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 Environmental Investor Resources

Global Environment Fund
A pioneering private equity fund that invests in sustainable forestry, water infrastructure, and clean technology projects worldwide, with a special emphasis  on developing countries. The Global Environment Fund (GEF) was founded by two World Wildlife Fund fellows, Jeff Leonard and John Earhart.  GEF also provided support to the Investor Responsibility Research Center’s pioneering Environmental Information Service, which LGA founder Jonathan Naimon directed in the early 1990s.

RiskMetrics Group
RiskMetrics Group is a leading provider of risk management and corporate governance products and services to participants in the global financial markets. RiskMetrics offers a variety of services to help clients to better understand and manage the risks associated with their financial holdings, provide greater transparency to their internal and external constituencies, satisfy regulatory and reporting requirements and make more informed investment decisions. As of September 30, 2007, we had approximately 3,500 clients located in 50 countries. Among our clients are 70 of the 100 largest investment managers, 34 of the 50 largest mutual fund companies, 41 of the 50 largest hedge funds.

RiskMetrics is the successor to Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and the Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC), a nonprofit research center for investors where LGA founder Jon Naimon developed one of the first services to help institutional investors systematically compare corporate environmental risks and opportunities in the 1990s. With support from RiskMetrics Group, IRRC operates a research center today. RiskMetrics trades on NYSE under the sybol RMG.

Shorebank Pacific
An Oregon-based bank specializing in lending to businesses that take the environment into account. Like Light Green Advisors, Shorebank invests in natural resources and heavy industry businesses where environmental progress can make a difference. Funded in part by Ecotrust www.ecotrust.org , Shorebank Pacific is a subsidiary of Chicago-based Shorebank, a pioneer in community investing in the US.

Winslow Management
Winslow is a Boston-based small cap growth manager that shares Light Green Advisors’ commitment to environmentally responsible investing. Over the last 10 years, Winslow has compiled an impressive track record cited in many publications. Winslow is owned by Adams, Harkness and Hill.  For more information, visit http://www.winslowgreen.com/docs/index_wmc.html.

Nonprofits

Chefs Collaborative
An innovative effort by nationally recognized chefs to link producers and consumers of locally grown quality foods (from the farms and ranches to the chefs and the restaurant patrons) and thus enhance markets for more sustainable grown foods.

Mountain Lion Foundation
A foundation focused on preserving the integrity of mountain lion habitat in the US and preventing the extirpation of mountain lions from the twelve states where there are viable populations.  LGA founder Jonathan Naimon was appointed to the Mountain Lion Foundation board in 2003.

Pacific Northwest Pollution Prevention Resource Center
A regional nonprofit group that pioneered pollution prevention as a strategy for pro-actively addressing pollution threats from numerous industries and individual activities. The US EPA has now adopted pollution prevention as a centerpiece of its attempts to encourage environmental improvement.

Progressive Policy Institute
A national think tank funded by the Democratic Leadership Council that has sponsored several congressional roundtables on developing national policies to address climate change. The Roundtable included environmental groups such as Environmental Defense Fund, Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Center for Clean Air Policy. In 1999 the Progressive Policy Institute also published a synthesis of market-based policies to combat climate change co-authored by LGA founder Jonathan Naimon and Progressive Policy Institute Environmental Director Debra Knopman.

Rose Foundation Environmental Fiduciary Project
An innovative California-based foundation that has been involved in several important  a variety of market-based initiatives including a recent SEC petition to close some of the gaps in Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) that allow a variety of environmental liabilities of public companies to be concealed from investors in securities filings. The Rose Foundation also manages programs on community investing, labor issues, pension funds, in addition to the environment. Its Environmental Fiduciary book provides trustees of environmental foundations, public funds, and other organizations concerned about environmental threats to our quality of life with a clear description of many connections between fiduciary responsibility and environmental factors.

Solar Energy

Sun Edison
Sun Edison is changing the way solar energy is managed and financed in the USA.  For more information, you can visit: www.sunedison.com.

Trade Association

Social Investment Forum
A national trade association of asset managers interested in social or environmental responsibility. Light Green Advisors is a member of the Social Investment Forum and a sponsor of its bi-annual Trends in Responsible Investing report. The Forum has good basic information on retail socially responsible investing; however, at present it has little information on separate account management and other alternatives to high cost mutual funds that make up the bulk of the environmentally responsible investment universe.

Test Your "EQ"

Pacific Northwest Pollution Prevention Resource Center
Test your environmental knowledge with the "E-Quiz".