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Our Publications

	"Best Current Practices in Purchasing: The Apparel Industry" presents how apparel industry leaders have made changes to their internal purchasing practices and corporate structures as part of the continued efforts to improve factory working conditions.
	The summer issue of "Seeds of Change," As You Sow's quarterly newsletter, is here! Click the NEWS icon to read about our actions in the 2010 proxy season.
	The "2010 Proxy Preview" is a free resource for foundations, institutional investors, nonprofit organizations and others interested in aligning their values and investments in 2010. Click on the report image to learn more.
	As You Sow and Green Century find that Packaged Food Companies aren't doing enough to protect consumers from BPA. Click the icon for the report.

News Highlights

Starbucks Deserves Credit for Progress on Recycling But There’s Room for Improvement:08-20-2010 Where do Starbucks’ 3 billion paper cups go every year? Our own Conrad MacKerron discusses his engagement with Starbucks on Triple Pudit.

2010 Proxy Season: 07-28-2010 CorpGov.net gives an overview of trends in the this year's proxy season, including quotes from Senior Program Directors Conrad MacKerron and Michael Passoff.

Starbucks Plans to Turn Its Chicago Coffee Cups into Napkins: 06-28-2010 As You Sow’s engagement with Starbucks leads to an unusual recycling commitment.

Child Labor: As Close As The Shirt On Your Back: 06-20-2010 Cotton program manager Daniel Fibiger’s opinion piece examines state-sanctioned forced child labor in Uzbekistan’s cotton sector and how a multi-stakeholder network is addressing the problem.

Shareholder Activists Set Out to Drill Oil Companies: 06-13-2010 Senior Program Director Michael Passoff comments on a rise in shareholder support for risk mitigation practices in utility companies and for other environmental issues this proxy season. Read the story on BusinessWeek.

Exxon’s “Frack Attack” and What Shareholders May Do About It: 06-9-2010 Senior Program Director Michael Passoff sums up the health and financial risks posed by hydraulic fracturing in a guest post for Triple Pundit.