Socially responsible investing, is a great way to show the corporate world that you put your money where your mouth is – in green investments that reflect your concern for climate change. It shows that you will support corporations that acknowledge the risk of climate change and have greened their businesses and practices or are in the process of doing so.
As an individual, couple or family, socially responsible investing is just one of many different types of activities you can take to reduce your carbon footprint on the world.
For Canadian mutual funds, there is at list of SRI mutual funds as at September 30, 2007, at http://www.socialinvestment.ca/documents/SRIMutualFundsSept302007.pdf. The website http://www.corporateknights.ca/ has a list of 10 Cleantech companies and another list of the Next [up and coming] 10 Cleantech companies; a list of the best 50 corporate citizens; and the 100 most sustainable companies in the world.
For U.S. mutual funds, http://www.socialfunds.com/ is a company that came up when I googled socially responsible investing.
I am just supplying a few websites for your information for a starting place in learning about green and socially responsible investments. Learn more about individual funds or the companies who sponsor them by looking at the prospectuses and other information about the funds online or talk to a financial planner or bank or other financial institution.
