CSR News

LONDON - A project to bring much-needed energy to remote Himalayan villages in India using an army of 'barefoot engineers', has won the 2003 St Andrews Prize for the Environment.

The programme trains illiterate and semi-illiterate...

LOS ANGELES, CA – The California Fuel Cell Partnership today concluded its 2003 “Rally Thru The Valley,” a caravan of advanced fuel cell vehicles. The Road Rally traveled through the State’s Central Valley, a region plagued by poor air quality, to validate the potent...

New York, NY - U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao; Playboy Enterprises Chairman/CEO Christie Hefner; Committee of 200 Chairperson Connie Duckworth; and television personality Judith Regan, President/Publisher, Regan Books, will all give keynote ...

NEW YORK, NY - Burson-Marsteller today named Bennett Freeman as Managing Director for Corporate Responsibility in the firm's U.S. Corporate and Financial Practice. Based in Washington, D.C., Mr. Freeman will lead the fast-growing specialty area that advises the firm'...

DALLAS,TX - A global warming proxy resolution that attracted 24 percent of shareholder support today at TXU Corporation (NYSE: TXU) is a "major victory" for religious institutional investor members of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), which is ...

ANN ARBOR, MI -- Representatives of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), DaimlerChrysler and UPS (NYSE:UPS), gathered here at the government's premier fuel emissions laboratory, today announced a collaborative project in which UPS will operate package deliv...

NICE, FRANCE - The World Semiconductor Council (WSC) met today for its seventh annual meeting and issued strong recommendations on a broad range of policy objectives of importance to the global semiconductor industry. The WSC is the pre-eminent organization representi...

NEW YORK, NY - Christian Brothers Investment Services (CBIS), a leading investment management firm serving the Catholic institutional market, helped spearhead a coalition of restive shareholders this past week, demanding improved corporate governance at one of the nat...

Nokia, the International Youth Foundation (IYF), Pearson and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) today launch Bridgeit — an innovative program that uses mobile technology to bring interactive, multimedia learning materials to local classrooms around the wo...

SEATTLE; WA – The Business and Industry Resource Venture announced today that Starbucks (Nasdaq: SBUX) is one of 11 recipients of the 2003 BEST (Businesses for an Environmentally Sustainable Tomorrow) Awards. The awards program recognizes the Company’s energy conserva...