Comments on: The Unusual ROI of Going Green: From Saving to Eco-Friendly Index Funds that Beat the Market http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2008/04/06/the-unusual-roi-of-going-green-from-saving-to-eco-friendly-index-funds-that-beat-the-market/ Tim Ferriss's 4-Hour Workweek and Lifestyle Design Blog Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:05:13 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Debbie http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2008/04/06/the-unusual-roi-of-going-green-from-saving-to-eco-friendly-index-funds-that-beat-the-market/comment-page-1/#comment-36190 Debbie Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:56:04 +0000 http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2008/04/06/the-unusual-roi-of-going-green-from-saving-to-eco-friendly-index-funds-that-beat-the-market/#comment-36190 Hi Tim,<br><br>Someone just turned us on to your 4Hr Workday book. I ordered it from Amazon but I didn't read the reviews! I've always had success but this guy jipped us and AMAZON will refund us Monday if I don't get it tomorrow. Ordered it 3/20 so have to wait it out. But our friend said you were an ARG. TANGO dancer so that really triggered my interest! We are too! We've been to BA 2x already, Italy 2x, Greece/Istanbul all for tango! Had my most exciting, envigorating, breathless tango dance in Istanbul. I want to learn what he did!! Some type of colgada/boleo combo but it was sooo powerful, my leg just FLEW around with NO TIME to think (which is good)...but the power scared me to death at first. His lead was so gentle yet created such force. That's what I want to know how he did that! I would think he must've had to learn from Metin Yazir?? but who knows. It will be a quest so Alan can learn it. He and others have done some similar things but it is not quite the same. <br><br>I missed dancing with Pablo Veron in Beijing by 2 weeks! WE went to visit their small Milonga with a friend from email. His girlfriend just happend to be in my small little town and she came over for dinner, then we had dinner with him later that week in BEIJING! He's visited us back home several times. But this guy did something similar and right before he was going to teach us, he had to go back to China. Now he's trotting around India and I'll probably never see him again. He broke up also with the girl. <br><br>I read your blog on tango and never heard of that rising star so put in my Favorites in YOUTUBE! <br><br>Can't wait to read your book! Tangamente, Debbie Hi Tim,

Someone just turned us on to your 4Hr Workday book. I ordered it from Amazon but I didn't read the reviews! I've always had success but this guy jipped us and AMAZON will refund us Monday if I don't get it tomorrow. Ordered it 3/20 so have to wait it out. But our friend said you were an ARG. TANGO dancer so that really triggered my interest! We are too! We've been to BA 2x already, Italy 2x, Greece/Istanbul all for tango! Had my most exciting, envigorating, breathless tango dance in Istanbul. I want to learn what he did!! Some type of colgada/boleo combo but it was sooo powerful, my leg just FLEW around with NO TIME to think (which is good)…but the power scared me to death at first. His lead was so gentle yet created such force. That's what I want to know how he did that! I would think he must've had to learn from Metin Yazir?? but who knows. It will be a quest so Alan can learn it. He and others have done some similar things but it is not quite the same.

I missed dancing with Pablo Veron in Beijing by 2 weeks! WE went to visit their small Milonga with a friend from email. His girlfriend just happend to be in my small little town and she came over for dinner, then we had dinner with him later that week in BEIJING! He's visited us back home several times. But this guy did something similar and right before he was going to teach us, he had to go back to China. Now he's trotting around India and I'll probably never see him again. He broke up also with the girl.

I read your blog on tango and never heard of that rising star so put in my Favorites in YOUTUBE!

Can't wait to read your book! Tangamente, Debbie

]]> By: Socially Responsible Business Tip: Scuppie Marketing http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2008/04/06/the-unusual-roi-of-going-green-from-saving-to-eco-friendly-index-funds-that-beat-the-market/comment-page-1/#comment-30205 Socially Responsible Business Tip: Scuppie Marketing Sat, 20 Dec 2008 20:37:15 +0000 http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2008/04/06/the-unusual-roi-of-going-green-from-saving-to-eco-friendly-index-funds-that-beat-the-market/#comment-30205 [...] the attention of this market requires integrity and substance, to gain a Return On Investment that can be [...] [...] the attention of this market requires integrity and substance, to gain a Return On Investment that can be [...]

]]> By: Bif http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2008/04/06/the-unusual-roi-of-going-green-from-saving-to-eco-friendly-index-funds-that-beat-the-market/comment-page-1/#comment-24251 Bif Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:07:19 +0000 http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2008/04/06/the-unusual-roi-of-going-green-from-saving-to-eco-friendly-index-funds-that-beat-the-market/#comment-24251 As a counterpoint- Scott Adams just posted in his Dilbert.com blog (one of my favorites, along with this one) a call for "some entrepreneur [to] create a way for citizens to invest in clean energy sources without having to gamble in abstractions such as the stock market or venture funds. I would love to invest in, for example, a particular windmill, or a piece of a solar farm that is generating a particular amount of energy each day." I was struck how similar this seems to the LitLiberation and FirstGiving.org experiments I was introduced to by this blog. What do you think- would a similar model work for green energy grassroots fundraising? If so, to what extent? Would people donate or set up fundraising drives for something more abstract, say, research towards better methods of storage/transfer of environment-dependent energy like solar and wind? You can check out Adams's blog post here: http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/name_that_windmill As a counterpoint- Scott Adams just posted in his Dilbert.com blog (one of my favorites, along with this one) a call for “some entrepreneur [to] create a way for citizens to invest in clean energy sources without having to gamble in abstractions such as the stock market or venture funds. I would love to invest in, for example, a particular windmill, or a piece of a solar farm that is generating a particular amount of energy each day.”

I was struck how similar this seems to the LitLiberation and FirstGiving.org experiments I was introduced to by this blog.

What do you think- would a similar model work for green energy grassroots fundraising?

If so, to what extent? Would people donate or set up fundraising drives for something more abstract, say, research towards better methods of storage/transfer of environment-dependent energy like solar and wind?

You can check out Adams’s blog post here: http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/name_that_windmill

]]> By: Anca http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2008/04/06/the-unusual-roi-of-going-green-from-saving-to-eco-friendly-index-funds-that-beat-the-market/comment-page-1/#comment-24201 Anca Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:41:43 +0000 http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2008/04/06/the-unusual-roi-of-going-green-from-saving-to-eco-friendly-index-funds-that-beat-the-market/#comment-24201 The New Alternatives Fund is NALFX not NJALFX. "Sacrifice 30 minutes of extra sleep on the weekend to deal with Zipcar vs. pull the car out of the garage?" What is taking 30 minutes? It takes me 5 minutes to pull up their website and reserve a car. The New Alternatives Fund is NALFX not NJALFX.

“Sacrifice 30 minutes of extra sleep on the weekend to deal with Zipcar vs. pull the car out of the garage?”

What is taking 30 minutes? It takes me 5 minutes to pull up their website and reserve a car.

]]> By: Anca http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2008/04/06/the-unusual-roi-of-going-green-from-saving-to-eco-friendly-index-funds-that-beat-the-market/comment-page-1/#comment-24187 Anca Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:14:42 +0000 http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2008/04/06/the-unusual-roi-of-going-green-from-saving-to-eco-friendly-index-funds-that-beat-the-market/#comment-24187 The Green Century Balanced Fund is actually GCBLX not GCLBX. The Green Century Balanced Fund is actually GCBLX not GCLBX.

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