The Greener Electronics Guide – Before You Buy… Read This.

The Greener Electronics Guide is our way of getting the electronics industry to face up to the problem of e-waste. We want manufacturers to get rid of harmful chemicals in their products. We want to see an end to the stories of unprotected child labourers scavenging mountains of cast-off gadgets created [...]

Council bans new fast-food outlets in South L.A.

The one-year moratorium, proposed by Councilwoman Jan Perry, is aimed at attracting restaurants serving healthier fare to the area, where a study found 30% of children are obese.

By Molly Hennessy-Fiske and David Zahniser
Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
July 30, 2008
A law that would bar fast-food restaurants from opening in South Los Angeles [...]

We have to draw the line somewhere – July 21st

“Woodlands Not Wal-Marts” is the battle cry in the latest skirmish between developers and environmental activists over development along the Thames River corridor.
This time the controversy is over a piece of land next to the Meadowlily Woods, a forested area along the south branch of the river.
No one is suggesting that actual woods, designated an [...]

Responsible Shopper | Profile | Wal-Mart

Responsible Shopper reports on global research and campaign information regarding the impact of major corporations on human rights, social justice, environmental sustainability and more.
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• Wal-Mart operates over 6,500 discount stores throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico and sells products ranging from [...]

Loblaws cutting wages due to Walmart

Loblaws rebrands and cuts wages
Wed, July 30, 2008

By NORMAN DE BONO

London’s three remaining Loblaws stores will undergo major changes that include new names and lower wages for workers.
The company is slashing wages and hours and rebranding its London stores as it struggles to compete [...]

Eulogy to American Culture – documentary – “What A Way To Go”

10 minute synopsis of film, ‘What a Way to Go’:

clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8X8_wUoiq0&NR=1
Interview of film-makers/trailers from the movie What a Way to Go – Life at the End of Empire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFyI5ZYG_pE
10 minute synopsis of film, ‘What a Way to Go’:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbOe8fPpOdo
clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8X8_wUoiq0&NR=1
Interview of film-makers/trailers from the movie What a Way to Go – [...]

Economic Impact of a proposed Walmart (Chicago)

THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF WAL-MART: AN ASSESSMENT OF THE WAL-MART STORE PROPOSED FOR CHICAGO’S WEST SIDE

UIC CENTER FOR URBAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Chirag Mehta Research Associate UIC-CUED
Dr. Ron BaimanResearch Associate UIC-CUED
Dr. Joe PerskyDepartment of Economics University of Illinois at Chicago
http://www.uic.edu/cuppa/uicued/npublications/recent/nwal-martreport.pdf

LFP – Environment outweighs development on Meadowlily

EDITORS NOTE: As published in The London Free Press on July 17, 2008
Regarding the letter Meadowlily Road Wal-Mart welcomed by resident (July 12).
The development is not so much an inconvenience to the Meadowlily Road residents but rather an “inconvenient truth” to all Londoners. In this case, the needs of the [...]

Don’t be outsmarted | SmartCentres messed up Laird, so why believe Leslieville promises?

Even as it fights residents at the Ontario Municipal Board, SmartCentres, the devel­op­er pushing Wal-Mart-sized plans in Leslieville, has launched a glossy high-stakes PR campaign to win over residents in the neighbourhood.
An army of mercenaries has been deployed in a blitz that includes reports, focus groups, polling, newspaper ads, [...]