Natasha Lamb
As communities around the globe strive to meet ever-increasing energy demand and produce sustainable jobs and investments, we are at a crossroads where we must either aggressively adopt non-fossil fuel energy sources or risk exceeding the 2°C temperature rise already expected from the cumulative buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Mainstream conventional wisdom [...]

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 [...]

RESOLVED
Shareholders request that by April 2012, the Board of Directors provide a report to shareholders (at reasonable cost and excluding confidential and proprietary information) on how Sysco is assessing water risk to its agricultural supply chain and action it intends to take to mitigate the impact on long-term shareholder value.
SUPPORTING STATEMENT
Water management is an emerging [...]

[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.]
Contact:

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 [...]