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		<title>From Andrew Carnegie’s Quest for World Peace, Lessons on Global Warming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Coal and the iron and steel works that consumed it were, 125 years ago, the foundations of Andrew Carnegie’s fortune.(1) So, his life would seem unlikely to hold lessons for investors concerned about global warming. But it does.
Carnegie’s Causes
The Scottish immigrant had two great causes. Most recognize his name today in the US and UK [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.kld.com/uncategorized/from-andrew-carnegie%e2%80%99s-quest-for-world-peace-lessons-on-global-warming/</link>
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		<title>Justifying Executive Pay: The Economist’s View</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Social investors have long been interested in executive compensation. The pay packages of CEOs occasionally attract attention from the mainstream press, too, and the June 12 issue of The Economist weighs in on the issue.
Three different articles consider executive pay, and they follow different paths to the same general conclusion. Yes, the authors agree, it’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.kld.com/uncategorized/justifying-executive-pay-the-economist%e2%80%99s-view/</link>
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		<title>New Report on Sustainability Practices of 200 Wealthiest Colleges: Their Campuses are Greener than their Investments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Sustainable Endowment Institute (SEI) recently released its College Sustainability Report Card.  According to its Executive Summary, the Report Card “seeks to encourage sustainability as a priority in college operations and endowment investment practices by offering independent yearly assessments of progress.”
Institutions of higher education have played a significant role in SRI at least since [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.kld.com/uncategorized/new-report-on-sustainability-practices-of-200-wealthiest-colleges-their-campuses-are-greener-than-their-investments/</link>
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		<title>Getting to Zero: New Report Defines Corporate Climate Neutrality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If a tree falls in a forest when no one’s around, does it make a sound? If a company emits carbon dioxide but saves a forest, has it achieved climate neutrality? 
While both companies and outside stakeholders agree that reducing and/or offsetting emissions is a worthy corporate objective, there is no consensus on how to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.kld.com/uncategorized/getting-to-zero-new-report-defines-corporate-climate-neutrality/</link>
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		<title>The Next Generation of High-Net-Worth Social Investor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A growing number of KLD’s clients serve high-net-worth investors (HNWI), commonly defined as individuals whose investable assets exceed $1 million. Nelle Coady, Assistant Manager of Client Services at KLD, reports that “the next generation of money” is concerned with the social impact of their investments.
“Young, high net worth investors are looking to be more proactive,” [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.kld.com/uncategorized/the-next-generation-of-high-net-worth-social-investor/</link>
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		<title>New Study Says Many Managers Don’t Invest in their Own Funds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If your livelihood depended on the quality of your advice, wouldn’t you be your own best customer? Maybe not, especially if you’re a fund manager, according to a new study from Morningstar.  Their analysis of SEC-required disclosure of managers’ holdings reveals some surprising numbers:
“In U.S.-stock funds, 47% report no manager ownership. And it gets [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.kld.com/uncategorized/new-study-says-many-managers-don%e2%80%99t-invest-in-their-own-funds/</link>
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		<title>Green Business Depends on Green Government:A Report from Boston Business Journal’s Green Business Summit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On May 16, the inaugural Green Business Summit, sponsored by the Boston Business Journal (BBJ), brought together executives, policy advocates, and investors to discuss how to build greener businesses. The BBJ should be applauded for encouraging companies to face the challenges presented by global warming and other environmental threats. As publisher Michael Olivieri has said:
We [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.kld.com/csr/green-business-depends-on-green-governmenta-report-from-boston-business-journal%e2%80%99s-green-business-summit/</link>
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		<title>The Outsourcing of Warfare: Privatized Military Operations by Publicly-Traded Companies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the first socially responsible investment (SRI) screens excluded weapons suppliers from investors’ portfolios; today, however, publicly traded companies don’t just build weapons – they fight wars. Privatized Military Operations (PMO) have been integrated into American missions in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other less-visible theaters worldwide.  
Researchers at the Industrial College of the Armed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.kld.com/transparency/the-outsourcing-of-warfare-privatized-military-operations-by-publicly-traded-companies/</link>
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		<title>Bill Gross on Inflation and Kevin Phillips&#8217; &#8220;Bad Money&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ PIMCO’s Bill Gross devotes his June Investment Outlook to “the debate about the authenticity of U.S. inflation.” Gross says that this debate “has been joined by the press and astute authors such as Kevin Phillips.” (Gross calls  Phillips’ new book “Bad Money,” which was excerpted in a recent  Harper’s article, “as good [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.kld.com/investments/bill-gross-on-inflation/</link>
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		<title>SRI Community Loses Luther Tyson, Pax Founder, at 85</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Rev. Dr. Luther Tyson, a founder of Pax World Funds, has died at 85.
In any short list of SRI’s indispensible people, Dr. Tyson’s name would appear close to the top.  He was one of the founders of the Pax World Fund, the first SRI mutual fund.  Pax World was also the first [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.kld.com/sriesg-investing/sri-community-loses-luther-tyson-pax-founder-at-85/</link>
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