Monday, November 4, 2013

Environmentally responsible companies and products

http://www.ecovativedesign.com/ Just heard about this company on an Aljazeera.  SO glad it exists.  Great idea. you are making ecologically friendly products.  I hope CNN, NBC, CBS9 60 Minutes expose), ABC MSNBC, FOX all do reports on this company and the products made; employees. founders.  We, as a society, need to hear more stories like this and need to have more responsible products.   Lead the way for other companies like you.  Desalinization is also vital. 
  http://www.veoliawater.com/solutions/desalination/



Creation of Grameen-Veolia Water Ltd


A pioneering social business experiment



Veolia Water is committed to helping achieve the U.N. Millennium Development Goals. It participates in efforts to find new business models that promote access to essential services, for replication on a larger scale.

In 2008, we launched the first "social business" experiment in the field of water with Grameen Bank, a micro credit lender to the poor, created by 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner Professor Yunus.

A joint venture, Grameen-Veolia Water Ltd, was founded to provide drinking water for 100,000 poor residents of Bangladesh, a country in which most of the water tables are dangerously contaminated by arsenic. In accordance with the social business model, residents pay for their water — its price is set by Grameen-Veolia Water Ltd based on their ...





just a small example of a responsible company making a difference to bring clean drinking water to people in need, and hopefully, everyone.  Converting our salty seas to fresh drinking water.

Big corporations must do more to help people instead of trying to squeeze as much $$$$$$$$$$$ out of us that they can.