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Monthly Archives: February 2010

26 Feb 2010

The sheer enormity of what Google has achieved over the last few years is there for all to see. The company and its brand have now become so omnipresent that it’s become quite hard to define what it does and why. Google is here, there and everywhere and it’s not going away.
Google’s activities were, until [...]

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25 Feb 2010

Back in January, we blogged about the annual Greenpeace survey into the green credentials of the consumer electronics industry and noted that the big players in this area are largely silent (or at least very quiet) regarding discussion of the environmental impacts of their activities. According to The Guardian, a UN study published on Monday [...]

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15 Feb 2010

UK charity CAFOD, a relief and development agency, recently released a report on AngloGold Ashanti’s proposed gold mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In our opinion, it’s one of the better examples of NGO commentary/pressure on the corporate world, a real improvement, in terms of clarity and quality, over some of the similar documents [...]

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11 Feb 2010

Recent news around Canada’s tar sands, which are being used as a source of crude oil and have attracted a great deal of attention, made us consider the ways in which companies respond to the pressure put on them by NGOs.
Coalitions of institutional investors, including Co-operative Asset Management, have raised concerns with both Shell and [...]

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