[We're pleased to excerpt this press release from Ceres, the Investor Network on Climate Risk and the Environmental Defense Fund. Trillium Asset Management Corporation participated heavily in the lobbying efforts that lead to this breakthrough.]
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Peyton Fleming, Ceres, 617-733-6660 or fleming@ceres.org
Steve Tripoli, Ceres, 617-247-0700 x155 or tripoli@ceres.org
Sharyn Stein, EDF, 202-572-3396 or sstein@edf.org
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Knowledge is power? Not according to Google and Microsoft. These firms and many others have recently rolled out energy efficiency tools designed for consumers to use on the emerging smart grid. The hope is that knowledge will bring less power, fewer blackouts and reduced carbon emissions.
Investors are beginning to sit up and take notice of [...]

The Green Century Balanced Fund, which is subadvised by Trillium, just announced that it is the first U.S.-based mutual fund to disclose its carbon footprint. 
The carbon footprint analysis was conducted by Trucost, and the results indicate that the carbon intensity of the Balanced Fund is two-thirds less than that of the S&P 500 Index.
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In a precedent setting victory, a shareholder resolution filed by Trillium Asset Management Corporation (”Trillium”), As You Sow, and Calvert that asked Idaho Power to establish greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets received 52% of the vote.  This is the first time a climate change resolution has received a majority vote — the first majority vote recorded for [...]

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Climate Change Shareholder Resolution Wins Majority at IDACORP
PR Newswire, May 21, 2009

We’re 25!
This year marks the 25th anniversary of Trillium Asset Management Corporation (”Trillium”). We’ve done a lot of learning and experimenting, had some adventures and even birthed some offspring (spinoff organizations, that is). As part of our ongoing celebration, in this issue we’ve pulled together excerpts from the last 25 years of Investing for a [...]

You hear a lot of talk from Wall Street these days about how climate change presents “unprecedented business risks and opportunities.” While investment action doesn’t yet fully match this rhetoric, many major firms are establish­ing research shops focused on the investment implications of climate change. Some of the early (and quite excellent) work has been [...]

One of the most amaz­ing days of my professional life was the day more than a decade ago that I spent as keynote speaker for a conference of the people in charge of General Motors’ environmental policies and procedures in plants around North America. There were hundreds of them, many of whom had Ph.D.’s. They [...]

Adam Seitchik, Ph.D., CFA, Executive Vice President of Trillium Asset Management Corporation, recently authored Climate Change From the Investor’s Perspective. This is part of the “Growing The Economy through Global Warming Solutions” series of reports developed by the Civil Society Institute (www.civilsocietyinstitute.org), a non-profit organization dedicated to finding solutions [...]