June 7, 2011
Boston, MA – Trillium Asset Management is pleased to announce that Paul Hilton, CFA, has joined the firm as a portfolio manager. Mr. Hilton has been involved in sustainable and responsible investing for over 15 years, working on both the investment and sustainability research and advocacy sides.
“We are delighted to have Paul join [...]

Boston, MA, June 1, 2011
Investors will cast their votes tomorrow at the annual meeting of The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) on a shareholder proposal calling on the company to prepare a diversity report. The resolution, filed by members of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility requests that the report include the following:
1. A chart identifying [...]

“The entire case is looming like a hammer over shareholders’ heads. Chevron should start fresh with a new approach that embraces environmental responsibility and risk management as part of its corporate culture. More legal proceedings will only delay the inevitable.” ~ New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli

Contact:
Shelley Alpern, Trillium   (617) 292-8026, x 248
Jonas Kron, Esq., Trillium   (503) 592-0864
Sanford Lewis, Esq.   (413) 549-7333
Boston, MA, May 23, 2011 – Trillium Asset Management (“Trillium”) has requested that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) undertake a staff review to examine whether Chevron Corp. has appropriately disclosed to its shareholders the scope and magnitude of financial [...]

Coalition of socially responsible investors seeks to protect the First Amendment rights of their investors 
Trillium Asset Management announced today that it has signed on to an amicus curiae brief in Western Tradition Partnership v. Attorney General of the State of Montana, currently before the Supreme Court of the State of Montana.  Trillium is joined by [...]

Building a Sustainable Global Economy: KLD Co-founder Peter Kinder and Root Capital’s William Foote Recipients of 2011 Bavaria Awards
May 11, 2011
OAKLAND—Socially responsible investing advocates Peter Kinder, co-founder and president until 2009 of KLD Research & Analytics, and William Foote, founder and CEO of Root Capital, were honored last night, May 10, by Ceres and Trillium [...]

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 [...]

Oil Companies Should Halt Revenue Payments to Government, Fund Civilian Recovery
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Twenty-four institutional investors, including Trillium Asset Management, called on oil companies doing business in Libya to halt revenue or other payments to the Libyan government. The investors have called on oil companies to place revenue payments into a Libya Recovery Fund that [...]

Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT) and Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) have revised their policies on  political spending in the aftermath of the nationwide controversy that erupted following last summer’s contributions to MN Forward, an independent political committee that funneled money to a gubernatorial candidate known for his extreme opposition to lesbian and gay civil rights. The [...]

January 21, 2011
Trillium Files Resolution with Anadarko Petroleum to Spur More Responsible “Fracking” Practices
BOSTON – Leading U.S. investors today announced they have filed shareholder resolutions with nine oil and gas companies, pressing them to disclose their plans for managing water pollution, litigation and regulatory risks that are increasingly associated with ever-expanding natural gas hydraulic fracturing [...]