Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow, teamed up with Illinois Environmental Council and its affiliates, elected leaders, and other experts to offer educational sessions about the issues facing our environment, food systems, infrastructure, and good governance.
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Tisha Schuller sits down with Danielle Fugere, President of As You Sow to learn about shareholder activism from the activist perspective. Shareholder resolutions are increasingly successful in pushing oil and gas companies to address climate concerns on activist terms.
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In early May, French company Total, became the latest investor-owned oil and gas company to come out with an ambitious-sounding climate announcement. Total stated its support for the “goals of the Paris Agreement”.
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Want to help build a regenerative economy? As You Sow and leading experts discussed how to rebuild economies in a clean and equitable way, how the natural world and human health are interconnected, and how stakeholder capitalism will help lead the way.
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As You Sow hosted a webinar, on April 22, to discuss the opportunities and risks of fossil free investing and how aligning investing with your values may be your safest path to a secure retirement portfolio. The webinar also included a tour of FossilFreeFunds.org.
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The window of opportunity to prevent catastrophic climate change is narrowing. The world is already experiencing harmful impacts surpassing earlier projections, and such harms will only increase as “business as usual” emissions continue.
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As You Sow and Friends of the Earth held a webinar on Deforestation Free Funds that explored what ordinary investors— and their fund managers — could do to move their money out of deforestation-risk commodities.
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On Jan. 23, As You Sow and Women of the World Endowment sponsored a webinar on gender-lens investing. We discussed how to build market awareness of gender-lens investing products to help scale investments that support gender equality.
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These 12 indicators measure policies that demonstrate a commitment to gender diversity and gender balance in the overall leadership, management, and workforce of companies, combining into an overall gender equality portfolio score for each mutual fund.
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Fast Company‘s third annual World Changing Ideas Awards drew nearly 2,000 submissions across 17 categories.
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At the beginning of the modern, health-conscious age, cereal giant General Mills faced a big problem. Traditional snacks and cereals were still profitable but were no longer growing in sales, as consumers of all kinds began to prefer healthier, more authentic food.
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As the Trump administration announces a weakening of Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards, it is important that American automakers do not ease up in their emission reductions.
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As millennial-aged employees now represent the majority of the U.S. workforce, it is increasingly important that corporate management finds ways to engage them in the company. Creating 401(k) plans which connect to their core values can be a huge advantage.
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Intolerance and hatred have no place in our country, or for that matter on our planet. We condemn the fear based violent actions by a minority of self-proclaimed racists. Their violence and anger must be met with unity by those who believe in equality, justice, and human rights for all.
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McDonald’s Corp. took an important environmental step forward by phasing out harmful polystyrene (PS) foam packaging for hot beverage cups in the U.S. following engagement with As You Sow in 2011 and 2012, but continues its use in overseas markets.
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This new legislation, which was heard by the Congressional Financial Services Committee on April 26 and advanced to the House of Representatives on May 4, would fundamentally impair investors’ rights to file shareholder resolutions.
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