Today's News
NEWS BRIEF:
COMMUNITY INVESTING
Nine More Countries Added to MicroPlace
MicroPlace brings the number of countries they make microfinance loans in up to twenty.
Recent News Headlines
NEWS BRIEF:
INDEXING
New Social Awareness Index Started
Credit Suisse and Innovest offer Social Awareness Index.
NEWS STORY:
SHAREHOLDER ACTIVISM
Proxy Voting Made Painless
A new website helps individual investors better understand proxy voting.
NEWS STORY:
SUPPLY CHAIN,CLIMATE CHANGE
Tracking Suppliers' Carbon Footprints
The Carbon Disclosure Project reports on the carbon emissions of some of the world's largest corporations' supply chains.
NEWS STORY:
The Toxic 100: New Report on Polluting Companies Hopes to Empower Communities and Shareholders
Index of top corporate air polluters updated in new report from researchers at University of Massachusetts.
NEWS BRIEF:
The Toxic 100: New Report on Polluting Companies Hopes to Empower Communities and Shareholders
Index of top corporate air polluters updated in new report from researchers at the University of Massachusetts.
INTERVIEW:
Abolishing Child Labor on West African Cocoa Farms
Mil Niepold of Verité on the International Cocoa Verification Board and Bama Athreya of the International Labor Rights Forum on the Commitment to Ethical Cocoa Sourcing.
NEWS STORY:
SOLAR ENERGY,PERSONAL FINANCE
Sunny Days for New Solar Index and ETF
Claymore Securities launches new ETF based on Melvin & Company's Global Solar Energy Index.
NEWS STORY:
CLIMATE CHANGE, SHAREHOLDER ACTIVISM
Climate Change Resolutions Picking Up Heat
A new report from Ceres shows mutual funds are starting to move away from voting against climate change resolutions, to not voting on them at all.
NEWS BRIEF:
PERSONAL FINANCE, MUTUAL FUNDS
Sentinel Investments Creates Two New Sustainable Funds
With the acquisition of Citizens Funds, Sentinel Funds reorganizes existing Citizens Funds to launch Sentinel’s first sustainable products.
NEWS BRIEF:
SHAREHOLDER ACTIVISM
2008 Proxy Season Preview Whets Shareholders Appetites
As You Sow publishes its Preview guide to the 2008 proxy season to help institutional and individual investors get an overview of the environmental and social issues addressed in this year’s resolutions.
NEWS STORY:
SHAREHOLDER ACTIVISM,CLIMATE CHANGE
Ford Establishes Greenhouse Gas Reduction Plan
Shareholders withdraw resolutions at Ford after the carmaker agrees to release its plans on how it will decrease greenhouse gas emissions.
