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Johnson Controls (NYSE: JCI) today announced its recognition as a 2009/2010 Gold Class Sustainability Leader by SAM. A leading global asset manager for sustainability investments, SAM annually rates more than 2,000 companies based on their sustainability performance.

World of Good Inc., a five-year-old social venture that connects artisans from developing communities with mainstream retail markets, announced today that eBay has fully acquired its brand and related assets. World of Good Inc. also announced that GreaterGood/Charity USA has...

ERA Carbon Offsets Ltd. (TSX VENTURE: ESR) (the "Company" or "ERA"), is pleased to announce that the private placement previously announced, October 14th 2009, closed on February 17th 2010. The private placement consisted of 7,360,000 common shares at a price of CAD$0.75 per...

Following a well-publicized shareholder vote on genocide-free investing on November 24, American Funds has now become the largest mutual fund company to divest its holdings in PetroChina. A recent posting on the company's website shows that American Funds sold virtually all ...

BSR's financial services practice more than doubled in the past year, underscoring a growing industry trend toward more responsible business strategies that increase access to financi...

Some active equity fund managers have higher portfolio turnover rates than they themselves claim, a new study finds. Nearly two-thirds of institutional investor-focused investment strategies exceeded their expected turnover from June 2006 through June 2009. Of these strate...

Johnson Controls (NYSE: JCI) today announced its inclusion in two new Maplecroft Climate Innovation Indexes (Maplecroft CIIs) that identify top performers in climate-related innovation and carbon management. The Maplecroft CIIs launched in January 2010 on the BLOOMBERG PROFE...

ACCION® International, a pioneer and leader in global microfinance, announced today that Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has approved its application to establish ACCION Microfinanças, a new microfinance organization in the state of Amazonas in Brazil's remote ...

InniSofts.com, a Forex trading company developed by Winsor A.G.A. Hoang of Winsor Global Financial Inc. in Canada, starts providing free Forex trading signals based on their automated Forex robots for full trading transparency. InniSofts.com has five fully functional Forex e...

Global mutual fund Portfolio 21 (PORTX) today announced its Top 10 Green Companies. For the past 10 years, Portfolio 21 has searched the world and invested only in companies with an explicit commitment to environmental business practices, such as designing ecologically super...