Recently added articles from Multinational Monitor:
The greenhouse gas lobby.(BEHIND THE LINES)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2009; ... HOARDS OF INDUSTRY LOBBYISTS are on Capitol Hill, trying to cool off momentum around global warming legislation. There are more than 600 lobbyists focused on climate change from manufacturing companies alone, not counting heavyweights like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National ...
NZ bad actor.(BEHIND THE LINES)(New Zealand)(British American Tobacco's Roger Award for the Worst Transnational Corporation)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2009; ... BLOWING AWAY British American Tobacco's smokescreen of corporate responsibility, the Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA) named the tobacco giant's New Zealand subsidiary the winner of the 2008 Roger Award for the Worst Transnational Corporation. Aotearoa is the Maori name ...
Kleaning up Kleenex.(BEHIND THE LINES)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2009; ... FOURTEEN COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES have cleaned out their supplies of Kleenex, vowing to stop stocking the product by Kimberly-Clark because the tissues are made from clearcut forests. Purchase College and Principia College became the most recent colleges to make the move when they removed ...
Unionization uptick.(BEHIND THE LINES)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2009; ... BUCKING A LONG-RUNNING TREND, more U.S. workers joined labor unions in 2008, according to an annual union membership report released in January by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The number of unionized workers rose to 12.4 percent of employed wage and salary workers, up from 12.1 percent ....
Hot money.(BEHIND THE LINES)(Overseas Private Investment Corporation and Export-Import Bank of the United )
Mar 01, 2009; ... TWO U.S. AGENCIES agreed in February to address the global warming implications of their international financing projects. The policy about-face follows from the settlement of a lawsuit, brought by the environmental groups Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace, and the city of ...
Big ideas to save the planet.(Editorial)
Mar 01, 2009 ... THE PLANET and its people are in peril. Poisoned water and falling water tables, rapidly diminishing forests, polluted air, species going extinct at an unparalleled pace, and a petrochemicalized environment all signal that things are going seriously awry. And climate change--the ...
Global job meltdown.(THE FRONT)
Mar 01, 2009; ... THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS is expected to lead to a dramatic increase in the number of people joining the ranks of the unemployed, working poor and those in vulnerable employment, the International Labor Organization (ILO) warned in a report issued in January. In its report ...
Prosecution prognosis.(THE FRONT)(corporate crime)
Mar 01, 2009; ... THE CORPORATE CRIME DEFENSE bar has no doubt: more corporate crime prosecutions are on the way. In a February Corporate Crime Reporter survey of more than 200 leaders of the American Bar Association's White Collar Crime Committee, the view was almost unanimous. "In ...
Lawrence Summers Memorial Award.(Chevron)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2009 ... THE MARCH/APRIL LAWRENCE SUMMERS MEMORIAL AWARD * goes to Chevron for seeking nearly $500,000 in legal costs from a group of Nigerian villagers who lost in court after trying to hold Chevron accountable for the shooting of protesters on an oil platform in 1998. Chevron's claim ...
A new life for the IMF: capitalizing on crisis.(BIG IDEAS TO SAVE THE PLANET)
Mar 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] APRIL'S G-20 MEETING--involving the heads of state 20 of the world's most economically powerful countries--failed to yield an agreement on increased European stimulus spending or on new global financial regulatory rules. But it did feature one overriding ...
Burden of proof: the precautionary principle.(Peter Montague)(Interview)
Mar 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Using the precautionary principle, decision-makers can ask whether products or projects are being done in the least-harmful way possibl. They might ask proponents to reveal who's going to get the benefits and who's going to be saddled with the harm. ...
A carbon-free future.(Arjun Makhijani)(Interview)
Mar 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] An interview with Arjun Makhijani Arun Makhijani is president of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research. He is the principal author of the first study ever done (completed in 1971) on energy conservation potential in the U.S ....
Green stimulus.(Robert Pollin)(Interview)
Mar 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] An interview with Robert Pollin Robert Pollin is professor of economics and founding co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He most recently co-authored A Measure of Fairness: ...
The green chemistry revolution.(Paul Anastas )(Interview)
Mar 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] An interview with Paul Anastas Paul Anastas is frequently referred to as the "father of green chemistry." He is director of the Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering and the Teresa and H. John Heinz III Professor in the Practice of ...
A bias to the local: the subsidiarity principle.(Jerry Mander)(Interview)
Mar 01, 2009 ... An interview with Jerry Mander Jerry Mander is founder of the International Forum on Globalization. He is also program director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology and a senior fellow at Public Media Center. He most recently edited the book Alternatives to Economic Globalization ...
Solidarity, plutocrat-style.(GREED AT A GLANCE)(David Siegel's mansion)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2009; ... TIMESHARE MOGUL David Siegel and his wife Jacqueline don't particularly care if people call them pretentious. If they did, they wouldn't be building a 90,000-square-foot home off Florida's Lake Butler and naming it "Versailles" after a certain French palace they happen to fancy. ...
The new executive suite prescription for resting in peace.(GREED AT A GLANCE)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2009; ... FIRST CAME "golden parachutes," the contract clauses that guarantee top U.S. corporate executives multiple millions in severance bonus should their companies be gobbled up by some bigger corporate fish. Now make room for the "golden coffin," the innovative executive-enrichment maneuver ...
Climbing the luxury lifestyle ladder.(GREED AT A GLANCE)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2009; ... CALL THEM the "New Faux Poor," the label the UK Tatler magazine has affixed to comfortably rich people who feign hard times "by sacking staff and canceling parties." Frugality has become, in certain well-heeled circles, "the must-have social badge of the credit crunch season." ...
More than penthouse pizza.(GREED AT A GLANCE)(Sette Mezzo)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2009; ... ON MANHATTAN'S posh East Side, the royalty of high finance are finding comfort in these tumultuous times at Sette Mezzo, a small Italian restaurant near the grand apartment co-ops of Park Avenue. Former PaineWebber CEO Donald Marron calls Sette Mezzo "a great neighborhood ...
The epoch of the surreptitious shopper.(GREED AT A GLANCE)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2009; ... ARE THE WEALTHY turning stealthy? In high-end retail hotspots from Rodeo Drive to Fifth Avenue, well-heeled shoppers are asking that their luxury purchases be packed in plain white bags--or shipped to their homes so they can exit their favorite luxury haunts sans evidence of their ...