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As You Sow in the News, 2009
- Energy Issues To Give New Dimensions to Water Resolutions: (RiskMetrics, Dec. 2009)
- AYS’ Michael Passoff named one of the 100 Most Influential Peoples: (Busniess Ethics, Dec. 16, 2009)
- Climate Change, Copenhagen, and Workers (Labor is Not a Commodity blog, Dec. 15, 2009)
- A Human Right to Water and the Corporate Community (triplepundit blog, Dec. 14, 2009)
- Apple's Greenhouse Gas Reporting (GreenerComputing, Sept. 28, 2009)
- Raw materials – Collaborating for ethical supply chains (Business Ethics, Oct. 6, 2009)
- Hard Truths about Uzbek Cotton (LA Times, Sept. 25, 2009)
- Apple Scores Points with some Environmentalists (Business Week, Sept. 25, 2009)
- Apple's Major Green Effort (Business Week, Sept. 24, 2009)
- Dept. of labor lists Uzbek cotton as made by forced, child labor:(Labor is Not a Commodity blog, Sept. 10, 2009)
- A Historic Win for Green Shareholders: (GreenBiz, Aug. 25, 2009)
- Shareholders Up the Ante to Get Companies to Address Climate Change:(Climatebiz, Aug. 24, 2009)
- Nestle Waters to boost recycling: (Stamford Advocate, Aug. 21, 2009)
- Pesticide shareholder resolutions withdrawn as companies engage: (Pesticide and Toxic Chemical News, Aug. 17, 2009)
- HP Delays Toxic Phase-Out: (GreenBiz, July 28, 2009)
- FDA to reasses BPA (SF Busines Times, June 26, 2009)
- Activist Shareowners Tally Victories in 2009 Proxy Season (SocialFunds, June 23, 2009)
- Few companies seeking substitutes to bisphenol A, study finds (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, June 3, 2009)
- Shareholders to Idaho Power: Get Greener (NewWest, May 22, 2009)
- Despite Health Risks, Packaged Food Industry Continues to Use BPA (SocialFunds, April 29, 2009)
- Plastic Peril? BPA (NPR, April 15, 2009)
- Foundations can be smarter investors (April 13, 2009, Inside Philanthropy)
- Dubai Cotton Centre set to open (Just-style, April 7, 2009)
- As You Sow Publishes Annual Review of Shareowner Proposals (Social Funds.com, April 6, 2009)
- Apple, Al Gore and Climate Change (Greenbiz.com, Feb. 27, 2009)
- Increase in Nano Shareholder Resolutions (Daily Environment, Jan. 15, 2009)
- Edible Nanomaterials Spur Campaign (Corporate Social Issues Reporter, Jan., 2009)
2009 Press Releases
2009 Publications
As You Sow in the News, 2008
- As You Sow pressures Idacorp for more renewable energy (CNBC, Dec. 23, 2008)
- As You Sow Flunks Most Beverage Companies (Dec. 17, 2008, Huffington Post)
- Walmart and Uzbeck Cotton (Dec. 3, 2008, Fortune)
- Nestle Sets 60% Recycling Goal (Nov. 10, 2008, Waste News)
- New group to encourage green chemicals (Oct. 29, 2008, Plastics News)
- US Industry Ban On Uzbek Cotton Faces Obstacles (Oct. 6, 2008, Dow Jones Newswire)
- Wal-Mart boycotts Uzbek cotton (Sept. 30, 2008, Financial Times)
- Uzbeks urged to end child labour (Aug. 15, 2008, Financial Times
- Prius Envy and the Greening of Wal-Mart (June 30, 2008, GreenBiz.com)
- Best Buy free recycling (June 2, 2008, SF Chronicle)
- Best Buy tests recycling (June 3, 2008, Baltimore Sun)
- Disney and McDonald's move to improve labor conditions in China (May 13, 2008, LA Times)
- Starbucks struggles with their environmental impacts (May 14, 2008, Seattle Times)
- AYS featured in Bay Crossings, "Reaping Green Rewards." (May 1, 2008)
- Public firms face host of social and environmental concerns (April 17, 2008, Chicago Tribune)
- Disney taking heat over China (March 10, 2008, LA Times)
- Apple shareholders OK 'Say on Pay' (March 5, 2008, SF Chronicle)
- TV Makers Facing a Toxic Digital Deadline (February, 2008, Greenbiz.com)
2008 Press Releases
2008 Publications
2007 Media
As You Sow in the News, 2007
- Sears & Kmart Join Wal-Mart, Target In PVC Reduction Programs (December 13, 2007, Treehugger.com)
- Making Toys Not Child's Play (November 14, 2007, SocialFunds.com)
- Target Redcues Use of PVC (November 6, 2007, Wall Street Journal)
- Activision shareholders vote a resounding yes on say-on-pay (October 1, 2007, FinancialWeek.com)
- More Hollywood Studios Say No Smoking (October 1, 2007, New York Times)
- Coca-Cola Will Build $60 Million Recycling Plant (September 5, 2007, Bloomberg.com)
- It's All About Proxy (September, 2007, Business Finance)
- Is Apple as 'green' as it claims? (June 19, 2007, MSNMoney.com)
- Going In and Out the Windows: Weaving a Web of Political Accountability (May 9, 2007, SocialFunds.com)
- Apple board faces difficult meeting (May 4, 2007, MacWorld)
- Apple CEO Unveils Set of Green Initiatives (May 3, 2007, Wall Street Journal Online)
- Business World Balks at Secrecy Suit's Implications (April 23, 2007, Congressional Quarterly)
- Gore needs a greener Apple (April 3, 2007, CNNMoney)
- Rates of Return: Socially Responsible Investing How best to accomplish a foundation’s mission? Passive investment vs. shareholder activism (February 15, 2007, Corporate Responsibility Officer)
- Shareholder Shout-out (February, 2007, The Green Guide)
- Q&A with SRI expert Thomas Van Dyck (February 14, 2007, Grist.org)
- The Gates Foundation and Mission Related Investing: Room for Alignment? (February 13, 2007, SocialFunds.com)
- How much does the boss make? Check the proxy (February 11, 2007, The Charlotte Observer)
- The Wire: Snipped or Broadened? The January 17 Episode (February 11, 2007, San Antonio Current)
- Monsanto bears up to baring its political contributions (January 28, 2007, St. Louis Dispatch)
- Lawsuits, Questions Follow NSA Surveillance Approval (January 19, 2007, InformationWeek)
- Foundations Test Proxy Power (January 19, 2007, Wall Street Journal)
- ACLU Backs AT&T Holders On Privacy Fight (January 17, 2007, Wall Street Journal)
2007 Press Releases
2007 Publications
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2006 media
As You Sow in the news, 2006
- Ransacking Liberty: The Phone Companies and the NSA (December 20, 2006, Corporate Watchdog Radio)
- Beverage Companies Lack Fizz in Recycling (November 8, 2006, AirAmerica's EcoTalk)
- Beverage makers' recycling falls behind (Page 3, October 23, 2006, Waste News)
- PepsiCo and Coca-Cola Get Cs on Report Card for Ten Percent Recycled Content in Bottles (October 24, 2006, SocialFunds.com)
- Report Faults Beverage Companies for Weak Container Recycling Levels(October 17, 2006, Recycling Today)
- Shareowner Activism Promotes Peace in Israel and Palestine (August 16, 2006, Corporate Watchdog Radio
- Shareowner Activists See Progress at TimeWarner, and Room for Improvement (August 2006, SocialFunds.com)
- The Power of the Proxy: Bringing Change One Vote at a Time (August 2006, E Magazine)
- Meshing Proxy With Mission (May 2006, Chronicle of Philanthropy)
- Recycling: Not Apple's Core Value (April 2006, Wired Magazine)
- HP Wants Your Old PCs Back (April 2006, BusinessWeek)
- 71 firms agree to sell kids' jewelry with reduced lead (January 2006, SF Chronicle)
- Wal-Mart Faces Host of Shareowner Resolutions, From Union-Busting to Sustainability Reporting (January 2006, SocialFunds.com)
2006 and earlier Press Releases
- Shareholders Act on Concerns about AT&T Sharing Consumer Records with Government (November 2006)
- Investors Ask Wal-Mart to Obey Fair Labor Laws; History of Violation of Labor Laws, Intimidation of Workers Cited (April 2006)
- Investors Challenge Monsanto Over Risks of Genetically Engineered Products; Shareholder Resolution Calling for Report on Impacts of Biotech Products to Be Voted on at Today's Annual Meeting (January 2005)
- Big Health Care Providers, Religious and Social Investors Ask Disney to Go Smoke Free in Youth-Rated Movies; Studies Linking Smoking and Movies Have Shareholders Worried (September 2004)
- Shareholder Coalition Led by Calvert, As You Sow Foundation, Makes a Dent in Mountain of E-Waste (May 2004, CSRWire)
- Shareholder Coalition Led by Calvert, As You Sow Foundation, Pushes for Computer Recycling Programs (April 2003 CSRWire)
- Report Finds Genetically Engineered Foods 'Risky Business' for Kraft; Genetically Engineered Foods Pose Unnecessary
Financial Risks to Kraft Foods, Inc., Other Food Companies (April 2003)
- Shareholders Push Hershey to Report On Genetically Engineered Ingredients; Annual Shareholder Meeting: Tuesday, April 24, in Hershey, PA (April 2001)
- Shareholders Challenge XCEL Energy Over Human Rights and Environmental Wrongs (April 2001)
2006 Publications
As You Sow in the News, 2005 and earlier
- Wal-Mart Embraces Sustainability: Does the SRI Community Buy It? (October 2005, SocialFunds.com)
- Informed Consumers can improve sweatshops (July 2005, SF Chronicle OpEd)
- Gap reduces factory woes: Company report says conditions improve overseas (July 2005, SF Chronicle)
- 'Tis the Season for Shareholder Activism: (May 4, 2005, CorpWatch)
- Foundations Finding Proxy Power: (April 28, 2005, Fundfire.com)
- Monsanto Fined for Genetic Engineering Bribe: (January 19, 2005, SocialFunds.com)
- Scandals Waking Investors to Corporate Responsibility: (May 14, 2004, The Forward)
- Weighing the results of PC recycling (April 2004, CNet News)
- Creating a corporate conscience: Foundation says doing good is good business (March 2004, SF Chronicle)
- Dell Gets Greener (May 2003, BusinessWeek)
- State sues 5 grocery giants over toxic in fish: Warning labels sought for mercury levels in packages of swordfish, tuna, shark (January 2003, SF Chronicle)
- Starbucks takes on its critics: (Feb. 27, 2002, BBC.com)
- Mexico, Indonesia on Starbucks' expansion list: (Feb. 27, 2002, Seattle Post-Intelligence Reporter)
- Starbucks investors in a good mood: (Feb. 26, 2002, Seattle PI)
- Cree Nation fights back: (Jan. 31, 2002, ColorLines)
- Religious shareholders take environment on faith: (Sept. 3, 2001, Scripps Howard New Service)
- Hershey Responds on Genetically
Engineered Food: (April 25, 2001, The Patriot News)
- Safeway pulls 2 taco shell brands: (Oct. 13, 2000, Bee News Service)
- Shareholders Educate Management on GMOs (September 21, 2000, SocialFunds.com)
- Safeway balks at ban on engineered foods: (May 2000, SF Chronicle)
- New Theme for Shareholder Activism: (May 4, 2000, New York Times)
- Safeway defending gene-altered ingredients: (May 10, 2000, Contra Costa Times)
- Activists Try New Tack To Save Old Redwoods: Shareholders to vote on logging (March 1998, SF Chronicle)
- Toxic-Substances Lawsuits Settled: Paint makers agree to warn about deadly ingredients (March 1995, SF Chronicle)
2005 and earlier Publications
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