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Why Won't Borders Donate Their Soon-To-Be-Trashed Books?

Erik Ose | Posted 12.11.2009 | Books

Read More: Dumpstering, Economy, New Books, Sustainability, Philanthropy, Returns, Publishing Industry, Ceos, Activism, Climate Change, Waste, Environmental Destruction, The Recession, Job Losses, Bankruptcy, Huffpost Books, Corporate Misconduct, Books, Libraries, Nonprofits, Bookselling, Store Closings, Green Living, Facebook, Bad Business Practices, Bestsellers, Layoffs, Holiday Sales, Pulping, Corporations, Protests, Environment, Borders, Take Action, Waldenbooks, Authors, Books News
Erik Ose

Current Waldenbooks employees have come forward to alert the public that the company plans to dispose of many unsold books in the cheapest, easiest, least responsible way possible - by trashing them.

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Los Angyork City

Steven Nereo | Posted 12.10.2009 | Los Angeles

Read More: New York, Los Angeles, Consumer Culture, Chain Stores, Whole Foods, Corporations, Starbucks, Gap, Los Angeles News
Steven Nereo

As for New York becoming LA, or LA becoming Berlin or Berlin becoming Dubai ... the truth is it's all becoming the same. Sameness is our present and more-of-the-sameness is our future.

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Oil Giant Chevron Accused of "Extortion" on Capitol Hill

Han Shan | Posted 11.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Corporations, Big Oil, Lobbying, Ecuador, Lobbyists, Oil, Chevron, Corporate Greed, Barack Obama, Lawsuit, Indigenous People, Amazon, Green News
Han Shan

Chevron is making an extraordinary lobbying effort to evade responsibility for its massive toxic contamination of the Ecuadorian Amazon. In solidarity with all communities where Big Oil puts profit ahead of people, we must say "no more."

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Displacement Of Local Peoples As Coporations Buy Carbon Offsets

Mother Jones | James Ridgeway | Posted 11.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Chevron, American Electric Power, General Motors, Carbon Offsets, Corporations, Sustainability, Amazon Rainforest, Indigenous People., Amazon, Climate Change, Green News

THERE IS ANOTHER vexing question inherent in preserving forests: What happens to the people who use the land? Efforts to protect biodiversity in the d...

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Absolute Corruption Is the Rule in America

David A. Love | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Treasury Department, Capitalism, Wall Street, Blue Dogs, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Bernard Madoff, Joe Lieberman, Health Care, Healthcare, Blue Dog Democrats, Corruption, Citibank, Bank Bailout, Stock Market, Corporations, Banking Crisis, Sec, Corporate Greed, Citigroup, Regulation, Madoff Ponzi Scheme, Ponzi Scheme, Deregulation, New York, Criminal Justice System, Glass-Steagall, Politics News
David A. Love

Often, people will look at a high-profile example of corruption, and conclude that the egregious act is an exception to the rule. In reality, it might be the tip of the iceberg.

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VIDEO: Vote Against Corporate Agribusiness

Bob Cesca | Posted 11.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Department of Agriculture, Issue 2, Regulations, Lobbyists, Organic Food, Ohio, Factory Farms, Food, Agribusiness, Corporations, Green News
Bob Cesca

Issue 2 will amend Ohio's state constitution to create a small regulatory panel to oversee all of Ohio's livestock. Corporate agribusinesses love the idea, but family farms will be crushed.

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Supreme Court To Hear Case About Excessive Pay; Parallels Seen In Executive Compensation

Washington Post | Robert Barnes and Steven Mufson | Posted 10.31.2009 | Business

Read More: John C. Bogle, Regulation, Reform, Obama, Investors, Mutual Funds, White House, Bailout, Sotomayor, Jones vs. Harris, Jones vs. Harris Associates, Wall Street, Excessive Pay, Vanguard Group, Kenneth Feinberg, Financial Reform, Compensation, Pay Czar, Nfl, Index Funds, Barack Obama, Corporations, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court, Jones v. Harris Associates, Bonuses, Ken Feinberg, Apeals Court, Executive Pay, Business News

The Supreme Court this week will hear a case that raises bedrock questions about the ability of the market to set "reasonable" corporate compensation,...

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Chevron's Man in Ecuador: Felon, Drug-Trafficker, and Liar, Oh My!

Han Shan | Posted 10.31.2009 | Green

Read More: Video, Chevron, Green News, Oil, Corporate Greed, Indigenous People, Chevron Ecuador, Lawsuit, Amazon, Corruption, Big Oil, Corporations, Green News
Han Shan

To defend itself in a major environmental lawsuit in Ecuador, it appears that American oil giant Chevron is employing methods -- and people -- that are as dirty as the toxic waste pits it left scattered across the rainforest floor.

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Obama's White House is for Sale Just like All the Others

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Sr, Reagan, Robert Gibbs, Bush, President Obama. Pacs, Corporations, Clinton, Lobbyists, Donors, Bundling, Tax Evasion, Campaign Financing, Wall Street, Special Favors, Usb Bank, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Obama thundered he was the only candidate who didn't take a dime from Washington lobbyists. He hadn't taken a dime directly from them, but the favored few wealthy donors who don't have an L scribbled on their backside.

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The Secret Chamber of Commerce and its "Tort Reform" Mission

Joanne Doroshow | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Elections, Washington State, Chamber of Commerce, Tort Reform, Corporations, Judges, Judicial System, Politics News
Joanne Doroshow

The U.S. Chamber created the ILR to pursue the Chamber's so-called "tort reform" agenda: protecting corporations from liability, weakening the civil jury system and blocking the courthouse door for sick and injured Americans.

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We Can't Reform Health Care without Reforming Food

Bob Cesca | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Big Food, Issue 2, Animal Rights, Humane Society, Rick Berman, Agriculture, Ohio, Illegal Immigration, Center for Consumer Freedom, Human Trafficking, Farms, Corporations, Rachel Maddow, Health Care Reform, Agribusiness, Food, Politics and Food, Health Care, Food Politics, Green News
Bob Cesca

Without any real changes in how our food is produced, the health care system will continue to bloat and fall apart. Not unlike the insides of an average American body.

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Overthinking to Stinking: The Dangers of Overly Complicated Marketing

Sarah O'Leary | Posted 10.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Creativity, Marketing, Sales, Creative Capitalism, Business, Retail Sales, Corporations, Corporate America, Business News
Sarah O'Leary

A unique marketing idea is like a rock on the side of a riverbank. It has flat spots and rough spots and points and dips and crags and a host of things that make it different from the rest.

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Torture Accountability at Last - for Peru

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration Torture, Torture Investigation, Peru, Corporations, Monterrico Metals, Guantanamo, Bush Torture, Torture Memos, Eric Holder, Bush Torture Memos, Torture, Abu Ghraib, Politics News
Allison Kilkenny

It is not cliche or radical to demand the U.S. hold our own torturers (at all levels) to the same level of accountability as British mining corporations.

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Step Up to Mike's Challenge

Linda Milazzo | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Roger and Me, Barbara Boxer, Fair Elections Now Act, Houses, Lobbyists, Vermont, Connecticut, Jobs, Fahrenheit 9/11, Dianne Feinstein, Contributors, Arizona, California, Capitalism: A Love Story, New Mexico, New Jersey, Clean Money, Maine, Senator Barbara Boxer, iPhone App, Foreclosure, Congressman Henry Waxman, North Carolina, California Fair Elections, Participatory Democracy, S. 752, H.R. 1826, Campaign Finance, Congress, Democracy, Henry Waxman, Democrats, Sicko, Insurers, Corporations, Senator Dianne Feinstein, Corporate Greed, Medical Treatment, Iphone, Banks, Michael Moore, Republicans, Senate, Campaign Finance Reform, Healthcare, Fena, Hardball, Anderson Cooper, Msnbc, Chris Matthews, Cnn, Politics News
Linda Milazzo

Despite all we've learned from Sicko, Fahrenheit 9/11 and Roger and Me, we continue to take abuse. Our pal Mike is now asking us to act.

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Nestlé and the Mommy Wars

Joellen Raderstorf | Posted 10.07.2009 | Denver

Read More: Child Slaves, Corporations, Nestle, Baby Formula, Mommy Wars, Mothers, Social Media, Twitter, Corporate Social Responsibility, Denver News
Joellen Raderstorf

Last week, Nestlé flew a group of mom bloggers to Pasadena. A few attendees took the opportunity to bring up Nestlé's practice of sourcing cocoa harvested by children on Twitter.

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The Shiny Storefront on a Hill

Steven Weber | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Greed, Corporate Greed, Capitalism, Corporations, Politics News
Steven Weber

What is so wrong with the things we always depended on to lead a healthy existence in our democratic society?

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Corporations, the Government, and Accountability

Mike Lux | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Keynesian Economics, Banks, 2009 Obama Administration, Corporations, 2008-09 Financial Crisis, Banking Industry, Politics News
Mike Lux

If government bails you out, subsidizes you, forces people to buy your product, or otherwise does business with you, we the people are owed some basic accountability on the other end of the deal.

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How Did That Idiot Become My Boss?

Simon Sinek | Posted 11.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Leadership, Coach, Start With Why, Office Politics, Corporate America, Corporations, Manager, Dodgers, New York Knicks, Management, Corporate Culture, Tommy Lasorda, Business News
Simon Sinek

As people get more senior, they move from being doers to being thinkers and managers, but most companies don't train people how to manage or think.

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The Corporate Marionette

Harry Moroz | Posted 11.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Management, Corporate Personhood, Free Speech, Understanding Society, Government Reform, Corporations, Supreme Court, Business News
Harry Moroz

As the Supreme Court considers expanding corporate personhood, it is worthwhile remembering that corporate America was not handed down to us from above.

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Raging Against Ford Motor Company

Stephen Gyllenhaal | Posted 11.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Consumer, Obama, Local Food, China, Executive Compensation, Corporations, Ford, Business News
Stephen Gyllenhaal

Ford didn't take any TARP money so it can do whatever it wants, I guess. It can close all the plants it desires in the US and build sparkling new ones in China, as it was proudly announced today.

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Am I Free to Speak?

Stephen Herrington | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Government, Freedom of Speech, Supreme Court, Russ Feingold, First Amendment, John McCain, Corporations, Freedomworks, Hillary Clinton, Constitution, Town Hall Meetings, Politics News
Stephen Herrington

We have, for some decades now, been in an era that the framers did not anticipate, in which the reach and influence of money could shape the political landscape like never before.

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Daily Pulse: Adele Stan Talks Teabaggers (Audio)

Lindsay Beyerstein | Posted 11.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Teabaggers, Corporations, Adele Stan, Audio, /12, Tea Party, Interview, Podcast, Media News
Lindsay Beyerstein

Last Saturday, veteran right wing watcher Adele Stan of AlterNet covered the Tax Payers' March on Washington (aka the 912 March or the DC Tea Party). ...

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How Much Do You Love Leading People?

Marshall Goldsmith | Posted 11.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Leadership, Future Leader, Potential, Alan Mulally, Ford, Frances Hesselbein, Joy, Reward, Peter Drucker, Girl Scouts, Corporations, General Eric Shinseki, Service, Behavior, Leader to Leader, Inspire, Living News
Marshall Goldsmith

I think there is one critical question that repeatedly gets left out when assessing the potential of our future leaders: How much do you love leading people?

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Corporatists vs. Capitalists

Cenk Uygur | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mainstream Media, Conservatives, Public Option, Corporations, Corporatists, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Media, Democrats, Capitalists, Capitalism, Republicans, Health Care Industry, Capitalism: A Love Story, Politics News
Cenk Uygur

I don't blame the health care companies. I would do the same thing in their position. They'd have to be stupid and negligent not to buy Max Baucus. I don't blame them, I blame us.

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The Real Leadership Success Factors : Rate Your Senior Leaders and Rate Yourself

Rick Foster | Posted 11.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Success, Organizational Behavior, Leadership, Corporations, Behavior, Health, Happiness, Business News
Rick Foster

The following is a simple, tried and true questionnaire that forms the analytical template my partner, Greg Hicks, and I use when we're working with Senior Executive Teams.

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