In the most recent year of data, Americans spent almost $9 billion on pesticides for agricultural use. Benchmarks outlined in a new report from As You Sow, titled “Pesticides in the Pantry: Transparency & Risk in Food Supply Chains,” identify the degree to which major food manufacturers have adopted practices to measure and mitigate risks related to the use of synthetic pesticides in agricultural supply chains. Read More →
Read More“There has been this history of making big, grand promises on recycling and not following through,” says Conrad MacKerron, senior vice president of As You Sow, an organization that prods big corporations on environmental performance. Read More →
Read MoreAs You Sow's McBee said that there is reason to push companies to follow through on their 2025 pledges and do more. Read More →
Read More“These are the last people that need to have their pay accommodated,” said Rosanna Landis Weaver, a program manager at As You Sow, a non-profit focused on shareholder advocacy. “If it’s heads I win, tails I win almost as much -- that’s not pay-for-performance. It’s just ridiculous.” Read More →
Read More“It was largely cosmetic,” says Rosanna Landis Weaver, program manager of the CEO pay program at shareholder advocacy group As You Sow. “Most of these companies issued huge press releases announcing they were doing something good by getting rid of their CEO salaries. They didn’t make big announcements when those salaries returned.” Read More →
Read MoreThe April 8 report from As You Sow argues that addressing climate change and moving to a net-zero carbon economy will lead to significant reduction in demand for fossil fuel-based products, creating the risk of stranded assets over the long term for plastics and petrochemicals. Read More →
Read MorePichai tops the new list of “100 Most Overpaid CEOs,” the seventh annual report published by As You Sow, a nonprofit promoting corporate social responsibility through shareholder advocacy. The report, subtitled “Are Fund Managers Asleep at the Wheel?” finds that, while shareholder opposition to this excess is growing, many of the biggest financial fiduciaries still did not vote against excessive CEO pay in last year’s annual shareholder meetings. Read More →
Read MoreCEOs like Alphabet's Sundar Pichai and Microsoft's Satya Nadella are among the top 100 most overpaid CEOs, according to a new report from As You Sow.
It's no secret that CEOs of S&P 500 companies make good money. However, As You Sow's list doesn't rank by the size of a CEO's salary. Instead, the corporate responsibility non-profit uses different metrics to identify whether or not a CEO is being overpaid. Read More →
Read MoreAs pressure builds to find a solution to the current status quo around plastics management, the recycling industry is increasingly being asked how it will play a part. This report, and another previously released by Waste Management, were the result of shareholder resolutions led by As You Sow. Read More →
Read MoreThis release follows a shareholder resolution from Trillium Asset Management and As You Sow earlier this year that sought new data on the plastics recycling systems and relevant policies of the nation's largest residential recycler. Read More →
Read MoreAs You Sow was named #1 Top Corporate Watchdog. As a socially-conscious consumer or investor, how do you determine which corporations are fulfilling their social and environmental responsibilities (and are deserving of your money)? Read More →
Read MoreThe need for awareness around this issue is heightened this year with new data from the nonprofit As You Sow, which focuses on corporate social responsibility. Read More →
Read MoreMany major consumer product companies are failing to address widespread plastic pollution despite their recycling goals, according to nonprofit corporate responsibility and shareholder advocacy group As You Sow. Read More →
Read MoreWalmart Inc., PepsiCo Inc., Domino's Pizza Inc. and the Hershey Co. received low marks for their efforts to address the global plastic waste crisis in a new report. Read More →
Read MoreThe largest consumer product makers and retailers in the U.S. are doing a poor job of making their plastic packaging more responsible and financially supporting efforts to boost recycling, according to a new report from socially responsible investment advisory group As You Sow. Read More →
Read MoreUnilever scored highest out of the 50 large companies in a new report from the nonprofit As You Sow, but still only earned a grade of B–. PepsiCo, despite some experiments with packaging-free refill stations, earned a D+. Fifteen companies got failing grades, including Whole Foods, Tyson Foods, and Hershey’s. Read More →
MAKING THE GRADE — Corporate America has a long way to go to clean up its plastic problem, but there are some signs of progress in a new report out today from As You Sow, a shareholder advocacy group. Read More →
Read MoreReferring to a recent policy change by the Business Roundtable to endorse stakeholder capitalism, driven in part by shareholder advocacy, As You Sow CEO Andrew Behar said in the same statement that the 2020 proxy season "will test if investors and companies will help define a new economic paradigm or if these endorsements are just empty words." Read More →
Read MoreClimate change and corporations’ responses to it also are of primary importance to shareholders, according to the 2020 Proxy Preview report released Thursday. The report on the resolutions was compiled by As You Sow, Proxy Impact and other consumer advocacy organizations. Read More →
Read MoreFor anyone wondering whether a company’s prosperity is being shared with workers in the form of rising median pay, the mandated reports may provide few real answers. “That’s unfortunate,” said Rosanna Landis Weaver of As You Sow, a nonprofit that lobbied for the disclosure rule. “There just seems to be a deep reluctance to disclose the inequalities that exist within corporations. Companies have resisted this rule for year and years and years — and they are still.” Read More →
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