I’m agreed with Jay below. Use traditional measurements (e.g., returns, fee loads, etc.) to guide your investment choices. If some of them happen to fall into ‘socially aware’ categories, that’s great. If not, don’t sweat it and do good via direct charitable contributions. It’ll be more meaningful to you and likely more effective to impact change.

RE: life insurance…don’t worry about it unless you have kids or others who really count on you to provide their living over the long-term. It’s more important that you have a current will so you can direct the executor how to use/distribute existing assets to pay for funeral services, settle debt, etc.

The one thing I’m considering now but haven’t really started to research yet is a work interruption insurance policy (a la AFLAC). I figure that something like that could potentially be more practically useful to me and my family than a large life insurance policy that only pays out in a (hopefully) very unlikely circumstance.