IBM, Intel and PepsiCo have topped rankings of companies with the most ethical reputations. The EthicalQuote rankings by Swiss company Covalence score 581 companies in 18 sectors, through the quantities of positive and negative news stories about each company. Covalence describes the system as “a barometer of how multinationals are perceived in the [...]

Over the Christmas and New Year, whilst people on the east and south of Australia were suffering floods and their consequences, one farmer, much further west, discovered a far more insidious flood was occurring on his property. He is also reeling from the consequences. Steve Marsh is the farmer of an organic [...]

Milk, cream, proteins, syrups and pieces of fruit–all are are part of the waste stream of ice-cream factories, and soon, at a Ben and Jerry’s factory in the Netherlands, they’ll all help to produce green power. How? Via billions of “little bugs” that gobble up these goodies and produce biogas. A green bio-digester–developed by Paques [...]

Group of 54 Companies Makes Historic Commitment to Adopt Ambitious Sustainability Roadmap and Demonstrate Leadership in Tackling Global Challenges. Underscoring the role of business in addressing global threats – from climate change to widespread poverty or humanitarian emergencies – a group of chief executives joined UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in Davos/Switzerland today for the launch [...]

Forest Footprint Disclosure (FFD), which asks international companies to reveal their impact on forests around the world, has released their second review. From biofuels to travel to media, FFD named corporate leaders in 19 categories, including Kimberly Clark for Personal-Household products and Nike for Clothing, Accessories and Footwear. [...]

BHP Billiton has increased its donation to the Queensland Premier’s Disaster Relief Appeal to $11 million. The mining giant tipped in a further $10 million yesterday, on top of the $1 million announced by the company earlier this month. It adds to the volunteer efforts of BHP staff based in regional Queensland. Advertisement: Story continues [...]

Plusieurs grands groupes s’apprêtent à annoncer des plans anti-corruption dans les prochains jours. Une réponse à une loi anglaise, prévue pour avril prochain, qui durcit les poursuites à l’encontre des maisons-mères n’ayant pas de dispositif de prévention adéquat. En France, Total va lancer un vaste dispositif dans toutes ses filiales [...]

Activist investor Boston Common Asset Management LLC said that it has sold most of the 167,000 shares it held in Cisco Systems Inc, capping a lengthy dispute with the company over its human rights record. Cisco is among a number of technology companies that have tangled with human rights groups in recent years over sales [...]

Credit Suisse has become the first bank to force its staff to make compulsory charitable donations, with several hundred US managing directors directed to give 2.5 per cent of their 2010 bonuses to good causes. The Swiss bank, which estimated the scheme would raise up to $30m for charity, said it would only apply in [...]

As if BP needed more bad news following the Justice Department lawsuit filed against them yesterday, they now are under attack by WikiLeaks as well.  Yesterday WikiLeaks released more secret cables which revealed BP narrowly escaped another tragedy involving a drilling blowout.  Even worst, the cables show that BP actively tried to cover up the [...]