Personal Divestment Resources
350PDX does not offer investment advice. If you would like to explore divesting your personal assets from fossil fuels, please read the resource materials linked below and, most importantly, consult with your financial advisor to see if changing your investments is right for you. Selling your holdings may involve financial risk and have unintended tax consequences. You should also be aware that there may be a more current version of some of these resources.
- Video of October 2017 Forum on Personal Divestment: Doing Well While Doing Good
- The Carbon Underground 200 – Ranked by the Carbon Content of their Proven Fossil Fuel Reserves
- Find the fossil fuel stocks hidden in the mutual funds in your portfolio or retirement plan at Fossil Free Funds
- 350.org and Trillium guide to personal divestment – Download
- Green America –Creating a Fossil Free Portfolio
- Go Fossil Free Roadmap to Divestment
- The US SIF Foundation 2018 edition of its biennial report on the scope of sustainable, responsible and impact investing in the United States.
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Some Resources on Reinvesting
- The Carbon Clean 200
- Fossil Free Indexes US
- Invest in small Oregon start-ups with Hatch
- The mission of National Coalition for Community Capital (NC3) is to help move a significant portion of Americans’ long-term savings from Wall Street to local and social entrepreneurs.
