CSR News

ATLANTA, Georgia - GE Power Systems today officially entered the wind power industry, announcing that its acquisition of certain assets of Enron Wind Corp. has been completed.

The new GE business, GE Wind Energy (www.gewindenergy.com), will be headed by Steven Zw...

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...

SANTA BARBARA, California - Big Dog Sportswear (NASDAQ:BDOG) donated $100,000 to various charities through a fund-raising program sponsored by the Big Dog Foundation after September 11th. The name of the program: "Operation Rescue Dog."

Proceeds were distributed ...

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...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Weyerhaeuser Company (NYSE:WY) recently added two timberlands and three mills to its growing list of certified operations, moving the company closer toward its goal of having all its operations worldwide certifiable by 2005.

With the...

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...

OTTAWA, Ontario - Shell Oil Products (Shell) announced today that it has purchased an equity stake in Iogen Energy Corporation, a world-leading bioethanol technology company.

The US$29mln investment will enable the Canadian based company to develop more rapidly t...

SEATTLE, Washington - Washington Mutual (NYSE:WM), America's lending leader, today announced its Teacher Mortgage Program allowing state-certified teachers and administrators employed at accredited K-12 schools to receive a 0.5 percent discount on the loan origination points...

This week is National Teacher Appreciation Week and the Washington Mutual Foundation is providing $1 million in scholarships for teachers pursuing National Board Certification, nearly doubling last year's scholarship assistance funding.

National Board Certificati...

GENEVA - Ten years after launching a worldwide campaign against child labour, the International Labour Office (ILO) today issued a landmark global study showing that despite "significant progress" in efforts to abolish child labour, an alarming number of children are trapped...