Environmental Leader Patagonia Pioneers Sustainability Legal StatusEnvironmental LeaderThe legal status affords a company's directors legal cover to consider environmental and social benefits over financial returns. Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard – a long-time advocate of corporate environmental stewardship – and 11 CEOs from other …Patagonia Road Tests New Sustainability Legal StatusBloombergall 18 news articles » View full [...]
Bloomberg Patagonia Road Tests New Sustainability Legal StatusBloombergThe company, based in Ventura, announced it will become one of the state's first “Benefit Corporations,” a new legal structure that gives directors legal cover to consider social and environmental missions over financial returns. …Businesses seek state's new 'benefit corporation' statusLos Angeles TimesPatagonia Registers as First California Benefit [...]
The John Marshall Law School Initiates Sustainability Certificate to Meet …MarketWatch (press release)CHICAGO, Nov 18, 2011 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) — The John Marshall Law School in Chicago is offering students a new certificate program in sustainability centering on the emerging, interdisciplinary area of sustainability and its increasing …and more » View full post on law – [...]
USA Today Legal Sea Foods Stirs Sustainability Debate With New Ad CampaignSacramento BeeBy Legal Sea Foods BOSTON, Sept. 13, 2011 — /PRNewswire/ — A series of new television and print ads debuting next week from the famed Boston-based restaurant Legal Sea Foods may not sit well initially with some marine conservationists, …Legal Sea Foods Stirs [...]
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr President, Waterkeeper Alliance; Clinical Professor and Supervising Attorney Pace University School of Laws Environmental Litigation Clinic, “Our Environmental Destiny.” Sustainability, by one definition, means development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the needs of future generations. Other understandings contest this definition, asking whether it is too centered on [...]
Local student working to promote global sustainability A Douglas High School student recently returned from a seminar in Washington D.C. where he attended the People to People International eighth annual Global Youth Forum. Read more on Douglas Dispatch
Barbara Hendrickson Joins League as its Vice-President, Legal & Sustainability VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwire – 12/22/09) – League Assets Corp. announced today the appointment of Barbara Hendrickson as its new Vice-President, Legal and Sustainability, to complement its legal team — thus demonstrating its commitment to the community and the environment by helping move the investment industry [...]
