That’s because a company that scores low on the responsibility scale is at higher risk of substance on the injury end of expensive court settlements, government-imposed restrictions, boycotts, and other off-balance-sheet liabilities. Such “hidden” costs need to be taken into account when analyzing the hard’s long-term potential for generating a return on investment. Furthermore, institutional investors in socially irresponsible firms also risk becoming the end of lawsuits themselves.

So how does one go here and there becoming an ethical investor? It’s easy through all the information money on the Internet. All one needs to know is in which place to animation. Here are, in my opinion, the top 10 websites for ethical investors in Canada.

1. Socialinvestment.ca provides a guide to the 70 or so SRI mutual funds in Canada, as well as the dozens of Canadian financial advisors by a full or partial SRI usage.

2. Seekingalpha.com’s ETF Selector section covers clean-technology and SRI-focused exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the U.S.

3. iShares.ca has a summary of its Canadian SRI-focused ETF.

4. Clean Break is the exhaustive blog of Toronto Star energy columnist Tyler Hamilton on “trends, happenings, and innovation in the clean technology place of traffic” and it comes with plenty of links to clean technology companies, sources, and blogs.

5. Jantzi Research is the standard bearer in Canada for the evaluation and monitoring of “the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance” factors related to securities in Canada and around the world.

6. Corporate Knights is a Canadian warehouse devoted exclusively to incorporated responsibility and it publishes interesting surveys such as the annual Best 50 Corporate Citizens in Canada and the annual Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World.

7. Ethical Funds is the largest SRI mutual fund in Canada and its website contains a hazard of informative material for those wanting a better grasp of SRI.

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