‘Socially Responsible Investing’
Tracks ethical, responsible, cleaner, greener mutual funds, pension funds, charitable endowments, labor unions and their pension funds, new “triple bottom line,” ESG auditing and asset valuation. Reforming asset-allocation and valuation models from “EMH” and “rational actor” to new behavioral science and ecological social assets. Covers legal aspects, corporate governance, social justice and indigenous rights, public financing of political campaigns, Supreme Court rulings, e.g. Citizens United re corporate lobbying. Includes new Indexes and Ratings.
Relates to: GTS, Transforming Finance, Reforming Global Finance, GreenTech, Energy Efficiency, Global Citizenship, Reports You Need, Beyond GDP, Power of Yin
Trust Across America Names America’s Most Trustworthy Companies for 2011
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - Dec 19, 2011) - Trust Across America™, a think tank dedicated to unraveling the complexities of trustworthy business behavior, today announced the results of its second annual study of almost 2500 public companies, naming Smithfield Foods as the Most Trustworthy Public Company for 2011. Barbara Kimmel, Executive [...]
Watershed Capital Group Announces $11.7M in First Close of Cascade Sierra Income Fund
Watershed Capital Group is pleased to announce that Cascade Sierra Solutions ("Cascade") completed an initial close of its Cascade Sierra Income Fund, L.P. The financing allows Cascade to continue to finance the replacement and upgrade of polluting, inefficient trucks with clean, fuel-efficient vehicles that reduce pollution by up to 85%, while [...]
Employee share ownership and the EU corporate governance framework
EFES NEWSLETTER - DECEMBER 2011 Employee share ownership and the EU corporate governance framework In 2011, the European Commission published a Green Paper and they organized a public consultation about the EU Corporate Governance Framework. Question 23 was about employee ownership: "Are there measures to be taken, and is so, which ones, to [...]
Ethical Markets Advisory Board member, Peter Matthies reports activities of his Conscious Business Institute
Warm Holiday Wishes to the Conscious Business Institute Family My dear Friends and Advisors It has been a while since I sent you an update. 2011 has been an exciting year for me, personally, and for CBI. After working on CBI since 2005, I was able to sign up some interesting, rewarding and very fulfilling projects: Since January 2011, CBI [...]
RAGS Project Convenes Roundtable on Gender Discrimination
RAGS Project Convenes Roundtable on Gender Discrimination 'MAC' forums convene key stakeholders in New Delhi and Tirupur From left: 1) SAI staff engage in discussions with key stakeholders at the MAC forum in Tirupur; 2) SAI staff visit the PGC Classic Spinning Mill in Tirupur; 3) Breakout sessions during the MAC forum in New Delhi In [...]
Sustainability reporting enters a new phase, say experts
Global Reporting Initiative press release Under STRICT embargo until: 00.01 CET Thursday 15 December 2011 Sustainability reporting enters a new phase, say experts Reporting corporate economic, environmental and social performance is entering a new phase, moving from a pioneering and experimental practice to become standard practice, [...]
Victoria’s Secret Revealed in Child Picking Burkina Faso Cotton
Victoria’s Secret Revealed in Child Picking Burkina Faso Cotton 2011-12-15 05:00:01.13 GMT By Cam Simpson Dec. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Clarisse Kambire’s nightmare rarely changes. It’s daytime. In a field of cotton plants that burst with purple and white flowers, a man in rags towers over her, a stick raised above his head. Then a voice [...]
G20 Employment Task Force Kicks Off With ‘64 Million Jobs’ Challenge To Prevent Double Dip Recession – ITUC OnLine
INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION ITUC OnLine G20 Employment Task Force Kicks Off With ‘64 Million Jobs’ Challenge To Prevent Double Dip Recession Brussels, 15 December 2011 (ITUC OnLine): The international union movement has warned the first meeting of the G20 Task Force on Employment in Mexico City that a failure to provide [...]
Empire State of Mind
“Ethical Markets Media congratulate B-Lab for this breakthrough!" Congratulations to all. An early holiday present from the State of New York and another big milestone for our community. Happy holidays everyone! For Immediate Release: December 13, 2011 CONTACT: Erik Trojian or Andrew Greenblatt at B Lab - (212) 608-4150; [...]
Durban Outcome: No Guarantees for the Climate as Governments Again Delay
INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION ITUC OnLine Durban Outcome: No Guarantees for the Climate as Governments Again Delay Brussels, 14 December 2011 (ITUC OnLine): The international trade union movement expressed its disappointment as climate negotiators in Durban had agreed a platform to continue negotiations, but without any [...]
