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Tag Archives: Ethical Business

PCC rebrands: Cooperative drops “Natural Markets” for “Community Markets”

Excerpt: For decades, PCC (the Puget Consumers Cooperative) has been a fixture of Seattle and more recently the greater Seattle metropolitan area, providing organic food from local farms, ranches, bakeries, and dairies. When we need food for an event, such as our annual Winter Holiday Party, NPI turns to PCC. Since 1998, when PCC adopted the […]
Published at:9:17 PM on Wednesday, September 13th, 2017
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Washingtonians are hungry for meaningful corporate tax accountability, NPI poll finds

Excerpt: NPI's research has confirmed that there's an extraordinary appetite for meaningful accountability that spans the ideological spectrum and every demographic group imaginable.
Published at:3:15 PM on Monday, July 10th, 2017
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Ecommerce giant Amazon to buy Whole Foods grocery chain in blockbuster deal

Excerpt: If this deal goes through, Amazon will -- almost overnight -- become a major player in the brick and mortar retail industry. It already dominates ecommerce.
Published at:7:35 PM on Friday, June 16th, 2017
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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President Barack Obama announces his administration has rejected Keystone XL

Excerpt: Flanked by Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry, President Barack Obama announced today that his administration has — after a lengthy and repeatedly delayed review process — rejected oil giant TransCanada’s application to build the Keystone XL pipeline across the U.S.-Canada border. “Now, for years, the Keystone [XL] Pipeline has occupied […]
Published at:1:39 PM on Friday, November 6th, 2015
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Core Encyclopedia Topics, Our Environment, World Commmunity
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Roberts Court’s logic: Corporations are people, so they’re entitled to religious liberty

Excerpt: The Roberts Court has done it again. Determined to make the terrible implications of the Corporations United and McCutcheon decisions look tame by comparison, the Supreme Court ruled this morning that because it believes corporations to be people, an artificial for-profit entity like Hobby Lobby is entitled to religious liberty, and so it does not […]
Published at:10:04 AM on Monday, June 30th, 2014
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Michael King’s embezzlement demonstrates why progressive and Democratic organizations need strong internal controls

Excerpt: Yesterday, King County prosecutors charged Michael Walter King, the former executive director of the now-defunct Senate Democratic Campaign Committee (SDCC) with six counts of theft following a six month investigation, in which Seattle police found that King had stolen more than a quarter of a million dollars from the Senate Democratic caucus to fund his […]
Published at:10:14 AM on Wednesday, September 25th, 2013
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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LIVE from Seattle: Huge turnout for final scoping hearing on Gateway Pacific Terminal

Excerpt: This afternoon, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Washington State Department of Ecology, and Whatcom County (the co-lead agencies) are holding the seventh in a series of scoping meetings to determine how to best proceed with an environmental impact statement for the proposed Gateway Pacific Terminal and Custer railroad spur at the Washington State Convention […]
Published at:5:27 PM on Thursday, December 13th, 2012
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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What greed and instant gratification look like: Inside a Georgia Wal-Mart on Black Friday

Excerpt: Throughout the past week, in honor of Thanksgiving and in protest of Black Friday, we’ve been taking a critical look at excessive consumerism and the consequences it portends for ourselves as a society and planet Earth. We’ve covered the plight of Wal-Mart’s underpaid and poorly treated workers (some of whom have gone on strike), talked […]
Published at:10:06 PM on Friday, November 23rd, 2012
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Stay home and sleep in this weekend: The Black Friday madness isn’t worth it (literally!)

Excerpt: This weekend is Thanksgiving weekend, traditionally one of the longest weekends of the year (owing to Thanksgiving always falling on a Thursday). It’s also traditionally the beginning of the Christmas shopping season, and is thus a very important time of year for retailers. Since the turn of the century, major retail chains have gone to […]
Published at:9:33 PM on Monday, November 19th, 2012
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Rush Limbaugh loses another station and more than a dozen more national advertisers

Excerpt: Let’s keep the pressure on! Another station has just canceled Rush: AM 1420 WBEC [Pittsfield, Massachusetts]  releases statement regarding the removal of Rush Limbaugh from the airwaves Due to the inappropriate remarks made by Rush Limbaugh regarding Sandra Fluke, the management of AM 1420 WBEC has made the decision to remove the Rush Limbaugh Show […]
Published at:4:41 PM on Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Olympus’ entire board of directors resigning to make way for new leadership

Excerpt: Months after the Olympus’ ex-CEO-turned-whistleblower began demanding their resignations, the entire board of directors of the scandal-ridden Japanese electronics maker is finally stepping down, the company said today. “[A]ll the current directors and corporate auditors express their intentions to resign at the end of the extraordinary general shareholders meeting and have submitted letters of resignation […]
Published at:2:55 PM on Monday, February 27th, 2012
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Olympus must rid itself of the crooks/yes men who betrayed its shareholders and customers

Excerpt: Ten years ago, corporate America was rocked by a series of accounting scandals that destroyed one of the world’s largest accounting firms (Arthur Andersen) and led to the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (Sarbox, or sometimes simply referred to as SOX). A number of well-known American companies – notably Enron, Tyco, Adelphia, and WorldCom – […]
Published at:12:22 PM on Saturday, December 10th, 2011
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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I-1183, if implemented, could generate $81 million plus in annual sales for Costco

Excerpt: Ever since Costco and its executives first started making noise about deregulating and privatizing our state’s liquor control system, it’s been apparent that their driving motivation for pushing privatization is because they want our state’s liquor stores’ business for themselves — not because they think “getting the state out of the liquor business” (which is […]
Published at:2:43 PM on Friday, December 9th, 2011
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Bank of America unilaterally amends deposit agreements for Pacific Northwest customers

Excerpt: Financial “services” giant Bank of America, which has been staggering through 2011 under the weight of bad debt inherited from acquisitions like Countrywide, has begun informing customers in Washington and Idaho that it is changing the deposit agreements for personal accounts in both states, NPI has learned. The changes will take effect on October 14th, […]
Published at:6:24 PM on Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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