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ENVIRONMENT
The Fish Market: Inside the Big-Money Battle for the Ocean and Your Dinner Plate
By Thought Matters, Contributor
Read Our Minds… Macmillan Publishing’s authors share their per...
After years of staring at it, I've come to think of this as a David-and-Goliath kind of tale. It's about the fight between
BUSINESS
Bank Of America Touts Going Green But Funnels Billions Into Fossil Fuels
By Alexander C. Kaufman
The bank is backing the company building the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline.
BUSINESS
Someone Is Actually Facing Jail Time For Volkswagen's Pollution Scandal
By Alexander C. Kaufman
An executive convicted after a possibly fatal auto scandal? You don't see THAT every day.
THE WORLD POST
Blog Series: The Alchemy of Business & Human Rights
By Aaron Marr Page, Contributor
Managing Attorney at Forum Nobis PLLC, a public interest law f...
In this blog series, Aaron Marr Page, a law professor and human rights lawyer with over a decade of on-the-ground experience
THE WORLD POST
The Alchemy of Business & Human Rights (Part V): The Culture of Change
By Aaron Marr Page, Contributor
Managing Attorney at Forum Nobis PLLC, a public interest law f...
This blog series has been examining the booming new field of Business & Human Rights (BHR), which has revolutionized how the world's leading multinational corporations are talking about and engaging with human rights.
ENVIRONMENT
Live Small. Love Big.
By Angie Cordeiro, Contributor
Feminist, humanitarian, vegan, ecologist, and Theosophist.
I can no longer tolerate the nonsense of Industrial civilization and its death cult of capitalism at any cost even all life on Earth. This culture is insane. I want out before it's all over.
ENVIRONMENT
Keeping the Green in Green Burial
By Suzanne Kelly, Contributor
scholar, writer, grower
Over the last two decades, this question of green has moved beyond our living and into our dying in the most explicit of ways in the US, as a movement for environmentally friendly deathcare builds steam.
THE WORLD POST
The Alchemy of Business and Human Rights (Part IV): The Rules of the Game
By Aaron Marr Page, Contributor
Managing Attorney at Forum Nobis PLLC, a public interest law f...
The Facing Finance publication contains multiple inaccuracies. Accurate information regarding ExxonMobil's policies and activities
THE WORLD POST
The Alchemy of Business and Human Rights (Part III): The Missing Institution
By Aaron Marr Page, Contributor
Managing Attorney at Forum Nobis PLLC, a public interest law f...
And then there is the question of negotiating power. As we saw particularly in Part II of this series, there is an ongoing
ENVIRONMENT
Redefining Environmentalism: The Paradox of Wealthy Environmentalists
By Aletta Brady, Contributor
Member,U.S.National Commission to UNESCO Youth Working Group
People with less money have significantly lower carbon footprints than people with more money.
THE WORLD POST
The Alchemy of Business & Human Rights (Part II): A Pendulum Swing?
By Aaron Marr Page, Contributor
Managing Attorney at Forum Nobis PLLC, a public interest law f...
While collaborative and optimistic in tone, as one would expect from a famous bridge-builder like Ruggie, his letter nonetheless
THE WORLD POST
The Alchemy of "Business & Human Rights" (Part I): The BHR Boom Years
By Aaron Marr Page, Contributor
Managing Attorney at Forum Nobis PLLC, a public interest law f...
There is no begrudging the almost magical success of "Business & Human Rights" (BHR) -- the new name for the newly revamped field of human rights advocacy that has emerged over the last decade to, well, supplement (read: not replace) what used to go by "corporate accountability."
BUSINESS
Capitalism at the Crossroads: An Interview with Stuart Hart
By Philip Kotler, Contributor
S. C. Johnson Distinguished Professor of International Marketi...
So yes, we are still stuck at the crossroads. Given our short tenure on this planet, we humans are a bit like the crash test
BUSINESS
Walking the Talk?
By Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability, Contributor
ARCS
Greenwashing practices are still prevalent in the corporate world. As the COP21 Paris climate summit entered its second week
ENVIRONMENT
Donny Rico Schools Chevron on How To "Be the Victim" in Ecuador
By Paul Paz y Miño, Contributor
Associate Director, Amazon Watch
First we're told that money = speech, now we're told speaking out is against the law. If you're not worried about what Donny Rico is talking about, you "damn well should be!"
STYLE & BEAUTY
H&M's "Conscious" Collection? Don't Buy Into the Hype
By Shannon Whitehead Lohr, Contributor
Founder of Factory45, an online accelerator program for sustai...
If H&M was truly serious about sustainability, then it would focus on changing its business model -- not on making more clothing under the guise of a feel-good name.
POLITICS
White House Says Enviros Love This Trade Pact, But Enviros Say Otherwise
By Zach Carter
"The White House took some of their statements and spun them out," said Jake Schmidt, director of the Natural Resources Defense
ENVIRONMENT
Big Ag's Gifts for 2014
By Andrew Gunther, Contributor
Program Director, Animal Welfare Approved
In December, a report commissioned by the UK Government presented a truly frightening future where antibiotic-resistant infections
IMPACT
Turning Up the Heat On Climate Action -- No Time For Delay
By Winnie Byanyima, Contributor
Contributor
In the five years since global leaders met in Copenhagen to discuss climate change, a lot has changed, and too much has stayed the same. In the past five years, more than 650 million people have been affected and more than 112,000 lives lost as a result of weather-related disasters.
ENVIRONMENT
4 Tips for Beating the Greenwashing Game
By Maria Rodale, Contributor
CEO and Chairman of Rodale, Inc. and book author
We live in a world where companies use terms like "natural," "botanical," "pure," and "free" when their products are actually full of harmful chemicals.
IMPACT
Does Health Need a Color?
By Dr. Derek Yach, Contributor
Executive Director of the Vitality Institute
Health needs its own color, one that reflects the same potential that "green" does to be transformative, preventive, promotional, and innovative to make the attainment of health the natural and easy norm.
ENVIRONMENT
The Truth Behind Walmart's Green Claims
By Stacy Mitchell, Contributor
Co-Director, Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Walmart wants to be seen as leader on the environment, even though it refuses to invest in sustainability beyond what pure profit-maximizing would entail.
ENVIRONMENT
Going to Jail on MLK's Birthday to Stop Keystone XL South: 'The Fierce Urgency of Now'
By Tom Weis, Contributor
President, Climate Crisis Solutions
It was in the spirit of Dr. King, and what he called "the fierce urgency of now," that I went to jail to stop Keystone XL South.
ENVIRONMENT
How Responsible Is Business for Social Responsibility?
By Paul Paz y Miño, Contributor
Associate Director, Amazon Watch
Last month, the Brazilian mining company Vale was invited to present its perspective on a panel entitled, "Voices of Rights Holders in the Extractives Industry." This is like inviting the CIA to a panel on the rights of victims of torture.
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