Whereas:
The environmental and social impacts of palm oil, an ingredient in our Company’s supply chain, make it highly controversial. Accordingly, we believe the Company’s failure to procure certified sustainable palm oil is a brand risk, to both our Company’s reputation and long-term to the security of supply.
Approximately 85% of palm oil is grown in Indonesia [...]

WHEREAS:
ExxonMobil has significant investments in the Canadian oil sands. 
ExxonMobil owns 69.6 percent of Imperial Oil, one of Canada’s largest oil companies. Imperial is 100 percent owner of the Cold Lake oil sands project and is the operator and 25 percent owner of Syncrude. ExxonMobil and Imperial jointly own and operate 100 percent of the Kearl [...]

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 [...]

WHEREAS
Our company is one of the four largest coffee companies in the world. It provides industry leadership through its Folgers brand not only in consumer expectations, but also with regard to pricing.
The coffee business is critically important for our company by providing approximately 40% of our company’s revenue. It is equally important to the well-being [...]

In a show of how seriously investors, environmentalists and advocates are looking at the environmental costs and financial uncertainties associated with tar sands, support has grown dramatically for shareholder resolutions filed at major oil companies. This movement parallels increased activity on the part of more than 50 nongovernmental organizations working to slow down the expansion [...]

WHEREAS
Environmental expertise is critical to the success of companies in the energy industry because of the significant environmental issues associated with their operations.  Shareholders, lenders, host country governments and regulators, and affected communities are focused on these impacts.   A company’s inability to demonstrate that its environmental policies and practices are in line with internationally accepted [...]

In early June, I traveled with members of the Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) through Louisiana’s heavily industrialized and highly polluted 85-mile stretch between New Orleans and Baton Rouge known as “Cancer Alley,” then further west to the town of Mossville, a cancer alley unto its own. Our guides were leaders from local environmental [...]

by Jonas Kron
Google is a company that we often point to when asked to name companies that address environmental and social issues constructively. The company’s RE<C (Renewable Energy Cheaper Than Coal) is a groundbreaking initiative that will help change the power landscape, creating opportunities to advance solar thermal power, wind power technologies, and enhanced geothermal [...]

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Boston, MA (April 27, 2009) ­ Trillium Asset Management Corporation (“Trillium”) is joining two nonprofit advocacy organizations, the International Labor Rights Forum and the International Rivers Network, in calling on fellow Berkshire Hathaway investors to back a proposal on the agenda for the company’s upcoming May 2, 2009 annual [...]