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Social Capitalists: Acumen Fund

< Previous | Next > Acumen Fund Jacqueline Novogratz, CEO New York, New York www.acumenfund.org The increasing gap between rich and poor is one of the greatest challenges of our generation. Half the ...READ»

Social Capitalists: IFF

< Previous | Next > IFF Trinita Logue, president and CEO Chicago, Illinois iff.org For nearly two decades, IFF has proven that investing in communities can advance vital needs and strengthen already ...READ»

Social Capitalists: Jumpstart

< Previous | Next > Jumpstart James Cleveland, president Boston, Massachusetts jstart.org Jumpstart is working toward the day every child in America enters school prepared to succeed. This national ...READ»

The 2008 Social Capitalist Awards

Change the world. Make some money. It's an appealing prospect. Nonprofits were born because for-profits weren't addressing some market failures--pollution, poverty, illiteracy. Profit won't cure those ills, but it's ...READ»

Energize Your Portfolio with Renewables

ENERGIZE YOUR PORTFOLIO WITH RENEWABLES HIP+SVT examined 21 renewable-energy pure-play companies - covering energy types as diverse as solar/photovolataic, wind, fuel cell, ethanol, and cogeneration. The pool is also ...READ»

THE HIP METHODOLOGY

THE HIP METHODOLOGY HIP™ = Human Impact + Profit. Today’s accounting systems only examine financial results (revenues, costs, taxes) and liabilities that are financially measurable. But a company creates ...READ»

About the Contributors

About The Contributors Amy Feldman is a New York-based freelance writer. Amy's last piece for Fast Company was about Abbott's bio-absorbable stents. She can be reached at amy@amyfeldman.com. R. Paul Herman has ...READ»

Royal Dutch Shell

Royal Dutch Shell OVERVIEW Shell’s progressive management practices—notably including the cost of greenhouse-gas emissions in its accounting—make it the least-risky Big Oil investment over the long haul ...READ»

Valero Energy

Valero Energy OVERVIEW Valero dominates the North American refinery business; that’s generally a profitable place to be. However, refining margins fell sharply in the third quarter of 2007 when crude prices went up ...READ»

Marathon Oil

Marathon Oil OVERVIEW Marathon has the highest concentration of women in its workforce, 51%, and the best greenhouse-gas efficiency among the top 10. It is also one of the biggest distributors of ethanol-gas blends. ...READ»

Groupe Total

Total OVERVIEW Total is progressive in several ways: It calculates the cost of carbon into all of its projects, emphasizes communication with activists in areas where it has facilities, and offers good benefits and the ...READ»

Repsol YPF

Repsol YPF OVERVIEW Spain's Repsol issued a whopping 190-page sustainability report in 2006 and is included in the two main sustainability stock indices (DJSI and FTSE4Good). Despite the extensive report, Repsol has yet to ...READ»

ConocoPhillips

ConocoPhillips OVERVIEW In April 2007, ConocoPhillips was the first American oil company to join the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, which seeks mandatory reductions of greenhouse-gas emissions through federal policy ...READ»

Eni

Eni OVERVIEW Eni, Italy’s leading oil producer, stands out for providing staff and contractors wide access to health care, with 300 clinics globally. It introduced sustainability reporting in 2006 that could improve ...READ»

ExxonMobil

ExxonMobil OVERVIEW The biggest of Big Oil by revenue and profit, ExxonMobil has consistently improved safety and staff diversity and has invested in improving energy efficiency in its refineries. ExxonMobil does not base ...READ»

Sensible Investing: Oil

.node-page{ background:url('');} Oil prices are soaring. Returns on energy stocks have been robust. The 30 largest oil companies account for some 6% of the entire global equities market. In building wealth to pay ...READ»

Chevron

Chevron OVERVIEW Although Chevron execs like to talk about “human energy,” their pay is not tied to environmental progress. Still, the company has made significant—and transparent—health and ...READ»

PRICE AT THE PUMP - AROUND THE WORLD

PRICE AT THE PUMP - AROUND THE WORLD What would you pay for a gallon of gas around the world? As you can see below, the price ranges from almost triple the US average across most of Northern Europe (due to fossil-fuel taxes ...READ»

Oil

It's a dilemma for investors who want hefty returns and a clean green conscience: Can you own Big Oil and still feel good in the morning?READ»

• Sensible Investing: Oil
• Guide to Big Oil

BP

BP OVERVIEW Finding BP at the top of our HIP list may seem surprising, given its 2005 refinery explosion, oil spills, poor plant maintenance, and significant layoffs. But the company, which is included in the two major ...READ»

The 5th Annual Fast 50

The 5th Annual Fast 50 22. Clean City Peter Head Arup Previous | Next What looks like a sketch for a sunny Florida retirement community is actually a very early prototype of a plan to turn Dongtan, China, into the ...READ»

The 5th Annual Fast 50

The 5th Annual Fast 50 15. Monumentalists Roisin Heneghan and Shih-Fu Peng heneghan.peng Previous | Next The competition to build the Grand Museum of Egypt in Giza was the largest architectural contest in history, ...READ»

The 5th Annual Fast 50

The 5th Annual Fast 50 20. Corn Star Charles Holliday DuPont Previous | Next DuPont CEO Charles Holliday has seen the future of the environment and it's . . . plastic. Not petrochemical-based plastic, mind you, but a ...READ»

The 5th Annual Fast 50

The 5th Annual Fast 50 10. Travel Agents James Jianzhang Liang, Neil Nanpeng Shen, and Min Fan CTrip Previous | Next China is expected to spend an estimated $306.5 billion on travel and tourism by 2016. That's sweet ...READ»

The 5th Annual Fast 50

The 5th Annual Fast 50 33. Watershed General Electric The Ecomagination Program Previous | Next The world's water supply will continue to dry up in the next decade, but a growing number of companies see opportunity ...READ»