The new Congress faces a full agenda on the Iraq war and corruption in the Bush administration. Where do issues of corporate accountability fit in? We talk in depth with two Washington, DC area activists and researchers about CEO pay, expansion of Enron-era reforms against corporate crime, and the outsourcing of American jobs. Our guests [...]
It’s been a year since the public learned that AT&T and other phone companies might be providing logs of all phone calls and emails to the National Security Agency. Today we talk with an expert on wrongful government surveillance of citizens, Professor Christopher Pyle of Mount Holyoke College. He blew the whistle on the government [...]
Seth Petchers, Oxfam International’s Make Trade Fair campaign coffee lead, discusses how Starbucks opposes Ethiopia’s bid to trademark its renowned regional coffee names–Sidamo, Harrar, and Yirgacheffe. Dean Cycon, founder of Dean’s Beans Organic Coffee Company, discusses problems with the trademarking solution, and how appellation (the system by which regional wines such as Champagne and Bordeaux [...]
Mark McElroy, executive director and chief sustainability officer of the Center for Sustainable Innovation in Vermont, discusses whether companies are contributing to a sustainable world and how it can be measured. He also discusses whether companies can be held accountable for the use of their products over the entire lifecycle, or “extended producer responsibility.” Center [...]
Many of today’s corporations behave like irresponsible teenagers, according to Terry Mollner, a founder of Calvert Funds and Board member of Ben and Jerry’s. Mollner discusses his ideas about maturing the corporation to make the good of society a priority. He also discusses the behind the scenes story of the Ben & Jerry’s buyout, and [...]
Dan Henkle, senior vice president of Social Responsibility at Gap Inc, discusses how the company is contributing 50 percent of profits on merchandise in its (PRODUCT) RED campaign to the Global Fund to help women and children affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa. Dan Rosan, program director on public health at the Interfaith Center on Corporate [...]
Raymond Shadis, of the New England Coalition, discusses how the Nuclear Regulatory Commission fails to safeguard the environment and public from the hazards of America’s aging nuclear power plants. We begin with a review of the recent failures of nuclear power plant regulation, and zoom in for a closer examination of the looming hazards of [...]
An extended interview with filmmaker Robert Greenwald, regarding his new film, Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers. Includes several excerpts from the film, discussion of the film’s content, critiques of companies such as Halliburton and Blackwater, and Greenwald’s unique grassroots production and distribution strategy. Also see Iraq For Sale
Harvard University Professor and National Commission on Energy Policy Co-Chair John Holdren discusses the role of nuclear power as a potential solution for climate change, identifying four primary problems that would need to be overcome for nukes to be a viable part of an overall greenhouse gas reduction strategy.
Cecilie Surasky of Jewish Voice for Peace and Michael Passoff of the As You Sow Foundation discuss the shareowner resolution they filed with Caterpillar over the Israeli Defense Forces’ use of their bulldozers to commit human rights abuses in the occupied territories. Bill Somplatsky-Jarman of the Presbyterian Church USA discusses how its Mission Responsibility Through [...]
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