"When President Bush abandoned a plan to regulate industrial output of carbon dioxide, he was criticized by leaders of DuPont and Alcoa. These guys aren't running around in tie-dyes.
"Several years ago, large corporations looked at global warming and felt it had no effect on them," says Mark Lowenthal, program advocate for Ecopledge. "Now, there's more long-term thinking at the corporate level. Corporations are beginning to moderate their policies."
Smart ones are. And they're not ramming environmental causes into the back room, separate from the business. I left a message with Patagonia a couple of weeks ago, saying I'd like to talk about the environment. Who returned my call? Their VP of finance.
Patagonia, which racks up nearly a quarter billion in annual sales of high-end outdoor clothes, knows that rock groups aren't writing songs about sweatshops. They're not writing about ergonomics.
They're writing about the environment, the apartheid of a new generation."
Full story is at: http://www.workforce.com/feature/00/07/71/
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