Green Investing: By the Numbers

Green Investing: By the Numbers

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$25.1 trillion: The amount of money currently invested in socially responsible investment funds.

One out of every 10 dollars: The amount of money currently invested in socially responsible funds.

10.4 percent: The amount the Dow Jones Sustainability Index rose in 2007, outperforming the Dow Jones Industrial index, which only rose by 6.4 percent.

260: Socially screened mutual funds in the U.S., with an asset value of $201.8 billion. Mutual funds are the fastest growing option of socially responsible investing.

109: SRI funds available in the U.S. in 2004, compared to 367 SRI funds available in Europe.

348: Number of shareholder proposed environmental and social resolutions in 2007. Of those, 177 of the proposals went to a vote.

40 percent: The amount by which the green energy sector grew, in global sales, in 2007.

50 percent: the amount by which residential solar installations grew in 2007; wind installations grew by 30 percent and organic food production grew by 20 percent over the same period.

Community investing is the fastest growing area of socially responsible investing.