Morningstar and the democratization of ESG information

Morningstar’s new sustainability ranking for mutual funds will be applied to 21,000 funds globally, but does the larger investment community even care?

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The future of reporting: Goodbye, annual PDFs; hello, real-time feeds

Don’t get too excited about the death of the yearly corporate sustainability report. Soon reporting will be always on, wide open and searchable, says the Global Reporting Initiative.

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Holly Fowler: Sodexo can be a sustainability game-changer

Sodexo's senior CSR director discusses a growing emphasis on food as part of the larger sustainability discussion.

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Holly Fowler: Sodexo can be a sustainability game-changer

Smart grid wins: 10 companies that hit it big

Companies from ABB to Ambient made big gains this summer.

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iPhone 4S Disappoints, Underscores Apple’s Planned Obsolescence Strategy

Screengrab via Gizmodo video The iPhone 4S. Apple’s latest. Everyone who cares about gadgets was waiting on pins and needles to hear about the release of the the latest, newest, ooooooh-est iPhone from Apple. And nearly everyone was disappointed by what was actually released. If anything, the iPhone 4S is proof, yet again, that Apple could give a _ _ _ _ about the environment in the larger scheme of things. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Less Sharks Mean an Ocean Jam-Packed With Sardines

Photo: Jacob Davies Sardines have made a serious comeback in terms of sustainable food trends . Sardines are on the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch green list . There’s also an over population of sardines as a result of a lack of predators, namely sharks and other larger fish species, according to a story in the

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Be Generous for Streetsblog NYC’s First Fundraiser

Image: Screen capture from Streetsblog.org We Need More Orgs Like StreetsBlog! Our friends at StreetsBlog NYC are in the middle of their first fundraiser ever. The first four years of their existence were funded by a very generous single donor (thanks, Mark Gorton !), but they now need help from the larger community to keep going.

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F1 Racing to Downsize from V8s to 4-Cylinder Engines in 2013

Photo: Flickr , CC A Smaller VRRRRRRRRRRROOOOMMMM The FIA’s World Motor Sport Council has approved new specs for Formula One, and starting in 2013, F1s will see a huge engines downsizing (more details on this below) and the addition of new fuel-saving technologies.

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F1 Racing to Downsize from V8s to 4-Cylinder Engines in 2013