Sustainability

NEW DELHI, India & NEW YORK, January 16, 2007--Alcoa (NYSE:AA) announced today that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with India’s Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) to partner in collaborative research projects that address critical g...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 16, 2007--What do George Clooney's Academy Award Gift Bag, a customized Saturn SKY Roadster, lunch with Grey's Anatomy star, Ellen Pompeo, and a Cuisinart coffee maker all have in common? They were among the hottest items featured last...

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 12, 2007--Dole Food Company, Inc. today announced that it will strengthen its widely successful Tuberculosis (TB) initiative in 2007 at the company's two Philippine divisions, Dole Packaged Foods-Dolefil and Dole Fresh Fruit-St...

NEW YORK, January 11, 2007-Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addressed the New York business community yesterday at an event hosted by the UNA-USA Business Council for the United Nations and the Association for a Better New York. In his first speech outside of the United Nations...

MINNEAPOLIS, MN., January 9, 2007---On January 18, 2007, the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE) will present a Web conference to review the recent memorandum released on December 12, 2006 by U.S. Deputy Attorney General Paul J. McNulty and discuss its ramifica...

NEW YORK, NY January 9, 2007 "“ For the eighth year, Deloitte & Touche LLP has been named to FORTUNE magazine’s list of "100 Best Companies to Work For." The 10th annual survey, which appears in the January 22nd issue of FORTUNE and on www.fortune.com, is the national b...

PORTLAND, MN., January 9, 2007 - Aperio Group LLC, a financial advisory firm that delivers customized asset management services for taxable investors, has selected IW Financial to provide the research, analytics, and consulting services that will allow the firm to create inv...

NEW YORK, NY - January 8, 2007 - Sustainably grown coffee takes a giant leap forward today with the announcement that McDonald’s UK will be sourcing all of its coffee beans from farms certified by the New York-based global nonprofit Rainforest Alliance.

PITTSBURGH, PA., Jan 2, 2007 -- Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business has added a "Sustainable Technology" award to its 2006 Annual McGinnis Venture Competition.

This is an important addition because -- in light of depleting re...

Socially responsible investing (SRI) experienced a landmark year in 2006 on so many fronts that any one of the SocialFunds Top Five SRI News Stories could have taken the number one spot in any of the previous seven years we published this list. The sheer number of green inv...