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What’s On Your Plate? Pressing Chipotle on Pesticides
February 25th, 2010
Susan Baker
Trillium Asset Management Corporation (“Trillium”) has been pressing restaurant chains to reduce the use of pesticides in their supply chains, continuing our research and advocacy on sustainable food and agriculture.1
Reducing pesticides... Trillium’s 2010 Shareholder Resolutions At-A-Glance
February 25th, 2010
Note: This list includes “lead filings,” where Trillium Asset Management Corporation heads up a coalition of shareholder advocates, and “co-filings,” in which we participate in filings led by others. In the table below, our lead filings are indicated... Investors Call on Equipment Manufacturers to Cease Sourcing from Democratic Republic of the Congo
February 4th, 2010
February 2, 2010 – Trillium Asset Management Corporation has joined a coalition of investors in calling on major electronics, medical device and automobile component manufactures, to ensure that the companies are not aiding conflict and human rights... Institutional Investors Learn More About Trillium’s Pioneering Work on Internet Freedom
December 29th, 2009
RiskMetrics Group’s “Sustainability Risk Monitor” – widely read by the influential institutional investor community – used its cover story this month to give in depth coverage to Open MIC’s 2010 open and free Internet... Trillium Joins ICCR in Challenging Efforts to Kill Healthcare Reform
November 13th, 2009
November 13, 2009 – As the healthcare reform debate in Congress shifts to the U.S. Senate, leading faith-based and concerned institutional investors including Trillium Asset Management Corporation, are pressuring 36 major companies – including... 2009 Shareholder Advocacy At-A-Glance
September 8th, 2009
Since Investing For A Better World is a quarterly publication, we lack the space to write about all of our advocacy initiatives in depth. But at the end of each proxy season, we attempt to give them all their due at least graphically! Elsewhere on this... ConocoPhillips Cops Out on Aggrieved Refinery Neighbors
August 22nd, 2009
In early June, I traveled with members of the Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) through Louisiana’s heavily industrialized and highly polluted 85-mile stretch between New Orleans and Baton Rouge known as “Cancer Alley,”... Trillium Leads Social Investment Forum Effort to Support Proxy Access
August 20th, 2009
Shareowners of corporate stock supposedly have their interests represented by elected board of directors. But we are not allowed to nominate directors to the ballot, unless we bear the costs of a “proxy fight,” expending hundreds of thousands... I’ll Have the Souffle
May 18th, 2009
In March, nervous that the Employee Free Choice Act being introduced before Congress would depress Wal Mart’s earning potential, Citigroup’s research division lowered Wal Mart from a buy to a hold recommendation. The bill, also known as EFCA,... The Importance of Being Google’s Sustainability Report
May 13th, 2009
by Jonas Kron
Google is a company that we often point to when asked to name companies that address environmental and social issues constructively. The company’s RE<C (Renewable Energy Cheaper Than Coal) is a groundbreaking initiative that will... |
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