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Largest Open Pit Mine in North America Cause for Investor Concerns– Investors Representing $170 Billion Urge EPA to Safeguard Alaska’s Bristol Bay
April 12th, 2011
Trillium and Calvert-Led Investor Coalition Asks EPA for Clean Water Act (CWA) Review for Pebble Copper and Gold Mine, Sited for the Headwaters of the Bristol Bay Fishery Reserve.
BOSTON///April 12, 2011///Nearly 30 investor organizations representing... Pebble Poses a Mountain-Sized Risk for Alaska Fishery
February 14th, 2011
In October, as the first snow of autumn begins to fall near Alaska’s Bristol Bay, I found myself visiting with a group of locals. Among them was Robin Samuelsen, a Yupik Eskimo and board member of the Bristol Bay Economic Development Corporation. The... Upheaval in Global Automotive Industry: What Car Are you Driving?
February 14th, 2011
Everyone remembers his or her first car. Mine was the 1951 Raymond Loewy-designed Studebaker Champion. My father was also a Studebaker owner. The 1951 model was a big hit with designers, and it had respectable, if not sensational, sales. But the company... South Africa Leads the World’s Stock Exchanges on Environmental and Social Reporting
November 4th, 2010
Jonas Kron
Investors are increasingly recognizing the important role that stock exchanges can play in improving corporate sustainability reporting and ultimately a sustainable economy. Markets, where investors and companies meet, are driven by information.... Hanging Out with Oliver Stone, Looking for Answers
November 3rd, 2010
Milton Moskowitz
If Karl Marx was still living, I think he would probably be invited to ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange or at NASDAQ. Or, more likely, the Hong Kong or Shanghai stock markets. And why not? His penetrating analysis... The One Thing You Can’t Find on Google
June 30th, 2010
Jonas Kron
The world will not soon forget the power and significance of Google’s decision this past January to stop censoring search results in China. That bold action will likely be seen as a watershed moment in the history of corporate social responsibility.... Goodbye to BP
June 30th, 2010
Shelley Alpern
BP? We’re out of it. With the benefit of perfect hindsight, I wish we’d sold before the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe; this wasn’t the first lethal BP disaster in recent years. We could also see the company’s commitment to shareholder... Supreme Court Comes To the Aid of Disenfranchised Corporations
June 30th, 2010
Milton Moskowitz
According to Advertising Age, the authoritative source for such statistics, the 10 largest advertisers in the U.S. in 2008 were Procter & Gamble ($4.8 billion), Verizon ($3.7 billion), AT&T ($3 billion), General Motors ($2.9... Restoring New Mexico’s Natural Gas Fields
June 30th, 2010
Will Lana
If you find yourself traveling in the Four Corners region of Northwestern New Mexico you’ll see many fine sights – broad mesas with pinon pines, red rocked desert towers, Anasazi ruins and historic frontier towns. Look closely and you may... Shareholder Activists Win Important Victory at SEC
February 25th, 2010
Jonas Kron
What a difference a change in Administration makes. Champagne corks popped in the offices of socially concerned shareholders all throughout the land in October, when, with a few strokes of the pen, the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC)... |
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