PG&E is spending millions of dollars on a statewide initiative that would make it tougher for you to get your power from anyone else. The initiative, one of several appearing on the June 8 ballot, would require two-thirds approval from…
On the plane owned by former Samsung Group chairman Lee Kun-hee, which was remodeled from a 100-passenger into a 16-passenger plane, sat Kim Yong-chul, former head of the legal department at Samsung’s Restructuring Office, and several incumbent prosecutors. When Kim…
La table ronde sur l’exploitation pétrolière s’est clôturée jeudi, dans la cité de Moanda, située à plus de 200 Kilomètres à l’ouest de Matadi. Les délégués de la société civile et des ONG présents à ces assises ont recommandé au…
It may or may not be a match made in heaven but the acquisition of Cadbury by Kraft has already lit the blue touch paper over fears that the English company’s approach to CSR may not be shared by its…
Covalence EthicalQuote Ranking has been published since 2005. From July 2010 on, the results are available in the Ethical Snapshots which can be purchased on a single basis or as annual subscription, for a company, a sector, or the entire…
En décidant le 12 janvier de ne plus respecter la censure qui lui ouvre les portes du marché chinois, fut-ce au prix de son éviction, Google pose là un ultimatum inattendu, au nom de ses valeurs éthiques. Mais l'entreprise, qui…
When Catherine Jones recently booked a Royal Caribbean cruise that included a stop in Haiti, she never expected that her vacation would lead to deep soul searching and an emergency family meeting. Jones, who lives in Hickory, North Carolina, is…
More than 50 corporations, including Kraft Foods, IKEA, Ford, GE and SC Johnson, are measuring the greenhouse gas emissions of their products and entire supply chains with two new standards from the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Initiative. The standards provide methods…
The Coca-Cola Company, nonprofit TechnoServe, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today launched a partnership to enable over 50,000 small fruit farmers in Uganda and Kenya to increase their productivity and double their incomes by 2014. This four-year, $11.5…
Drug and medical product makers and other health care companies are pledging to donate at least $15.5 million in cash and products to help victims of Tuesday's earthquake in Haiti. That amounts to almost one-third of the donations – totaling…
