Tag: ethical corporations
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November 25, 2009 10:49 AM EST --
After speaking about the benefits of doing your best to be an ethical shopper and buying locall y when you can, this can be confused with buying sustainably. Food sustainability is different in . . .
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November 25, 2009 10:56 AM EST --
Part four of the American Policy portion of the Climate Change Policy Series : Act America, act now, sooner than later. Climate change inaction stands to cost Americans trillions of dollars due . . .
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July 23, 2009 10:25 AM EDT --
I've written in a number of previous blogs that issues over fairness and conflicts between teaching and preaching would become ever more apparent in the lead-up to Copenhagen. Last week, during . . .
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October 09, 2009 10:18 AM EDT --
Climate change experts have documented an increase in the intensity of North Atlantic tropical cyclone. Predictions are being made that the rise in temperature will increase the intensity of hurricanes . . .
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October 27, 2009 11:54 AM EDT --
To be clear. I'm a R.E.G. - A Renewable Energy Gal - and proud of it. I've got a particular fondness for Renewable Energy Guys- men who can look at a wind turbine and know how its made, fix a solar . . .
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July 22, 2009 11:48 AM EDT --
It baffles me that so much attention is paid to where a wine comes from, how it was grown, aged, stored and this scrupulous attention to the like in what we eat has only begun to come about recently. . . .
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November 03, 2009 10:56 AM EST --
In an attempt to encourage sustainable investment, approximately 2.2 billion dollars were released by the United States treasury in new bonds. This move is being considered a great kick-start for the . . .
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July 17, 2009 11:06 AM EDT --
Today, some great news greeted me in the pages of the Guardian: the UK has halved its plastic bag consumption simply because consumers have said no .
From 2007 to 2009, plastic bag use has been . . .
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July 20, 2009 10:01 AM EDT --
This week the UK government announced that it would move forward with its plans to create four new 'eco-towns'. The details of these towns are fuzzy but the general idea is that these towns will be . . .
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August 04, 2009 10:24 AM EDT --
A few people have asked me what I, as an ethical consumer, think about the Cash for Clunkers program. This extremely popular program allows individuals to receive a federal subsidy when they trade in . . .
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August 28, 2009 12:10 PM EDT --
The other day I was chatting with a friend about how well the Economist has been covering climate change and particularly the international elements. He was surprised because, "it was an environmental . . .
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July 17, 2009 11:10 AM EDT --
American baseball fans don't mind steroids. At least according to Sports Illustrated senior writer Frank Deford. In his NPR sports commentary this week , Deford describes baseball fans' seeming . . .
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July 22, 2009 11:50 AM EDT --
The weekend Financial Times has a fascinating article for anyone interested in the technology of social change: how termite structures are shaping the future of print-on-demand sustainable architecture. . . .
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July 23, 2009 10:27 AM EDT --
Yesterday, NY Times columnist David Leonhardt argued that President Obama must convince Americans that the country's health care costs outweigh the benefits. After observing my grandmother struggle . . .
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August 14, 2009 09:12 AM EDT --
The concept of micro-loans won Muhammad Yunus the Nobel Prize in 2006, but the idea of distributing small loans to poor people for social development is not the only impressive feature of his Grameen . . .
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July 21, 2009 10:21 AM EDT --
Investing in water has been touted for a few years as the next great investable theme in sustainable finance. But "blue Gold" is not as catchy as "black gold", yes? No doubt as the population grows "up . . .
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July 31, 2009 11:41 AM EDT --
American Congressional health reformers have spent a lot of time debating health care spending in recent months. Most of these reformers agree that the country's medical outlays are too high, and they . . .
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August 03, 2009 10:09 AM EDT --
Fan campaigns to save TV shows & characters have a rich history, going back at least to the landmark letter-writing campaign that persuaded NBC not to cancel Star Trek back in the 1960s. . . .
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August 07, 2009 11:10 AM EDT --
I lived in New York for three of my college years. During that time I naturally indulged in all the artistic and cultural offerings. But the most extraordinary visual image that I took away from those . . .
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August 07, 2009 11:17 AM EDT --
It is hard sometimes to be a fashionista who cares about the world. And I get it, I get it. No one wants to be the worst dressed at the next Greenpeace meeting. I mean, I do, because I'm a dirty hippie, . . .
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