Still don't know what can each one of you do to stay 'green' ?

    Are you tired of hearing from the negative news about climate change? Do you feel that the natural disasters are too big for you to make some changes? Well, at least I am. Soon, I realized that thes e news can't help encourage people to take action against climate change. The only thing that they can do is to discourage people that how powerful nature is and how weak human beings are. Then I found an excellent blog called MY ZERO WASTE. It gives me plent of specific illustrations about things that individuals can do to protest food waste and pollution. I'm going to share this green blog with you.

        The blog is witten by a family living in the UK (I think...). There are four members in this family. They call themselves the Greens. They are trying to educate people to join them by their personal experiences. For instance, they stop using any plastic products every July  (including stop using plastic bags when buying vegetables and fruits, which I think is very difficult to accomplish that!) After that, they write about that in their blog and tell people that it's actually very easy to boycutt plastic bags in their life.

        In their blogs, besides their personal experiences, you can also find posts about their arguments on some social issues, for instance, excess packaging in supermarkets. Their opinions are really convicing since they always use photos and videos to illustrate their views. It's the same thing that happens to the STORY OF STUFF project. They make fantastic videos in order to arouse people to argue about the problems in their political, social and commercial systems.

        I made a comment about the article 'Is this the answer to reducing food waste?'.(http://myzerowaste.com/2014/06/is-this-the-answer-to-reducing-food-waste/) In this article, they said that many of the fruits and vegetables are thrown away only because that they have abnormal physical appearance. People prefer the ones that look good and ignore the ones that look ugly. They investigated a French supermarket brand and learnt that this brand is promote the concept that these vegetables and fruits have the same nutrition as the one with normal appearance. This brand actually started to sell 'inglorious' vegetables and fruits in supermarkets and make them into juice and other products. They let people taste them for free! Surprising, the brand received plenty of positive feedback from people and saved a lot of money since they didn't have to throw these 'inglorious' vegetables away.

       So, would you join us and apply these suggestion into your life? Stop complaining about the weather and start to take action! Just believe you can do more!

        For further information, please go to http://myzerowaste.com 

  

Wanna invest in a green mutual fund? Try it!

Don't know what you can do to save this planet? Think your - only a person's ability is too weak to shift the businesses' future sustainability plans? It's time for me to tell you that all these thoughts are completely wrong! Investing a green mutual fund could be your prefect choice to contribute to saving the planet and earning more money at the same time! In this post, I'm going to recommend a green mutual fund called The Brown Advisory Sustainable Growth Fund to you.   

The fund is owned by Brown Advisory, an  independently-owned investment firm. Their goal is to provide clients the highest level of investment and strategic advice, service and individualized attention. Brown Advisory is not a lending institution or an investment bank. They do not trade for their own account, underwrite securities or carry credit exposure of any kind on their balance sheet. Their firm capital consists almost entirely of shareholders equity.

The Brown Advisory Sustainable Growth Fund (BIAWX) seeks for long-term capital appreciation by investing in a concentrated portfolio of companies that effciently inplement environmantally sustainable business strategies to drive their prospects for future earnings growth.The Fund's investing approach are generating tangible business results, in the forms of revenue growth, cost improvement, or enhanced franchise value.

The particular sector that they are paying the most attention to is industrials, which accounts for 34% of their total sector exposure. Also, information technology occupies 30% and consumer discretionary occupies 18%. The rest of the sectors they expose are materials, healthcare and consumer staples.

The fund has returned 22.51 percent over the past year. In the past 5 years,  the performance of this fund was rather positive. Its stock price kept increasing from below $10 to above $14. Although it's not a large scale of increase, as I mentioned before, it's a long-term investment. Besides, it has very little risk. So, in summery, it's still a mutual fund that is worth investing in. 

For further information, please go to http://money.usnews.com/funds/mutual-funds/large-growth/brown-advisory-sustainable-growth-fund/bafwx and http://www.brownadvisoryfunds.com/biawx.html