In Memoriam: Anita Roddick, Frizzy-Haired Lady Who Pioneered Social Responsibility in Business
Anita Roddick, fiery founder of the Body Shop cosmetic stores, died last September 11. She was only 64. No one who ever met Anita is likely to forget the passion, energy and dedication that she brought to building the Body Shop into an […]
“FOODFIGHT: The Citizen’s Guide to a Food and Farm Bill” by Daniel Imhoff.
Who Says We Have Made No Progress?
Seventy years ago John Maynard Keynes invented modern macroeconomics in response to the crisis of the Great Depression and the mass unemployment that it engendered. His solution was to create high levels of economic activity - not necessarily for the goods this produced, but for the jobs. To this day, economy-wide (GDP) growth […]
Media reform is essentially the watershed issue that affects everything from the environment to the quality of our electoral process
If you don’t think we live in a bizarre world, you need to catch up with the latest contretemps over health and cigarette smoking.
Hedge funds are a mystery to most people, starting with the name. A “hedge” sounds like something to reduce risk.
“Any newspaper that doesn’t carry comic strips takes itself far too seriously.”
Investors with Trillium managed portfolios know that an important part of our investment discipline is diversification across economic sectors. We are often asked if, due to social screens, we have trouble finding investment opportunities in certain sectors and the answer is almost always no (with some client-directed exceptions). Our policy is to under- or […]
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