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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’,” […]