As I write this column, the whole world seems to be coming apart. Unruly mobs of British youths rampaged through the streets of London, Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester, looting and torching. A bill everyone agrees is inadequate emerged from a divided U.S. Congress, raising the debt ceiling and calling for spending cuts of $900 billion [...]

The U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) announcement in August that it will try to block the proposed AT&T/T-Mobile merger in federal court is highly welcome news. One thing to keep in mind, however, is that even if the government is successful, AT&T’s will still be trying to squash net neutrality – the principle that it [...]

Note: This list includes “lead filings,” where Trillium Asset Management Corporation heads up a coalition of shareholder advocates, and “co-filings,” in which we participate in filings led by others. In the table below, our lead filings are indicated in bold.
The text for these resolutions can be found here.

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Milton Moskowitz
I was 18 when two atom bombs were dropped on Japan, and I remember feeling relieved because it meant that we probably would not need to sacrifice thousands of soldiers’ lives in a frontal invasion of the Japanese mainland. There were few dissenters to this action, which did accomplish its mission. Seeing the destruction [...]

Jonas Kron, JD
In the Winter 2011 issue of Investing For A Better World, our colleague Farnum Brown described shareholder advocacy as version 2.0 on SRI’s (socially responsible investment’s) travels towards 3.0, and discussed the importance of directly pressing companies to improve their environmental and social impacts. Similarly, Amy Domini of Domini Social Investments recently wrote [...]

Trillium and Calvert-Led Investor Coalition Asks EPA for Clean Water Act (CWA) Review for Pebble Copper and Gold Mine, Sited for the Headwaters of the Bristol Bay Fishery Reserve.
BOSTON///April 12, 2011///Nearly 30 investor organizations representing over $170 billion in assets are urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to initiate a review process under the [...]

In October, as the first snow of autumn begins to fall near Alaska’s Bristol Bay, I found myself visiting with a group of locals. Among them was Robin Samuelsen, a Yupik Eskimo and board member of the Bristol Bay Economic Development Corporation. The conversation began light and jovial as he fondly recalled fishing adventures with [...]

Everyone remembers his or her first car. Mine was the 1951 Raymond Loewy-designed Studebaker Champion. My father was also a Studebaker owner. The 1951 model was a big hit with designers, and it had respectable, if not sensational, sales. But the company went out of business in 1963 when it closed down its factory in [...]

Jonas Kron
Investors are increasingly recognizing the important role that stock exchanges can play in improving corporate sustainability reporting and ultimately a sustainable economy. Markets, where investors and companies meet, are driven by information. Because of this strategic position, the exchanges, through their listing requirements (which dictate the information corporations must disclose on an annual basis [...]

Milton Moskowitz
If Karl Marx was still living, I think he would probably be invited to ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange or at NASDAQ. Or, more likely, the Hong Kong or Shanghai stock markets. And why not? His penetrating analysis of capitalism’s tendency to self-destruct might well have inspired some Wall [...]