Activist investor Boston Common Asset Management LLC said that it has sold most of the 167,000 shares it held in Cisco Systems Inc, capping a lengthy dispute with the company over its human rights record. Cisco is among a number…
Credit Suisse has become the first bank to force its staff to make compulsory charitable donations, with several hundred US managing directors directed to give 2.5 per cent of their 2010 bonuses to good causes. The Swiss bank, which estimated…
As if BP needed more bad news following the Justice Department lawsuit filed against them yesterday, they now are under attack by WikiLeaks as well. Yesterday WikiLeaks released more secret cables which revealed BP narrowly escaped another tragedy involving a…
Google has decided to compete against Microsoft by donating to charities based on usage of their products. The company has released a new Google Chrome Extension named chrome for a cause extension. The extension would calculate the number of tabs…
The chief executive of McDonald's has described critics of the company who have tried to curtail the sale of Happy Meals aimed at children as "food police" and accused them of undermining parents in making decisions for their families. In…
Years of legal head-banging have turned to happy co-operation between two former environmental foes. Cement producer Lafarge Canada Inc. and the environmental group Lake Ontario Waterkeeper recently agreed on a plan to prevent toxic kiln dust from leaching into Bath…
CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V. (NYSE: CX), today announced that it has developed a carbon footprint tool- the first of its kind in the building materials industry- that allows the company to measure the greenhouse gases emissions of its cement, ready-mix…
Spoliation, pollution et « climat de terreur » : l'édifiante enquàªte associative sur la plantation de palmiers. Après les enquàªtes journalistiques, un collectif d'associations dévoile trois ans d'enquàªte sur la Socapalm, la plus importante plantation de palmiers du Cameroun. Une…
Les mines de la République démocratique du Congo ont été une fois de plus au centre d’un colloque international organisé, du 1er au 3 décembre 2010 au Musée royal de Tervuren à Bruxelles, sous le thème : « La quàªte…
Top U.S. retailers including Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Target Corp. are battling to limit a new federal law that could force them to report whether their store-brand goods contain minerals from war-torn Central Africa. The requirement, part of the Dodd-Frank…
