Five Key Issues:HUMAN RIGHTS: sweatshops, 3rd world community exploitation, international health issues, divestment, child labor, code of conduct.
THE ENVIRONMENT: global warming, rainforest destruction, pollution, recycling, renewable energy, greenwashing, toxic waste, eco-innovations, illegal dumping, sustainable farming.
ANIMAL PROTECTION: factory farming, animal testing, humane treatment,wild animal habitat.
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT: family farms, local business support, volunteer efforts, sustainable growth, philanthropic donations, nonprofit alliances, establishing foundations.
SOCIAL JUSTICE: health & safety records, fair wages, union busting efforts, fatalities, discrimination based on: race, gender, age, ability, religion, sexuality, ethnicity.
Below are the Top 10 BEST Companies that rated in the A Category: Often these companies were created specifically to provide socially and environmentally responsible options for consumers. A handful are merely responsibility leaders in their industry.
Below are the Top 10 WORST Companies that rated in the F Category: Companies that are actively participating in the rapid destruction of the planet and the exploitation of human beings. Avoid these products at all costs.
Here are the TOP 10 Things YOU CAN CHANGE:
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Resources:
- Berne Declaration: http://www.evb.ch/en
- Business Ethics: http://www.business-ethics.com
- Business for Social Responsibility: http://www.bsr.org
- Caring Consumer: http://www.caringconsumer.org
- Center for Public Integrity: http://www.publicintegrity.org
- Center For Responsive Politics: http://www.opensecrets.org
- CERES Principles: http://www.ceres.org
- Clean Clothes Campaign: http://www.cleanclothes.org
- Clean Computer Campaign: http://svtc.igc.org/cleancc
- Co-op America: http://www.coopamerica.org
- Cornucopia Institute: http://www.cornucopia.org
- Corporate Accountability: http://www.stopcorporateabuse.org
- Corporate Knights: http://www.corporateknights.ca
- Corpwatch: http://www.corpwatch.org
- Ethical Consumer: http://www.ethicalconsumer.org
- CSRwire: http://www.csrwire.com
- Fair Trade Federation: http://www.fairtradefederation.org
- Global Sullivan Principles: http://www.thegsp.org
- Hoover's: http://www.hoovers.com
- Human Rights Campaign: http://www.hrc.org
- Know More: http://www.knowmore.org
- Multinational Monitor: http://www.multinationalmonitor.org
- Organic Consumers Association: http://www.organicconsumers.org
- Responsible Shopper: http://www.responsibleshopper.org
- Social Venture Network: http://www.svn.org
- Transfair USA: http://www.transfairusa.org
- Union of Concerned Scientists: http://www.ucsusa.org
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: http://www.epa.gov
