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.