Sentences with phrase «as environmental charities»

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Too often, she says, businesses instead use charity as a way to divert attention from poor treatment of workers or weak management of environmental resources.

He repeats his description of the ways bad charity (the Great Society) drove out good charity (religiously based groups): It reinterpreted the causes of poverty as exclusively material and environmental; its bureaucracy tried to reach ever - larger numbers of poor people with a decreasingly personal strategy for fighting poverty; it dismissed the role of volunteers in favor of professional social workers; and it removed the incentives for work, saving, and marriage.

As members of 1 % for the Planet and the Plastic Pollution Coalition, Khala Cloths also has a company committed to supporting environmental causes and charities.

The couple donated about $ 53,000 to a variety of environmental, education, arts and children's charities as well as homeless shelters and a public library, according to their tax return.

Martin Powell, head of campaigns at Transform Drug Policy Foundation, was an analytical chemist for the French nuclear industry before working for a range of charities in Latin America and the UK, including Friends of the Earth, the Environmental Investigation Agency, and the World Development Movement, including as co-chair of the Jubilee Debt Campaign.

Environmental charities have welcomed the appointment of Amber Rudd as Energy Secretary, calling it a «hopeful sign» the government is committed to acting on climate change.

Environmental charities rely on a lot of volunteers, which is good news for those looking for experience, although don't expect to be paid as charities are not legally obliged to pay their interns.

Having spent a year working for a charity that campaigned on environmental and social justice issues, Jennie Dodson decided to return to academia as a PhD student at the University of York.

Organisations such as the charity Sustrans educate people in «active travel», people learn to cycle, walk, run or scoot, it is part of their environmental education.

And as always, they're donating 10 percent of their profits to environmental charities.

Despite his career choice, he has proved his commitment to the environment through his work as chairman of the Nature Conservancy, his involvement with the Peregrine Fund, which seeks to preserve birds of prey and through the Bobolink Foundation, an environmental charity he set up 21 years ago.

CRA should strip «Environmental Defence» of their charitable status TORONTO — On March 21 EthicalOil.org wrote to the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) calling for the lobby group «Environmental Defence» to be stripped of their charitable status as a consequence for breaking charities law.

It will be on show around the country (including on Discovery television's TLC, on 22 October 2009), until early 2010 when it will be auctioned off, which proceeds being donated to an as yet unannounced environmental charity.

The dismissal of Andrew Frank, spokesman for anti-oil-sands group ForestEthics, comes amid an increasingly tense atmosphere among environmental groups — especially those registered as charities, whose public advocacy is supposed to be limited — that have come under fire by the federal government for harbouring «radicals» intent on «hijacking» the review process for Gateway.

As a Chambers, we work with a number of pro bono legal assistance charities — such as the Bar Pro Bono Unit, the Environmental Law Foundation, and Advocates for International Development (A4ID)-- to identify cases where our barristers» expertise may be most usefuAs a Chambers, we work with a number of pro bono legal assistance charities — such as the Bar Pro Bono Unit, the Environmental Law Foundation, and Advocates for International Development (A4ID)-- to identify cases where our barristers» expertise may be most usefuas the Bar Pro Bono Unit, the Environmental Law Foundation, and Advocates for International Development (A4ID)-- to identify cases where our barristers» expertise may be most useful.