Shareholders play a crucial role in improving a company’s performance. But a new report out this week found that some of the biggest asset managers in the world are backing only a small, and shrinking, percentage of shareholder resolutions that seek to improve companies’ treatment of employees, and assuage theirContinue Reading
Many of us have been taught since childhood to reuse and recycle where possible. A whopping 87 per cent of Australians believe recycling at home is the right thing to do, according to a 2022 report — and for items that can’t go in council-provided yellow bins, more people each year areContinue Reading
Custom officers must check for many things: drugs, tobacco, animals and illegal firearms. From next year they will also be on the lookout for other items packed away in shipping containers – namely plastic knives and forks. For these seemingly benign items are among pollutants causing huge concern across Europe.Continue Reading
In February, the Navajo Nation sued San Juan County, New Mexico over its new redistricting plan. San Juan County, which stretches across a large swath of the Navajo reservation, has enough Indigenous voters to be a majority in two voting districts. The Navajo Nation’s lawsuit, however, argues that the county’sContinue Reading
The beaches were spotted with used syringes, catheters, raw sewage and other garbage. In late 2010 and early 2011, heavy rains caused a Leeward reservoir to overflow above Oahu’s only municipal landfill, Waimanalo Gulch. The landfill’s filtration system and backup retention ponds were overwhelmed, and millions of gallons of contaminatedContinue Reading
Across industries like transportation, aerospace, energy, life sciences, and manufacturing—changes are happening in the moment and in ways that will unfold over the coming years. During the pandemic, it was evident that companies manufacturing physical products were at a severe business growth disadvantage because they lacked the revenue support fromContinue Reading
Thanks With the rise of reusable wellness and beauty products and sustainability being the trend du jour for the past few years, it may seem like going plastic-free for a week wouldn’t be so difficult of an undertaking. Newsflash: It is. Just ask actor and new mom Emma Roberts, whoContinue Reading
Why smarter devices are making our lives harder, and how we can change that Why smarter devices are making our lives harder, and how we can change that Over the last year, we’ve spent a considerable amount of time at home, and while there has been much conversationContinue Reading
<p>”From the plague of water shutoffs due to unaffordable bills during a pandemic, to the recent heartbreaking scenes across the South of frozen pipes leaving millions without water, it has become desperately clear that our country is in a water crisis,” said Food & Water Action executive director Wenonah HauterContinue Reading
