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03-04-13
New Guide Helps Investors Address Human Rights Risks
The Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB) in collaboration with Calvert Investments and the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility...
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03-01-13
After Investor Pressure, Continental Resources Sets Strong Goal to Reduce Natural Gas Flaring
Continental Resources, Inc., the largest oil producers in North Dakota’s Bakken region, has committed to reduce natural gas flaring from its operated well sites to “as close to zero percent flaring as possible.”
This goal announced in
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02-27-13
New York State Pension Fund and Other Investors Urge Utilities to Ramp Up Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency
Major U.S. investors and pension funds have filed shareholder resolutions with five electric power utilities—Ameren, Cleco, DTE Energy, FirstEnergy, SCANA—urging them to increase deployment of renewable energy and energy efficiency in order to mitigate climate-related risks and m...
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02-21-13
Mission Markets Announces Launch of New Platform
Mission Markets, Inc. announced the relaunch of its newly enhanced services platform today. This announcement follows an expansion of its management team in 2012 and the establishment of a new broker-dealer relationship with Hexagon Securities, LLC in January.
The new website features a cl...
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02-19-13
Investors Push 13 Corporations to Adopt Clean Energy Strategies in Shareholder Filings
Leading U.S. institutional investors and pension funds have filed shareholder resolutions with 13 corporations, urging them to source more renewable energy and improve energy efficiency in order to mitigate risks posed by climate change and increase shareholder value. As a result of shareholder d...
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01-22-13
Easy Office Unveils Its New Name, Jitasa
Easy Office, the first and largest national accounting and bookkeeping services provider dedicated solely to the nonprofit sector, announced that they have changed the name of their company to Jitasa.
Founder and CEO, Jeff Russell, issued the announcement stating,
“...
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01-22-13
The Coca-Cola Company Launches Challenge Among World Economic Forum's 'Global Shapers' To Accelerate Solutions To Global Problems
The Coca-Cola Company today encouraged the members of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers Community to return to the Forum’s 2014 Annual Meeting in Davos with proof points of the work they have done to help address the world’s problems. In return, one project will be granted $50,000 in see...
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01-02-13
Wasmer, Schroeder and Company Achieves B Corporation Status
Wasmer, Schroeder & Company today announced that they have become a Certified B Corporation, making it the first investment firm in Florida and the first fixed income manager of separately managed accounts (SMAs) to achieve B Corporation status.
Joining over 530 other Certified B Corpo...
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12-12-12
Local & Organic Farmland Investing: Iroquois Valley Farms Selected as an Impact Assets 50 Firm, Becomes B Corporation
Iroquois Valley Farms, LLC – The leader in local and organic farmland investing, Iroquois Valley Farms, LLC (www.iroquoisvalleyfarms.com), has been named an ImpactAssets 50 (IA50) firm for 2012 and recently became one of the first ...
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12-11-12
Institutional Investor SEC ESG Requirements, Liabilities, & Challenges-DEC. 14TH
Registration is now open for WEBINAR 3 of the Global ESG Regulatory Academy™ 2012 Webinar Series. Webinars are limited to 100 participants...
