Archive for May, 2010
SAI Newsletter May 2010
Launch of 'Scaling Up CSR Initiatives in India' SAI, BSCI & GTZ Partner to Build Capacity of Suppliers on Social Compliance In an effort to address the lack of adequate CSR related support structures as well as the proliferation of standard systems in India, SAI and the Business Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI) have joined forces with [...]
Simmons Says Government Should Take Over BP Oil Clean Up
Posted: 29 May 2010 11:40 AM PDT Matt Simmons, founder and chairman emeritus of Simmons & Co., talks with Bloomberg’s Mark Crumpton and Lori Rothman about BP Plc’s leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. BP said in a statement today that it has spent $930 million responding to the spill, which began after an April 20 rig explosion that [...]
4 Easy Ways to Improve Financial Reform
Posted: 26 May 2010 07:50 AM PDT David Leonhardt discusses 4 easy ways to improve the Financial Reform legislation: DERIVATIVES Too many investors used debt to buy their derivatives, leaving no margin for error when prices fell.Put these on exchanges, disallow debt for purchases, place some restrictions on iBank derivative [...]
UN Global Compact and Global Reporting Initiative Announce New Collaboration
UN Global Compact and Global Reporting Initiative Announce New Collaboration Amsterdam 28 May 2010 In a push to strengthen the quality of sustainability reporting in the corporate sector, the United Nations Global Compact and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) today announced an agreement to align their work in advancing corporate [...]
Swedish forestry chief to chair AP2
May 28th, 2010 RI News Flash: › Swedish forestry chief to chair AP2 Click here to read more.
GRI proudly announces the winners of the GRI Readers’ Choice Awards 2010
Amsterdam 27 May 2010 GRI and its Awards partners (KPMG Spain, KPMG Netherlands, SustainAbility, ACCA, Futerra, TCS and exclusive sponsor Petrobras) are proud to present the winners of the GRI Readers’ Choice Awards 2010. In a festive Awards Ceremony that took place at the GRI Conference in Amsterdam, GRI welcomed the winners on stage and [...]
Community Lender ShoreBank Wins Deserved Financial support – Ed
Attached is a link to the Community Development Bankers Association (CDBA) website with the full text of the op-ed in today’s American Banker. http://bit.ly/9DyRAJ
Congratulations to Martha Shaw, CEO of EarthAdvertising, our friend and colleague in advertising
Earth Advertising’s CEO Martha Shaw and 28 others are first graduating class of Clean Tech Exec at NYU Poly. (New York, NY) - May 20, 2010. The inaugural class of NYU Polytechnic Institute’s Clean Tech Exec Program graduated this week after presentations of Applied Projects by each member of this select group of New York State’s clean [...]
Ragmonks.blogspot.com
THURSDAY, MAY 20, 2010 Bob Monks: banks have ignored their fiduciary duties (video) In new video this week: Bob discusses enforcement of fiduciary duty to customers. He says that conglomerate banks have ignored these duties and the conflicts of interests that resulted. (more...)
HydroWorld: E.ON unveils Pelamis-built wave energy hydropower device in U
Hydro Headlines E.ON unveils Pelamis-built wave energy hydropower device in UK EDINBURGH, Scotland -- The UK subsidiary of German utility E.ON AG unveils its first wave energy hydropower device in the UK. United Kingdom-based marine hydropower developer Pelamis Wave Power Ltd. developed and constructed the device, which will be tested at the [...]
