Thursday, May 01, 2008

Big Seed. . .Global Footprint

Vanity Fair has a great story about Monsanto, if you haven't already heard the scoop on the Roundup stance against farmers and need a little more horror to spur your critical shopping. But now that so many companies are looking at the bigger picture, how do we measure the success of progressive sustainability?

On that latter note, here's an interesting story from Fast Company (see also Socialist Capitalist awards) about how various companies, who have endeavored to be socially and environmentally responsible for years, experience the process of measuring their own global footprints nowadays when deeper questions and expectations are being raised about manufacture, transportation, etc.