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Still Time To Raise The Bar: The Real Corporate Social Responsibility Report For The Hershy Company 2011 Edition
...2011 marks the ten-year anniversary of when major chocolate companies, including Hershey, committed to ending child and forced labor in their cocoa supply chains1. However, hundreds of thousands of children in West Africa continue to labor on cocoa farms2 that provide the key ingredient for much of the chocolate consumed in the United States and around the world.
It has also been one year since the Raise the Bar, Hershey! campaign released its first report evaluating Hershey's corporate social responsibility policies, Time to Raise the Bar: The Real Corporate Social Responsibility Report for the Hershey Company3. The report found that Hershey lagged behind its competitors in sourcing cocoa that had been independently certified to comply with international labor rights standards...
From Green American: Our Interview With Dr. Devra Davis
Disconnect: The Truth About Cell Phone Radiation, What the Industry Has Done to Hide It, and How to Protect Your Family (Dutton, 2010), that may put her in the history books as the 21st century's Rachel Carson. In it, Davis examines the controversy surrounding cell phone use and its possible link to brain cancer and other human health impacts.
Do you remember waiting for dandelion flowers to turn
into little puff balls so you could blow the seeds, watching with delight as a summer's breeze took them on a journey? With spring coming, instead of fond anticipation of air-dancing dandelion seeds to be blown to an unknown place in the world...
Wether a cell phone, smart phone, computer, or TV, most of us look forward to an upgrade in our electronic life. But, what do we do with the old products? Many of the things we give or receive are going to replace something that is old, broken or obsolete.
