-building in environmental legal education and the need for promotion of awareness in environmental issues. It is currently working closely with IUCN's Commission on Environmental Law, UNEP, the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank Institute, the Singapore Ministry of the Environment, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other institutions in several projects and programs. Internet Resources on Environmental Law: http://law.nus.edu.sg/apcel/resources.htm 
  Available at: http://law.nus.edu.sg/apcel/index.htm 
• Association of Major Power Consumers Ontario (AMPCO) is a province-wide industry organization that advocates competitive electricity rates and promotes a reliable supply of electricity for all customers. AMPCO members represent a wide range of resource, manufacturing and processing industries that use very large amounts of electrical energy.
• Canadian Association for Renewable Energiess (CARE) An authoritative source of news on the renewable energy industry in Canada
  
  Canadian Renewable Fuels Association
• Co-op America - The Co-op America Business Network, with 2000 members, is the largest association of socially and environmentally responsible businesses.
• EIA is the parent organization for the National Solid Wastes Management Association (NSWMA) and the Waste Equipment Technology Association (WASTEC). http://www.envasns.org/
• Environmental Defense is a leading national nonprofit organization representing more than 400,000 members. Since 1967, we have linked science, economics and law to create innovative, equitable and cost-effective solutions to society's most urgent environmental problems. http://www.environmentaldefense.org/
• Environmental Investigation Agency. The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) is an international campaigning organization committed to investigating and exposing environmental crime.
  Available at: http://www.eia-international.org/
• Green Roofs for Healthy Cities http://www.greenroofs.net

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• Business News Blog - International business, finance, and investing news with a focus on the environment and sustainable business leaders.
• Celsias – An online community for households and businesses to get paid for reducing the carbon emissions from their everyday energy usage.
• China Environmental News Digest
• Cleantech Investing - A news and commentary blog for those interested in venture capital in clean technologies.
• Joel Makower - Two steps Forward - Joel is founder of Green Business Network, which produces GreenBiz.com, ClimateBiz.com, GreenerBuildings.com, and other popular web sites. He also is a co-founder and principal of Clean Edge Inc., a research and publishing firm focusing on building markets for clean energy technologies, and serves as a senior consultant to GreenOrder, a sustainability strategy and marketing firm. From 1991 to 2005, Joel was editor and publisher of The Green Business Letter, an award-winning monthly newsletter he founded on corporate environmental strategy.
• Green Techno Logg - The green technology web log
• Sustainablog is dedicated to news, information and personal meanderings related to environmental and economic sustainability, green and sustainable business, and environmental politics.
• TreeHugger - TreeHugger is a fast-growing web magazine, dedicated to everything that has a modern aesthetic yet is environmentally responsible.

Environmental Message Boards

• Alternative Energy Message Board

Green Communities

• Launched in March of 2008, Huddler.com is a network of niche product review communities

Renewable Energy Blogs

• Alternative Energy Blog - News, views and strong opinions on alternate energy resources including solar energy, wind power, wave energy, geothermal & other renewable energy sources http://alt-e.blogspot.com/
• BioConversion Blog - News and information about waste-to-energy technology, trends, and legislation - with a focus on ethanol and developments in California. http://bioconversion.blogspot.com//
• Biodiesel Blog - News and information about Biodiesel & alternative fuels http://biodieselblog.com/
• Clean Energy News Blog http://cleanenergynews.blogspot.com/
• Cleantechblog - founded by Neal Dikeman, a partner at Jane Capital Partners, a San Francisco based merchant bank focused on energy & environmental technologies.
• CleanTech Blog http://www.cleantechblog.com/
• Colorado Renewable Energy Blog - A nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the economic and environmental benefits of solar, wind, biomass, geothermal, and energy efficiency technologies http://www.cres-energy.org/newhtml/news_blog.html
• Energy Priorities Blog - Smart Energy Information & Ideas for Business. Energy Priorities is platform for information, ideas and commentary on smart energy - a resource for businesses who want to be more informed energy users - an asset to entrepreneurs and investors in the new energy sector http://energypriorities.com//
• Green Trust Sustainability & Renewable Energy Blog - Renewable Energy (Solar, Wind, Hydro, & Biofuels), Permaculture, Conservation, Recycling, Organic Gardening, Rain Water Harvesting and Grey Water Recovery, and other methods of living cleanly, efficiently, and leaving lighter footprints on our earth http://www.green-trust.org/
• Renewable Energy Law Blog - News and Commentary on the Evolving Law, Science, and Policy of Renewable Energy Development http://renewableenergylaw.blogspot.com/
• RenewableEnergyStocks.com Blog
• http://windbiz.blogs.com/ Windbiz - Wind energy market insights http://windbiz.blogs.com/

Green Online Social Community

• Care2.com is the largest online community for people who want to make a difference.

Renewable Energy Directories

• Eco Firms - Eco Friendly Companies Directory - Supporting Ecological Solutions
• Energy Planet: A visual and interactive web directory of information resources about renewable energy technology.
• Environmental Directory - Welcome to NaturesList.org environmental directory. All sites are validated by human editors in order to bring you only the best environmental resources, both regional and worldwide.
• Go Green Directory - natural, organic and eco friendly.
• Finance Seek Directory

Green Search Engines

• AEoogle: Alternative Energy Search Engine.

Green Radio and Podcasts

• Earthwatch Radio
• EcoTalk Radio -Monday through Friday, Betsy Rosenberg and her guests bring you environmental news, views and voices from the frontlines of the sustainability movement.
• Living on Earth Radio
• Treehugger Radio

Green Audio Interviews Exclusive Articles

 Audio Interviews/Podcasts in Green and Environmental

• Green Investor Podcast: An Insider's Outlook on the Potential for Solar Energy: John Woolard, CEO of a private California-based solar energy company called BrightSource Energy, offers his outlook on solar energy. - click here
• Solar Stocks Investor Podcast; Tom Djokovich, CEO of XsunX Inc. (OTCBB:XSNX) Discusses Amorphous Thin Film, the "Thinnest of the Thin Films" Mr. Djokovich comments on the long term vision for renewable energy - "Once the financial markets calm down there will be a reinvigorated movement of money into the space" - click here
• Investorideas.com Green Investor Audio Series - An outlook for U.S. policy on renewable energy - The U.S. Department of Energy’s Andy Karsner offers an outlook on U.S. policy on renewable energy - click here
• Green Investor Audio Series; Interview with Ira Ehrenpreis of Technology Partners, Investing in Energy Technology, Water Technology and Materials Science Opportunities - click here
• Renewable Energy Stocks Green Investor Audio Interview with Ezra Green, CEO & Chairman of Clear Skies Solar, Inc. (OTCBB: CSKH) - Patented XTRAXR Technology Estimated at $500 million - $1 billion Globally - click here

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• Renewable and Solar Energy Perspectives with J. Peter Lynch - Solar Stocks - Looking for a Bottom? - The stock market has now slipped into “official” bear market territory and the press is full of negatives. - click here
• Catch the Wind - Green Investor at Investorideas.com, http://www.investorideas.com/gi/ By Paulo Nery - Wind is looking like one the great opportunities for this year. If you follow Jim Cramer at all you may have heard him declare this to be the year of wind. And just this past week that well-known oilman T. Boone Pickens, who is building an enormous 4,000 Megawatt wind farm in Pampa Texas, declared a major PR campaign for wind. The “Pickens Plan” (www.pickensplan.com) calls for rapid ramping up of wind power and advocates the use of natural gas vehicles. Pickens views wind as part of a solution to our rapidly increasing expenditure on foreign oil. Currently $700 Billion is going offshore each year to pay for imported oil. - click here

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Funds and Venture Capital Investing

• Ariel Fund - The fund invests in companies with market capitalizations primarily under $1.5 billion, with an emphasis on small-cap stocks. Social criteria include environmental, tobacco, weapons, nuclear energy, and diversity screens. www.arielcapital.com
• Claymore/MAC Global Solar Energy ETF (Market, News) tracks an index comprised of 25 global solar companies
• China Environment Fund: CEF has become the most leading VC fund in sustainable investment arena in China now. Over the past years CEF has been highly recognized by international and local entities in triple bottom line investment field, and has been invited to major activities such as CleanTech Venture Forum in San Francisco, China Venture Capital Forum in Beijing and New Venture Investor Forum in Shanghai, and many others. http://www.cefund.com/index.asp
• Credit Suisse Future Energy Fund - Invests worldwide in companies who offer products or services in the field of energy exploration, conversion and distribution.
• Fortis L Fund Equity Environment Sustainability World - Invests in companies whose products help solve the environmental challenges presented by three key issues: climate change, excessive waste and the shortage of clean water.
• Green Century Capital Management, Inc. (GCCM) is the administrator of Green Century Funds, a family of environmentally responsible mutual funds. It was founded by non-profit environmental advocacy organizations and is wholly owned by non-profit advocacy groups. http://www.greencentury.com/about/
• New Alternatives Fund The fund seeks long term gains for its investors by concentrating its investments in renewable energy and the environment. The fund's portfolio includes investments in Wind Energy, Solar Energy, Biomass, Fuel Cells, Energy Conservation, Clean Water, Recycling, and Natural Foods. The fund may invest up to 35% of its assets in shares of foreign companies. www.newalternativesfund.com
• Pax World enables investors to align their financial goals with their personal values through a selection of professionally managed socially responsible mutual funds. http://www.paxworld.com/funds.htm
• PowerShares Global Clean Energy Portfolio (AMEX: PBD ) - based on the WilderHill New Energy Global Innovation Index ; seeks to deliver capital appreciation and is composed of companies that focus on greener and generally renewable sources of energy and technologies facilitating cleaner energy.
• PowerShares Cleantech Portfolio (Symbol: PZD) exchange traded fund (ETF): PZD seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield (before fees and expenses) of the Cleantech(TM) Index (CTIUS). CTIUS is an equally weighted index currently comprised of 75 publicly traded companies engaged in operation, performance, productivity or efficiency, while reducing costs, inputs, energy consumption, waste or pollution. Cleantech companies produce knowledge-based products or services in a variety of areas, including agriculture and nutrition, air quality, enabling technologies, environmental technologies, material and nano-technology, materials recovery and recycling, transportation and logistics, and water purification and management.
• Swisscanto Green Invest Fund - Worldwide investment in shares of ecologically, socially, sustainable managed companies.
• TerraPass funds clean energy projects like wind farms, methane capture and more.
• UBS Global Innovator Fund - Investments are made in companies whose products and services make a contribution towards solving the key issues facing the world in the twenty-first century.
• Viridis Clean Energy Group is an energy infrastructure fund which invests in a diversified global portfolio of clean energy assets with the objective of delivering attractive cash equivalent distributions to investors with prospects for long-term growth. 
• Winslow Green Growth Fund The Winslow Green Growth Fund is an aggressive growth equity portfolio seeking above-average performance and long-term capital appreciation through environmentally effective investing. The Fund invests primarily in domestic securities of small to mid capitalization companies that the Adviser believes are reasonably priced and exhibit the potential for superior growth.

Clean Tech Indices

• The Ardour Global Index is a capitalization-weighted, float adjusted index of 81 of the most prominent alternative energy stocks in the world.
• Australian SAM Sustainability Index (AuSSI) tracks the performance of Australia's Sustainability leaders. The index comprises the leading third in terms of economic, environmental and social criteria out of a universe of close to 200 Australian companies.
• The Cleantech Index™ (CTIUS) includes US publicly traded "clean" technology companies that offer a diverse range of products, services, and processes designed to improve productivity and efficiency, while reducing environmental impact. The CTIUS includes nine sectors that span industries such as alternative energy, water resources and purification, advanced materials, and logistics. All of the companies in the CTIUS are listed on the New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq, or the American Stock Exchange
• Camino Energy maintains a global database of publicly-traded sustainable energy businesses. Its PurePlaytm Indices have been developed to focus on companies pursuing specific business activities in the sector. Current index coverage includes Solar, Renewable Electricity, Biofuels, and Fuel Cells".
• DAXglobal Alternative Energy Index
• Distributed Energy Stock Index (DESI) – focusing on the distributed energy and technology industry
• Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes are a cooperation of Dow Jones Indexes, STOXX Limited and SAM Group. By bringing together the expertise of two leading index providers and the world-renowned pioneer in sustainability investing, the DJSI family rests on a strong foundation to meet the growing market demand for professional, objective and reliable sustainability benchmarks.
• Earth Index™ : Forty public companies trading on US exchanges that deliver solutions to environmental pollution. Earth Index™
• The Impax ET50 Index (ET50) is a performance-tracking index dedicated solely to publicly quoted companies that have core businesses in the development and operation of environmental technologies.
• Jefferies Global Clean Technology Energy Generation IndexSM – A sub-index of the Global Clean Technology Index; includes companies providing products and services related to solar and wind.
• The KLD Global Climate 100SM Index (GC 100) is a specialty index designed to promote investment in public companies whose activities demonstrate the greatest potential for mitigating immediate and long-term causes of climate change. KLD, in partnership with the Global Energy Network Institute (GENI), created the Index in response to growing demand from institutions and individuals for investment strategies that address global warming.
• Ludlow Alternative Energy Index tracks some of the top alternative energy stocks. The Index provides both institutional and individual investors a tool for tracking the day to day performance of the alternative energy sector in a diversified basket. The index is designed for investors who have a long-term bullish outlook on alternative energy, and may be seeking a diversified portfolio within the sector. The Ludlow Alternative Energy Index is owned and operated by Ludlow Energy Fund.
• Merriman Curhan Ford & Co. Next-Generation Energy (NGE) Indexsm (NYSE-Arca: NGE.X) tracks the top 30 small- and mid-cap U.S.-listed companies leading the important advances in the development and commercialization of five key NGE technology areas: fuel cells, solar power, alternative fuels, energy storage and other supporting technologies.
• NASDAQ Clean Edge U.S. Index - designed to track the performance of clean-energy companies that are publicly traded in the U.S. including companies engaged in the manufacturing, development, distribution, and installation of emerging clean-energy technologies such as solar photovoltaics, biofuels, and advanced batteries. The index is calculated and disseminated on a price return basis (NASDAQ: CLEN) and a total return basis (NASDAQ: CLNX)
• S&P Sector Indices Brochure
• The WilderHill Clean Energy Index (ECO) is a modified equal dollar weighted index comprised of publicly traded companies whose business's stand to benefit substantially from societal transition toward the use of cleaner energy and conservation. The Index is rebalanced each March, June, September and December. The Index divisor was initially determined to yield a benchmark value of 100.00 at the close of trading December 30, 2002. The Index was created by and is a trademark of WilderShares, LLC.

Environment / Socially Responsible Stock Indices

• ACT Australian Cleantech Index provides a measure of the performance of the Australian listed stocks in the Cleantech sector.
• Bovespa ISE is designed to measure the return on a portfolio composed of shares of companies highly committed to social responsibility... corporate sustainability... good practices in the Brazilian corporate environment.
• Calvert Social Index, as a broad-based, rigorously constructed benchmark for measuring the performance of US-based socially responsible companies.
• Domini Social Index Portfolio (DSIP)
• Domini 400 Social Index . KLD’s Domini 400 SocialSM Index (DS400) is a float-adjusted market capitalization weighted common stock index modeled on the S&P 500® Index.
• Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes - Includes 300-400 companies said to represent the top 10% of leading companies committed to sustainable practices worldwide.
• FTSE4Good Index Series . Financial Times of London share indices of socially and environmentally screened firms.
• FTSE Environmental Technology Index Series . FTSE Group has launched the FTSE Environmental Technology Index Series in collaboration with the environmental technology specialist, Impax Asset Management, to provide two new environmental technology index solutions: the FTSE ET50 Index and FTSE Environmental Opportunities All-Share Index.
• Impax ET50 (U.K.). The Impax ET50 is a stock index of companies whose core business involves environmental technologies.
• Jantzi Social Index (JSI) is a Canadian socially and environmentally screened share index.
• KLD Broad Market Social Index capturing the best environmental, social and governance (ESG) performers in each sector of the Russell 3000... represents 98% of the capitalization of the US equity market
• KLD Indexes constructs indexes for investors who integrate environmental, social and governance factors into their investment decisions. KLD’s indexes are designed to be transparent, representative and investable.
• LOHAS Index. Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability. [Companies in this index] practice 'responsible capitalism' by providing goods and services using economic and environmentally sustainable business practices. There are three indices: the LOHAS Index, Healthy Living Index, and Sustainable Economy Index.
• NASDAQ® Clean Edge® U.S. Liquid Series Index (CELS) is a modified market capitalization-weighted index designed to track the performance of companies that are primarily manufacturers, developers, distributors, or installers of clean-energy technologies.
• S&P ESG India index provides investors with exposure to a liquid and tradable index of 50 of the best performing stocks in the Indian market as measured by environmental, social, and governance parameters.
• SRI Index Malaysia & Singapore SRI Index OWW Consulting launched the Responsibility™ SRI Index Series which aims to identify companies in Malaysia and Singapore with good CSR (or Economic, Social and Governance, ESG) reporting

Environment / Socially Responsible Investing

• Calvert Social Investment Foundation - nonprofit organization using community investment to finance affordable homes, fund small and micro businesses, and engage in community development.
• Corporate Responsibilty Forum - discussion forum on corporate responsibility including news, ideas exchange, questions, and answers.
• Ethical Investing - resources and strategies for positive investing.
• Ethical Investor - online magazine devoted to ethical investment in Australia. Features news, opinions, columns, and forums.
• Environmental Investors Network, Inc. - profiles public and private companies with socially responsible technologies, products or services, and mutual funds with SRI holdings for investors, consumers, business entities, and job seekers.
• Goodmoney.com: Socially/Environmentally Screened Funds - provides a list of screened funds, banks, and credit unions.
• Green Chip Stocks, an investment advisory service that focuses on stocks in the renewable energies markets and emerging and lucrative organic and natural foods industry.
• GreenMoney On-Line Guide - An information resource from the GreenMoney Journal for people interested in socially and environmentally responsible business, investing, and consumer resources.
• Money and Values - dedicated to helping investors align their money with their values.
• SocialFunds.com - resource for information on socially responsible mutual funds.
• SRI Direct is the first web brokerage specifically set up for investors seeking healthy returns - those generated by companies operating in a financially, environmentally and socially responsible manner.
• Teresa Finney's Socially Responsible Investing - collection of information about stocks, finance, business resources, social investment forums, and the financial markets.
• http://www.uua.org/finance/sri/

Socially & Environmentally Responsible Investing News

• Business Ethics - "The magazine of corporate responsibility"
• Corporate Watchdog Radio - "Serving up video and audio on corporate social and environmental responsibility as it relates to the investing world"
• CSR Wire - "The leading source of corporate responsibility and sustainability, press releases, reports and news"
• Ethical Corporation Online - "News, analysis and events in global corporate citizenship"
• Ethical Marketplace a weekly TV financial lifestyle magazine series reporting on new definitions of success that are emerging"
• Social Funds - Personal finance site with socially responsible investing news

Publications

• Coastal Conservancy Publications - California Coast & Ocean magazine's on-line edition covers coastal protection, restoration, public access, and other issues for the entire coast of California. 
• E / The Environmental Magazine - Covering environmental issues such as global warming, ozone depletion, acid rain, green living, ecology, alternative energy, biodiversity, endangered species, the non-profit community... and from the personal to the political - always with a 'what you can do' emphasis. You can read it online or subscribe. 
  Earth First! The Radical Environmental Journal - Sample news from Earth First! and the radical environmental movement; informative articles, debate, analysis. 
• Eco-logic Online - Online version of environmental journal supporting property rights and critical of government intervention and public land ownership. 
• The Ecologist - Website of The Ecologist magazine. Provides resources, archives, campaign and event information. 
• EcoWorld Traveler - E-zine with essays on a variety of environmental topics. Particular focus on encouraging reforestation. 
• Environment Archive of Independent Review - Features a wide variety of essays published in Independent Review which explore free market environmentalism and its policy suggestions. 
• Green at Work Magazine - Pro-business and positive publication, whose goal is to reinforce sustainable initiatives by sharing success stories and profiling the individuals who are making it happen. 
• Green Earth Journal - Environmental news report with information from many sources. Archives and free subscription information. 
• Green Planet e-gazette - Environmental magazine for Green Planet International containing articles addressing environmental issues and information. 
• GreenSource - is McGraw-Hill Construction's on-line directory of information on sustainable design, practice and products.
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Environmental Industry Directories

• www.envirobiz.com - Business and technology marketplace. Companies, agencies and associations, news, events and research.
• www.enviroyellowpages.com nation-wide yellow page listings with categories for products, services, news, jobs, government, and more.
• www.nseia.ns.ca - Nova Scotia Environmental Industries Association. "the voice of the environmental industry" ... those in the environmental industry by providing information on ... newsletters, industry links (local, national and international), environmental industry directories, new members ...
• www.ulb.ac.be/ceese/meta/cdstxt.html - Directory of best internet environmental directories (list of lists), by subject ... air pollution, water quality, environmental industry, environmental acronyms etc. 
• www.ebiusa.com/links/links.html - Regional Industry Associations and Business Councils. Environmental Business Portals. Environmental Directories ...
• www.cbot-recycle.com. Environmental Industry Associations.
• www.envasns.org

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