There's more trouble in toyland. Now that lead has been banned from children’s products, some Chinese manufacturers have been substituting the even more dangerous heavy metal cadmium, especially in costume jewelry, an Associated Press investigation reveals. Cadmium is a known…
Ashni Biyani took her baby steps in the corporate world when she had joined the Future Group as director of Future Ideas three years ago, at the age of 25. Biyani belongs to a growing club of women who are…
Panasonic Europe has demonstrated its environmental leadership at COP15, the United Nations Climate Change Summit, by highlighting the accelerating rate of global climate change, and showing practical steps that can be implemented to mitigate ever-increasing carbon emissions; With SEAS-NVE, Denmark’s…
Salve d’applaudissements au Klimaforum, l’espace alternatif du sommet de Copenhague, ce 15 décembre : la multinationale états-unienne Monsanto, spécialisée dans les pesticides et les OGM, se voit remettre le prix du pire lobbying climatique à Copenhague, prix poétiquement dénommé la…
Le groupe pétrolier fait ses premiers pas dans le nucléaire. Non par crainte de la fin des hydrocarbures, mais plutôt par « volonté d'investir dans une énergie propre » qui soit bien plus rentable, selon lui, que les énergies renouvelables…
Unilever and Coca-Cola, two of the world's biggest companies, have launched a plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions from the $1,000bn global consumer goods industry by changing the behaviour of customers and suppliers. Other multinationals, including PepsiCo, Kimberly Clark and…
Google has unveiled a tool that lets scientists and defenders of the environment use the internet to keep an eye on what is left of the Earth's forests. 'We hope this technology will help stop the destruction of the world's…
The Heinz Micronutrient Campaign (HMC), a groundbreaking program of the H.J. Heinz Company Foundation that is combating malnutrition in developing nations, today announced a partnership in Tanzania, bringing the program to Africa for the first time. The HMC has awarded…
Lakshmi Mittal, Britain’s richest man, stands to benefit from a European scheme to curb global warming . His company Arcelor-Mittal, the steel business where he is chairman and chief executive, will make gains of about £1 billion on “carbon credits”…
A major car manufacturer has aired a hard-hitting advert in the United States calling for the release of Burmese pro-democracy figure Aung San Suu Kyi, opening a new front in the battle to improve the industry's battered social image among…
