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Cool NASA Scientists Prove: It's Getting Hot In Here!
2008-01-02 06:49:00
I don't care what you say, those NASA scientists *cough* nerds *cough* can be useful for more than just collecting Martian rocks. Joking aside, they make a convincing and frightening case to get off our behinds and do something about climate change! Who can argue with what you can see with your own eyes? NASA are also developing satellites that can detect your apathy, so if you want to avoid their prying eyes quickly:make the switch to green energy.buy energy efficient light globes.switch everything off at the wall when you're not using it.write your local MP a note telling them you think it's urgent they continue to lead the climate change action agenda at the international level!Watch the below Tour of the Cryospehere NASA video to learn more about the damage being done by global warming to our polar icecaps.The Body Shop is continuing to look for ways to reduce our environmental footprint. For example last year we switched all our stores and offices to 100% accredited win...
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2007 Values @ The Body Shop Summary!
2007-12-31 01:22:00
I'm sure I've missed bits... but these are some of The Body Shop Australia's achievements for 2007. I'm so stoked we can make such a meaningful difference to social and environmental issues at the local, national and international level! $21,658 raised for Staying Alive Foundation and 5,000 brochures distributed through our MTV HIV and AIDS 'Spray For Change' campaign.Sold 10,000 shower timers at cost and signed up 6,500 customers for climate change packs as part of our 'Spoil Yourself not the Planet' campaign with ACF$11,443 raised for UNIFEM through White Ribbon Day sales.$80,460 raised for Children on the Edge in East Timor through the sale of tri-massagers.Over $90,000 raised for Amnesty International through Christmas card sales.Volunteered over 4,500 hours to hundreds of grass-roots charities around Australia through our Community Projects program. That's the equivalent of 1.5 full-time staff members working free for a year!Stop Violence in the Home campaign: ...
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Us Taken-Away Kids
2007-12-28 01:50:00
Us Taken-Away Kids , a magazine commemorating the 10th Anniversary of the ?Bringing them home? report. The magazine represents artwork and stories from members of the ?Stolen Generations? throughout Australia, and serves as a testament to the resilience of Aboriginal people and their ability to triumph in the face of despair. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Tom Calma said.?While there has been some improvements since the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission?s (HREOC) ?Bringing them home? report was released in 1997, including the Indigenous child placement principle in child protection, greater funding for organisations supporting ?Stolen Generations? members and a national Sorry Day, we still need to do so much more.?The below are great examples of some of the inspiring work inside the magazine:Artist: Beverley Grant Title: ?Leaving the Mission?, 2007 Symbolism: Browns, reds, yellows and black represent the p...

Sounds Fishy!
2007-12-18 23:26:00
Photo: Rebecca Hallas / The AgeThe Body Shop would like to join the RSPCA and Animal Liberation in condemning the Ipond (pictured above). According to this article in The Age it's 15 times smaller than the recommended tank size for the fish it contains. The RSPCA has called on the device to be banned because it is too small to provide fish with adequate oxygen supplies and a clean environment.RSPCA spokesman Hugh Wirth said despite the fighting fish's ability to breathe air from the surface, the tank was far too small for it to receive adequate oxygen. The small volume of water would lead to rapid temperature change and this meant the tropical fish would not live long, he said.It looks like they have no room to turn around in and to complete the perfect torture box the sound reverberating into the tank would totally stress them out! So, please don't buy one!Also, if you have two minutes can I suggest signing the Greenpeace & NineMSN Save the Whales petition, which is now ove...
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Wonderful Website Feeds the Hungry
2007-12-18 02:15:00
Photo: BBCThrough my job I am exposed to a lot of media and on occasion find a website or story that I believe is very clever. Today was one of them. I was flicking through Cleo magazine and found an article titled '9 things to put you in a good mood'.In the article was a site called freerice.com. I was immediately attracted to the site and once I went to it - was in awe. The site helps end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free. But there is one catch. You have to do an English vocabulary test and learn new words for this to be possible. It is a genius viral marketing initiative ideal for today's generation. You get to play a game, be educated and give to the hungry. This is made possible by the sponsors who advertise on the site.Go to freerice.com and try it out for yourself. You might end the day feeling wiser and prouder!Polly Viska - PR Coordinator
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Human Rights Watch - Open Letter to our PM
2007-12-18 00:09:00
Photo: sunrise.sevenCopy & pasted in it's entirety from the Human Rights Watch website...December 17, 2007The Hon Kevin Rudd MPPrime MinisterParliament HouseCANBERRA ACT 2600 Re: Australian foreign policy with regard to Burma, China, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea and Australian domestic policy on counter-terrorism, refugees, indigenous Australians, and same-sex relationshipsDear Prime Minister Rudd:Congratulations on your recent election as Prime Minister of Australia.Human Rights Watch is a nongovernmental organization based in New York that monitors and reports on international human rights, refugee, and humanitarian law issues in more than 70 countries around the world.We write to you outlining key areas of foreign and domestic policy where we believe that Australia can and should do more to promote and protect human rights. On foreign policy, Australia is a significant political actor and donor in the Asia-Pacific region, so your government is well placed to play a leadi...
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Australia Lacks Courage on Climate Change
2007-12-12 23:20:00
Photo: Oxfam. Bangladesh: Shahanara (45) stood in flood water near the camp she has been staying at for five months since her house was destroyed in the floods in the village of Puteakhal.It feels like we were in the global-political good books for all of one week. Didn't it feel great?! Our new Government came out of the stalls sprinting; signing the Kyoto protocol and our PM personally attending the Climate Change Conference in Bali. Things were really starting to happen.I hope you enjoyed our brief time in the sun because we're back on the dark side again. Yep, together with the USA (no surprise there), Japan and Canada (!) we are refusing to sign up with the rest of the world for a global emissions cut of between 25 and 40 per cent by 2020 (at 1990 levels).To recap this is perhaps the greatest humanitarian crisis the world has ever seen and people are still protecting their environmentally unfriendly industries despite:The IPCC and other studies point to clear-cut ecological ...
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What is Beautiful?
2007-12-11 00:43:00
Left: Controversial Jennifer Love Hewitt photo. Below: Skeletal Nicole Richie.Trashy magazines and the media in general, display to the general public what they perceive is beautiful. To me, Nicole Richie with an emaciated chest and an obvious problem with her weight is not inspiring but sad. She does not look good and it is not cool to look like a skeleton. There are a lot of people starving in Africa that would do anything to be able to not look like her. Today's generation needs to look at beauty in a different way. I find Nigella Lawson cooking a feast real beauty, or anyone that is comfortable in their own skin, the most beautiful thing of all.A recent story about Jennfier Love Hewitt and her cellulite (it must be pointed out, that she is an Australian size 6!) had her turn around and say "To set the record straight, i'm not upset for me, but for all of the girls out there that are struggling with the their body image. To all girls with butts, boobs, hips and a waist, put ...
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Berry Merry Christmas Appeal
2007-12-10 06:41:00
For many years now, The Body Shop Retail Support Centre (RSC) has had the pleasure of supporting the Berry Street Victoria - Berry Merry Christmas Appeal . Supporting the Berry Merry Christmas Appeal is as simple as picking up an extra gift or two when out doing your Christmas shopping. Berry Street Victoria has been protecting and caring for children and strengthening families since 1877. Berry Street exist to increase life chances and choices for children and young people who are at risk, or who have experienced the trauma of family violence, child abuse and neglect. Over 1000 children and young people will spend their Christmas with Berry Street this year. Each year the children from The Body Shop Children’s Centre create a special Christmas tree to assist the staff of RSC in their support of the appeal. Berry Street provides gift tags with suggestions of what to buy for each age group, ensuring the process is simple yet incredibly effective. Most importantly, the Berry M...

Bali Climate Change Conference
2007-12-03 06:46:00
Image: Associated PressThe United Nations Climate Change Conference 2007 will start in Bali today. I wonder how Indonesia, the third-largest greenhouse gas emitter (thanks to logging Borneo to make way for palm-oil plantations), gets to host this thing. Anyway, it’s on and it’s a crucial opportunity for Australia to finally join the global community in the leadership and action needed to avoid dangerous climate change.Why’s climate change such an important issue again?If global average temperatures go above two degrees here in Australia our agriculture and tourism sectors will be badly hit. We'll face more severe bushfires, droughts, and water shortages. There'll be more disease risk and heat stress, costly damage to infrastructure and low lying housing, and even put the Great Barrier Reef at high risk.For more nightmares read the WWF’s Dangerous Aspirations: Beyond 3 Degrees Warming report.What is this Bali Conference all about?This year’s scientific report from the UNâ...

A Walk to Beautiful
2007-11-30 00:20:00
Last night a few staffers from The Body Shop including yours truly were lucky enough to attend the opening night of the first Australian Human Rights Arts & Film Festival at the RMIT Capitol Theatre in Melbourne. All thanks to our friends and partners Amnesty International.We saw A Walk to Beautiful . It's the story of five women who suffer from devastating childbirth injuries and embark on a journey to reclaim their lost dignity.I was deeply moved and outraged by this movie. These women are forced into marriage and sex and child birth when they are still just children. The lack of basic rural health services (or even roads in least developed countries like Ethiopia) means some women can't get to a nurse let alone a doctor or obstetrician to help them during child birth.There's a high percentage of easily preventable miscarriages, still-births and even maternal deaths compared to develop countries. The movie focuses on the problem of obstetric fistula - a hole in the birth can...
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White Ribbon Day
2007-11-26 00:47:00
To mark White Ribbon Day (yesterday) I'd like to show you some very impactful videos I have found about Domestic Violence.Father and SonAlthough obviously for an American audience - the meaning is clear. Adults have an important role to play in helping prevent domestic abuse. The objective of the campaign is to engage men and have them speak to boys about how women should be treated.Children See Children Do This one was developed in for Australian audiences. Before filming the script was sent to the NSW Office of the Children's Guardian who oversee any filming which involves children to ensure that during filming the children are not exposed to harm in any way. So, for example, the domestic violence scene was put together by filming the child separately to the adults and putting the total scene together in post production.You Wouldn't Do This Here Warning: this video has strong language and is quite confronting.Shop Till it StopsEven Tori Spelling is getting involved in raising a...

Values at the polling booth
2007-11-20 23:23:00
The Body Shop is apolitical - that means we don't lean one way or another... of course we are extremely interested in politics - every corporation is. Most corporates are self-interested in how the party's policies - especially tax and IR - will effect their bottom line.At The Body Shop we're interested in much more than this... that's why this Saturday if you share the same values of Defending Human Rights and Protecting our Planet you might want to consider voting for the party with the best policies for these issues. Don't waste your vote!Protecting the PlanetClick on the below image to read the Australian Conservation Foundation's report card on how the parties rate on the issues of: climate change,leadership for a sustainable future andprotecting our natural environment:Defending Human RightsHuman rights to health, housing, education and work are stripped away by poverty. Here are the facts:6.45 billion people live on this Earth2.74 billion people survive on less than US$...
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Japanese whalers hunt humpbacks
2007-11-19 03:39:00
A humpback whale off Port Macquarie, NSW. Photo: iansandWe (humans!!!) decimated the population of whales including humpback whales during the late 1950s and early 1960s to the very brink of extinction.Some of the nicer humans amongst us took an issue with this and campaigned like crazy to "save the whales". Anita Roddick was one of them. She founded The Body Shop in 1976 and the very next year threw herself into Greenpeace's anti-whaling campaign. Until now this campaign has been a real success story, proving we can make a difference and turn things around. Only a few countries in the world condone commercial whaling anymore.As a result, the Humpback population in eastern Australia has slowly crept back up. The current population migrating along our east coast was estimated to be 7,024 in 2005 and increasing at approximately 10-11% per annum and is likely to be around 9,500 individuals in 2007 according to the Southern Cross University Whale Research Centre. Note: the current c...
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Compassionate Traveller WSPA Documentary
2007-11-15 04:18:00
See how your support is improving the lives of animals in an incredible upcoming documentary on WSPA's work - The Compassionate Traveller .You?ll journey through Thailand with presenter and vet Dr Julie Summerfield as she shows you some amazing projects protecting animals from cruelty and neglect. And discover how being an animal-friendly ?compassionate traveller? on your next holiday can help transform the lives of animals now, and in the future. Click here for a special documentary trailer and Julie's personal message of thanks to you for helping animals worldwide. The Compassionate Traveller - Saturday, November 17 at 2.30pm on Network Ten. The Channel Ten website offers a free Reminder SMS.
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Human Rights Film Festival Competition
2007-11-13 23:51:00
Film Poster: The World According to Sesame Street PBSThe first ever Human Rights Arts & Film Festival is coming to Melbourne (27 Nov - 15 Dec), with smaller programs also going to Sydney (6 Dec) and Perth (9 - 10 Dec)!This is an accessible, engaging and meaningful way for you to learn more about one of The Body Shop's core values - defending human rights. It will hopefully inspire people to help bring about positive change.I'm personally super excited about going to see The World According to Sesame Street from the makers of An Inconvenient Truth. Can the most watched children's TV show in history truly change the world - one child at a time? I reckon muppets can do anything!Thanks to our best friends over at Amnesty International Australia we have five double passes to the Melbourne Film Festival to give away to readers of this here blog.All you have to do is be one of the first five readers to email me the answer to the below questions:What's a movie you've seen that...
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NO Means NO Show
2007-11-13 03:42:00
Photo: tanjilaLast Thursday I had the opportunity to attend the “NO Means NO Show ", presented by the Centre Against Sexual Assault (CASA) and Absolutely Women’s Health through the Royal Women’s Hospital.NO MEANS NO is an interactive theatre program with a “whole of school� approach that aims to prevent sexual assault and create a school environment where young people will feel safe to disclose sexual assault and receive appropriate support, information and options�. Hilariously funny at times, with the No Means No message remaining strong throughout, the realness of the show and the interaction of the school student audience with a panel of experts was at times both confronting and revealing, as to just how real sexual assault is in the lives of so many. This show was amazing and should be a compulsory component of all secondary schools.your body = your choice Deb Baxter - Values Coordinator

Borneo!
2007-11-08 23:59:00
Kids from Sabah in the "School Bus" on the way to a Borneo Child Aid Society Children's Centre.Did I mention, I love working here? Today I've been reading about the great work The Body Shop Foundation is doing... I had no idea, we were being so philanthropic! The foundation is supporting innovative projects around the world working in the areas of human & civil rights and environmental & animal protection.A great example of a grant that covers all of these bases is the AUD $11,351 granted to the Borneo Child Aid Society, which provides education for children in Sabah. These kids don't have access to the basic human right of education. The group is building a new learning centre that will provide education to 100 children in the rural plantation areas of Sabah. If you're passionate about protecting our planet, their education is vitally important. I'll tell you why:There is a multi-layered problem taking place in Borneo right now. A surge in demand for palm oil as -iro...
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Community Project: Debutante Ball
2007-11-07 23:28:00
On Oct 3rd, the Victorian Office of the Child Safety Commissioner, in partnership with youth outreach agencies, organised the inaugural Debutante Ball for young people in Out of Home Care. That is children who can not live with their own families. The young people involved were either wards of the State or in foster care arrangements and have often missed out on many of the 'rites of passage' events that many of us take for granted.The Body Shop's People Team were fortunate to be invited to help the girls in their preparation on the night, doing their makeup, fixing hair, calming nerves and generally getting them ready for this event, for which they had been preparing all year. They were presented to Victorian Premier John Brumby and his wife Rosemary.By all accounts the night went off beautifully and it was a pleasure for our team to help out.Louisa Wallace - People & Values Manager
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Who said Hula-Hooping wasn't fun?
2007-11-05 06:39:00
Probably no-one, but I can honestly say that I have witnessed the fun to be had (and skill required) whilst hula hooping, first hand. And this was my favourite part of volunteering at Children on the Edge in Aceh, Indonesia. Watching the beautiful girls running around the centre, wearing their compulsory Muslim Jilbab, hula-hooping. They would hula-hoop the afternoon away, whilst casually walking around, chatting to each other and even racing each other, all whilst hula hooping. They looked so natural and barely even moved; the hoop just effortlessly whirled around their waists. These girls were about 8 or 9 years old with tiny frames, and these hula hoops were heavy. Its no wonder they are so good, the threat of a dropping the heavy hoops on your toes is reason enough to improve your skills. These kids, put simply, are amazing. Surviving the 2004 tsunami means they have lived through seeing some horrible things and probably lost family and friends. Yet, seeing these kids in actio...
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Women's satisfaction not looking good
2007-11-05 02:55:00
Photo entitled: "Luke. Again I was being ugly and the pixels were called upon to punish my face" by Emmola. Earlier this year, Newspoll surveyed 537 Australian women aged 10 - 64 years. There were many questions asked about beauty, looks and perceptions. According to the poll only 6 per cent of 18-64 year old Australian women surveyed said they were very satisfied with their looks. According to Professor of Statistics John S. Croucher, the proportion of surveyed Australian women who say that beauty advertisements make them feel bad about the way they look is 49 per cent.A recent Dolly magazine survey of 4,000 girls aged 11-18 found 27 per cent would have cosmetic surgery if they could, and 2 per cent had. Surgeons say the trend is most prevalent in Sydney and south-east Queensland.In 2004, the Victorian Government set up an inquiry into the growing trend in teenagers to go on crash diets and have eating disorders. The then Youth Affairs Minister said that anorexia nervosa was the...
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Aceh Indonesia - Children on the Edge
2007-10-31 03:18:00
Pipecleaner glasses were a big hit with the Kindergarten kids! Photo: Kerry RobinsonChildren on the Edge are an amazing organisation (founded by The Body Shop founder Anita Roddick) that I am proud to have lent my time to for over four years now!Usually participating in the East Timor Playscheme?s, it was really exciting for me to take part in my 6th Playscheme in Aceh , Indonesia !! The center is incredible! The teachers and are very organized and really focused on the needs of the kids. It was beautiful to witness the effect the centre has on so many people in a community severely affected by the Tsunami, and to see that even though it?s all about the kids it is also so much more!This latest "Playscheme" involved volunteers from four different countries who came loaded with arts and crafts supplies to get involved in activities with both the kids and the teachers.Watch this space for more stories on Children on the Edge in Aceh and East Timor!Kerry Robinson - Playscheme Leader - Chi...
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Climate Change: the biggest corporate social responsibility
2007-10-30 00:30:00
Photo: Clinton SteedsToday I went to a breakfast hosted by the The Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ACCSR) where keynote speaker Paul Hohnen talked about climate change and how businesses must become sustainable. He thinks the basic motivation will be either greed or creed. "Climate change might be prevented as much by changes in technology and financial engineering as it will by changes in consumer habits. On both fronts, business must play a key role. In this regard, corporate responsibility has already played a pivotal role in putting these issues on the agenda, and bringing them to the point where leading companies like General Electric and Philips are integrating them into their core business."I think most corporates are in a transition phase, just starting to work out how to be more sustainable. Even though The Body Shop has a proud history of environmental responsibility and activism we don't claim to be perfect, but we're ...
More About: Environment , Climate Change , Change

Cleaning up Jells Park
2007-10-25 01:16:00
It was a beautiful sunny day and the staff from The Body Shop were off to clean up Jells Park . We were armed with rubber gloves, tongs and our big white bags.The morning shift set to task tidying up the car park where all manner of unsavory events appeared to occur. The afternoon shift were fortunate enough to have the tidier side of the park to clean, mainly focused on remnants of picnics passed.At the end of the day we were dirty, but very pleased with the fantastic amount of rubbish collected. Certainly a job well done.
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Anita in Memorium
2007-10-23 08:51:00
We just had a really inspiring ceremony to celebrate the life of Anita Roddick. I feel an awesome responsibility to continue her legacy of mischief making for the global good and to help inspire as many people as possible to be great advocates for change.It was great to see people from Amnesty International and The Big Issue could make it to share the great stories about Anita's life, wisdom and passion. The ceremony culminated in a tree planting ceremony and a couple of glasses of vino (Anita would have insisted).I have been a fan of Anita's ever since doing a case study on The Body Shop in PR101. I was lucky enough to meet Anita in the early 2000s at a First Australians Business workshop where she signed a plastic pineapple I "borrowed" from a centerpiece display.What else can I say. Love her work. I promise to try and do her proud. Watch this video!

Children's Week
2007-10-22 03:56:00
Children from Aceh, Indonesia enjoying a mask making workshop with The Body Shop Australia volunteers in the Children On The Edge Child Friendly Space.Photo: Kerry Robinson / The Body ShopToday marks the beginning of Children?s Week . One of its aims is to raise community awareness of children?s right to enjoy childhood.This is a right we take for granted here in Australia. In developing countries, poverty forces kids to grow up far too quickly. Children simply don't have the luxury of playing or going to school, they have to work to survive.Worst still, according to UNICEF, an estimated 1.2 million children are being trafficked every year. Because there is a demand for children as cheap labour or for sexual exploitation. Children and their families are often unaware of the dangers of trafficking, believing that better employment and lives lie in other cities or countries.Defending children's rights is very close to our hearts. In 1990 our founder, Anita Roddick, founded a charity...
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Myanmar: blackouts, witchhunts and moustaches
2007-10-18 07:54:00
From Avaaz.The BlackoutsThe Myanmar military has seen the power of global solidarity for the demonstrators--and has moved to shut down all communications with the outside world. As the images and stories have slowed, global media coverage of the Myanmar crisis has lost its urgency.But people power can beat the blackout. Donate to send crucial technical support and equipment to Myanmarese civil society groups, and help return Myanmar's voice to its people. 100% of funds donated will go to Myanmar groups--Avaaz will keep no portion.How you can help:Check out this great message Avaaz delivered to the Chinese government on behalf of the Myanmarese people via an Ad in the Financial times.Stand with the Myanmarese protesters by signing this petition.Help beat the blackout.The Witch huntsFrom Amnesty International.Photo: RacolesYesterday, Amnesty International released proof of the brutal injustices going down in Myanmar. First hand accounts of ongoing night raids, arrests and appalling d...
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This post has wind
2007-10-17 07:56:00
A windfarm, on the western highway someplace this side of Ararat.Photo: Leon SammartinoToday I found out this website, this computer, this office and infact every single The Body Shop store in Australia, is powered by 100% wind power - cool!This summer we're going to try and reduce the amount of energy we need to cool our office. It's pretty simple, the people sitting near East-facing windows just need to remember to close the blinds before they go home so the office doesn't warm up in the morning.In other environews: today I spoke with and am excited about meeting the folks at the Australian Conservation Foundation. I'd like to see how The Body Shop can help promote their brilliant Who On Earth Cares campaign. At the time of writing this post, only 9,111 Australians have said they care (!!) I'm sure we can help boost these numbers. If the environment is an election issue for you, have a read of their Election Scorecard to see exactly how green your party really is.Finally, ...
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Sustainability: in the palm oil of our hands
2007-10-16 06:27:00
Aerial photo of a palm oil plantation in the middle of a natural forest in Sumatra, Indonesia. Photo: Flims4Conservation Yesterday I found myself at a meeting convened by World Vision and attended by several giants of the retail world like the Coles Group, Independent Grocers Association, Unilever, The Australian Food Grocery Council as well as an advocate from Friends Of the Earth. Sounds weird but the group had actually come together to hear from us, or more specifically: Rikke Netterstrom, The Body Shop International?s Ethical Policy Manager and a member of the international Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). We were discussing ways to bring sustainable palm oil to the Australian marketplace. As the second most used vegetable oil in the world, palm oil is responsible for the livelihood of millions of people, however it?s a crop that?s being blamed for:massive deforestationdestroying fragile ecosystemsthreatening the extinction of wildlife like orangutans, asian elephants,...
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Domestic Violence & Culture Seminar
2007-10-16 00:34:00
Jayalakshmi was burned by her husband who claimed she was cheating on him with another man. The acid thrown on her has ruined her life. Now she is a leading activist in the Campaign and Struggle Against Acid Attacks on Women (CSAAAW) in Bangalore. Photo: Scott Carney.The Body Shop Values Team (Deb and I) were fortunate enough to attend a national seminar yesterday called Blaming & Reclaiming Culture : The Role of Culture in Responding to Domestic and Family Violence .It was a really great opportunity to learn about the role people's culture plays in domestic violence. The take home lesson is that domestic violence is a breach in people's universal human right to peace and security and so no matter where in the world you are or come from it's still WRONG!However, a person's culture is the lens through which we see and live our life, so it's vitally important to consider it when designing education, prevention or shelter programs. We have to be careful not stereotype cultures a...
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