Yearly Archives: 2016
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The Shareholder Action Guide Last month saw the release of “The Shareholder Action Guide,” our proud work distilling 25 years of experience into practical knowledge for every shareholder and investor who wants to create a … MORE
Welcome, Zoey!
Last month, we welcomed new Communications Associate Zoey Olbum to As You Sow. A graduate of the University of Puget Sound, an athlete, and a brand-new East Bay resident, Zoey joins our staff with a … MORE
Dakota Access Pipeline Action
The North Dakota Access Pipeline, intended to carry oil from the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota to a tank farm in Illinois, has become an important symbol of Indigenous people’s rights to protect their … MORE
Shareholder Advocate and Donor Profile
Eugene “Rod” Roddenberry The Roddenberry Foundation President & Director “In the 1960’s, a time of civil and social uncertainty and unrest, Gene Roddenberry created Star Trek, offering a vision for a future where diversity and … MORE
Continuing the Quest for Transparency in Minerals and Cotton Sourcing
By Patricia Jurewicz, Director, Responsible Sourcing Network (RSN) Conflict in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) remains one of the most salient humanitarian crises in the world, and minerals mined in the region continue … MORE
The 100 Most Overpaid CEOs Goes International
By Rosanna Landis Weaver, Manager, Power of the Proxy: Executive Compensation Program As we begin work on our third 100 Most Overpaid CEOs report with its expanded focus on how institutional funds vote on egregious … MORE
Big Oil and the Need to Adapt or Perish
By Danielle Fugere, President and Chief Counsel and Amelia Timbers, Manager, Energy Program After years of ignoring climate change science, in October, ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson finally admitted that climate change was both “real” and … MORE
Fossil Free Funds’ Game – Changing Carbon Footprinting
By Andrew Montes, Director, Digital Strategies Since we launched Fossil Free Funds a little over a year ago, over 25,000 visitors to the site have executed 100,000 searches; socially responsible fossil free funds have nearly … MORE
Ocean Plastics – Our Newest Initiative
By Conrad MacKerron, Senior Vice President With the findings from a recent study projecting that oceans will contain more plastic than fish by 2050, our long-running Waste Program is taking on the critical issue of … MORE
Taking on Antibiotics in our Food
By Austin Wilson, Manager, Environmental Health Program Antibiotics mismanagement, particularly at factory farms, is causing a rise of dangerous antibiotic-resistant bacteria in humans, raising the specter of a deadly post-antibiotic era. This past summer, we … MORE
Welcome from our CEO
In the 1960s, when Gene Roddenberry created Star Trek, he envisioned a world in which diversity, tolerance, and empathy are celebrated. That is the world we believe in. That is the world we demand — … MORE
More from As You Sow
Risks of Oil: Unconventional Risks: The Growing Uncertainty of Oil Investments reveals critical weaknesses in oil companies’ financial fundamentals and debunks the oil industry’s self-serving story about the impossibility of achieving a clean energy economy. … MORE
Welcome from our CEO
Welcome to our special fall edition of Seeds of Change. We are excited to give you a sneak peek into The Shareholder Action Guide, to be released on November 15 by Berrett Koehler Publishing. Hailed by Robert … MORE
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Welcome, Taraneh and Cody!
In April, As You Sow welcomed two new full-time staff members to the team. Taraneh Arhamsadr came on as Communications Director with over a decade of diverse experience in communications and outreach, focused primarily on … MORE
COMING SOON:
Glyphosate Report This summer, As You Sow will publish a report on the world’s most controversial herbicide. Our report will tell the story of glyphosate (sold by Monsanto under the brand name Roundup) and expose … MORE
CEO Pay: Those Who Rubber Stamp Pay are on Notice
By Rosanna Landis Weaver, Manager, Power of the Proxy: Executive Compensation Program As You Sow’s exposure of overpaid CEOs and the funds that support them gained traction with the publication of our second report, The 100 … MORE
Slavery-free Supply Chains
By Patricia Jurewicz, Director, Responsible Sourcing Network We’re happy to report that for the 2015 cotton harvest, the youngest children ages 7-15 in Uzbekistan were again kept out of the fields! Unfortunately, over a million … MORE
Incentivizing Big Oil to Transition to a Clean Energy Future
by Amelia Timbers, Manager, Energy Program This year, the Energy Program filed 27 shareholder resolutions and negotiated agreements with nine companies to move the extraction and utility industries to more quickly transition toward a clean … MORE
Shareholder Advocate and Donor Profile: George and Amanda Hanley, The Hanley Foundation
“Both personally and through our foundation work, we’ve been committed to doing our part in contributing to a better, more sustainable world for decades. Whether by promoting a stable climate, the transition to a clean … MORE
2016 Proxy Season Year-to-Date
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Is Your 401(k) Full of Climate Risk?
By Andrew Montes, Director, Digital Strategies Since we launched Fossil Free Funds – our online app allowing you to measure the climate risk of your mutual fund investments – we’ve seen a tremendous response from people … MORE
Chipotle and YUM! Deliver Leading Recycling Commitments
By Conrad MacKerron, Senior Vice President A lot more fast food packaging will be taking a circular trip for recycling, rather than a one-way trip to the landfill, thanks to our Waste program efforts. Fast … MORE
Lead in our Chocolate: Cleaning up the Food System
By Danielle Fugere, President and Chief Counsel As our nation grapples with entire towns exposed to lead in their drinking water, and experts agree that there is no safe amount for children, As You Sow’s … MORE
Super-shareholders Take on Superbugs
By Austin Wilson, Manager, Environmental Health Program The news about antibiotic resistance has been grim. This June, bacteria resistant to the antibiotic of last resort were found in the U.S., and a prominent economist suggests … MORE
Welcome from our CEO
The first half of 2016 has seen our team focused on a range of critical environmental, social, and governance issues that, taken together, continue to put profound pressure on corporate leaders toward greater transparency, equity, … MORE