Earn Green While Going Green, Part One of Two
While you’re going green, why not add some green to your investments? Ron Stein, a new financial columnist for Huntington Patch, answers that semi-rhetorical question.
While many of us are thinking seriously about climate change, increasing energy efficiency and independence these days, there's a whole other avenue that more and more folks are starting to take seriously: making your investments cleaner and greener. As one friend mentioned to me recently, it makes little sense to try to be more in tune with the environment on one hand, and investing in the most polluting companies on the planet with the other. The good news is, you don't have to. Indeed, the universe of more environmentally responsible and green investments has been exploding over that last 10 years with dozens of new green mutual funds and exchange traded funds (ETFs). In fact, there's now a slew of relatively green investment options …
