5 Reasons To Try Sustainable Investing (SRI)

Author: Tom Nowak

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If you have already looked into the possibility of sustainable or socially responsible investing (SRI) and put it aside, you may want to look again.  If you have not yet been introduced to this area of investing, it is likely that you will be seeing more about it.  

Recently, author, educator and environmentalist Bill McKibben toured the nation during Do the Math to introduce a fossil free divesting campaign.  McKibben popularized aligning our investments with those cautious of our future--SRI can help launch your own divestment campaign.  

If you put your investments on autopilot, you are almost certainly becoming an owner of a large number of companies, including the fossil fuel industry, that are not acting at all in alignment with your worldview.