IRIE+LEE+LOVE+ECON

=//IRIE LEE LOVE ECON//= =CSD_41_ZZ516=

Mandy C. & Anna B.
=__Initial Research:__=

=Investor For A Cause: =
 * Are there any problems or injustices in the world that corporations should be more responsible in handling?
 * Consider:
 * "Green" Companies
 * Fair Treatment of Workers
 * Corporate philosophy of being particularly responsible or kind to communities
 * Research and Development of alternative/sustainable energy, etc.

====We are very concerned about the way our economy has been misusing our natural resources. We hope that the green companies will benefit from our funding. In the long run, investing in green will ultimately lead to bettering our planet. If we dont aid these companies in finding alternative and healthier methods to producing energy, reducing greenhouse emissions, and cleansing the planet, the globe my never recover from the damage.====
 * Initial Philosophy:**


 * Initial Research:**


 * **Company Name** || **Stock Symbol (make it a hyperlink to research page)** || **Price per share when researched.** || **Briefly, why are you attracted to this stock?** || **Roughly, How many thousands of dollars to Invest? (Enter number)** ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Goldman Sachs || [|GS] || $109.00 || Goldman Sachs focuses on investing in companies that are geared towards bettering the enviornment as a fast paced speed to keep up with the always changing world. || $14,200.00 ||
 * Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd. || [|STP] || $7.69 || Suntech Power provides energy free from fossil fuels, and uses greener materials to provide a different form of energy. || $20,000.00 ||
 * Canadian Solar Inc. || [|CSIQ] || $4.53 || Canadian Solar creates custom-designed solar energy units, in order to supply everyone with the solutions to their own personal needs. || $20,000.00 ||
 * Ascent Solar Technologies || [|ASTI] || $3.09 || This company just recently formed so we wanted to buy stock in them while they are new because we think they will expand in the business of creating state of the art solar technology. || $15,000.00 ||
 * Honda Motor Co. Ltd. || [|HMC] || $18.44 || The auto industry is responsible for one third of all carbon-dioxide emissions, and the Honda Motor Co. is attempting to reduce greenhouse emissions with their line of fuel efficent cars. || $20,000.00 ||
 * Covanta Holding Co. || [|CVA] || $19.85 || We are very interested in Covanta because they are dedicated to finding ways to turn garbage into energy by burning trash to make steam and heat for power. || $20,000.00 ||

=__Once Stocks Are Purchased:__=

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1. Goldman Sachs 2. GS 3. NYSE 4. Goldman Sachs is a company that invests in other green companies. 5. New York City 6. [|Article on Goldman Sachs]

1. Suntech Power Holdings Co.Ltd. 2. STP 3. NYSE 4. Suntech provides a different form of energy free from fossil fuels 5. San Fransisco 6. [|Article on Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd.]

1. Covanta Holding Corporation 2. CVA 3. NYSE 4. Covanta uses old garbage to burn to turn into heat and steam for energy. 5. New Jersey 6. [|Article on Covanta]

1. Honda Motor Co. Ltd. 2. HMC 3. NYSE 4. Honda Motors uses is line of fuel efficent cars to reduce greenhouse emissions. 5. New Delhi, India 6. [|Article on Honda Motor Co.]

By mid-october, and mid-november we had only purchased one stock, Goldman Sachs: 1. Goldman Sachs is not doing well, the price of stock has fallen about 30 dollars per share. 2. Goldman Sachs is not proving to be a good investment. 3. Because there is not a lot of money in the economy right now, it is hard for this company to invest in other companies because that is an expensive thing to do.

__End of Project:__ For this project we chose to focus our attention on Green Companies in order to help better the enviornment and protect its resources. Now that this project is over we realize how many green companies there are out there that all specialize in different areas so that the world can become healthier. Because global health is a fairly new issue that the world is facing, many of the stoks for these green companies are so cheap that they are just considedered junk bonds which made it harder to find legitiment companies to invest in. The main thing we would have tried to do different is buy our stocks earlier so they would have had more time to make even more money than they did. The other stocks that we had orginally shown intrest in but never bought are doing just about as well as the stocks that we did buy. All but one of the stocks that we bought have raised the price of their stock by a few dollars, and so have the stocks we didn't buy.