BlogNews (November 17, 2021) Amazon—it’s one of the biggest corporations in the world, raking in tens of billions of dollars annually, even while earning the ire of the masses for its treatment of employees, effects on the planet, monopolistic practices, and more.
Another pitfall of the giant conglomerate is how it dwarfs and harms small businesses.
Below are five ways small businesses are suffering under…
BlogNews (November 15, 2021) COP 26, the latest United Nations meeting to forge agreements between nations on climate change, has come to a close in Glasgow, Scotland.
While the countries present reached an agreement that improves on the current commitments, the world is still far from keeping global warming to the 1.5 degrees Celsius or less that scientists assert is necessary to prevent the worst impacts…
BlogNews (November 9, 2021) Amazon had a record-breaking year in 2020, bringing in over $20 billion in profits. This was a great year for shareholders and executives, but who makes these profits possible and who bears the brunt of the harm from a corporation that prioritizes profits at all costs?
During the pandemic, Amazon hired an extra 250,000 warehouse workers to help with the surge of online orders.…
BlogNews (November 4, 2021) As the undeniable consequences of the climate crisis abound all around us, in some positive news, divestment from the fossil fuel sector is steadily on the rise, as documented in the 2021 Invest Divest Report released October 26th. Dozens of organizations, including Green America, have endorsed the report, produced by the Institute for Energy Economic and Financial Analysis, STAND…
BlogNews (November 2, 2021) On November 2, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a new rule for comment that will address methane emissions from both existing and new oil and gas wells and infrastructure in the US. Currently hundreds of thousands of wells, pipelines, and storage tanks are leaking millions of tons of methane per year. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas with up to 80 times the…
BlogNews (October 19, 2021) "You get very tired when you work so much," [one child] said, showing scars he still has from his machete injuries. "Every day I would wake at six o'clock and go straight to the cocoa farm."
Child labor is worsening around the world. It is estimated that the number of child laborers globally rose from 152 million in 2016 to 160 million in 2020.
1 in 10 children experience child…
BlogNews (October 12, 2021) Following the murder of George Floyd, US corporations focused attention on the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement -- a slogan and organization launched by Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the murder of the teenager Trayvon Martin. The videotape of Floyd’s murder and the public demonstrations that followed prompted Corporate …
BlogNews (October 1, 2021) Green America’s chocolate scorecard included a few new, fair trade chocolate brands that are leaders in their field and earning A-ratings. The scorecard is 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.
Direct and fair trade chocolate companies have been placing farmers front…
BlogNews (September 23, 2021) In the last 20 years, renewable energy from wind and solar have grown dramatically worldwide. In 2020, wind and solar power grew 45%, their greatest rate of growth since 1999, outpacing the growth of all other energy sources.
This growth is driven by the commitments that governments and corporations have made to reduce emissions to address the climate crisis, as well as a…
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