Hello Todd This is absolutely right, and P&G's a good example. Thanks!
>Jan, > >The environmental war isn't always fun and often seems to accomplish >little - especially when underfunded. > >The greatest myth in the effort is that one person cannot do anything. > >May I remind you that one of the most deviant corporations in the pollution >and "spin" arenas is Proctor and Gamble. > >P&G started as a small soap company in the colonial days of the United >States. They reached where they are today by profiting one penny at a time >off each bar of soap or other product for the past two centuries. And now >their production facilities poison our rivers, air, drinking water and >people. > >Take a look at the list of consumer products from which they profit every >time purchased. No doubt you will find a few in your cupboard - unless you >already boycott P&G for their lies, destruction and deceit. > >Tide, Tampax, Always, Pampers, Luvs, Folgers, Millstone, Pringles, Jif, >Crisco, Crest, Sunny Delight, Charmin, Bounty, Puffs, Old Spice, Secret, >Sure, Max Factor, Cover Girl, Olay, Head & Shoulders, Pantene, Cascade, >Dawn, Ivory, Joy, Bounce, Downy, Comet, Mr. Clean, Bold, Cheer, Era, Gain, >Ivory Snow and Fit. > >The list extends to over 300. > >Can you imagine the enormity of economic loss to P&G if environmentally >concerned consumers were actually aware of where P&G's profits came from and >acted to constrict them- through their own consumer choices? > >The power of one - multiplied thousands of times over. This is the ONLY way to cause corporations to change their ways - you have to make it too expensive for them. Kick them in the pocket, it's the ONLY place that really hurts them. Otherwise all you'll get is spin and appearances - like BP-Amoco's nice friendly green logo, which cost them more than they spent on renewable energy that year, in spite of all the ads and PR campaigns to the contrary. You have to make it cost them, knock the bottom line - and then be very vigilant to make absolutely sure that any changes are real changes and not just more spin. A lot of corporations do things like join the UN's Global Compact, and do nothing to actually change their ways in accordance with its precepts. What else can you expect? More than 300 firms sign up for UN Global Compact http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=11788 UN: One Year Later Global Compact Has Little To Show http://www.corpwatch.org/news International Chamber of Commerce: Global Compact Violator http://www.corpwatch.org/un/updates/2001/icc.html Rio Tinto: Global Compact Violator http://www.corpwatch.org/un/updates/2001/riotinto.html It all depends on "small" people doing small things in small ways - and being determined and unrelenting about it. But they're big and strong? Yes, also big and flabby, big and ungainly, big and blind, big and vulnerable. >Your contributions are important. No matter how seemingly small. > >"What you do may seem insignificant. Never the less, it is important that >you do it." Ghandi Also: "If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito." - the Dalai Lama. Best Keith Addison Journey to Forever Handmade Projects Tokyo http://journeytoforever.org/ >Todd >Appal Energy >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "jan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <biofuel@yahoogroups.com> >Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 10:06 AM >Subject: [biofuel] never a contribution > > > > Hello, > > Its easy to say that manny subscribers never post anything > > Well i posted now somthing. > > But does it make sense that many people cant post because most things > > are > > illegal unless you pay BIG tax money so the keep a low profile > > just like the hemp experimenters in the us (the real one,s) > > even if you invent somthing that is useble cheap the chance that it get > > market is > > litle if your lucke a big compagny buys it and stores it away the wont > > market it > > because the sell less of there own product of not goverments make to > > much money > > on energie/fuel tax that means that aldo the are less dependent of oil > > money is nr one > > So to me every talk about the enviroment is useless because the only > > thing goverments are intrested in is money even (if there are) good > > politicians think only in money > > most people dont realease that 80% of the energie generated in this > > world is > > wasted by the military and the industrys that suply them > > And the dont care about the energie efectiveness of ............. > > and will not use a other source for a long time > > > > sorry bit off topic and political but that is every thing whe do on this > > planet. > > > > rgds jan ------------------------ Yahoo! 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