Latest Stories in Corporate Responsibility - Page 11
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Straw Wars is a Campaign to Ban the Use of Straws in London's Restaurants
No straws in restaurants? MacDonalds are you listening?
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How ETSY Is Changing the Way We All Do Business
The online craft market place becomes a certified B Corp, and announces $40m in new funding. This could be a great thing for all of us.
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More and More People, Cities and States Support Overturning Citizens United
Which is a very good thing, considering the corrupting influence corporate spending in elections has had on US democracy.
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Shareholders Call on Bank of America to Stop Funding Mountaintop Removal
At a raucous protest inside and outside of its annual shareholder meeting, activists hit B of A for bankrolling coal.
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Microsoft Imposes a Carbon Price on Itself
The tech giant announced that it will be carbon neutral by the next fiscal year. To do so, it's essentially enacting a carbon pricing system on its own operations.
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Anti-Climate Group Compares 62% of Americans to Serial Killers, Loses $1 Million in Sponsors
The Heartland Institute's position was too extreme for many high-profile donors and supporters, who quickly distanced themselves from their latest ill-advised ad campaign.
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Ma Jun Takes on Technology, Apparel Industries and Chinese Government to Fight Factory Pollution
Though they have no regulatory authority, Jun and IPE have managed to get more than 500 companies to publicly disclose plans to reduce pollution, including some of the world's biggest brands—Wal-Mart, Nike, GE, Coca Cola, H&M, Sony, and Unilever.
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Illegal Amazon Gold: Fight to Protect the Amazon Unites Celebrity Artists, War Journalists, and You
"How are we going to protect it if we don't understand what's at stake?"
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Safeway, Whole Foods Get Greenpeace Green Rating For Seafood Sales
For the first time ever Greenpeace has given a US seafood retailer (in fact two of them) a green rating. There are some notable laggards though.
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Global Warming is a Hoax, and Wind Turbines are Causing It
Nay-saying pundits admit climate change exists when it allows them to make fun of other liberal policies.
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Drink Bottles Recycled Today in Times Square will be Converted into a School Garden (UPDATE)
Turn trash into a school garden in Harlem by recycling drink bottles in Times Square today.
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Burger King Pledges to Go Completely Cage-Free
In a surprising announcement, the major restaurant chain has pledged to change the way its food is produced.
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Greenpeace Pranks Apple at Flagship Stores, Calls for an End to the Coal-Powered Cloud
Greenpeace activists loosed black balloons in three flagship Apple stores today, protesting the company's reliance on coal to power the cloud.
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Turkana Woman Fights Ethiopia, Kenya Dam Project in the Already Arid, Conflict-Prone Region
"The Ministry of Energy has insisted that they need this energy. What we are questioning is—how was the agreement reached, what is the cost of purchasing this power?"
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From Fracking to Water Rights: How Foreign Interests Are Cleaning Out Africa
“Africa will be the backbone of our production and growth in the next 10 years.”
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The Big Part of Walmart's Eco-Impact the Bentonville Behemoth Forgot
The Institute for Local Self-Reliance reminds us that Walmart's basic development pattern has a huge environmental impact, and doesn't feature in its latest sustainability report at all.
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Buy-One-Give-One: Not Always As Generous As It Sounds
It’s hard not to feel great when you buy BOGO making someone’s life better in some way. Or is it? Ethical Ocean founder Chad Hamre weighs in.
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Can Social Media Really Help Make a Difference for the Environment?
Social media helps everyone connect - but what about real action?
