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Monthly Archives: December 2010
Turning Points
The Takeaway: After 110 posts, we salute our supporters, celebrate our accomplishments, make some changes, and prepare for an even better 2011. On Wednesday, we published my 100th post, written since the first one – on free and fair corporate … Continue reading
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Climate Change-Makers
The TakeAway: While Federal climate change policy action sputters, state and local initiatives continue to offer opportunities for progress and engagement. Climate change has triggered long-standing power struggles in the US between federal and state rights reminiscent of Civil Rights … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Public Policy
Tagged Andrew Cuomo, California, Cancún, cap and trade, China, Christiana Figueres, civil rights, clean energy, climate policy, Colorado, Defense Department, Deval Patrick, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Gina McCarthy, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, intergovernmental, Jerry Brown, John Hickenlooper, Massachusetts, New York, Peter Shumlin, Pew Center for Climate Change, Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP), Texas, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC), Vermont
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Welcome Yule!
We’re taking tomorrow (Friday) off to enjoy the holidays with loved ones, but will be back on Monday. In the meantime, we extend heartfelt Yuletide greetings to all of you, who have made this experiment so deeply satisfying. As the … Continue reading
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Controversial Compromise on Net Neutrality
The TakeAway: The FCC’s decision on “net neutrality” creates a double set of rules applying to fixed broadband and mobile broadband—with the public interest standard in question. The near decade-long struggle over “net neutrality” revolves around money, power, and access … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Political Activity, Interactive Technology, Media & Entertainment, Public Policy
Tagged Apple, At&T, broadband, Comcast, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Free Press, Google, Gore Commission, Michael Connor, net neutrality, Open Internet Order, OpenMIC, public interest standard, Public Knowledge, Steve Wozniak, Telecommunications Act of 1996, Verizon, wireless
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Extractives: Dirty Industries, Clean Standards
The TakeAway: New SEC proposals require ethical health, safety, and human rights due diligence by companies engaged in the extractive industries. Extractive industries are by definition a dirty business, but recent legislation and regulatory moves aim to clean them up … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Political Activity, Corporate Reporting, Corporate Sustainability, Human Rights, Public Policy, Uncategorized
Tagged As You Sow Foundation, Boston Common Asset Management, Conflict Minerals, Costco, Defend, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dodd-Frank, Domini Social Investments, due diligence, Extratives Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI), Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 (Mine Act), human rights, Institute for Human Rights in Business (IHRB), John Ruggie, Lowes, Massey Energy, mine safety, Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), Organisation for European Economic Cooperation (OECD), Protect, Remedy, Respect, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Social Investment Forum, Target, Trillium Asset Management, Wal-Mart, XBRL
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Corporate Philanthropy and CSR: Private Initiative for the Public Good
Part Two of Two The TakeAway: Attitudes toward corporate philanthropy reflect continued ambivalence about consolidated wealth and how best to foster accountability and sustainable prosperity. Public suspicion – even scorn – of excess wealth and power is a sturdy American … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Sustainability
Tagged Aaron Dorfman, Andrew Carnegie, Bill Gates, Carl Icahn, Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy (CECP), corporate philanthropy, Ford Foundation, foundations, George Lucas, Giving Pledge, impact philanthropy, John D. Rockefeller, John Gardner, Mark Zuckerberg, National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP), organized philanthropy, Robert H. Bremner, shareholder activism, strategic philanthropy, Susan Berresford, tainted money, Warren Buffett, Washington Gladden
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Cancún Talks Bridge Trust Deficit
The TakeAway: COP16 climate talks accomplished more than expected, while restoring trust in the international process that can lead to stronger future measures. Despite media reports citing lowered expectations – and fear that Copenhagen’s dysfunctions would spill over to this … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Corporate Sustainability, Human Rights, Public Policy, Sustainable Investing
Tagged Alden Meyer, Cancún, Cancún Accords, Christiana Figueres, Clean Development Mechanism, COP 16 Climate Summit, COP17, Copenhagen Accords, Copenhagen Climate Conference, Durban, Green Climate Fund, human rights, Kyoto Protocol, Patricia Espinosa, REDD+, Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD), South Africa, stakeholder engagement, sustainable development, sustainable forestry, Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), United Nations, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
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Moving Beyond Modern Portfolio Theory
The TakeAway: Harvard’s Initiative for Responsible Investment works to build a “master narrative” for responsible investing, along with educational tools for improving trustee performance. Massive changes in financial regulations and ramped up activism – aided in part by interactive technology – make … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Sustainability, Interactive Technology, Investor Governance, Sustainable Investing
Tagged beneficial owners, communities of practice, Harvard, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Initiative for Responsible Investment, institutional investors, International Foundation, Lord Paul Myners, Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT), real economy, responsible investment, Steve Lydenberg, sustainable prosperity, trustees
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Radical Transparency: The Challenge to Sustainability and Democracy
The TakeAway: Reams of information released by WikiLeaks and the Federal Reserve challenge us to rethink our duties to promote sustainable accountability and representative democracy. Debates on the recent WikiLeaks / Federal Reserve data dumps concentrate on the supply side … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Governance, Corporate Sustainability, Interactive Technology, Media & Entertainment, Public Policy, Stakeholder Engagement
Tagged cablegate, Dodd-Frank, Federal Reserve, GovernanceMetrics International (GMI), integrated reporting, Julian Assange, media, Nell Minow, proxy access, Senator Bernie Sanders, transparency, whistleblower, WikiLeaks
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IT Leads ET, But Needs Public Policy and $$$
The TakeAway: Information technology leader Google advances energy technology development, but clean energy progress relies on smart policy and capital flows, too. “Google it.” Over the past decade, the term has gone viral, as the name of the information technology … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Public Policy, Sustainable Investing
Tagged Atlantic Wind Connection, Center for Sustainable enterprise and Regional Competitiveness (SERC), clean energy technology, COP 16 Climate Summit, Copenhagen Summit, Dan Reicher, EEOS, General Electric, Google, Google Earth Engine, Google PowerMeter, home energy management, ReChargeIT, Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance, UMass Boston
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Divesting from Genocide: A Fiduciary Duty?
The TakeAway: Congressional hearing on ways to improve the Sudan Accountability & Investment Act proposes using the UN “Protect, Respect, Remedy” human rights framework to define fiduciary duty. The moral case for flexing investment muscle (from shareowner engagement to outright … Continue reading
Posted in Human Rights, Investor Governance, Public Policy, Sustainable Investing
Tagged Adam Kanzer, Domini Social Investments, Eric Cohen, Fidelity, fiduciary duty, Franklin Templeton, genocide-free investing, Government Accountability Office, Investors Against Genocide, John Ruggie, JP Morgan, PetroChina, Protect, Remedy Framework, Respect, Sudan Accountability and Investment Act
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A Window on Corporate Anti-Sweatshop Efforts
Guest Commentary by Conrad MacKerron, Senior Program Director of As You Sow Foundation The TakeAway: Gap, Levi’s and Walmart top first-of-its-kind supply chain scorecard from As You Sow, while Abercrombie & Fitch, Saks, and Sears fail to provide info. Eight … Continue reading →