Posts Tagged ‘corporations’
FOCUS | Sticking It to Citizens United
Reader Supported News | 10 January 12 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News FOCUS | Sticking It to Citizens United Old Glory after the SCOTUS Citizens United v. FEC decision made corporations super-citizens, and legalized their purchase of political influence. (photo: WatchingFrogsBoil/flickr) Brooke Jarvis, YES! [...]
Top 10 Issues & Campaigns of 2012
Top 10 Issues & Campaigns of 2012 As a team, The Future 500 staff and board believe passionately in the promise of corporations and NGOs coming together to advance systemic solutions to our most urgent sustainability challenges. Each Fall, we hold a series of strategic planning meetings where we outline our core issues of focus for the [...]
Why not corporate patriotism for a change?
If companies are given American rights, they should have loyalty to this country too July 20, 2011|By Ralph Nader The fireworks and celebrations that mark Independence Day are over. But the need for a national conversation on corporate patriotism has never been more timely. For more than 125 years the courts have been awarding [...]
GIIRS Company and Fund Ratings Now Available!
Today marks the public launch of Global Impact Investing Rating System (GIIRS), a project of B Lab to drive capital to mission-driven businesses around the world—and especially to Certified B Corporations. We are pleased to announce that, beginning today, any company or fund can receive a rating of its social and environmental performance from [...]
Worldwide, people want more renewable energy
Global Consumer Wind Energy Study: Consumers want more renewable energy June 29, 2011 (Regulacion Eolica con Vehiculos Electricos) "… Vestas / TNS Gallup Findings…90 percent of consumers worldwide want more renewable energy. 65 percent prefer to purchase brands produced using wind energy. 53 percent in China and 7 percent in U.S. view [...]
7 Strategies to Achieve Competitive Advantage through Sustainability
An article from Sustainable Life Media By Thomas Miner Share7 February 7, 2011 – Verdantix, a London-based sustainability and analysis firm, has identified seven strategies to help firms achieve competitive advantage through their sustainability initiatives based on the company’s recent research and report titled “Overcoming Barriers [...]
Bob Monks: New Message & A New Site
Responding to the FCIC report, Part I Many people have commented on the Financial Crisis Inquiry Report released in January. After following the Commission’s progress and reading much of the press on it, I also offer my thoughts and I present two main for discussion: the financial crisis was and is a failure of governance and executive [...]
TEEB report: corporations out of step with consumers on biodiversity loss
July 14th, 2010 RI News Alert: › Rio Tinto, Unilever frustrated with mainstream investors on ESG › TEEB report: corporations out of step with consumers on biodiversity loss Click here to read the newsletter.
