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Top Story of the Week How to Breathe New Life Into Sustainability To Build Your Brand And Business (Wednesday - October 29, 2014) Source: Forbes - Sustainability is a bittersweet term in that it embodies one of the most transformative forces in business today and yet at the same time its very familiarity has led to some world-weariness with the topic. Some say that is... Sustainability in Focus Talking Sustainability with Your CFO Shouldn’t Be Scary (Friday - October 31, 2014) Source: Triple Pundit - We often hear that sustainability professionals need to get better at talking to the CFO. Frankly, this is a scary proposition for many people. That said, experienced sustainability managers will tell you that having a good... Sustainability Challenges: When Good Intentions Backfire (Thursday - October 30, 2014) Source: KnowledgeInstead.edu - Sometimes business goals and community ideals just don’t fit. How far should you go to be sustainable and meet your company‘s corporate social responsibilities?
12 Steps for Improved Sustainability Strategies (Thursday - October 30, 2014) Associated Profiles : Verdantix - Environmental Leader - A Verdantix report aims to help chief sustainability officers and VPs of environmental sustainability to understand the circumstances where natural capital â the finite stock of natural...
Leadership on Sustainability Must Include Helping Shape Smart Policy (Thursday - October 30, 2014) Source: Environmental Defense Fund - This past year, we’ve seen some bold action by companies in what we’ve dubbed the business-policy nexus, and it’s taking several different forms. Some have been calling for state or federal action on environmental impacts, while...
Corporations Should Mean What They Say on Sustainability (Wednesday - October 29, 2014) Source: Scientific American - Nowadays, it seems like every big company promotes an image of sustainability. A common example is the now-ubiquitous hotel-bathroom notice invoking images of ocean animals or pastoral scenery in an effort to convince guests to...
Why the C-Suite Needs a Chief Sustainability Officer (Wednesday - October 29, 2014) Source: Huff Post - Does your corporation intend to be in business in another 100 years? Adding a Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) to your C-Suite may make the difference. But do enough CEOs understand the sustainability role and why it matters?...
Chief Sustainability Officers have Expanded from Tactical Executors to Strategic Lynchpins: New Report (Tuesday - October 28, 2014) Source: CSRWire - SAN FRANCISCO - Chief Sustainability Officers (CSOs) have expanded their responsibilities from internal program managers to strategic lynchpins who guide corporate strategy, identify product innovation opportunities, and...
The 10 Most Powerful Women in Sustainability (Monday - October 27, 2014) Source: GBD Magazine - The challenge of sustainability has opened new opportunities in fields long filled by men. Some jobs are completely new; others require new approaches to old tasks. The recipients of the inaugural Women in Sustainability...
Director Oversight of Sustainability Issues Increasingly Important, According to NACD(Monday - October 27, 2014) Source: Bloomberg BNA - Oversight of companies' sustainability activities is increasingly becoming a board level issue, according to the National Association of Corporate Director's recently released handbook Oversight of Corporate Sustainability... Sustainability in the spotlight keeps banks on guard against greenwash (Sunday - October 26, 2014) Associated Profiles : UN - The Equator Principles - BRW - The bank did not comment on how investment decisions have changed. Within the finance industry, views on the Equator Principles themselves are mixed. Modelled partly on the World Bank's lending... ESG Issues & Players Why Oil Prices Went Down So Far So Fast (Thursday - October 30, 2014) Source: Bloomberg - The reasons oil prices started sliding in June were hiding in plain sight: growth in U.S. production, sputtering demand from Europe and China, Mideast violence that threatened to disrupt supplies and never did.
Corporate social responsibility: oxymoron or necessary for our future' (Thursday - October 30, 2014) Associated Profiles : CSR Middle East .Org - theguardian.com - Tim Mohin responds to the charge that his book on corporate social responsibility fails to ask whether CSR can ever be enough. The question misses the mark, he says Henrique misses the mark by asking whether CSR...
EU Leaders Called Out For Lackluster Climate Change Package (Wednesday - October 29, 2014) Source: Triple Pundit - European leaders agreed to reduce greenhouse gases by 40 percent by 2030. Two targets of 27 percent were also agreed on: one for the market share of renewable energy and another for energy efficiency improvement. The renewable...
Climate Change May Cause 'Serious, Pervasive And Irreversible' Damage: Report (Monday - October 27, 2014) Source: Huff Post - Climate change may have "serious, pervasive and irreversible" impacts on human society and nature, according to a draft U.N. report due for approval this week that says governments still have time to avert the worst. Asset Managers, US Pension Funds, Sovereign Wealth Funds Fed ends bond buying, shows confidence in U.S. recovery (Thursday - October 30, 2014) Source: Reuters - The Federal Reserve on Wednesday ended its monthly bond purchase program and dropped a characterization of U.S. labor market slack as "significant" in a show of confidence in the economy's prospects. In a statement after a...
Many top sovereign funds fail on governance, transparency - report (Wednesday - October 29, 2014) Source: Reuters - A majority of the world's largest sovereign wealth funds lack transparency and adequate governance, with those in the Gulf region scoring particularly low, according to a report published by political risk group GeoEconomica
New York Pension Fund Reaches All-Time High (Tuesday - October 28, 2014) Associated Profiles : New York State Common Retirement Fund - New York Daily News - The New York State Common Retirement Fund has reached a milestone, DiNapoli said in a press release. The Fund ended the fiscal year at an estimated $160.4 billion, an...
California Teachers' Pension Still Insolvent (Thursday - October 30, 2014) Associated Profiles : California State Teachers’ Retirement System - Breitbart News - To pretend to fund this largess, California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS) is an outlier among public pension plans in using creative accounting to blur its grossly... Watching the Watchers World Fair Trade Organization
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA Established: 1992 ESG/Sustainability Focus: Yes: focus on corporate responsibility. KEY PARTNERS Collaborates with numerous organizations, including Proxy Impact, Social Investment Forum (SIF), Sustainable Investments Institute (SI2), Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), Trillium Asset Management,Walden Asset Management, and Green Century.
Clients include Domini Social Investments and Calvert Group – two of the largest SRI asset managers and mutual fund companies in the US.
Also – clients and partners include these firms: Disney; McDonald's; Dell; HP; Starbucks; Coca-Cola; Time-Warner; Gap; Home Depot; Staples.
OVERVIEW/MISSION As You Sow states that its mission is: "To promote corporate responsibility through shareholder advocacy, grantmaking, and innovative legal strategies."
The organization's vision is "A safe, just, and sustainable world in which environmental health and human rights are central to corporate decision making."
The organization's focus is on: Corporate Responsibility; Sustainability; Human Rights; Health & Safety; Environmental Enforcement; Grantmaking.
As You Sow has been a prominent player in proxy voting and shareholder action for many years. BACKGROUND As You Sow was established in 1992. One of As You Sow's co-founders, Thomas Van Dyck, continues his involvement with the organization as a member of its board. News Sweeps Dividing and Conquering the Trash (Wednesday - October 29, 2014) Associated Profiles : As You Sow - POWER SOURCE - The moneymaking possibilities are huge, according to some estimates. A report from îAs You Sowî, a group that promotes recycling, calculated that in 2010 alone, in the specific category of packaging...
Halfway house (Wednesday - October 29, 2014) Associated Profiles : As You Sow - The Scotsman - Gordon Brown likes to quote the Bible. I wonder if heâd like to be told that âîas you sowî, so shall you reapâ exactly describes his partyâs position on the constitutional crisis...
Procter & Gamble : Shareholders Representing $35bn Press Procter & Gamble for Recyclable Packaging (Thursday - October 23, 2014) Associated Profiles : As You Sow - 4 Traders - OAKLAND, Calif., Oct. 21-- îAs You Sowî Foundation issued the following news release: Consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble has made a qualified commitment that 90% of its packaging will be recyclable... |