My name is Cedric de La Beaujardiere.
Welcome to my website.

Here is what my site currently has to offer:

• Information page for the 2008.04.19 event celebrating my recent mariage: Cedric + Susan.
• My Green Building Resume to make a career change to Ecological Building Design and Development.
• A collection of images, documents, and 3D models illustrating my Garden Apartment idea.
• Wurster Case Study for UCB architecture class 249X: The Secret Life of Buildings.
• My Cover Letter for general employment (as opposed to environmental, community, or artistic).
• My Professional Resume as a Software Engineer.
• My Community Activities Resume, in chronological order (I need to link a lot of the titles in this resume).
• An extensive, categorized list of links, for which I wrote a Perl program (and a tad of javascript) such that the folders all start out closed, and each can be openned. (I still need to sort them a bit better after the integration of my old and new lists, but here it is for starters.)
• A partial blog (AKA weblog) of my travels in France and Madagascar
• My father's Encyclopedia of the Malagasy Language.
• A website I built for my mother, Odile, for her birthday, after I cut my hair after years of long hair which had ranged from my shoulders to my lower back. My mom and other people were elated at the change, while a few were sad to see it go.
• A website I built for my older brother Larry and his family, with images of his family.
• Unfortunately, my eldest brother Jeff’s website is no longer online, but he works at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, making 3D data visualisation movies which implement the OpenGIS Web Map Server specification, of which he is the editor, which he helped to create and promulgate, and which are now in use by the industry.
• A Refreshing Owl Cam.
• A press release on E-Paper (Electronic Paper) (for websites and images, see my links page with dynamic-folders under computer->hardware->e-paper).
• A page talking about less toxic paints, and where to get them around Palo Alto. (Kelly Moore is a no-no, apparently)

Performance of four proactive Environmentally Responsible Investing funds and the S&P500 over a one year period:

I have invested the larger part of my retirement into these four funds (they are compared to the S&P500, in which I have not invested).
My top four stock funds (charted above) are the following:
(WGGFX) Winslow Green Growth Fund,
(PORTX) Portfolio 21,
(GCBLX) Green Century Balanced Fund (60% stocks, 30% bonds),
(CSCSX) Citizens Small Cap Core Growth (not as proactive).
I also have about 17% in (DSBFX) Domini Social Bond Fund, which is a bond fund, so it's performance is flatter,
and some smaller investments in the following:
(NBSRX) Neuberger Berman Socially Responsive, and
(FEMMX) Women's Equity Mutual Fund.
Since this graph can only compare four of my funds, I don't include those last three in the chart.

Before investing, I did a lot of research into environmentally responsible funds (which is a subset of Socially Responsible Investing, or SRI). I was interested primarily in funds which are proactive towards improving the environment, as opposed to funds which simply screen out some of the "bad guys" (like not investing in Nuclear, Weapons, Tobacco, Gambling, Oil, etc.). The proactive funds have these screens too, but they go further and look for companies that either produce environmentally benign products or services, or which may be in a "dirty" industry but seek to find ways to do business in an environmentally responsible fashion. A good source of information is http://www.socialfunds.com, from which, if you click on "Fund Descriptions" then on "Social Issues", you can get a big chart of SRI Mutual Funds in which you can select the "Environment" checkbox and then click "Sort by:" and it will put at the top of each category of the chart the funds which are proactive towards the environment. You can sort by other issues as well. Then, if you click on the name, you get info about the fund.

Another resource I used to compare the performance of various funds (and from which I got my graph, above), is http://www.sharebuilder.com/sharebuilder/Research/StockDetail.asp?Mode=Chart&Symbol=PORTX. You can enter your own set of stock symbols to look at them instead of PORTX.

From these sources, and the websites and prospectuses of the various funds, I was able to put together an Excel spreadsheet of information on several Environmentally Responsible Investment funds, which you may find useful. The spreadsheet includes minimum initial investments, fees, loads, performances over 1, 3, and 5 years, websites, etc.

Gross Production vs. Genuine Progress, 1950 to 1999

In 1996 Dollars

Some older website material:

• My notes for when I applied to fill a short-term position on the Palo Alto City Council.
• Some old letters I sent to the following:
• the FDA on labelling of genetically engineered foods.
• the Editor of the Palo Alto Weekly recommending bike lanes on Middlefield.
• An explanation and maps of the wrestling over the proposed trails through Stanford, and whether the trails should go through the Foothills, as SOSA has proposed, or along the surrounding roads, as Stanford has proposed.
• A collection of three websites in which clicking on a button triggers donations from sponsors to feed the hungry, save the rainforests, or plant trees.

You can email me at cedricpitot.org

Last edited, 2006/02/22.