Sustainability

Brattleboro, VT - For the first time, institutional investors and investment professionals can get a complete view of the world of social investing from one source - the Leading Social Investment Indicators™ Report. Global in scope, this new report from SRI World Group, Inc...

San Francisco, CA - The Natural Step, a sustainability advisory and think tank organization, today announced its sixth annual international sustainability conference for business and government leaders. The event will take place from May 9-11 in San Francisco's Fort Mason C...

LONDON, England - AstraZeneca today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted marketing approval for its new breast cancer drug 'Faslodex' for the treatment of hormone receptor positive metastatic breast cancer in postmenopausal women with diseas...

WASHINGTON, DC - The Grocery Manufacturers of America welcomed efforts by Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson and Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman to promote the National Cancer Institute’s '5 A Day' program.

"Secretary Ve...

RACINE, Wisconson - Modine Manufacturing Company (NASDAQ: MODI) has been chosen by Business Ethics magazine as one of the "100 Best Corporate Citizens" for the third consecutive year. The article is featured on the cover story of the March/April 2002 issue of Business Ethics...

SAN FRANSICO, California - Co-founder of Business 2.0 magazine, Executive Editor of Sojourners magazine and professor of social ethics and religion at the University of San Francisco, David Batstone, has signed his first trade book deal to Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Company. Senio...

CHENNAI, India - David Friedman, MD and President of Ford India and Vinay Piparsania, VP - External Affairs handed over the company's first corporate assessment report titled "Moving Forward" to Selvi Jayalalithaa, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu.

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), an international sustainability reporting institution that was formally inaugurated at a United Nations ceremony on 4 April 2002, has announced that its permanent Secretariat headquarters will be opened later th...

Portland, ME - IdealsWork.com (www.idealswork.com), a new online shopping site that allows consumers to weigh the social responsibility of companies and brands before making their purchasing decisions, commenced operations last week and is earning rave reviews from users mak...

NEW YORK, New York - Avon Products, Inc. (NYSE: AVP) today announced it has been named among the top ten companies by Minneapolis-based Business Ethics magazine in its third annual "100 Best Corporate Citizens" listing. The rankings are based on a qualitative measure of corp...