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I had to add to my Chubb (CB) position. This property and casualty company is so cheap at a p/e of 8. They've had this low p/e for years as the stock has climbed. People are worried that global warming and terrorism mean that there is another unexpected disaster out there that will hurt insurance…
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Named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2005, Amy Domini is the founder and CEO of the consistently innovative Domini Social Investments, a $1.8 billion socially responsible investment firm. A product of the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War, Amy Domini grew up with the…
“I think everybody’s responsible for trying to make the world somewhat better,” Colin Greer, President of The New World Foundation (NWF), reflects in his Upper West Side office situated off of the lobby of an elegant prewar building. It is appropriate that The New World Foundation is based in one of the most refined neighborhoods…
Socially responsible investing is not new. But how about the concept of politically responsible investing? The Blue Fund , which launched Oct. 17, 2006, is the first SRI index mutual fund to add an overtly political component. Included companies and executive officers not only express progressive ideals, but they also make corporate and personal contributions…
I first heard about Ideal Bite , an online eco-minded website, while apartment hunting last summer. When Heather Stephenson , the company's co-founder and tenant of one of the apartments on my list, handed me her card and explained the environmentally-conscious business behind the green apple logo, I'm sure I stiffened. I recall wondering if…
New World Foundation (NWF)’s tips for getting involved with an organization that makes a real difference: 1. Be skeptical: Be skeptical about what you are drawn to first because you will be drawn to people who are the most like you, and these are likely to be people who are least connected to those who…
HSIM: How Stuff Is Made is an encyclopedia of manufacturing processes and labor conditions involved in the production of contemporary products. HowStuffIsMade (HSIM) reconsiders engineering/design education as fundamentally connected to the social and political constraints, organizational innovations and global context that inform manufacturing decisions.
Who Killed the Electric Car? is pretty much what you’d expect – a 90-minute infomercial about the electric vehicle crossed with a scathing expose of the evil oil and automotive industries. The protagonist of the film is a bright-eyed redhead named Chelsea Sexton, who joined the marketing team for GM’s prototype electric car, EV1, fresh…
Not yet a book, not quite a website, it is difficult to pin down the Artist as Citizen project into any particular media. It is equally difficult to pin down its creator, Richard Reiss. Off the bat, he asks me not to make this review about him. He also refuses to state his opinion. About…
Weeks into my stressful new job as an attorney, I needed my daily chocolate-glazed munchkin hit with sugar-infused coffee just to turn on my computer. Having been raised in a house ruled by bananas, apples and grapefruit, I knew it wouldn’t be long before I dunked the munchkins deep into my past and returned to…
Why Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan Didn’t Go Far Enough. The movie is hilarious. The unscripted moments where Americans say the darndest things, the bungled broken English phrases that beg to be quoted, the physical comedy that continues until the theater is hysterical, then uproarious. The San Francisco…