Organizations

WASHINGTON, D.C.- "Energy Management and Shareholder Value", an executive briefing released today, offers businesses increased evidence on and successful practices for linking energy efficiency and shareholder value. The document's publication is a partnership betwee...

BOSTON - Hewlett Packard and the Gap are among four U.S and Canadian companies that received sustainability reporting awards today in an international competition sponsored by the Boston-based Ceres coalition and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACC...

BOSTON - More than 300 corporate leaders, investors and environmental experts will be converging on Boston next week for the Ceres Annual Conference April 13 and 14 at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel.

The conference includes dozens of...

BOSTON - As a result of a shareholder resolution filed with the Ford Motor Co., the country's second largest automaker today announced it will issue a first-of-its-kind comprehensive report later this year that will examine the business implications of reducing greenh...

BOSTON, MA - After extensive negotiations with shareholders, Anadarko Petroleum, Apache, ChevronTexaco and three other leading U.S. oil and gas companies have taken far-reaching actions in recent months to disclose their potential financial exposu...

LONDON - Traditional forms of accountability are in crisis.

Open any newspaper and look for the large print titles expressing outrage. Odds are the topic will be on accountability, or its lack - on part of governments, politician...

London and Washington, DC - Today, Oxfam America, EARTHWORKS, and Global Witness are calling on jewelers to provide consumers with meaningful guarantees that the jewelry they buy is not tarnished with human rights abuses, environmental destruction, or conflict. The gl...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Points of Light Foundation announces the release of the Business Leadership Forum Brief on workplace volunteering. The publication highlights the proceedings of the Forum where award-winning companies shared their effective practices in the fi...

NEW YORK - The Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS (GBC), the pre-eminent organization leading the business response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, today announced the launch of GBC National Connections a new program to provide support to national business coalitions w...

WASHINGTON, DC - Valentine's sales of gold jewelry in the U.S. will leave in their wake more than 34 million metric tons of waste worldwide, according to estimates from EARTHWORKS and Oxfam America, leaders of a major consumer campaign aimed at changing the way gold i...