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Ssangyong workers weigh strike amid reports of mass layoff plan [01.05.09]
Unionized workers at Ssangyong began voting Monday on whether to strike if management demanded mass job cuts as part of a restructuring of the ailing South Korean automaker. [Read More]
North Carolina Waste Pond Ban won't have immediate effect because farmers aren't expanding in downturn. [01.05.09]
Rules banning waste ponds on new and expanded hog farms and setting higher standards for alternative waste disposal systems take effect today. [Read More]
Concessions Foreshadow a Tough Year for Unions [01.05.09]
Unions are forgoing previously negotiated wage increases and reopening contracts early, as they face pressure to help private and public employers conserve cash in the recession. [Read More]
Citing Environment, China Delays World's Longest Aqueduct Project [01.04.09]
China is delaying its construction of a massive earth-changing project that will divert billions of tons of water to its parched north, in an attempt to mitigate environmental damage. (Updated | 4 Jan 09 : Cleaner Greener China points to conflicting ... [Read More]
Amazon rainforest damage surges 67% in 2008 [01.04.09]
The area of rainforest in the process of being deforested — razed but not yet cleared — surged in the Brazilian Amazon during 2008, according to new figures released by Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE). The announcement comes ... [Read More]
Trying to make reusable a requirement in Texas [01.04.09]
Now Sen. Leticia Van de Putte, D-San Antonio, has filed Senate Bill 338 for the upcoming Texas legislative session, which would require businesses that provide customers with plastic checkout bags to also offer for sale a reusable bag as an ... [Read More]
Disaster left dangerous levels of toxins in river, independent tests show [01.02.09]
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Funding Opportunity for Indigenous Groups Affected by Mining [01.02.09]
Western Mining Action Network and Indigenous Environmental Network Indigenous Communities Mining Mini-Grant Program. Application Deadline: February 1, 2009. [Read More]
Divergence On The Corporate Front: Sustainability Shakeout Begins [01.02.09]
With regulatory teeth set to emerge in environmental and ethical regulatory regimes again (see explanatory post - The Pendulum Effect: Review And Prospects For Sustainability...), corporate sustainability efforts could soon receive notice among ... [Read More]
Colleges Profit as Banks Market Credit Cards to Students [01.02.09]
When Ryan T. Muneio was tailgating with his parents at a Michigan State football game this fall, he noticed a big tent emblazoned with a Bank of America logo. Inside, bank representatives were offering free T-shirts and other merchandise to those ... [Read More]
Four Green Trends Set in 2008 Which Set Us on a Better Eco-Path for 2009 [01.02.09]
Since I mostly cover issues related to energy, I’m going to focus on those; I’m sure frequent TreeHugger readers can pick out others and I encourage them to discuss at will in the comments. [Read More]
Chinese Dairies Agree to Pay $160 Million to Tainted-Milk Victims [12.31.08]
A group of Chinese dairy companies blamed for selling contaminated milk that killed six children and sickened nearly 300,000 others earlier this year has agreed to pay $160 million in compensation to the victims and their families. [Read More]
The Real Price of Gold [12.31.08]
Like many of his Inca ancestors, Juan Apaza is possessed by gold. Descending into an icy tunnel 17,000 feet up in the Peruvian Andes, the 44-year-old miner stuffs a wad of coca leaves into his mouth to brace himself for the inevitable hunger and ... [Read More]
Governing Women: Women's Political Effectiveness in Contexts of Democratization and Governance Reform [12.31.08]
Though the proportion of women in national assemblies still barely scrapes 16% on average, the striking outliers-Rwanda with 49% of its assembly female, Argentina with 35%, Liberia and Chile with new women presidents this year-have raised ... [Read More]
John Abrams, The Company We Keep [12.31.08]
This video is an interview with John Abrams, founder of South Mountain Company, and author of The Company We Keep. There is a revolution going on in corporate America, and social entrepreneurship is leading the way. [Read More]
Leaving Platform That Elevated AIDS Fight [12.30.08]
Dr. Peter Piot, the only head of the United Nations AIDS program in its 13-year history, is retiring on Wednesday. He is credited as the person most responsible for making heads of state understand the political, economic and social ramifications of ... [Read More]
Sabotaging Drilling Leases: One Student's *Direct Action Gets the Goods* [12.27.08]
Tim DeChristopher is an economics student at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. He had just finished his last final exam before winter break. One of the exam questions was: If the oil and gas companies are the only ones that bid on public ... [Read More]
Mountains of Concrete: Dam Building in the Himalayas [12.27.08]
India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bhutan are planning to transform the Himalayan rivers into the powerhouse of South Asia. [Read More]
Coal Ash Spill Is Much Larger Than Initially Estimated [12.26.08]
A coal ash spill that blanketed residential neighborhoods and contaminated nearby rivers in Roane County, Tenn., earlier this week is more than three times larger than initially estimated, the Tennessee Valley Authority said on Thursday [Read More]
New York Times: Locavestors Have One of the Best Ideas of 2008 [12.26.08]
The re-localization of goods and services is one of the healthiest trends sweeping across the country [Read More]
In Reversal, Court Allows a Bush Plan on Pollution [12.26.08]
A federal appeals court in Washington reversed itself on Tuesday and temporarily reinstated a Bush administration plan to reduce pollution from coal-fired power plants. [Read More]
Hundreds of Brazil's eco-warriors at risk of assassination [12.26.08]
Twenty years after the killing of Chico Mendes, one of the world's most prominent rainforest defenders, hundreds of human rights and environmental activists still face the threat of assassination in Brazil, a new study claims. [Read More]
Competition gone bezerk [12.26.08]
“Companies [today] are competing with everyone from everywhere for everything.” So say the authors of Globality, a new book about the latest phase of globalization. The Economist quotes those words approvingly in it most recent report on ... [Read More]
Dim Christmas spirits in Detroit [12.21.08]
But the holiday lights - the ones people have bothered to put out - seem dimmer than usual, reflecting the mood of the few folks you see at the department stores normally packed wall-to-wall in the final days before the holidays begin. [Read More]
Working for Scrooge? [12.21.08]
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) states that “everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests” (Article 23, Section 4). [Read More]


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