A busy proxy season for As You Sow’s Circular Economy program was highlighted by agreements with Hormel Foods to cut packaging use by 10 million pounds by 2030 and establish a new working group on Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), and by YUM! Brands, the world’s largest restaurant company, to report on opportunities for switching to permanent reusable packaging.
Read More
This proposal calls on Alphabet’s 401(k) team to protect its employees’ life savings from the economic consequences of climate change. Though Alphabet’s climate goals acknowledge climate risk, shareholders and employees ask Alphabet to address retirement assets invested towards climate related financial risks and offer better, climate-safe investment options.
Read More
This proposal asks our Company to evaluate extending our responsibility for our packaging beyond the point of sale and through to the packaging’s end-of-life. Some opportunities to achieve this could include using less plastic, exploring reusable and package-free alternatives, and making sure that the disposable packaging we do use is always collected and recycled.
Read More
Studio executives are at an inherent disadvantage in the War of Words that defines the WAG/SAG-AFTRA strikes. The people who make programs we love funny are on the other side of the picket line, and their way with words brings people to their side.
Read More
Employees’ investments in 401(k) plans generally represent a significant portion of their life savings. Microsoft has a duty to address the growing risk that climate change poses to pension fund assets, now, and in the future.
Read More
Employee investments in 401(k) plans generally represent a significant portion of their life savings. Campbell’s has a duty to address the growing risk that climate change poses to pension fund assets, now, and into the future.
Read More
In an embrace of a post-pollution future, As You Sow’s Waste Program has rebooted itself as the more aptly titled Circular Economy Program – and we couldn’t be more excited!
Read More
Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow, joins Casey Hogue, the host of Darts in the Dark Podcast, to discuss the history of As You Sow and its mission, conscious consumerism, the 4th industrial age, and more.
Read More
In an October 2022 episode of Voice of America: Africa News Tonight, Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow was interviewed about climate inflation. He explained that the root cause of current inflation is extreme weather . . .
Read More
In order to allow their investors to understand their workplace diversity, 87 of the S&P 100 companies have released or have committed to releasing their EEO-1 form, a standardized, government mandated accounting of diversity of gender race and ethnicity by employment levels.
Read More
As You Sow has been engaging Facebook, now Meta, with similar resolutions for the past five years asking our company to take responsibility for the material damage to our brand caused by dangerous and criminal behavior, hate speech, and disinformation on our platform.
Read More
Without immediate and sustained action, the annual flow of plastic into world oceans could nearly triple from 11 million metric tons to 29 million metric tons by 2040.
Read More
One hundred million Americans are contributing to 401(k) retirement plans, but few know that many of these plans invest in fossil fuels, deforestation, private prisons and other companies that may not be aligned with their values.
Read More
Andy joins Sloane and Ashby to discuss how investors can use their proxy voting power to push their portfolio companies to make positive changes.
Read More
This second annual Top Corporate Watchdogs report highlights what we see as the best independent sources of information on corporate impact. We use many of these sources in our ratings of company and fund impact at Ethos.
Read More
This second annual Top Corporate Watchdogs report highlights what we see as the best independent sources of information on corporate impact. We use many of these sources in our ratings of company and fund impact at Ethos.
Read More
As You Sow has begun to analyze the specifics of whether and how companies include greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction targets as separate, explicit metrics in their executive compensation plans.
Read More
The International Ocean Film Festival has designated As You Sow as one of its Ocean Heroes, groups whose mission helps protect oceans and marine life, and we are recognized on their Ocean Heroes page.
Read More
As You Sow grieves with those impacted by the recent string of murders in Northern Georgia that have left eight people dead, six of whom were Asian women.
Read More
An original Letter to CEOs came from BlackRock CEO Larry Fink. Andrew Behar, shareholder advocate and As You Sow CEO redlined the letter and sent it back to Mr. Fink. =
Read More