Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 22, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba 10 Winnipeg free april Earth Day funds geared to ideals by Karen Hiebert investment options Are be ginning to open up to people determined to have their Money work in a socially and environmentally response ble five or six such funds Are available in says Patrick a marketing consultant with Winnipeg based investors group Public he spurred the creation of such funds composed of the stocks of companies whose operations Are ideologically in tune with the investors Princi one such fund at investors group is the Summa fund initiated in Summa is a Mutual fund which differs from most other Mutual funds in that All of the companies under its umbrella have been carefully screened to meet certain its As a matter of go into companies which Are socially responsible and which have adopted Stan Dards and practices indicating an awareness of social and environmental excluded irom Summa Are the stocks of firms whose Pri Mary activities include manufacturing or distributing Alco hol or tobacco the manufacture of critical weapons or any involvement with porno graphic excluded As Well from Summas portfolio Are the stocks of firms which have failed to adopt and administer effective pollution control and environmental Protection poli cies and whose practices in any Way support the acts of repressive contrary to popular Ireland says environmentally sensitive companies Are also he studies in both Canada and the United states have shown that funds made up of the equities of environmentally response ble firms perform just As Well or better than other Energy probe in Toronto has two funds that Are solely environmental in their invest ment criteria the Environ mental investment Canadian fund and the International environment the ethical growth fund administered by the vanity credit Union in Vancouver also incorporated Environ mental considerations into its screening its a Small world wart makes it smaller linked to 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feels about sorting through her garbage for Winnipeg Blue bag program run by the resource recovery she enrolled in the program Only at the beginning of this Al though she had begun sorting through her recyclable trash about two months earlier without knowing of the programs Buzan is considering becom ing a Volunteer at the resource recovery institutes warehouse at Aikins Street and Dufferin John the institutes executive says the program has been an overwhelming Success and that almost everyone who signed up for it also Are Active As the program began last 5 with 400 Homes in the Wolseley since More have been added in Wolseley and another in the Eastern Section of fort Barker says the program is patterned after the successful Blue Box ventures in it is a door to weekly the idea is to make it easy for people to the major difference is in the Container we use Blue instead of plastic Blue Barker says the which is nonprofit and not affiliated with is modelled after the Edmonton recycling which provides provide curbside service to Between and Homes in he says the programs Success is obvious from the amount of time he and his staff spend on the were inundated with requests to expand the and we certainly extend it with the number of staff we Barker and project manager Barbara Golden Are assisted by five Barker says another measure of the programs Success has been the ease with which the collected material has found basical Institute set to Aid economic growth every last scrap of or whatever material weve has been sold for Buzan has made in quiries at the Canadian Imperial Bank of where she to see if anyone might be interested in collecting recyclable the in a verbal presenta Tion to the cites works and operations has requested 000 to expand the program by As Many As Ken free press by Randal Millroy smart business people have always known that economic development should not Cost the the advice is taken the key phrase for this new attitude is sustainable production and economic especially in developing without sacrificing the environment in the As with any Young it requires new and finding them is what motivates work at the Canadian International Institute for sustainable which opened recently in chairman Lloyd Mcginnis describes sustainable development As a concept of what we do now to meet our needs but we dont endanger the ability of future generations to meet their the first serious study of the concept was released in the autumn of 1987 when the United nations published the findings of the Brunt land the following prime minister Brian Mulroney promised that a study Centre would be opened in a Promise that was finally realized last the nonprofit Institute has a million annual budget for the first five the bulk of it from Federal and Manitoba provincial and 20 per cent from the Canadian International development based initially in second floor space in the North american life building on the Institute will begin with Between 15 and 25 scientists and support the Institute will be an information disseminating the results of International research and it will be actively involved in education from train ing to the Transfer of it will also encourage research that is specifically re lated to environmental says Mcgwin we see ourselves As the if you of All the relevant International entities associated with sustainable Winnipeg should Benefit directly from he since the institutes activities will make Winnipeg a focus for International conferences on sustainable business will become a sturdy spoke in that Hub As research is put into we dont see ourselves at the moment As a building that has a lot of people running around in White Mcginnis what we want to do is take the research out of the labs and put it into the Benefit of and that involves Commer he says that while the Institute May eventually establish its own research it is not a current our priority is to take All the Good work that being done and put it to there Are a lot of Clever a lot of Good work being done in the government we Are endeavouring to get that into the private get it he likens the Institute to a we identify the needs of we try to find a source to fulfil those the source could be a study it could be a group that goes in and helps a third world country set up its regulations for environmental for you what they do to their environment there affects Mcginnis has seen that first As chairman of the Board and chief executive officer of Winnipeg based Wardrop Engineer ing he has spent much of the past 20 years working and travelling in underdeveloped last Busi Ness took him around the Globe six Mcginnis Hub of development ethanol the renewable fuel of the Mohawk Premium enriched with is the highest octane unleaded in the West and Burns with up to less harmful Carbon monoxide emissions than any Ordinary gasoline sold in Western the in Mohawk gasoline is what helps to reduce smog Levels and your cars contribution to the greenhouse ethanol is made 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