Posted on 14 March 2008. Tags: Apollo Alliance, Climate Change, Green Jobs, Labor
So, I’ve been at a conference on "Green Jobs" here in Pittsburgh. I’ve written about this topic before and you’ll see more about this in the future. But, for today, just quickly–we all know that we have to move from a carbon-based economy and I think there is a huge opportunity for labor to […]
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Posted on 26 January 2008. Tags: Class Warfare, Climate Change, Energy Efficient, Health Care, Labor, Wal-Mart, Wal-Mart Watch
I have to give Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott credit: he knows how to run an offensive campaign. I mean that in two ways. Offensive in the sense that he is refuses to lay back and absorb beating after beating, and is taking his campaign right to his critics and to the public. And offensive […]
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Posted on 26 January 2008. Tags: Class Warfare, Climate Change, Energy Efficient, Health Care, Labor, Wal-Mart, Wal-Mart Watch
I have to give Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott credit: he knows how to run an offensive campaign. I mean that in two ways. Offensive in the sense that he is refuses to lay back and absorb beating after beating, and is taking his campaign right to his critics and to the public. And offensive […]
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Posted on 18 January 2008. Tags: Climate Change, Energy Efficient, Wal-Mart, Wal-Mart Watch
If the term "greenwash" hasn’t been given its own entry in the dictionary yet, let me propose that, when it does, it is linked directly to the word "Wal-Mart". For those not yet familiar with the term, "greenwashing" occurs when a company pretends to be environmentally progressive yet is quite misleading about its true […]
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Posted on 18 January 2008. Tags: Climate Change, Energy Efficient, Wal-Mart, Wal-Mart Watch
If the term "greenwash" hasn’t been given its own entry in the dictionary yet, let me propose that, when it does, it is linked directly to the word "Wal-Mart". For those not yet familiar with the term, "greenwashing" occurs when a company pretends to be environmentally progressive yet is quite misleading about its true […]
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Posted on 10 December 2007. Tags: "Free Trade", Bali, Climate Change, Labor, WTO
The thing that struck me most this morning (that would be Monday morning here for those of you reading this Sunday night) as I was riding in a cab to a meeting in Bali at the UN climate change meeting was this front-page headline in The Jakarta Post: "Climate Change A New Focus For […]
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Posted on 10 December 2007. Tags: "Free Trade", Bali, Climate Change, Labor, WTO
The thing that struck me most this morning (that would be Monday morning here for those of you reading this Sunday night) as I was riding in a cab to a meeting in Bali at the UN climate change meeting was this front-page headline in The Jakarta Post: "Climate Change A New Focus For […]
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