SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE INVESTING

Socially responsible investing basically means investing your money according to your values. By integrating personal ethics and social goals with investments, both individuals and institutions can maintain consistency with their mission, while simultaneously making a real difference.

Socially responsible investing addresses many of the problems plaguing society today-environmental destruction, sweatshop and child labor, or tobacco and nuclear weapons. By choosing where our money goes, we can protect the environment, advance humane workplaces, and promote health, peace, human rights, and community development. With socially responsible investing, we can achieve our financial goals along with our social and environmental goals.

Here are some links to places involved in the field of socially responsible investing.

Co-op America is a membership organization that publishes the National Green Pages and the Financial Planning Handbook. This organization provides research and information on socially responsible investing, corporate responsibility, green businesses, and more.

Green Money Journal is a quarterly newsletter that has been published since 1992. It provides information on socially responsible investing, community investing, sustainable business, and green consumer resources.

Environmental News Network's mission is to enact global change through information. This site provides everything from environmental news to environmental products.
And we couldn't have a socially responsible page without a link to one of our favorite socially responsible companies - Ben and Jerry's.

SocialFunds is a comprehensive personal finance site devoted to socially responsible investing. They cover social mutual funds, community investment, shareholder action. They also provide daily news and investment advice.

Co-op America's Green Pages is the online version of Co-op America's National Green Pages, which is a directory of socially and environmentally responsible businesses, products and services.

Council on Economic Priorities (CEP) is a non-profit research organization that informs consumers about companies that support policies and practices they value and avoid those companies that have policies and practices they are opposed to.

If you are interested in shopping with your values or being more informed you may want to visit the following web sites: