By Richard Matthews in: Green Jobs
On January 27, 2010, the US Securities and Exchange Commission issued new interpretive guidance that clarifies the climate related information that publicly traded companies need to disclose. This covers everything from new emissions management policie…
By Richard Matthews in: Green Jobs
Sustainable investing is helping to change environmentally harmful business practices. A new breed of investors is profiting from green while benefiting the planet. There are several established financial instruments for green investments including sto…
By Richard Matthews in: Green Jobs
With the aim of helping investors see the value of sustainable stock, The Green Market has been charting the performance of stock in 3 renewable energy sectors and 2 energy efficiency sectors. The 3 renewable energy sectors are Solar, Wind and Geotherm…
By Richard Matthews in: Green Jobs
A bubble is defined as “the phenomenon of rising share prices amid a mood of general euphoria, leading to a ‘bursting’ and a reversal of the prices and the mood.”According to the Conservative publication The New Republic, the Green bubble has already b…
By Richard Matthews in: Green Jobs
The Green Market’s solar stock picks are outperforming the major market indices. Despite Wall Street’s one percent retreat yesterday, the major indices have performed well this year. Prior to yesterday’s slide the Dow Jones, Nasdaq and Standard and Poo…
By Richard Matthews in: Green Jobs
Solar is fundamental to our efforts to produce energy without destroying our environment. Despite this fact, some were unconvinced about solar’s prospects in 2009.At the start of this year JPMorgan analyst Christopher Blansett indiicated that he expect…
By Richard Matthews in: Green Jobs
The world is changing and investors have to make some difficult choices as they try to navigate in a rapidly shifting economic landscape.As reported in Time Magazine, “over the past two centuries, stocks have done dramatically better for investors than…
By Richard Matthews in: Green Jobs
The recovery is being obscured by a daily barrage of mixed reports and conflicting analysis. To provide context for my next post on sustainable investing and to help illustrate the lingering disagreement between the bulls and the bears I have published…