Comments on: America’s Toxic 10 Corporate Polluters – A Story of Contradictions

By: Jocelyn Allen

Jocelyn Allen — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:51:46 +0000

Whoops – sorry about the HTML formatting issues in my comment above!
Here is that link to write a letter helping us convince Citigroup, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and Wachovia to end all financing of coal, set targets for the reductions of CO2 emissions for all their borrowers, and set targets for investments in energy efficiency and renewables:
http://www.coopamerica.org/takeaction/banking/
Peace,
Jocelyn Allen
Online Campaign Outreach Intern
Co-op America
http://www.coopamerica.org

By: Jocelyn Allen

Jocelyn Allen — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:18:49 +0000

Thanks for mentioning our banking campaign! We agree that not all of the companies on the Portfolio list are truly green.
We’d love to have your help persuading Bank of America – and other banks – that financing new coal-fired power plants is a bad investment for America’s energy future. It’s as simple as [writing a letter!|http://www.coopamerica.org/takeaction/banking/]
Peace,
Jocelyn Allen
Online Campaign Outreach Intern
[Co-op America|http://www.coopamerica.org/]

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:54:01 +0000

Shannon, thanks once again for yet another of your many good posts; just a language issue here: you state that [some] corporate giants “violate egregious crimes….” Since you cannot technically violate a crime, I believe you mean “commit egregious violations” or “perpetrate egregious crimes” against human health and nature.
I point this out only because your posts will doubtless be copied and used elsewhere, thus perpetuating the error.

By: Richard Coleman

Richard Coleman — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:44:20 +0000

Good points there Mark, I firmly agree with you on our need for formal/regulated reporting. Unfortunately I have some reservations with the reporting mechanisms on offer at the moment. Unless we/business/society/government change our emphasis from accounting and reporting on financial entities to communities and ecologies, we will continue to chase our tail.

By: Mark Benedict

Mark Benedict — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 10:57:50 +0000

I agree with the premise of this article. The path to sustainability is ahead of us and both citizens and organizations need to follow it. We do need a verifiable strategy (tool) for assessing the “green-ness” of a company and that tool is under development in the form of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). At some point in the near future a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) framework like the GRI will need to become a reporting requirement and social regulatory standard interpreted by watchdog organizations and policed by the economic & political decisions of citizens. This is an important part of the social evolution of our species…if we are to survive on living planet Earth. MB.