The Best Consumer Guide Ever!
(the official Resource Guide to accompany Ethical Chic: The Inside Story of the Companies We Think We Love )
For Information on Pensions and Retirement
Center for Retirement Research at Boston College 617 552 1762
Employee Benefit Research Institute 202 659 0670 www.ebri.org
Pension Rights Center, 202 296 3776 www.pensionrights.org
For Information on Socially Responsible Investing
(NOTE: these are all profit-making mutual fund companies)
Calvert Investments 800 368 2745 www.calvert.com
Domini Social Investments 800 762 6814 www.domini.com
Pax World Mutual Funds 800 767 1729 www.paxworld.com
For Information on Environmental Issues
Carbonfund.org (carbon offsets) 240 247 0630 www.carbonfund.org
Greenpeace 202 462 1177 www.greenpeace.org/usa/
Sierra Club 415 977 5500 www.sierraclub.org
For General Consumer Information
Center for Science in the Public Interest 202 332 9110 www.cspinet.org
Grist 206 876 2020 www.grist.org
Institute for Local Self-Reliance 202 898 1610 www.ilsr.org
National Consumers League 202 835 3323 www.nclnet.org
Some Consumer/RankingWebsites
www.caringconsumer.com (from PETA, companies that do/don’t test on animals)
www.climatecounts.org (carbon emissions of companies in selected industries)
www.goodguide.com (green products)
www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/seafoodwatch.aspx (sustainable seafood)
www.opensecrets.org (Center for Responsive Politics – corporate donations and lobbying)
