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Business America Lights a Candle for Copenhagen

Jonathan A. Schein | Posted 12.01.2009 | Business

Read More: Symantec, Pepsi Co, Copenhagen 2009, Johnson & Johnson, President Obama, Honeywell, BP America, Shell Oil, United States Climate Action Partnership, We-Can-Lead, General Motors, Applied Materials, Starbucks, Duke Energy, Caterpillar, Nrg-Energy, Dupont, Alcoa, Levi Strauss, Business News
Jonathan A. Schein

There are many in the corporate realm who "get it" -- that's why they're finding new and innovative ways to combat climate change.

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Claude Levi-Strauss Dead: French Anthropologist Dies At 100

AP | ANGELA DOLAND | Posted 11.04.2009 | World

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PARIS — After weeks crossing the high seas, Claude Levi-Strauss breathed in his first lungful of the New World, a perfume tinged with pepper or ...

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Levi's Care Tags To Recommend Line Drying And Donating To Goodwill

nytimes.com | Leora Broydo Vestel | Posted 10.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Jeans, Care Tags, Clotheslines, Green Living, Line-Drying, Goodwill, Levi Strauss, Green News

Levi Strauss & Co., in partnership with Goodwill, has begun a campaign designed to encourage customers to treat their clothes in an environmentally re...

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Mohawk Paper Joins Chamber of Commerce Exodus

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green

Read More: PG&E Corp, Apple, Nike, Pseg, Climate Change, Chamber of Commerce, Mohawk Paper, Levi Strauss, The Yes Men, Green News
Brendan DeMelle

The Chamber has been losing members -- real members out of its actual 300,000 or less total -- at a rate of several each week lately.

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The Incredible Shrinking U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 10.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Pseg, MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings, PG&E Corp, Apple, Nike, PNM Resources, Exelon, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Silicon Valley Leadership Council, Climate Legislation, Tom Donohue, Steven Chu Energy Secretary, Levi Strauss, Green News
Brendan DeMelle

It turns out that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce only has 300,000 members, not the more than 3 million it claimed to represent just a day ago.

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Turning Up the Pressure on the U.S Chamber of Commerce

Josh Nelson | Posted 10.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Nrdc, General Electric, Ed Markey, South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce, President Obama, Employee Free Choice Act, PNM Resources, Accce, San Jose Chamber of Commerce, Alcoa, Climate Change, Americans With Disabilities Act, New Yorker, Apple, Nike, Kevin Grandia, Adam Green, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, PG&E, Blue America, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, Politics, Service Employees International Union, Exelon, CREDO Mobile, Global Warming, Family and Medical Leave Act, Political News, Steven Chu, Efca, Natural Resources Defense Council, Duke Energy, Health Care, Chamber of Commerce, Senator Graham, Frank Knapp, Levi Strauss, Move On, Seiu, Entergy, Psef, Green News
Josh Nelson

Companies should only be members of the Chamber of Commerce if they support hyper-conservative anti-regulatory policies across the board, and aren't afraid to show it.

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Climate Controversy Damages Chamber's Reputation

Pete Altman | Posted 10.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Duke, Ge, Nike, Exelon, PG&E, Microsoft, Entergy, Alcoa, Pseg, San Jose Chamber of Commerce, Pnm, Levi Strauss, Johnson & Johnson, US Chamber of Commerce, Green News
Pete Altman

The Chamber's tone-deaf response to the situation is contributing to reputation damage that is hurting the organization's credibility.

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Save Money, Shop Fung-Mart: Where Wal-Mart Goes To Shop

Al Norman | Posted 09.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Li & Fung, Toys R Us, Hang Seng Index, Wal-Mart, Talbots, Levi Strauss, Vertical Integration, Hong Kong, Business News
Al Norman

While many American retailers are just one lackluster back-to-school season away from disaster, the malingering recession has been very good to some retail manufacturers, especially in China.

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America's Biggest Brands: Iconic Or Overexposed? (SLIDESHOW, VOTE)

Posted 08.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Google, Walt Disney, America's Biggest Brands, Apple, Nike, America's Most Iconic Brands, Slidepoll, Starbucks, Coca Cola, Over-Exposed, Levi Strauss, Wal-Mart, Mcdonalds, Business News

In the money-hungry world of corporate America, is there such a thing as too much of a good thing? In the case of mega-brands like Wal-Mart, Starbucks...

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Joining Together in the Fight Against AIDS

John Tedstrom | Posted 07.26.2009 | World

Read More: HIV/AIDS, South Africa, HIV/AIDS Africa, Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Levi Strauss, World News
John Tedstrom

In our work around the world, we have witnessed firsthand the destructive power of this disease. Although its pain invades every aspect of family life and human emotion, the toll is also economic.

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Most Hated Director at Cannes: Lars Von Trier as Antichrist or Shaman?

Karin Badt | Posted 06.29.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Antichrist, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Lars Von Trier, Cannes Film Festival 2009, Willem Dafoe, Cannes, Levi Strauss, Shamanism, Entertainment News
Karin Badt

The film is marked by anxiety, cruelty and power manipulation in which the climax is a clitorectomy executed with a pair of scissors.

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Corporations' Plea for Climate Legislation Ignored

Janet Ritz | Posted 06.14.2008 | Green

Read More: Barbara Boxer, Newscorp, Mitch McConnell, Nike, World Wildlife Fund, The Environmentalist, Zimbabwe, Johnson & Johnson, Politics, Bali Conference, Green, Global Warming, Business, Climate Change, Shell Oil, Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe, Environment, Fox News, Harry Reid, Joe Lieberman, Wwf, Robert Mugabe, Levi Strauss, United Technologies, Green News
Janet Ritz

The need for the United States to lead by example through legislation has never been greater. Unfortunately, the need for change in Washington may have superseded that consideration.

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