Gay marriage wouldn’t have passed in the Washington state Legislature this year without Gov. Chris Gregoire’s decision to reverse course and push for it. Legislators’ personal pleas to colleagues, as epitomized by Republican Rep. Maureen Walsh’s passionate floor speech about her desire to throw her daughter a wedding someday, also played [...]

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 Alcoa, are expected to join the initiative, according to one executive involved. It reflects the [...]

The Yadkin Riverkeeper® has announced that an internal document recently discovered indicates that Alcoa knew it had contamination in Badin Lake caused by its old smelting operation near the lake 12 years ago but hid that investigation from the public, indicating a pattern of deceit regarding its environmental record which continues to the present as [...]

Insisting questioning of local impacts and benefits have made the Mining & Metals industry’s ethical reputation suffer last year, while Alcoa and Rio Tinto continued progressing, indicates a report published today by Geneva-based research firm Covalence – Covalence Mining & Metal Industry Report 2008. It has been a difficult year for the Mining & Metal [...]

En matière de réchauffement climatique, l’industrie pétrolière est sans surprise la première montrée du doigt. Le produit final et le processus de production sont jugés polluants par un grand nombre d’observateurs. Leader du secteur, l’américain ExxonMobil est la principale cible des critiques. BP et Shell sont également perçues comme polluantes (voir le graphe ci-contre). Mais [...]

Covalence has published its quarterly ethical reputation ranking (PDF), highlighting the best ranked companies as well as those companies which have made the most progress in the second quarter of 2007. Unilever took the top spot by having the best ethical quote score. Alcoa and Hewlett-Packard rounded out the top three. > Continue.
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I just received a press release from Covalence alerting me that the Geneva-based ethical rankings company is “publishing today its quarterly ethical reputation ranking, giving the best ranked companies as well as those companies which have made the most progress in the second quarter of 2007.” As recently as yesterday I wrote about one of [...]

Un total de veinte compañías multinacionales han sido sometidas a examen de ética por la organización Covalence. El ranking general lo encabeza Unilever, mientras que la marca que más progresos está haciendo en el plano ético es la británica Marks & Spencer. La compañía de aluminios Aloca y la cadena de cafeterías Starbucks son [...]

Según un informe publicado en mayo por la organización suiza Covalence, Unilever es la marca más ética del mundo, seguida de Alcoa (aluminios) y Starbucks. Por su parte, hay marcas que se están esforzando por refinar su ética corporativa, progresos que el informe reconoce de Marks & Spencer, Wal-Mart y McDonald’s. Toyota sería la marca [...]

Environment and employment are currently the major concerns regarding the Mining & Metals industry’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) record, states a report released today by Geneva-based reputation research firm Covalence, Covalence Mining & Metals Industry Report 2007. For 2006 to 2007, the top positive and negative issues both have to do with environmental collaboration (support [...]