Sustainability

LONDON, England - The natural look, the natural feel, the naturally based, nature-inspired product...there is no doubt that the word "natural" is being used to describe a plethora of beauty and skincare products on the shelves today. But what does "natural" actually mean? Wh...

SAN FRANCISCO, California - Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) today unveiled Labor Law, a unique Internet database of labor law reports and supply chain compliance resources. Compiled from hundreds of primary sources, Labor Law will provide users with independently ve...

Boston, Massachusetts - Corporate investment in community involvement is holding steady, and in some cases is on the rise despite the sagging economy, according to an annual survey by the Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College.

ANAHEIM, California - The Coffee Quality Institute, the educational and research tax-exempt foundation of the Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA), presented Starbucks Coffee Company (Nasdaq:SBUX) with the first Humanitarian Award at the SCAA national conference ea...

OTTAWA, Ontario - Commitment to community has long been a core value of co-operatives and credit unions worldwide. Now private and investor-owned businesses and banks are increasingly promoting their community contributions in the context of good corporate citizenship. The C...

CANTERBURY, United Kingdom - Leadership today requires balancing the desire to do good with the business imperative to do well. Thunderbird, The American Graduate School of International Management, the world leader in international business education, will examine issues i...

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...