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Walmart & Other American Retailers: Ensure Basic Safety & Human Rights for Workers in Bangladesh ACTION
Business  (tags: Walmart, Bangladesh, corruption, Penney's, corporate, factory conditions, H&M, Gap, fire, death )

Nancy
- 18 days ago - org.credoaction.com
The disaster at Rana Plaza is now the deadliest incident in the garment industry in known history. Two of the brands identified in documents found in the rubble are sold at JC Penney. Photo by ILRF
Supplements Powered By the Sun
Business  (tags: health, supplements, family, prevention, Andrew Lessman, ProCap Labs, solar power, treatment, environment, business, consumers )

Nancy
- 15 days ago - procapslabs.com
If you take supplements and prefer to support environmentally conscious businesses, have a look. I've been utilizing these superior products for years. Best deals are through HSN shopping network.
Don't Sell Out to the Koch Brothers ACTION
Business  (tags: Koch Brothers, Tribune, media, news, finance, investments, money, corruption, corporate )

Nancy
- 15 days ago - democracyforamerica.com
DFA and Sen. Bernie Sanders are joining forces today. We're calling on the Tribune Company to not sell out to the Koch Brothers.
TAKE ACTION NOW! Walmart & Other American Retailers: Ensure Basic Safety & Human Rights for Workers in Bangladesh
Business  (tags: SAFETY CONDITIONS, safety conditions, labor, Bengladesh factory collapse, world, corporate, corruption, ethics, business, politics, news )

Cal
- 17 days ago - org.credoaction.com
Take immediate steps to deploy safety improvements in your supplier factories by joining the legally binding Bangladesh Fire and Building Safety Agreement and pay the compensation owed to injured workers and the families of workers killed while sewing yo
Solar-Wind Hybrid Power Plants Approximately Twice As Efficient May 1, 2013Tim Tyler //EXCELLENT!
Business  (tags: americans, business, consumers, economy, energy, Entrepreneurs, environment, ethics, farming, goodnews, greenbuilding, investing, investments, investors, marketing, news, SustainableDevelopment, usa, world )

Ruth
- 17 days ago - cleantechnica.com
"The study examined the surface area where solar photovoltaic systems and wind turbines were installed together. In that same surface area, twice the amount of electricity was being generated,..."PLEASE NOTE AND SHARE! EXCELLENT!
Bangladesh Garment-Factory Collapse Kills Nearly 100 People
Business  (tags: garment factory, Bangladesh, death, injured, business, ethics, humanrights, corruption )

Nancy
- 24 days ago - ecouterre.com
An eight-story facility that housed several garment factories and shops collapsed in Bangladesh on Wednesday, killing at least 96 people, injuring more than 800, and trapping a yet-unknown number under the mass of concrete rubble, according to officials.
BAD BUSINESS: Samsung Admits to Using Tin Linked to Child Labor, Deforestation; Apple Mum on Sourcing
Business  (tags: world, politics, children, child labor, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', humanrights, government, ethics, ethics, environment, dishonesty, corporate, abuse, law, politics, society, news, money )

Cal
- 23 days ago - news.mongabay.com
Mobile device giant Samsung has admitted to using tin sourced from a controversial mining operation on the Indonesian island of Bangka, where unregulated mining kills 150 miners a year
7 Photos (By Lewis Hine) That Changed Child-Labor Laws in America Forever
Business  (tags: americans, child labor, Lewis Hine )

Nancy
- 38 days ago - ecouterre.com
More than a record of existing conditions, Hine's photos were a "powerful weapon in the crusade against child labor," one that eventually led President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to sign the Fair Labor Standards Act in 1938, which set set minimum-wage...
Justice for Bangladeshi Garment Workers ACTION
Business  (tags: Walmart, Bangladesh, corruption, corporate, factory conditions, fire, death )

Nancy
- 36 days ago - alignny.org
Last November, 112 Bangladeshi garment workers died when an unsafe factory run by a Walmart supplier burned to the ground. Conditions at the factory were so lethal that it didn't have a single emergency exit, and supervisors prevented workers from...
Can Mad Men's Don Draper Save the Planet?
Business  (tags: business, environment, marketing, society, politics, SustainableDevelopment )

Cal
- 35 days ago - theecologist.org
Madison Avenue could have a crucial role to play in bringing environmentalism firmly into mainstream consumerism.
 
 
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