Comments on: The Green Issue: Kiplinger’s Tackles the Environment http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/09/17/the-green-issue-kiplingers-tackles-the-environment/ personal finance that makes cents Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:31:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Weekly wrap-up: Kiplinger’s goes green and bike your little heart out « Cheap Like Me http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/09/17/the-green-issue-kiplingers-tackles-the-environment/#comment-98106 Weekly wrap-up: Kiplinger’s goes green and bike your little heart out « Cheap Like Me Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:02:44 +0000 http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/09/17/the-green-issue-kiplingers-tackles-the-environment/#comment-98106 [...] Sep 21st, 2007 by cheaplikeme This week, Get Rich Slowly addressed the latest issue of Kiplinger’s, which talks green: http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/09/17/the-green-issue-kiplingers-tackles-the-environment/ [...] [...] Sep 21st, 2007 by cheaplikeme This week, Get Rich Slowly addressed the latest issue of Kiplinger’s, which talks green: http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/09/17/the-green-issue-kiplingers-tackles-the-environment/ [...]

]]> By: Aaron Davidson http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/09/17/the-green-issue-kiplingers-tackles-the-environment/#comment-97902 Aaron Davidson Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:37:39 +0000 http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/09/17/the-green-issue-kiplingers-tackles-the-environment/#comment-97902 Carbon trading seems like a scam, or a cop-out. Still wasting as much energy as possible, while buying a few trees? Please. Reduce instead. Carbon trading seems like a scam, or a cop-out. Still wasting as much energy as possible, while buying a few trees? Please. Reduce instead.

]]> By: greenintheface http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/09/17/the-green-issue-kiplingers-tackles-the-environment/#comment-97896 greenintheface Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:31:14 +0000 http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/09/17/the-green-issue-kiplingers-tackles-the-environment/#comment-97896 The editor states in the magazine he is only green when its convenient. he also mentions he probally will not change either. The editor states in the magazine he is only green when its convenient. he also mentions he probally will not change either.

]]> By: MoneyChangesThings http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/09/17/the-green-issue-kiplingers-tackles-the-environment/#comment-97894 MoneyChangesThings Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:29:45 +0000 http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/09/17/the-green-issue-kiplingers-tackles-the-environment/#comment-97894 Wow, going to a library to read something! That is positively prehistoric. Thanks for the tip - I've just put out a message on my local freecycle hoping for neighbor who subscribes and will share their Kiplingers. Another excellent source on Green Investing, as well as socially responsible cd's, is www.coopamerica.org I am excited to have made the cut and am running for a board seat on coop america. Glad your computer server woes abated. Wow, going to a library to read something! That is positively prehistoric. Thanks for the tip - I’ve just put out a message on my local freecycle hoping for neighbor who subscribes and will share their Kiplingers.
Another excellent source on Green Investing, as well as socially responsible cd’s, is http://www.coopamerica.org
I am excited to have made the cut and am running for a board seat on coop america.
Glad your computer server woes abated.

]]> By: Matt T. http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/09/17/the-green-issue-kiplingers-tackles-the-environment/#comment-97881 Matt T. Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:04:45 +0000 http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/09/17/the-green-issue-kiplingers-tackles-the-environment/#comment-97881 I hear next month is their annual snake oil issue. I hear next month is their annual snake oil issue.

]]> By: Pippin http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/09/17/the-green-issue-kiplingers-tackles-the-environment/#comment-97875 Pippin Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:51:16 +0000 http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/09/17/the-green-issue-kiplingers-tackles-the-environment/#comment-97875 I strongly recommend the reviews of ethical/green investment in the Motley Fool Investment Guide (UK edition, mine is actually the 1999 one). Being a rabid greenie, I'm genuinely interested in green investment, and this book neatly summed up various of my concerns, a key one being that you pay over the odds for the green label (although to be fair, green funds are now competitive). It also pointed to an aspect of ethical investment I'm quite keen on; ie, that to really be green you need to change the behaviour of non-green companies, rather than just opting out in only buying green/ethical. MF discusses shareholder activism (where you buy shares in bad companies, and then exercise shareholder rights to demand change) including a neat solution of the ethical quandary of profiteering from your non-ethical shares. It seems a bit silly to save loads through a green lifestyle, but then squander it on lazy green investment solutions. And just don't get me started on greenwashing of corporate brands! I strongly recommend the reviews of ethical/green investment in the Motley Fool Investment Guide (UK edition, mine is actually the 1999 one).
Being a rabid greenie, I’m genuinely interested in green investment, and this book neatly summed up various of my concerns, a key one being that you pay over the odds for the green label (although to be fair, green funds are now competitive). It also pointed to an aspect of ethical investment I’m quite keen on; ie, that to really be green you need to change the behaviour of non-green companies, rather than just opting out in only buying green/ethical. MF discusses shareholder activism (where you buy shares in bad companies, and then exercise shareholder rights to demand change) including a neat solution of the ethical quandary of profiteering from your non-ethical shares.

It seems a bit silly to save loads through a green lifestyle, but then squander it on lazy green investment solutions. And just don’t get me started on greenwashing of corporate brands!

]]> By: greenintheface http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/09/17/the-green-issue-kiplingers-tackles-the-environment/#comment-97866 greenintheface Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:36:06 +0000 http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/09/17/the-green-issue-kiplingers-tackles-the-environment/#comment-97866 This issue has made me question my subscription. I may have to cancel. You know, to save a tree. This issue has made me question my subscription. I may have to cancel. You know, to save a tree.

]]> By: WhereDoesAllMyMoneyGo.com http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/09/17/the-green-issue-kiplingers-tackles-the-environment/#comment-97850 WhereDoesAllMyMoneyGo.com Tue, 18 Sep 2007 03:50:44 +0000 http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/09/17/the-green-issue-kiplingers-tackles-the-environment/#comment-97850 You might also like Socially Responsible Index funds - Vanguard's offering is a passive fund with an MER of 0.25% (!) and most of the indices that track socially resonsible investments match the returns of the S&P500... You might also like Socially Responsible Index funds - Vanguard’s offering is a passive fund with an MER of 0.25% (!) and most of the indices that track socially resonsible investments match the returns of the S&P500…

]]> By: Mariette http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/09/17/the-green-issue-kiplingers-tackles-the-environment/#comment-97847 Mariette Tue, 18 Sep 2007 02:36:20 +0000 http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/09/17/the-green-issue-kiplingers-tackles-the-environment/#comment-97847 Hooray! I love that the issue of green investing is getting more and mainstream press. I can't wait to read your upcoming take on it. Hooray! I love that the issue of green investing is getting more and mainstream press. I can’t wait to read your upcoming take on it.

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