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The Bucket Brigade: Background

The "Bucket Brigade" effort began in Northern California in 1995, when residents near oil refineries and chemical plants grew tired of toxic releases and the lack of independent information on air pollution.
Posted by Ravi at 11:36 AM February 20, 2004 | Comments (0)

Iscor Protest

22 August 2002 Down the street from the hotel where the Corportate Accountability Week events where being held, Iscor (a steel company which has poluted the surrounding community) was holding a luncheon for its executives.† To capitalize on this opportunity,...
Posted by Ravi at 11:23 AM February 20, 2004 | Comments (0)

Greenwash Academy Awards

Instead of making real change toward sustainable development, corporations have instead changed their image with greenwash.
Posted by Ravi at 11:22 AM February 20, 2004 | Comments (0)

Corporate Accountability Week

The week before the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Sandton, groundWork hosted a conference entitled Corporate Accountability Week in which the theme was†"Peoples' Action for Corporate Accountability."
Posted by Ravi at 11:19 AM February 20, 2004 | Comments (0)

Introduction

groundWork focuses on combating air pollution from oil refineries by support the community groups fighting major polluters like Shell and SASOL. A report by Stefaans Br¸mmer on 8 June 2000, entitled ėSouth Africa: Where breathing is a health hazardî was...
Posted by Ravi at 02:43 PM February 06, 2004 | Comments (0)

Introduction

groundWork has identified waste as an important environmental justice issue in South Africa. While most Northern nations and some Southern nations have abandoned the burning of waste because of the amount of dioxins (a group of very hazardous chemicals) which...
Posted by Ravi at 02:26 PM February 06, 2004 | Comments (0)

Introduction

At the end of August 2002, South Africa hosted the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD). In response, groundWork hosted a week of events before the formal WSSD process began to highlight the need to hold multinational corporations (MNC) accountable...
Posted by Ravi at 12:53 PM January 21, 2004 | Comments (0)