Who’s Banking on Coal?

A new report from the Rainforest Action Network, BankTrack, and the Sierra Club evaluates which of the nation’s mega-banks provide the most money to the coal industry. Based on an analysis of the number of transactions that a bank was involved in, Bank of America...

Jeffrey Hollender Named Fall 2012 NYU Professor

May 2012 — This fall of 2012, Jeffrey will teach “Sustaining Social Change in the New Economy: Opportunities and challenges for a just and equitable future” at New York University. The class is sponsored by, and was developed in conjunction with, the...

Tell AT&T: Drop Your Support of ALEC!

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is a membership association that legislators and corporations pay to be a part of. In return, ALEC hands “model” bills from corporations to legislators advocating changes in the law to directly benefit the business’...

Checking in on Unilever’s Sustainability Progress

Recently, Unilever and CEO Paul Polman have been one of my favorite examples of brave and unparallel leadership in the sustainability space. Unilever recently announced its progress one year into the implementation of its “Sustainable Living Plan,” providing a great...

Jeffrey Hollender to be inducted into SVN Hall of Fame

This press release was originally published on CSRwire and is accessible here. May 2012 —  Social Venture Network (SVN) just announced the second group of inductees into the SVN Hall of Fame. Five “Environmental Evangelists” will be presented with the SVN Impact...

Disgraced Executives Still Serving on Corporate Boards

Why is the former chief of Fannie Mae still a director of a public company as prominent as Goldman Sachs and Target? How can Charles O. Prince III, the former chief executive of Citigroup, who resigned under pressure in 2007 amid huge write-downs at the bank, be an...

America’s Top Consumers of Renewable Energy

Recently, the EPA announced the 50 organizations that are using more than 15 terawatts (that’s a lot!) of clean energy annually. These 50 are avoiding carbon pollution equal to that created by the electricity used by more than 1.3 million U.S. homes each year. That’s...