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SB20: The World's Top Sustainable Business Stocks

2007 marks the sixth year for the SB20, which is presented in our sustainable investing newsletter, Progressive Investor. Each year, we work with a group of judges who are leading sustainability stock analysts to select the companies.

The challenge we give our judges is to nominate, discuss and then vote on 20 companies that, through their products or initiatives, are contributing substantially to the advance of a sustainable economy.

To be on the list, companies must be strong on both the sustainable and financial sides. It is not a "buy" list, but because the companies are strong financially, their stock may well be worth be buying at some point based on stock market positioning. We strive to choose companies of various sizes, industries and parts of the world, but the list doesn't constitute a diversified portfolio. It is simply a list of innovative, model companies that have the potential to greatly impact our ultimate goal of a sustainable society.

SB20 Criteria

Our judges decide on the 20 companies that make the list based on the following Sustainability and Financial criteria:

Sustainability Criteria: The most exciting companies in terms of how they are conducting their business, or in the technologies they are advancing that solve environmental or social problems. In particular, they have a very strong GREEN story, with the ability to have widespread influence.

Financial Criteria: A company has a stock price over $1, is selling products and is profitable, or close to it.

The Judges

This year, we did the SB20 in partnership with KLD Research & Analytics, a pioneer and market leader in sustainable investing research. KLD provided the judges with a universe of about 60 companies that met our criteria, and served as a judge in helping to select the final 20 companies.

Our judges are some of the most respected environmental/ social analysts in the world: