The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.

Predatory lending practices must be stopped. Loans and other financial products are complex. They are potentially helpful and also potentially extremely destructive. Accordingly, loan products and contracts should be regulated by the government.

Now the lady who thought Africa was a country is an expert on economics. Her quotes speak for themselves:

In these days of financial meltdown, green jobs, as they are labelled, ensure both job security and energy security. They are the portals to the new nature-dependent, climate-sustaining and pro-nature economic order.

To celebrate World Vegan Day today, the 824 staff members of LUSH Cosmetics in North America will forsake meat and dairy in a company-wide bid to go vegan.

Adam Turl picks apart the distortions and lies that city and state officials are spreading to push through transit fare increases.

Organisations representing undertakers accused the Government of putting them in an 'impossible' position by dragging their feet over burial costs for poor families.

Under the California Global Warming Solutions Act, the state must a limit the amount of pollutants companies emit and expand renewable energy. This would result in 100,000 new jobs, boost the state economy by $27 billion and personal income by $14 billion

There's Fairtrade, and then there's Equitrade, a radical re-invention of trade-based development that is blossoming in Madagascar. It all begins with chocolate.

Coca-Cola Enterprises, a bottler for the Coca-Cola Company, is creating a recycling stream for turning used bottles into new ones and has plans to reduce the weight and virgin content of bottles.