Sustainable Economy and Financial Resources

Bay Area Green Business Program
http://www.greenbiz.ca.gov
Bay Area, California, USA
Certifies and promotes Bay Area businesses meeting environmental standards.

Business for Social Responsibility
http://www.bsr.org
San Francisco, California, USA
Helps companies achieve commercial success in ways that respect ethical values, people, communities, and the environment.

Calvert
http://www.calvert.com/sri.html
Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Socially responsible investments. The Calvert Social Investment Foundation supports community development organizations, across the country and around the world.

Community Currencies page at Ratical.org
http://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/cc/
Information and resources on community currencies.

Co-op America
http://www.coopamerica.org
Washington, DC, USA
Practical steps for using your consumer and investor power for social change. Includes a comprehensive Green Pages directory, education, actions, and investment information.

CSRwire - Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire
http://www.csrwire.com
Brattleboro, VT, USA
The leading source of corporate responsibility and sustainability press releases, reports and news. CSRwire seeks to promote the growth of corporate responsibility and sustainability through solutions-based information and positive examples of corporate practices.

Energy Star
http://www.energystar.gov
Washington, DC, USA
ENERGY STAR helps homeowners and businesses protect the environment through superior energy efficiency.

Global Citizen Center
http://www.globalcitizencenter.org
San Francisco, California, USA
The Global Citizen Center, home of GreenMart, is a non-profit organization whose mission is to galvanize the emerging green economic movement, holding sustainability as its central, governing principle. It will serve as a hub for ecologically and socially responsible enterprise, education, and economic development.

Green Century Funds
http://www.greencentury.com
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Environmentally responsible mutual funds.

Green Money Journal
http://greenmoney.com
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Socially and environmentally responsible investing and consumer information.

Hyatt International, Ltd.
http://www.hyattinternational.com
Denver, Colorado, USA
Provides seminars, consulting, and products on business social responsibility and strategic community involvement strategies.

Pax World Fund
http://www.paxfund.com
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA
Socially responsible mutual fund company.

Permaculture Credit Union
http://www.pcuonline.org
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Combining sound financial practices with earth-care ethics.

Progressive Asset Management
http://www.progressive-asset.com
Oakland, California, USA
The first independent full-service investment brokerage in the U.S. to specialize in socially responsible investing. By mobilizing the power of your assets for social and environmental purposes, you can create a positive impact on society.

Rudolph Steiner Foundation’s Community Investment Fund
http://www.rsfoundation.org/index.asp?nav=DONA&page=invest.htm
San Francisco, California, USA
The Community Investment Fund is an interest-bearing fund pooled from investments of over 700 individuals and organizations like you who want their investment to be working in socially constructive ways.

Individuals interested in investing through their IRA accounts may do so by opening a self-directed IRA using PENSCO Trust Company as a custodian. The Rudolph Steiner Foundation is both a grantmaking and lending institution. The lending program is funded primarily by investors; but with the creation of the RSF Revolving Capital Fund, donors are also able to support projects that are eligible for financing from the foundation.

ShoreBank
http://www.shorebankcorp.com
Chicago, Illinois, USA
ShoreBank is the nation's first and leading community development and environmental banking institution. ShoreBank invests in people and communities to create economic equity and a healthy environment.

Sierra Club Mutual Funds
http://www.sierraclubfunds.com
Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Environmentally responsible mutual funds.

Social Equity Group
http://www.socialequity.com
Berkeley, California, USA
A registered investment advisory firm specializing in socially responsible investments.

Social Funds
http://www.socialfunds.com
Brattleboro, VT, USA
Devoted to socially responsible investing. News and information for individual investors, institutional investors, financial professionals, and the media.

Social Investment Forum
http://www.socialinvest.org
Washington, DC, USA
Promoting the concept, practice, and growth of socially responsible investing.

Social Venture Network
http://www.svn.org
San Francisco, CA, USA
Promoting new models and leadership for socially and environmentally sustainable business in the 21st century.

SRI Studies
http://www.sristudies.org
Studies in the field of socially responsible investing (SRI). This website is intended as a resource for people interested in the impact of social screening on investment performance, and in other quantitative aspects of socially responsible investing.

Sustainable Business Institute
http://www.sustainablebusiness.org
San Jose, CA, USA
Bringing together global business leaders and their organizations to initiate, implement and communicate equitable worldwide sustainability practices.

The Camejo Group
http://www.camejogroup.com
Oakland California, USA
Specializing in customized asset management following socially responsible guidelines.

Transaction Net
http://www.transaction.net/money/
San Francisco, CA, USA
Comprehensive information about currency systems; including community currencies, the social implications of currency systems, and sustainable economies.

Trillium Asset Management
http://www.trilliuminvest.com
Boston, Massachusetts and San Francisco, California, USA
Socially responsible investments.

Wainwright Bank & Trust Company
http://www.wainwrightbank.com
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
"A conventional bank doing the unconventional". They have attempted to use both its cultural and financial capital to further a vision of a just, tolerant, and sustainable society.

 

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