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PROGRESSIVE REFERENCE CONSERVATIVE*
  • Bioneers  Gathers together people, organizations, and companies who are working on a sustainable and restorative future.
  • Center for Ethical Orientation
  • Condor Ventures, Adnan Durrani
  • CSolutions Consulting, Connie Evans
  • CoopAmerica
  • First Nations people, Canadian aboriginal,  have fought for equal access to jobs, 
  • Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC)
  • notes: Jantzi Social Research (conservative organization) code words to hide environmental disaster of business in Canada.  RBC Asset Management, Balanced Fund, Canadian Equity, Global Equity, Canadian Bank, SRI, environmental, social and governance factors, should be primary consideration, investment decisions, clients include mutual funds, pension funds, money managers, investment advisors, foundations, religious orders, government, integrated into investment decision-making process, for customized portfolios, engagement strategies, risk / return analysis, research tools
  • CorpReform 
  • GreenPages Environmental Investors Network
  • Seventh Generation, Jeffrey Hollender, notes: company SRI valuation criteria: community and society, corporate governance, customer impact, employee treatment, environment, human rights.  How well does company react to CSR issues, 
  • Social Venture Network  socially conscious entrepreneurs, best practices, submit ideas to change the way the world does business, discover next breakthrough ideas, transforming purpose into profit, 
  • Student Alliance to Reform Corporations (STARC)
  • Ethical Investing organic revolution, 
  • Investor Responsibility Research Center Net Impact, clean-tech investing
  • Notes: flower child, children of the 79's helped initiate SRI, tobacco industry seen as most detrimental, SRI strategies: screening, filtering process to identify SRI positive investments, and ... negative screening of tobacco, gambling, alcohol, weapons / firearms manufacturers.  Divesting
  • JansiSocialIndex
  • Jantzi, corporate social responsibility index March 2007 notes: beyond the bottom line.  Are the companies in your portfolio good corporate citizens?  survey Canada's five biggest industries, rank the leaders, oil and gas, forest products, automobile manufacturing, mining and pharmaceuticals, company size and investor importance.  gather information from public documents, NGO sources, media reports, key stakeholders, CSR, parent company performance, socially responsible investment research, Europe, North America, Australia.  Best performing companies: Honda, Toyota, Catalyst, Tembec, Alcan, Petro-Canada, Suncor Energy, Nexen, Sanofi Aventis, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, 
  • Wikipedia Green economics, anti-globalist, globalization is a threat to well-being, it replaces natural environments and local cultures with single trade economies or global economic monoculture.  Biospheric health is outside the traditional left / right spectrum, and incorporates socialism and capitalism concepts,  left-Greens are Eco-Socialists with right-Greens are Eco-Capitalists, modify the free-market system.  Participatory democracy: MORE BELOW
  • Wikipedia green economics notes: focus on health of the biosphere and human well-being, distrust capitalism for its emphasis on economic growth, consider capitalistic damage as uneconomic growth that lowers the overall quality of life.  Greens refer to productivism, consumerism and scientism as 'grey', contrast to 'green'.  Economic policies should safeguard the environment.  'dirty' subsidies harmful, ... a green tax shift would encourage ecologically friendly choices.  
 Community Banks, Savings & Loans, & Credit Unions    top
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 Environmental Solutions    top
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Natural Foods and Sustainable Agriculture    top
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  • Dancing Dear Bakery, Trish Karter, SVN
  • FoodRoutes  Organic Consumers Association -
  • Wild Oats Markets "At our full-service supermarket you'll find a complete selection of the highest quality natural and organic food, helpful supplements and gentle, environmentally friendly household and body care products. We also offer a gourmet deli filled with many delicious items to grab on the go, as well as full-service meat, seafood, bakery, floral and food service departments. Learn more about our departments.
  • Sounds True Publishing, Tami Simon, SVN
  • Vermont Bread Company, Lisa Lorimer, SVN
  • notes: organic, rigorous criteria, scientific research, without artificial flavors, colorings, synthetic additives, preservatives.  monitor industry trends, aware of issues affecting customers.  
  • JansiSocialIndex notes: RBC Asset Management, Balanced Fund, Canadian Equity, Global Equity, Canadian Bank, SRI, environmental, social and governance factors, should be primary consideration, investment decisions, clients include mutual funds, pension funds, money managers, investment advisors, foundations, religious orders, government, integrated into investment decision-making process, for customized portfolios, engagement strategies, risk / return analysis, research tools
  • UNDP United Nation Development Programme UN
Permaculture    top
PROGRESSIVE REFERENCE CONSERVATIVE*
  • Ambient Corporation broadband over power lines, BPL, leader, telecommunications, electric utilities, as transmission medium, remote monitoring, surveillance, 'last mile' agnostic backhaul solutions, meter reading, asset management, load management, landlord management.
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Renewable Energy and Transportation    top
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Natural Investing - General Information:



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Corporate Responsibility:

Centre for Ethical Orientation



Global Reporting Initiative
www.globalreporting.org


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Publications & Other Web Sites of Interest:

Bioneers
Gathers together people, organizations, and companies who are working on a sustainable and restorative future.
www.bioneers.org

Bizspirit
Publishes
Business Spirit Journal Online: Bringing Consciousness to Business 
www.bizspirit.com

Capital Missions
www.capitalmissions.com

Conscious Choice
A journal about ecology and natural living
www.consciouschoice.com

Natural Business 
www.naturalbusiness.com


New Dimensions
www.newdimensions.org

New Hope Natural Media
Helps companies in the natural products industry succeed by providing integrated marketing solutions that help companies reach their markets,
www.newhope.com


New Road Map Foundation
www.newroadmap.org

Organic Health and Beauty

All natural health and beauty products
www.organichealthandbeauty.com

Tropical American Tree Farms (TATF)
Founded in 1991, TATF performs the unique service of growing tropical hardwoods trees by contract, providing environmentally concerned individuals, companies, trusts, and IRA's the exceptional opportunity to own tropical hardwood trees planted for future harvest and for profit, while helping to protect thousands of acres of tropical rainforest and providing jobs for hundreds of Costa Rican men and woman
www.tropicalhardwoods.com

YES! The Magazine of Positive Futures
A quarterly magazine and nonprofit that fosters the evolution of a sustainable, just, and compassionate future.
www.futurenet.org

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Socially Screened Mutual Funds:

American Trust Allegiance - www.amertrust.com
Aquinas - www.aquinasfunds.com
Ariel - www.arielmutualfunds.com
Calvert - www.calvertgroup.com
Citizens Funds - www.citizensfunds.com 
Delaware Social Awareness - www.delawareinvestments.com/Corporate/index.html
Domini - www.domini.com
Dreyfus Third Century - www.dreyfus.com
Eclipse Ultra Short - www.eclipsefund.com
Enterprise Global Socially Responsive - www.responsiveinvesting.com
Flex Fund - www.flexfunds.com
Green Century - www.greencentury.com
IPS  - www.ipsfunds.com
MMA Praxis - www.mmapraxis.com
Neuberger Berman Socially Responsive - www.nb.com/home
New Alternatives - www.newalternativesfund.com
New Covenant - www.newcovenant.com
Parnassus - www.parnassus.com
Pax World - www.paxfund.com
Portfolio 21 - www.portfolio21.com
Rightime Social Awareness -
www.rte-asset.com
Security Social Awareness - www.securitybenefit.com
TIAA-CREF Social Choice - www.tiaa-cref.org
Vanguard Calvert Social Index - www.vanguard.com
Walden - www.waldenassetmgmt.com 
Winslow Green Growth - www.winslowgreengrowthfund.com
Women's Equity - www.womens-equity.com 

Additional Information about Socially Responsible Mutual Funds:
For a special chart that has updated fund performance, 
go to Social Investment Forum - www.socialinvest.org/areas/SRIGuide/mfpc.cfm
For specific information on fund screening & profiles, 
go to -  www.socialinvest.org/areas/SRIGuide/mfsc.cfm 
www.socialinvest.org/areas/SRIGuide/mfprofiles.cfm

 

Permaculture:

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Sustainable Business & Communities:

Bioneers - www.bioneers.org
CoHousing Network - www.cohousing.org
Congress for the New Urbanism - www.cnu.org
Fair Trade Fedration - www.fairtradefederation.com
Global Business Network - www.gbn.org
Global Ecovillage Network - www.gaia.org
Global Futures - www.globalff.org
Green Map System www.greenmap.com
Natural Capitalism - www.natcap.org
Smart Communities Network - www.sustainable.doe.gov
Sustainable Business - www.sustainablebusiness.com
Sustainable Business Network - www.envirolink.org/sbn
Sustainable Development Gateway - www.sdgateway.net
Sustainable Sources - www.greenbuilder.com
Sustainable USA - www.sustainableusa.org
www.life.ca: News about Sustainable Healthy Living - www.life.ca
WETV - www.wetv.com
William McDonough, architect - www.mcdonough.com
Working Assets - www.workingassets.com
World Business Council for Sustainable Development  - www.wbcsd.ch 

 
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