Why the World Needs More Corporate Transparency
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- May 30, 2016
There are powerful social, environmental and economic implications associated with transparency. Corporations are not the only ones that should be concerned about transparency; governments, employees, consumers and the whole of civil society all have a stake. Transparency is about open access to an organization’s activities and this has implications for everything from climate change to the bottom line. cenforce Starbuck’s CEO Howard Schultz effectively communicated …
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My Inconvenient Truth : Reflections on Al Gore’s Impact, Ten Years On
In May of 2006, Al Gore’s now-classic climate change documentary “An Inconvenient Truth“ was released. The movie won an Oscar in the Featured Documentary category, and Gore was co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, along with the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The nominating committee recognized Gore and the IPCC “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate …
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Helping the Monarch Butterfly Recover
The life-cycle of the Monarch butterfly is epic. When cooler temperatures signal the coming North American winter, the vivid orange and black insect makes a grand 3,000 mile, multi-generational journey south to Mexico, at times flying at altitudes as high as 10,000 feet. cheap ambien The Monarch is the only butterfly species making such a long, two-way annual migration. Offspring of …
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