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2017 Proxy Season Wrap-up
The 2017 proxy season brought new highs and lows for shareholder advocates. The volume of shareholder voices reached new decibels this year, with record votes in support of climate risk disclosure at major energy companies Exxon Mobil, Occidental Petroleum, and… Read More >
Putting Sustainability Oversight Into the CEO’s Job Description
The average corporate CEO makes over $16 million per year. Although the image of the CEO goes hand in hand with office treadmills and bottomless cups of coffee, I sometimes wonder if they are, paradoxically, the most unmotivated people in… Read More >
Grocery Store Giant Commits to Fairer Wages for Farm Laborers
This summer, the parent company of Giant, Stop & Shop, and Peapod, Koninklijke Ahold NV joined the Coalition of Immokalee Workers’ (CIW) Fair Food Program, in one swoop increasing the number of U.S grocery stores carrying Fair Food tomatoes by… Read More >
A Real Buzzkill: Neonicotinoids
For a couple of weeks each spring, I find a few bumblebees — or their corpses — when I enter my home office in the morning. Massive, buzzing loudly, and flying confusedly about the room, the live ones must be… Read More >
General Mills Updates Pollinator Policies
Clean Yield Asset Management was pleased to withdraw a shareholder proposal at General Mills, co-filed with As You Sow Foundation, after a constructive dialogue resulting additional commitments by the company to support beleaguered pollinator populations. In so doing, General Mills… Read More >
Proxy Music
Readers, grab a cocktail and prepare to hear incredible but true tales from Clean Yield’s 2015 proxy season, a compendium of surprises both pleasant and unpleasant, some outright success stories, ironic twists, and at least one instance of bad luck.… Read More >
Clean Yield’s 2014 Proxy Season Wrap-Up
Forget Game of Thrones. The real drama this year concerned the fate of Clean Yield’s shareholder proposals and the outcomes of our dialogues with corporations. We’ve been in talks with HBO — for what seems like forever — about a… Read More >
Proxy Help Is On The Way!
April is the cruelest month, wrote T.S. Eliot, and he didn’t even have to deal with an influx of corporate proxy ballots, guiltily cluttering his in-box and begging to be voted in time for their respective stockholder meetings.
As we… Read More >
Remembering Rian/Dad
Every day since the passing this summer of my father and colleague, Rian Fried, I’m reminded of something else about him that I miss.
First and foremost, Dad was a natural advice-giver (a nice trait to have in our business),… Read More >
“Rian Fried: A Capitalist With A Social Conscience”
This article is reprinted with permission from the author. It appeared in the Barton (Vermont) Chronicle on July 10, 2013.
by Joseph Gresser
STANNARD — The new agricultural businesses that have flourished in the Northeast Kingdom over the… Read More >