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Sustainable shareowners request that fossil fuel companies report on financial impacts of having to leave in ground a majority of reserves on their books if climate change is to be addressed. SocialFunds.com — Public advocacy for meaningful climate change legislation has been a key strategy of sustainable investors for decades. US SIF – The Forum […]

This video program looks at what faith communities are doing to raise awareness and empower survivors.  

Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth and other members of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) have submitted shareholder proposals at all three banks asking for a “report on business standards.”

 Inter Press Service, 1/3/13

From The Fairfield Mirror: By advocating access to health care, environmental justice, climate change issues and natural resource sustainability, ICCR is able to address the many different types of social injustice corporations are normally guilty of, according to Daly. ICCR was founded in 1971 when the Episcopal Church filed a shareholder resolution asking General Motors […]

FORTUNE — A new-fangled government intervention is in the works that just might pummel your retirement nest egg, once again. Rather than train her sights on prosecuting Wall Street executives, SEC Chief Mary Jo White has decided to focus her attention on a hitherto unknown problem, investor “information overload.” White’s latest salvo is a rallying […]

(Reuters) – Sporting goods maker Adidas AG (ADSGn.DE) has signed a pact to promote the safety of garment workers in Bangladesh, picking a European-led initiative over a rival U.S. drive, it said on Tuesday. Adidas said although it had only limited production in Bangladesh, it thought that signing the Accord on Fire and Building Safety […]

SocialFunds.com — A recent report by a consortium of European nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) including BankTrack exposes the claims of sustainability by many major global banks to be little more than greenwashing. Almost all the banks analyzed “have expressed their concern about global warming and have made far-reaching statements regarding their commitment to a ‘low-carbon economy’,” […]