Coca-Cola has announced the introduction of CanCollar, a paperboard packaging solution, for multipack cans that is sustainable, recyclable, and set to keep more than 18 “tonnes” (about 20 tons) of plastic from ending up in the world’s oceans each year.
183 members of the Business Roundtable, including the CEOs of some of America’s largest corporations, issued a revised Purpose of a Corporation statement which says increasing shareholder value should no longer be the sole and exclusive focus of an incorporated business. Companies must also invest in their employees, deliver value to their customers, and deal fairly and ethically with their suppliers.
Elizabeth Warren will introduce legislation this week designed to force corporations to be good citizens. Free speech is one thing, but it comes with certain obligations to society, obligations which corporations prefer to ignore.
Two extensive studies released yesterday (September 16, 2015) reveal a long-term betrayal of the truth about climate by major US business identities. Make-believe corporate “persons” have knowingly undermined the health, safety, and even short-term survival of real humans and other living things. One of the studies explores the metamorphosis of … [continued]
Dell’s Learning Lab is a solar powered classroom set up for training students in computer technology, even though they’re nowhere near a power grid.
Microsoft has announced plans to make both their headquarters and their products more environmentally sound. With energy-conservation, use of renewable energy, improved data center design, and reduction in air travel, the company plans to reduce their carbon emissions by 30 percent compared to 2007 levels by 2012.
