{"id":6671,"date":"2012-04-17T15:30:12","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T14:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=6671"},"modified":"2012-04-17T15:30:12","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T14:30:12","slug":"the-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2012\/04\/17\/the-man\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man Who Stood Up To Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/120417_majun.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6672\" title=\"120417_majun\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/120417_majun.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>Apple has recently made changes to its policies of withholding any information about the environmental impact of its factories in China. That\u2019s largely thanks to Ma Jun, who this week won the Goldman environmental prize for his work. As the founder of China\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipe.org.cn\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs<\/a> (IPE), former journalist Ma Jun spearheads an organization that has  uncovered over 90,000 air and water violations by both local and  multinational companies in China. The IPE most famously put out a series  of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipe.org.cn\/en\/about\/report.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> about the IT industry\u2019s environmental violations that led to meetings  with Apple; now the electronics giant is taking steps to clean up its  most polluted factories (in addition to working on human rights issues).  This week, Ma Jun was named the Asia Recipient of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldmanprize.org\/pressroom\/2012\/print\/bios\/asia\" target=\"_blank\">Goldman Environmental Prize<\/a>, a $150,000 award for grassroots environmental leaders. <em>Co.Exist<\/em> spoke to Ma Jun to learn more about what he\u2019s currently working on. Image: goldmanprize.org. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcoexist.com\/1679697\/the-man-who-stood-up-to-apple?partner=homepage_newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: China | Company: Apple, Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcoexist.com\/1679697\/the-man-who-stood-up-to-apple?partner=homepage_newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">Fast Company<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has recently made changes to its policies of withholding any information about the environmental impact of its factories in China. That\u2019s largely thanks to Ma Jun, who this week won the Goldman environmental prize for his work. As the founder of China\u2019s Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE), former journalist Ma Jun spearheads&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-6671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-apple","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6671"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=6671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}