BlogNews (December 10, 2019) All year we have been sharing various ways that Amazon is bad for workers, our planet, and consumer, and on International Human Rights day, we wanted to use this occasion to highlight some of the worst human rights abuses that Amazon has either directly or indirectly contributed to.
Profits off of child labor. Hundreds of children have been reported making Amazon’s Alexa, in an…
BlogNews (December 3, 2019) A multitude of concerns around devices like Alexa or Ring might make you reconsider purchasing an Amazon electronic. Check out Green America’s five reasons to skip Amazon electronics before letting Amazon into your home.
Youth work overnight to produce Alexa. The Guardian reported that children as young as 16 have been working ten-hour days, as ‘interns’, to meet production…
BlogNews (November 20, 2019) Everyone loves controversial conversations over Thanksgiving dinner. Of course, we know that’s not true. But, we think having family and friends around the table is a great time to talk about your values, like eating sustainable and ethical food.
It can be hard to start these conversations yourself, but one fun way to get people talking is to bring sides worth dishing about. …
BlogNews (November 15, 2019) Recycling is a daily practice for many of us, but it can be hard to know if it’s really helping the planet like we’d hope. As we toss recyclables into our curbside bins it can feel like an individual action that doesn’t yield much of an impact.
But what we do as individuals feeds into a larger system of many processes, industries, and impacts. While there are no “silver bullets”…
BlogNews (November 4, 2019) After the launch of our Toxic Textiles campaign, you may be wondering how I can make sure children in my family or social network are not being exposed to harmful chemicals? Unfortunately, this is a difficult task.
For example, in our recent Toxic Textile’s report, we found that Carter’s had some of the worst environmental and social practices out of all the US apparel companies…
BlogNews (October 15, 2019) This year, Green America’s chocolate scorecard included a few new brands that are leaders. The scorecard’s ratings are still heavily based on efforts to combat child labor, but we’ve added a new category on deforestation, one of the many issues facing the cocoa industry.
As large chocolate companies continue to explore and refine how they can go beyond certification to improve the…
BlogNews (October 9, 2019) In 2017, we launched Hang Up on Fossil Fuels, a campaign urging major telecommunications companies to rapidly increase their use of renewables to power networks. Back then, the industry was using almost no clean energy and few companies had any plans to increase.
Now, after years of consumer pressure, we’re seeing big moves in the industry – but we aren’t finished yet.
Here are…
BlogNews (September 23, 2019) The Ivory Coast and Ghana are the top producers of cocoa, globally. Cocoa farms in both countries are plagued by child labor, with an estimated two million children working in cocoa fields. These are not children helping on the family farm part-time. These are children who are working full time, day after day, in the fields. Some of them are doing dangerous work, and some are…
BlogNews (September 12, 2019) By Ayate Temsamani, Climate Fellow
The Impact of Telecoms
The US telecom industry uses vast amounts of energy, with the major four companies collectively using over 30 million megawatt hours (MWH) of electric power every year—enough energy to power all the households in New York City.
This has mostly come from dirty energy sources, emitting 20 million tons of CO2 every year.…
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