The spat between Google and the Chinese government has been rumbling along for weeks, but just now it’s been elevated to “fist fight” status: The inevitable strongly-worded Chinese warning about “consequences” has arrived. The warning came today from the Minister of Industry and IT, Li Yizhong, who was speaking to reporters at the annual National [...]

How green is your orange juice? A couple of years ago, PepsiCo, which owns the orange-juice brand Tropicana, tried to size up the carbon footprint of the popular morning tonic. It found that each half-gallon carton of OJ is responsible for 3.75 lbs. of CO2. What was particularly surprising was where much of that CO2 [...]

Unilever Plc says it has set aside N25.2m to sink boreholes and construct toilets to demonstrate its commitment to the water, sanitation and hygiene campaign. The company’s Managing Director, Mr Thomas Boedinger, disclosed this on Tuesday at Okpoga, Benue State, during a WASH campaign organised in conjunction with WaterAid Nigeria, a non-government organisation. The campaign [...]

The Golden State Warriors and Verizon Wireless invite fans to go ‘green’ and help curb domestic violence in the community. Fans attending the Warriors home game against the Portland Trail Blazers on Thursday, March 11 can donate their used wireless phones and accessories to the Verizon Wireless HopeLine® phone recycling program. Drop boxes will be [...]

Dans « L’affaire Coca-cola », diffusé lors du festival international du film des droits de l’homme*, le réalisateur canadien d’origine colombienne, Germán Gutiérrez suit pendant trois ans l’action de deux avocats américains qui se battent pour que la responsabilité de la multinationale soit reconnue dans le meurtre de 8 syndicalistes colombiens (Sinaltrainal) travaillant dans une [...]

IBM researchers on Tuesday said they have discovered a way to make Earth-friendly plastic from plants that could replace petroleum-based products tough on the environment. The breakthrough promises biodegradable plastics made in a way that saves on energy, according to Chandrasekhar “Spike” Narayan, a manager of science and technology at IBM’s Almaden Research Center in [...]

More than 350 residents of a Pompton Lakes neighborhood beset with groundwater pollution began suing DuPont and another company Thursday seeking financial damages on claims they have lost property values. The complaints also want DuPont to provide medical monitoring of illnesses the residents say they suffered because of the contamination, and they demand that DuPont [...]

The Niger Delta is one of the world’s 10 most important wetland and coastal marine ecosystems and is home to about 31 million people. Its huge oil deposits have been extracted for years by the Nigerian govenment and multinational oil companies such as Royal Dutch Shell. It is estimated that  oil has generated an estimated [...]

In February 2010 the following changes happened in Covalence Ethical Ranking, as shown in the updated Ethical Snapshots and Live EthicalQuote:
Up: companies entering the top 20% of Covalence Ethical Ranking (Grade A)

Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (Automobiles & Parts)

Mitsubishi i-MiEV awarded the ’Environment Special Grand Prize’ (sample of news title coded in February 2010); Mitsubishi Motors Launches [...]

The fight to weed out hunger across the Corn Belt has officially begun. Weeding out Hunger, a new campaign sponsored by Halex GT corn herbicide and Syngenta Crop Protection, made a stop at the National Farm Machinery Show, held Feb. 10-13 in Louisville, KY, as part of the Weeding out Hunger Road Show. Throughout the [...]