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…
To be clear, after what Google called a “highly sophisticated and targeted attack,” Google is now going to review their options when it comes to China, starting with the new policy to cease the government mandated censorship on Google.cn. If…
During his more than three decades in real estate, David Pogue served many roles, but environmental expert was never one of them. That didn't stop his company, real estate brokerage CB Richard Ellis, from naming him the guru of all…
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…
