What Drug Companies Don’t Want You to Know Several years ago, I went to the doctor feeling tired and stressed out and after a 10-minute visit came home with a prescription for brupopion (brand name Wellbutrin). The doctor and I didn’t discuss possible side effects, alternatives, or many other aspects of my health. It turned […]
Avoiding "Addiction" with Dairy-Free Alternatives Recently, I lost 15 pounds by eliminating cheese, sweets and alcohol from my diet. Giving up cookies and soy ice cream wasn’t so hard, and switching to unsweetened soymilk was easy. Even eliminating alcohol wasn’t really as big of a challenge as I thought it might be, though I still […]
New Life for Old Floors: Alternative Materials Add Character to Home Designs. Have you considered wood, cork, linoleum or bamboo?
Tourism in Nepal Strikes a Delicate Balance To reach the best place to see Mount Everest (known locally as Sagarmatha), from Nepal’s capital city of Kathmandu you first take a half-hour flight on a small plane to Lukla, then walk 31 miles to the small city of Namche. The trekking is by foot, up 12,000 […]
Consumers and the environment will both lose if Congress doesn’t pass new tax breaks for investing in renewable forms of energy…
Tensions Mount Over Organic Labeling of "Hydrosol" In 1988, when she was just 29, Diana Kaye was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The aggressive disease is one of the fastest-growing forms of cancer and has been linked in various studies to exposure to toxic chemicals. Kaye enrolled in an experimental chemotherapy program and eventually recovered, although […]
It’s hard to find travel-size, environmentally friendly shampoo and shaving gel, and when you finally do, what becomes of the almost-empty plastic bottles you bring back from your backpacking adventure in Ecuador or business trip in France?
The basic premise of socially responsible investing is simple: If money makes the world go "round, greener, more humane investments can improve the way it spins. Yet before hailing a new era of green capitalism, it’s also important to understand some of its limitations.
While stock screening and shareholder activism are directed toward large corporations, community investing is about funding worthwhile projects and supporting individuals—in some ways making this the most inspiring form of SRI.
Though many socially conscious mutual funds have screens for environmental issues and do shareholder activism, there are only half a dozen that make environmental issues a priority.
