As You Talk: Shareholders Proposals on Social, Environmental Issues Gain Momentum

Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow and Heidi Welsh, founding executive director of the Sustainable Investments Institute (Si2), give an overview of some outcomes from this proxy season.

Corporations, environmental healthAs You TalkJuly 8, 2021andrew-behar, proxy preview, heidi welsh

‘As You Talk’: How Value-Based Banking Can Help Fight the Climate Crisis

Danielle Fugere, president of As You Sow and Ivan Frishberg, director of Impact Policy at Amalgamated Bank discuss the important role banks have in addressing the climate crisis.

Corporations, environmental healthAs You TalkJune 28, 2021glyphosate, Pesticides

Bayer’s Roundup Is an Example of Fatally Underestimated Risk

In yet another blow to German chemical giant Bayer, a U.S. court recently dismissed the company’s proposed $2 billion settlement as unconscionable in seeking to prevent future legal claims from cancer victims exposed to Roundup.

Corporations, environmental healthChristy SpeesJune 10, 2021glyphosate, Pesticides, christy-spees

As You Talk: Favoring Profits Over Values Requires Corporations to Behave like Sociopaths

Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow and retired corporate attorney James Gamble lead a lively conversation about corporate governance, and how the law of fiduciary duty requires corporations to put profits before other values and obligates institutions to behave only in their own self-interest.