Beyond the simple exercising of one’s own purchasing power, there are many actions consumers can take-and organizations and resources available to help-to pressure companies to green up their ways. (…) Another effort, “Be Safe PVC,” conducted in partnership with the Center for Health, Environment and Justice, encourages major companies to phase out their use of [...]

Lenovo has jumped to the number-one spot in Greenpeace International’s influential, if controversial, rankings for environmentally-friendly technology companies. The Chinese giant displaced Nokia in the third and latest Green Electronics Guide studying the policies and activities of 14 leading technology companies. The new rankings mark a sharp improvement by Lenovo over the first Greenpeace poll [...]

Des investissements évalués � plus de 1 milliards d’euros dans le pays, les sociétés chinoises n’ont jamais été aussi présentes dans le pays depuis les sanctions

Tanzanie, rive du lac Victoria. C’est dans cette région jusque-là préservée que les occidentaux décident d’introduire, depuis 40 ans, la ” perche du Nil “, poisson très apprécié des consommateurs européens et japonais mais qui va se révéler, aujourd’hui, être un redoutable prédateur, transformant un des plus riches éco-systèmes du monde en une zone de [...]

Starbucks, multinationale américaine et principale acheteur du café éthiopien, refuse de reconnaître le droit pour l’Ethiopie de disposer de la propriété légale de ses principaux noms de café : Harar, Yirgacheffe et Sidamo et pourtant cette reconnaissance de licence pourrait aider le pays à mieux protéger et contrôler sa production sur le marché, et pérenniser [...]

On March 26, Chuck Prince, CEO of Citigroup, announced that the world’s largest bank will cut at least 15,000 workers.

Big business is doing its bit to reduce water consumption, according to the latest figures from the Queensland Water Commission. (…) Ms Bligh and Premier Peter Beattie toured the Coca Cola Amatil plant at Richlands this morning to inspect some of the company’s water saving initiatives. Describing Coca Cola’s 14 per cent reduction in five [...]

Hillary Clinton, the Democratic frontrunner for the White House, on Sunday said she had raised $26m since she entered the race – almost twice her campaign’s target and more than three times the record for the first quarter of the year before a presidential election. (…) A group of more than 20 large fund managers [...]

The corruption scandal that has rocked Siemens, a pillar of Germany Inc., is gathering pace in a way that could ensnare the company’s top management for the first time.