Trillium Co-CEO and Chief Investment Officer Adam Seitchik, Ph.D, CFA, talked with Bloomberg News his view on the market. 
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Like so many other Americans, we at Trillium are excited and inspired by the possibilities for change brought by President-elect Obama and the new Congress. 
 
As social investors, we are particularly motivated by the possibility of new opportunities to invest in advancing social justice, protecting the environment, and building sustainable commerce.  There are clear opportunities to […]

The Securities and Exchange Commission has asked investors and investment advisers to help them engage in “a fundamental rethinking of financial disclosure, beginning with the basic purposes of disclosure from the perspective of investors and markets.” This sounds too good to be true, because in a sense it is. The 21st Century Disclosure Initiative, as […]

For years before the financial meltdown, members of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) sat down with key executives of the nation’s largest financial institutions to consider the social impacts and high risk associated with many of the practices that contributed to the current crisis. A recent statement from ICCR says, “Had the eerily […]

For our 2008 advocacy efforts, we’re pleased to report a fair amount of progress — never as much as we’d like (we’d like superhero powers), but enough to confirm that shareholder activism remains a potent tool for change.
Climate change. Our shareholder resolution at ConocoPhillips requesting a report on the environmental and social impacts of tar […]

Creating new business models that integrate people, planet and profit is a creative challenge. State and federal laws differentiate between for-profit and nonprofit entities, but what about the mission-driven, for-profit corporation? Or the risk-taking nonprofit social enterprise? Neither fish nor foul, progressive corporations can create significant social value, but often without the tax breaks […]

You’ve heard about conflict diamonds. Now get ready for “conflict coltan.” Coltan is an ore mined in several countries including the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Processed coltan yields valuable tantalum, a component in electric capacitors found in cell phones, laptops, DVD players and game consoles.
But tantalum doesn’t come cheap. The U.N. Security Council […]

Overview
Boston Community Loan Fund (BCLF) was established in 1985 by socially responsible investors with a focus on lending to nonprofits for affordable housing in Boston.
In 1994, BCLF established Boston Community Capital (BCC), a nonprofit holding company, to respond to new credit and capital needs in low-income communities.  BCLF became an affiliate of BCC. They also […]

ProLogis (PLD - NYSE) is a real estate investment trust (REIT) that owns and operates the world’s largest portfolio of warehouses and distribution centers. The company has a notably strong environmental profile, with an emphasis on energy efficiency and green building. PLD owns almost 2,700 properties in 20 countries in North America (73 percent), Europe […]

Having completed the acquisition of Macromedia in 2005, Adobe is one of the most diversified software providers in terms of breadth of products as well as customer base. Best known for its venerable Flash® (dynamic digital content), Illustrator® (graphic artwork), Photoshop® (photo editing), Dreamweaver® (web development) and Acrobat® (document creation and distribution) product lines, Adobe […]