This week KnowTheChain.org marks one year since the site launched. In just twelve months, KnowTheChain has received more than sixty thousand page views. We’ve heard interest from investors, consumers, and journalists, in addition to direct engagement with companies leading to improved transparency statements. Meanwhile, policy...
For those of us looking for ways to end forced labor and human trafficking, the sheer magnitude of the problem can be daunting. We see debt bondage and other forms of coercion and intimidation present in all sorts of commodity, product, and services supply chains,...
With today marking the deadline for conflict minerals disclosures to be submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), NGOs and sustainable and responsible investors are celebrating a significant milestone in the effort to bring transparency and due-diligence to the trade in conflict minerals from...
I live in Los Angeles, a city of self-proclaimed foodies who frequent farmers markets for locally grown organic produce. For the good of the environment and for their own health, my friends will happily spend a Saturday afternoon picking out pesticide-free kale grown within a...