Articles on environmentally-sustainable investing

Business Week rundown on green energy investments
20060814
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_33/b3997073.htm

Bill McKibben's vision on an eco-economy
20060800
http://www9.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0608/voices.html
McKibben begins by wrapping up the events of 2005 that pointed to major checkpoints of climate change. He then discussed ways of changing polluting economic and social activities to those that would enhance a sense of community.

Links to articles on steady state economics
20060629
http://www.steadystate.org/Links.html

Business Week article on "green" entrepreneurs
20060620
http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/jun2006/sb20060620_080126.htm

Red Herring details clean energy index trackers
20060509
http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=16814&hed=New+Way+to+Track+Clean+Energy

Mother Earth News interview with Herman Daly
19800100
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Homesteading_and_Self_Reliance/1980_January_February/Plowboy_Interview__Herman_E__Daly__Steady_State_Economics
The Mother Earth News interviewed a main proponent of steady state economics.

Links about environmentally-sustainable investing

Greater Washington Interfaith Power and Light
http://www.gwipl.org/
From the Web site: "Greater Washington Interfaith Power and Light (GWIPL) is a non-profit initiative that helps congregations, religious institutions and others in the Washington, D.C. area work for a more just, sustainable and healthier creation by reducing the threat of global warming."

National Agricultural Library
http://www.nal.usda.gov/
Core information that is of use to sustainable agriculture.

Alternative Farming Systems Information Center
http://www.nal.usda.gov/afsic/csa/index.html
Page on community supported agriculture (CSA). Includes a database to find CSA programs.

Carbon Offset price survey
http://www.ecobusinesslinks.com/carbon_offset_wind_credits_carbon_reduction.htm

Better World Club carbon offsets
http://www.betterworldclub.com/links/offsets.htm

Wikipedia on Carbon Offsets
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_offset

Ecological Footprint Quiz
http://www.earthday.net/footprint/index.asp

Earth Education Living More Lightly Profile
http://www.eartheducation.com/eeanb-5r01.asp
A 30-minute questionnaire that assesses your lifestyle's impact on the planet.

Calver-Henderson quality of life index
http://www.calvert-henderson.com/
The Calvert-Henderson Quality of Life Indicators are a contribution to the worldwide effort to develop comprehensive statistics of national well-being that go beyond traditional macroeconomic indicators. A systems approach is used to illustrate the dynamic state of our social, economic and environmental quality of life. The dimensions of life xamined include: education, employment, energy, environment, health, uman rights, income, infrastructure, national security, public safety, e-creation and shelter.

Herman Daly lecture on Uneconomic Growth in Theory and in Fact
http://www.feasta.org/documents/feastareview/daly.htm

Herman Daly and Kenneth Townsend: Sustainable Growth, an impossible theorem
http://dieoff.org/page37.htm
From "Valuing the Earth: Economics, Ecology and Ethics"

Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy
http://www.steadystate.org/

Earth Policy Institute updates
http://www.earth-policy.org/Updates/index.htm
Lester Brown's most recent writings.

Reviews of Eco-Economy (L. Brown) and The New Economy of Nature (G. Daily, K. Ellison)
http://www.feasta.org/documents/review2/eco_economy.htm

Lester Brown: The Designing of an Eco-Economy
http://www.popco.org/press/articles/2005-11-brown.html

Lester Brown: The New New Economy
http://www.grist.org/advice/books/2002/06/13/new/
From The Eco-Economy

Willam McDonough's "Cradle to Cradle" page
http://www.mcdonough.com/cradle_to_cradle.htm

Willam McDonough Newsweek article
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7773650/site/newsweek/

William McDonough's page of his writings
http://www.mcdonough.com/writings.htm

William McDonough's Foward to the Chinese Edition of "Cradle to Cradle"
http://www.mcdonough.com/writings/foreword_chinese.htm

Willam McDonough's Foreward to "The Natural Advantage of Nations"
http://www.naturaledgeproject.net/NAONForewordMcDonough.aspx

Extended Producer Responsibility
http://www.informinc.org/epr_00.php
Links, reports, articles on producer responsibility.

Article on the effectiveness of take-back and other producer responsibility programs
http://pubs.acs.org/hotartcl/est/00/apr/hanis.html
Discusses the economic costs in Europe and the United States of requiring or encouraging firms to take back their used equipment for safe disposal or recycling.

Links from the site of The International Society for Ecological Economics
http://www.ecoeco.org/research/research.htm

FiscallyGreen.ca, information about Ecological Fiscal Reform
http://www.fiscallygreen.ca/index.html
From the Web site: Ecological fiscal reform (EFR) is "a strategy that redirects a government's taxation and expenditure programs to create an integrated set of incentives to support the shift to sustainable development." (The National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy's Ecological Fiscal Reform Multistakeholder Expert Group)

Redefining Progress Page on Genuine Progress Indicator
http://www.redefiningprogress.org/projects/gpi/

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