Green Investing Links
Funds -- General Resources -- Consulting and advisory firms -- New technologies seeking finance -- Research Tools

Articles and links on green investing -- Feature page on growth, discussing writings of Herman Daly and Lester Brown.
A page of the components of various sustainability, welfare or genuine progress indices
New Link: Mortgage and Personal Finance Calculators
Links to online calculators for loans, taxes, CD analysis and 401(k) computations.

Note: Links in green have been discussed in circle sessions --- Contact: rob@gatebuilder.com


Funds, Indices and Stocks

Winslow Green Growth Fund
http://www.winslowgreen.com

Green Century Funds
http://www.greencentury.com/home/default.aspx

Powershares Wilderhill Clean Energy Portfolio
http://www.wildershares.com/

Ludlow Alternative Energy Index
http://www.ludlowcapital.com/indices/energy/

Sierra Club Funds
http://www.sierraclubfunds.com/

Portfolio 21
http://www.portfolio21.com/

Clean Edge tracker of clean energy stocks
http://www.cleanedge.com/CEindex.php

Sustainablebusiness.com list of environmentally responsible stocks
http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/Stocks/index.cfm

Alt Energy Stocks
http://www.altenergystocks.com/stocks.html

SocialFunds.com list of mutual funds
http://www.socialfunds.com/funds/chart.cgi?sfChartId=desc

Pax World
http://www.paxworld.com

New Alternatives Fund
http://newalternativesfund.com/

Calvert Funds
http://calvert.com/

Domini Social Investments
http://domini.com

Companies common to Calvert and Domini
http://www.naturalinvesting.com/compositelistofsocialindexes.htm


General Resources

Securities and Exchange filings search page
http://sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/webusers.htm

Securities and Exchange Commission page on Investment Choices
http://sec.gov/investor/pubs/investop.htm

Investing primer, with dictionary
http://www.pathtoinvesting.org/categories/investingessentials/invandsaving/invandsaving_011.htm

Investopedia.com
http://www.investopedia.com/

Morningstar.com
http://morningstar.com/

Securities and Exchange Commission Fast Answers and FAQs, alphabetical list
http://sec.gov/answers.shtml

Securities and Exchange Commission calculators for investors
http://sec.gov/investor/tools.shtml

Securities and Exchange Commission mutual fund cost calculator
http://sec.gov/investor/tools/mfcc/get-started.htm

Green Money Journal
http://greenmoneyjournal.com/

Renewable Energy Access Webzine
http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/home

Natural Investing related links
http://www.naturalinvesting.com/naturalinvestingresources.htm

Social Funds.com
http://www.socialfunds.com/

Christian Science Monitor page on ethical investing
urlhttp://www.csmonitor.com/specials/sri/index.html?s=entg2
Provides a round table discussion and links to their stories.

International Securities Exchange, with its alternative energy and nanotech indexes
http://www.iseoptions.com/

EIN Publishing
http://www.eintoday.com/
Covers energy, the environment, transportation. Has well-classified links to other players in these fields.

Greenbiz.com
http://www.greenbiz.com/

Green-e page on renewable energy certificates
http://www.green-e.org/

Green Power Conferences
http://www.greenpowerconferences.com/

MSNBC story on green funds
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4788982/
Concentates on the Sierra Club Balance fund.

Ecologic Investor
http://www.ecologicinvestor.com/
Has a message board called ecotalk. Also maintains an index page with four sectors: clean energy; manufacturing; retail; and services.

Finance Institute for Global Sustainability
http://www.figsnet.org/

SustainableBusiness.com
http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/

Environmental Finance Webzine
http://www.environmental-finance.com/

Natural Investing.com resources page
http://www.naturalinvesting.com/resourcesandlinks.htm

Future Pundit entry, with commnents, on nanotech solar
http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/002230.html

Ben Franklin set up a 200 year trust fund for cities
http://flagship.vanguard.com/VGApp/hnw/VanguardViewsArticle?ArticleJSP=/freshness/News_and_Views/new

Social Investment Forum mutual fund screening
http://www.socialinvest.org/areas/sriguide/mfpc.cfm

Worldwatch report on renewable energy investment
http://www.worldwatch.org/press/news/2005/11/06/
Global investment in renewables (not including hydroelectric) was $30 billion in 2004. Hydroelectric was a similar figure and conventional investment was $150 billion.

Renewable EnergyStocks.com
http://www.renewableenergystocks.com/Companies/RenewableEnergy/ECONRenewableEnergy.asp

Social Investment Research Analyst Network
http://www.siran.org/


Consulting and advisory firms

Renewable Ventures finance firm
http://www.renewableventures.com/

Distributed Energy Financial Group LLC
http://www.defgllc.com/update.php
Produces the Distributed Energy Stock Index (DESI).

Scott Sklar answers questions on solar energy
http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/section?id=SKLAR

Natural Logic - sustainable business consulting firm
http://www.natlogic.com/

New Energy Finance
http://www.newenergyfinance.com/

SNL Energy
http://www.snl.com/energy/
Provides information to the financial sector about energy.


New technologies seeking finance

Hybrid car investment prospects
http://www.hybridcars.com/hybrid-invest.html

Metaefficient
http://www.reactual.com/metaefficient/archives/websites/
Reviews sites about hybrid cars, air pollution monitoring, eco-investing and car free cities.

Report on state initiatives for solar photovoltaics
http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=44218

Clean Fuels Development Coalition
http://www.cleanfuelsdc.org/

Investors in Konarka
http://www.konarka.com/about/investors_partners/investors/
Konarka develops, makes and markets nanotech solar photovoltaics that are embedded in plastics and other construction materials.

Nanosolar
http://www.nanosolar.com/
From the Web site: “These thin-film cells are based on non-silicon semiconductors (inorganic semiconductors of the IIb/VIa and Ib/IIIa/VIa families as well as solution-coatable organic semiconductors) which can absorb the same amount of sunlight as crystalline silicon but in layers that are at least two orders of magnitude thinner.”

“There are approximately 12 billion square meters of rooftops in the United States, or just about enough to deliver all of the electric power the United States requires.”


Research tools

BigCharts.com
http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com

Finance.Yahoo.com
http://finance.yahoo.com

Securities and Exchange filings search page
http://sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/webusers.htm
Reuters Investing Page
http://today.reuters.com/investing/default.aspx
The navigation bar to the left contains tools. The stocks page contains screened stocks and basic explanations of the screens and the fundamentals they use.
Mortgage and Personal Finance Calculators
Links to online calculators for loans, taxes, CD analysis and 401(k) computations.