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...pick of hedge funds that focus on rapid-fire trading to corporate pension funds that are required to put some portion of their money in socially responsible investments. Meanwhile, a slew of new mutual funds is selling individual investors on the heady growth prospects of companies in areas like cleaner energy or environmentally friendly consumer products. HSBC has tracked back its benchmark climate-change index to 2004, and claims it would have outperformed the MSCI World Index by about 70% - evidence that, so far at least, there has been plenty of opportunity to profit from environmental peril...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cash Cow | 12/12/2007 | See Source »

...MIT’s Vehicle Design Summit, visionaries are beginning to lay the groundwork for huge leaps forward in energy generation and energy efficiency. These technologies have the potential to overcome America’s frustrating inertia on environmental issues, fueling consumer excitement and easing the transition to a cleaner American lifestyle.Except in extreme cases, imploring people to conserve—by turning off their lights, turning down the heat, and walking to work—won’t do the trick anytime soon. Climate change is a gradual process, although it will definitely yield extreme results over...

Author: By Jonathan B. Steinman | Title: Leaps Forward | 12/10/2007 | See Source »

...outspoken commitment to ecological balance--An Inconvenient Truth--and global consciousness was inspirational and got me out of my incubation to sing for Live Earth in Hamburg earlier this year. Where on earth will the children play if we don't listen and do something now? He represents the cleaner image of American politics, the less imperialistic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Person of the Year | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

...startled shout, I have to tell her, it’s not that we’re disgusting frat boys, unable to clean up after ourselves. No, in fact, the opposite. That slight stench coming from the toilet bowl says we care. It is the smell of a cleaner planet.Now that is an inconvenient truth.Samuel P. Jacobs ’09, a Crimson news writer, is a history concentrator in Adams House...

Author: By Samuel P. Jacobs | Title: The Thorny Side of Going Green | 12/4/2007 | See Source »

...Rudd said his first move as PM would be to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. But with Australia's emissions targets already met, ratification is largely a matter of image - Aussies for a nicer, cleaner world. New leaders' first trips abroad are always scrutinized for significance. Rudd's will be to Bali Dec. 3, to attend preliminary U.N. talks on what will follow Kyoto. He said the visit "would be a way of indicating that we intend to be globally diplomatically active" on climate change. "We are sure that his attendance will have a symbolic meaning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Balancing Act | 11/29/2007 | See Source »

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