Fall 2004: Socially Responsible Investing: Casting your financial ballots for a better world
Cliff Feigenbaum and Ted Ketcham

This issue offers a variety of perspectives on money and SRI. We lead with Rona Fried's in-depth profile on the leading SRI financial firms in the US, and then we go global for an interview with European-based Triple Bottom Line Group's Robert Rubinstein.

Long-time SRI leader Tim Smith shares insights on institutional SRI, and financial professional Ben Bingham takes a realistic look at how liberty, equality and fraternity apply to the emerging world of money and values.

Our expanded online edition at GreenMoney.com features the best set of articles ever. GreenMoney's co-editor Ted Ketcham takes semi-reverent look at "Virtue, Vice, and the Gnashing of Teeth, - a Survey of Faith-Based Investing." Financial professional Bruce Herbert recaps the proxy season. It was a good one for shareholder activists, with successes in environment, equality, human rights, and corporate governance. Also online you'll find the annual Sustainable Business 20 List, a profile of the CRA Fund, and other SRI news, as well as the ever-informative GreenMoney Calendar of worldwide Green events.

A recent ad from the socially and environmentally conscious Patagonia Company asked: Who are businesses really responsible to? Their customers? Shareholders? Employees? They would argue that it's none of the above.

We agree with the folks at Patagonia that fundamentally, businesses are responsible to their resource base. Without a healthy environment there are no shareholders, no employees, no customers and no business. The same can be said for governments. Profit taking, catering to public opinion polls and "national security" are no excuse to sacrifice the environment and the well-being of future generations.

This issue, then, is an exploration of profits for the long term. Is being here for the next 100 years part of your business's goals? It appears that business and human longevity will both depend on the same environment. We had all better plan accordingly.

Feature articles
	Publisher's Note: The Political Season Cliff Feigenbaum
	Heart and Money: Finding an SRI Advisor That's Right For You Rona Fried
	Social Investing: Challenging Institutional Investors to meet their fiduciary responsibilities Timothy Smith
	GreenMoney Interview - TBLI - An interview with founder Robert Rubinstein Editors Note: Being aware of Brooklyn Bridge's Triple Bottom Line Investing (TBLI) conferences over the last six years, we knew it was only a matter of time before we connected. TBLI serves as a "knowledge broker" for those individuals and businesses seeking to behave in a socially responsible manner, and their conference is the leading network event for European and UK social investors. GreenMoney has become a media sponsor of the event and looks forward to participating in their conferences. We recently interviewed Robert Rubinstein, the founder of the TBLI Conference, to continue our global look at SRI.
	Green Investing / Healthy Circulation Ben Bingham
	GreenMoney Profile: Institute for Community Economics One of the oldest community loan funds in the country, the Institute for Community Economics' (ICE) Revolving Loan Fund, marks its twenty-fifth year in 2004.
Exclusive Articles
	Virtue, Vice, and the Gnashing of Teeth, - a Survey of Faith-Based Investing Ted Ketcham, editor, GreenMoney Journal
	Community Investment Fund Enhances Portfolio Returns And Communities - a profile of the CRA Fund Dan Weinbach, and Alyssa Greenspan
	2004 Proxy Season Review Bruce Herbert, AIF and Larry Dohrs, Newground Social Investment
	SustainableBusiness.com Announces This Year's SB20: The World's Top Sustainable Stocks Rona Fried
	Greening the Money Machine: Socially responsible investing is a growth industry Zoe Van Schyndel, Barron's (July 26, 2004 issue)
	Calvert’s New Code of Conduct for Corporations is First to Focus Exclusively on Women's Rights Calvert Group
	An Adventurer's Daring Pays Off: (Calvert’s) Daniel Boone III socially responsible equity fund leaves the S&P's five-year returns in the dust Business Week (March 22, 2004 issue)
	Pax World Balanced Fund Receives Morningstar Performance of Socially Responsible Fund Debunks Low-Return Myth Pax World
	U.S. funds must disclose proxy votes: Rule takes effect Aug. 31 Mark McSherry, Reuters
	The Do-It-Yourself Ethical Investor: Investors who feel socially responsible mutual funds don't fully reflect their values can build a portfolio of their own. G. Jeffrey MacDonald, Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
	Socially Responsible Investing Has Become a Mainstream Practice Maria Markham Thompson, The Chronicle of Higher Education (May 28, 2004 issue)
	The First Jewish Shareholder Activist Group Rabbi Mordechai Liebling, Shefa Fund
	Permaculture Credit Union Establishes Itself in Financial Landscape Nate Downey
	Special Report: COMMUNITY BANKING - Bad Guys Give Good-Guy Funds New Luster Bonnie McGeer, American Banker
	Doing Well by Doing Good: The Core of Profitable Sustainability: The Future of Business Conference Karl Ostrom and Mary Rose, NBIS/Future 500
	UK Prepares To Mandate Environmental and Social Reporting William Baue, socialfunds.com
	Gap Inc. Ranks Overseas Factories on Treatment of Workers - Coalition of Social Investors Helps Create Groundbreaking Report
	New Financial Study Shows Stocks Can Reflect Investor Values Without Sacrificing Performance; Study Measures Effect of Positive Corporate Behavior Marc J. Lane
	Cintas Lawsuit Could Set Dangerous Precedent Tiffany Kary, Dow Jones Corporate Governance
	Sell-Side Analysts Confirm the Materiality of Sustainability Issues in UN Report William Baue, socialfunds.com