With the holiday season over, many of us may have already begun daydreaming about what tropical location we want to book flights to with hopes of escaping the winter blues upon us. Well our recent Environmental Update addresses a hot topic and I don’t mean tropical hot!
Our latest email newsletter addressed the issue of sustainable toys, including how companies, such as Matel and Hasboro, are making sure that their products aren’t destroying the rainforest. In addition to improving packaging and paper sourcing techniques, some companies have made sustainability the entire focus of their toy lines, manufacturing their products from renewable sources and recycledContinue Reading
A few days ago, we wrote a post about how car companies are really amping up their sustainability efforts. But they’re not the only ones. Just last week, the airline industry made positive strives towards decreasing their carbon footprint with Virgin Atlantic’s announcement of a new low-carbon jet fuel for use on passenger planes. VirginContinue Reading
Milton Hershey is known for creating utopic towns for his employees and the renowned Hershey school for disadvantaged youth. If he were alive today, we wonder what his thoughts would be on the debate of current working conditions at the cocoa suppliers that Hershey uses to make its chocolate bars. Hershey is America’s favorite chocolateContinue Reading
A few weeks ago, we quickly announced that the Chevron ballot is available to vote on Moxy Vote, complete with seven shareholder resolutions with topics ranging from human rights to the environment. However, one shareholder issue on both the Chevron (CVX) and Ultra Petroleum (UPL) ballots, available as of this week for voting, is particularlyContinue Reading
This week, four major ballots hit Moxy Vote, featuring two main resolution topics: the environment and employee non-discrimination policies. Both Home Depot (HD) and Wal-Mart (WMT) have shareholder resolutions on their proxy ballots promoting greater employee diversity, tolerance, and opportunity. Home Depot’s equal employment opportunity (EEO) disclosure shareholder proposal asks the company to report onContinue Reading
This past week, the new ballots on Moxy Vote had quite a diverse selection of shareholder resolutions. For example, the McDonald’s ballot has a total of four shareholder resolutions, three of which are supported by our Advocates. The resolution submitted by PETA asks McDonald’s and their suppliers to implement controlled atmosphere killing (CAK), a moreContinue Reading
Throughout the proxy season, we want to keep our readers informed about the current ballots on Moxy Vote. Over the past few weeks, ballots have been flooding in, and our users have been busy voting. Here are some of the hottest ballots and resolutions currently up for vote on Moxy Vote. ITT, Halliburton, and BoeingContinue Reading
Today marks an exciting end to a busy week! Since Monday, we have added five new Advocates on our site – Green America, Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays, ProxyAnalyst, Trillium Asset Management and Walden Asset Management. We hope this diverse group will contribute plenty of guidance and opinions in the coming weeks andContinue Reading
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