Sustainability
Balancing impacts through responsible business practices, supply chains and energy use.
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03-21-02
Domini Social Investments Continues Push for Increased Corporate Accountability
Domini Social Investments, manager of the Domini Social Equity Fund (NASDAQ: DSEFX), announced today the publication of its seventh annual Proxy Voting Guidelines and Shareholder Activism booklet. Three years ago, the firm became the first mutual fund company in America to p...
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03-19-02
What Brings Us Together: Have We Reached a Critical Turning Point?
Fund For Global Awakening (FFGA), a California-based not-for-profit organization, announces the release of a groundbreaking research study of American values, attitudes and beliefs: the In Our Own Words 2000 Research Program (IOOW 2000). This large-scale, landmark research s...
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03-14-02
Calvert Social Index(TM) Quarterly Rebalancing Notification
The Calvert Social Index Committee ("Index Committee") met today to review and approve changes to the Calvert Social Index. The Index Committee meets every quarter to review the component companies of the Index for corporate actions (i.e., spin-offs, mergers and acquisition...
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03-14-02
DOMINI Selected to Manage New York City Assets
New York--Domini Social Investments LLC, manager of the Domini Social Equity Fund (NASDAQ:DSEFX), the nation's oldest and largest socially responsible index fund, has been selected to manage the "socially responsible account" within the City of New York Deferred Compensation...
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03-13-02
Schwab Survey Reveals The Lessons of Enron May Still be Unclear
The collapse of Enron stock has made the vast majority of investors think twice about the way they invest. In fact, 72 percent admit they have changed their investment behavior as a direct result of Enron news, according to a new survey from Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. Ye...
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03-11-02
Large Scale Biology Corporation Announces Human Full-Length Gene Collection
Large Scale Biology Corporation (Nasdaq:LSBC) today announced its successful discovery and collection of more than 16,000 distinct human full-length cDNA clones (FLcDNA). Known as the LSBC(TM) Human Transcript Collection, it contains previously undiscovered, rare transcripts...
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03-06-02
Hafer Chooses Calvert Funds To Provide "Socially Responsible" College Investment Plan Option
HARRISBURG - State Treasurer Barbara Hafer today announced that she has chosen Calvert Group, Ltd., best known as the nation's largest family of socially responsible mutual funds, to provide additional options in the new, investment-based "Section 529" college savings plan. ...
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02-28-02
Global Reporting Initiative to be Officially Inaugurated at United Nations Headquarters
BOSTON, USA - The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), an international sustainability reporting institution, will be formally inaugurated at a luncheon event to be held at the United Nations headquarters in New York City on 4 April 2002 at 13:00. Incubating under the auspice...
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02-26-02
Starbucks Offers Fairtrade Certified Coffee in the UK
Starbucks Coffee Company (UK) Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Starbucks Coffee Company (Nasdaq: SBUX), announced an agreement today with the Fairtrade Foundation to sell Fairtrade Certified coffee in Starbucks stores in the UK.
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02-21-02
Innovest Named Research Partner for New Eco Fund
Innovest Strategic Value Advisors, Inc., a global leader in environmental and social investment research, announced today that it had joined with ABF Capital Management, a subsidiary of Credit Lyonnais Asset Management, in the launch of the new ABF Green Planet Fund.