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...Toyota Prius, the latter vehicle seized the public imagination, thanks to better drivability and better marketing. "In North America, Honda got caught with its pants down on hybrids," says Eric Noble, head of the auto-consulting company the CarLab. "They've been badly eclipsed by Toyota on looking green...
That's why Honda is so eager to make the next green breakthrough, spending billions to develop everything from a new form of ethanol production that can utilize the waste parts of plants to a fuel-efficient minijet. But the design that might have the best chance of making an immediate difference is a throwback: Honda's clean diesel car engine. Diesel is the choice of fuel-guzzling 18-wheelers, but it burns as much as 30% more efficiently than gasoline. It's also dirtier. But last month Honda unveiled an engine that uses a new catalytic converter to block...
...Laden and that weapon were used against the U.S. or one of its allies, then the principle would require the U.S. to "treat this precisely like a nuclear-tipped-missile attack" and retaliate against Pyongyang. "That danger [of North Korean proliferation] has always been there," says Michael Green, until last year a senior staff member on the National Security Council. "But North Korea has a mailing address, and they know it. If there was a nuclear explosion somewhere, it would probably be traced back to them, and their country would be destroyed. That's a deterrent...
...native New Englander with a love of the outdoors (he's a past president of the National Gardening Association), Robinson eschews the index-like mentality of many green funds and opts for small, fast-growing companies that are "green or clean." One such holding is Fuel Tech, which supplies pollution control and cleaning equipment to those nasty coal-fired power plants. Robinson also maintains stakes in the healthy-living sector, owning companies like Whole Foods Market and even the controversial HerbaLife, a maker of nutrition and weight-loss products. He's not averse to financial, biotech or telecom stocks either...
This isn't to say that ethics-driven investing has to crimp your bottom line. Consider Winslow Green Growth, a small-cap fund that, as its name implies, specializes in globally eco-friendly companies. Winslow has returned an average 16.39% over the past five years, according to Morningstar, beating both the average SRI fund and market benchmarks like the Russell 2000 growth index and the S&P 500. Winslow president Jack Robinson is also earning a reputation as a savvy stock picker, green or otherwise. In its annual survey of equity funds, Barron's/Value Line ranked him the top manager...