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The Streisand effect bites Nestlé

By Nathan ⋅ March 18, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Have a break? from Greenpeace UK on Vimeo. Oh dear, Nestlé. You didn’t learn anything from Trafigura did you. Despite getting Greenpeace’s video removed from YouTube, social media has once more made a fool out of a large, well-resourced company by spreading a message faster than their legal department can kill it. In fact, in [...]

Sustainable palm oil? There’s no such thing.

By Nathan ⋅ November 30, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Were you hoping that the cosmetics or other goods you bought that were RSPO (Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil) certified were from genuinely sustainable sources? Think again.

One decade, 20000 orangutans killed

By Nathan ⋅ August 26, 2009 ⋅ One comment

A report just released by UK organisation Nature Alert in partnership with the Centre for Orangutan Protection highlights the plight of orangutans in Indonesia. In the last ten years, an estimated 20,000 orangutans have been killed or poached, and not a single prosecution has been brought against any of those responsible.

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