Tag: Corporate Responsibility - Page 11
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Merrell Takes a World View to Get Us Outside
Merrell makes shoes for the outdoors (as well as some apparel and bags), so it seems fair and reasonable that their mission and marketing manta might be, "Let's Get Outside." To share this mission Merrell support a
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Donald Trump's Scottish Golf Course Becomes Mini-Golf
The Donald is having a bad month. First his presidential campaign flopped and now his Scottish golf course development has too.
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Observer Ethical Award Winners Set the Standard
The Observer Ethical Awards are an annual celebration of the best of the British activists in the environmental world. It honours groups and individuals who have raised the bar when it comes to ethical and sustainable products and
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London's 2012 Olympic Torch Isn't Green Enough
The Olympic Torch is such an important symbol of the games. Passed from hand to hand by 8,000 torch bearers, it is an inspirational emblem for the host country.
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Marketing Should be the By-Product of Corporate Ethics, not the Root
Photo credit: dotjay/Creative Commons Corporate ethics is one of the most critical components of the green tech revolution today. The foundation of sustainable product design is innovation in base materials, novel new green chemistries that replace
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REACHing the People: Europe Assesses Public Understanding of Chemicals
Europe's REACH Regulation modernizes governmental approach to controlling the chemicals we are exposed to in our everyday lives. Industry has been involved in a massive effort to re-review all available data on the chemicals in their
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Beyond LEED to Net Zero Energy: RFK Jr., Suzuki and Sinclair's Keynotes at Sustainability Summit
A solar-powered health clinic traveling on a camel. Windmills on Bangladesh tut-tuts recharges cell phones. Military bases converted to civic spaces. A
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Cable Cars and Floating Parks to be Built Along Thames River
All kinds of new modes of transport and parks are being built in London for the 2012 Olympics. It is getting pretty exciting: every week there's a new announcement of something different.
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Become a National Trust Farmer Online
Being a farmer sounds romantic and clean and pure...but if you don't have time and can't give up the day job, here's a way to still get a taste of it.
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Warren Buffett Rejects Emissions Goals for Berkshire Hathaway
Berkshire Hathaway held its shareholder meeting this weekend. The good news is that a measure was introduced to establish greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals, and had some strong support. The bad news is that it was overwhelmingly
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Dollar Bills Make Good Art
This series of work, all using old folded American dollar bills of different denominations, is a
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Tour Facebook's New Energy Efficient Data Center (Video)
Facebook just opened their newest data center, which they've pushed to make as energy efficient as possible. In fact, it even inspired the Open Compute project in which they open source every last detail about the data
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Sodexo Expands Meatless Mondays to Government & Corporate Offices
Earlier this year, Sodexo took the initiative to publicize vegetarian options through Meatless Mondays in more than 900 hospitals. Now, it's rolling the program out to more than 2,000 government and corporate clients including
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Do We Need Flame Retardants In Our Furniture and Electronics?
What is it with Astroturfers and kids? Whenever there is a "grass roots" campaign, like Citizens for Fire Safety, they fill their websites with kids. Does this one tell them that their bodies are bioaccumulating brominated flame retardants, that,
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Companies: If You're Going to Kill a Product, Open Source It!
The Make blog has a great post bringing up the idea that if a company is going to discontinue a product, such as what Cisco recently did with the FlipCam, then they should at least open source it so that makers can hack, modify, upgrade, or at the very
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FYE Shoes - Fashionable, Affordable, Green & Responsible Footwear from France
Shoe lovers have more and more choice when it comes to buying eco-friendly shoes: Simple Shoes, Worn Again or TOMS are just a few of my favourites and I just found a new brand from France. FYE (for your earth) is a relatively young company that started
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High Levels of Flame Retardants Found in Dogs
Researchers at Indiana University have found flame retardants in the blood of pet dogs at levels five to ten times higher than typically found in humans. Could dogs be the canary in the coal mine for how accumulating polybrominated
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Lush Cosmetics Does the Right Thing
Photo: lush, Street Party Ballistics Lush Cosmetics is the green cosmetic company that split off from the Body Shop in the '90's. Still privately owned by the original founder, Mark Constantine, they sell environmentally friendly soap and paraphernalia
