6 Stocks, 3 Bond Funds That Are Good for the Environment and Your Portfolio

Sustainable investing hasn’t just arrived; it’s fast becoming a bedrock principle.

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Sustainable investing hasn’t just arrived; it’s fast becoming a bedrock principle. We looked for companies that are taking up the sustainability challenge and found some that are addressing pressing environmental problems—too much trash, scarce resources and increasingly intractable weather woes.

Some of these firms have had sustainability at the core of their business long before it was a buzzword. Our six picks range from tiny, more-speculative firms whose success depends on their environmentally focused operations, to large, dependable firms that are giving at least part of their business a greener tint. We also look at three choices in the new but fast-growing field of green bonds.

John Waggoner
Contributing Writer, Kiplinger.com
John Waggoner has put personal finance and investing into plain English for more than three decades. He was a senior columnist for InvestmentNews and, prior to that, USA TODAY's personal finance columnist for 25 years. He has written for Morningstar, The Wall Street Journal, and Money magazine. Waggoner has also written three books on finance and investing. He has an undergraduate and graduate degree in English literature and is working on his Certified Financial Planner designation. He lives in Vienna, Virginia.