Environmental Graffiti

5 Greenest Companies of 2009

As one of the world’s largest media conglomerates and leading electronics manufacturers, Sony is in a position where its policies and strategies affect millions of consumers and employees and the environment in which it operates. According to Emily Young, General Manager, Environmental Communications at Sony Europe, Sony is committed to reducing the environmental impact of its products, aiming for their ecofriendly lifecycle and reducing the company’s carbon footprint.

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The Charcoal Children of Manila

Small figures writhe and wriggle through a seething mass of stinking garbage, searching for something so precious that they scour the towering mounds daily. Children from the nearby slums, some barely kindergarten age, wade and sift through piles of other people’s disregarded belongings, ignoring scraps of food and other perishables in the hope of finding the one thing that is key to their survival – wood.

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