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Monthly Archives: September 2010
State Law, Supply Chains, and the End of Slavery
The TakeAway: Pending California law seeks to end slavery and trafficking in business supply chains, part of a renewed broader trend of state-level action to address global sustainability and social justice issues. When thinking about corporate reform toward sustainability and … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Sustainability, Human Rights, Public Policy
Tagged Alliance to Stop Slavery and End Trafficking (ASSET), California, California Catholic Conference, California Transparency in Supply Chains Act of 2010, CalPERS, Christian Brothers Investment Services (CBIS), Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking (CAST), Darrel Steinberg, David Schilling, Electronics Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC), Forest Footprint Disclosure Project, Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), human trafficking, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), John Ruggie, Julia Ormond, Julie Tanner, Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), Responsible Cotton Network, slavery, supply chains, SweatFree Communities, Western Climate Initiative (WCI)
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Electoral Politics: We Get What They Pay For
The TakeAway: Three proposals to preserve the integrity of democracy from unlimited corporate political contributions. As angry voters flock to primaries in the first major vote since January’s Citizens United Supreme Court decision, the question of how corporate political contributions … Continue reading
Climate Skeptics’ Arguments Crushed By Global Bank
The TakeAway: Deutsche Bank powerfully rebuts arguments used by climate deniers, and snubs US for lagging on climate policy and clean energy investments. Climate deniers faced another massive debunking of their flimsy claims in last Tuesday’s release of a white … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Corporate Sustainability, Sustainable Investing
Tagged climate change, sustainability
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Finance Offers Meeting Point for Discussion With Islam
The TakeAway: The CSR and SRI communities can discover shared values with Islamic finance over goals of sustainability, prosperity, and justice. The frenzy surrounding a Southern preacher’s threat to burn the Koran – on the eve of the ninth anniversary … Continue reading
Posted in Sustainable Investing
Tagged 9/11, Asim Ijaz Khwaja, Dar Al Istithmar, DinarStandard, Domini Social Investments, Ground Zero, Harvard Forum on Islamic Finance, Harvard Islamic Finance Project, Harvard Law School, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), Islamic finance, Koran, Laura Berry, Nazim Ali, Park51, Rafi-uddin Shikoh, Sayd Farook, Shari’ah, Steve Lydenberg
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Turbo-Charged: How Web 2.0 Fuels the Power of Stakeholder Engagement
The TakeAway: CSR stakeholders want companies to use interactive tools for more real-time reporting, responsiveness, and relationship building. We live in a turbo-charged world of instant communication continually bombarding us, but we have yet to grasp the social and psychological … Continue reading
Back to School, Back to the Land
The TakeAway: School-based farming is blooming, a fresh alternative to Big Agra and mounting public health risks that is rooted in our Land Grant tradition of education. This summer’s recall of more than half billion eggs, on top of last … Continue reading
Back to School: Workforce Education for The Clean Energy Economy
The TakeAway: Clean energy economy will be built not just with bricks, but brains. It’s back-to-school time, this day after Labor Day, when education and jobs intersect on the calendar. On the jobs front, President Obama yesterday announced a $50 … Continue reading
NOTABLE PEOPLE: Bob Monks and the Battle to Change Corporate America
The TakeAway: Bob Monks believes new corporate governance reforms fall short, but digital tools can help advance accountability goals. Robert A.G. Monks has a long history of pioneering work on corporate accountability. From his tenure as first Department of Labor … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Governance, Corporate Sustainability, Interactive Technology, Investor Governance, Notable People, Proxy Voting, Public Policy, Stakeholder Engagement, Sustainable Investing, Web 2.0
Tagged beneficial owners, Bob Monks, CalPERS, Corporate Governance, ERISA, institutional investors, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), interactive technology, LENS, Nell Minow, proxy access, Robert A.G. Monks, Roebuck, Sears, SEC, The Corporate Library, trustee
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Fat Cats & Pink Slips: The Link Between CEO Pay and Layoffs
The TakeAway: CEO pay rises highest at firms that lead in layoffs, says a new report – a bitter pill to swallow in hard times. During this recession, there’s nothing like excessive CEO pay to get the blood boiling – … Continue reading