Blogposts tagged 'The Body Shop'

Anita the trailblazer

Posted by John - 11 September 2007 at 3:35pm - 0 Comments

The founder of the Body Shop was a pioneer who never compromised principle for profit. The world needs more Roddicks.

Anita Roddick campaiging with Annie Lennox and Vivienne Westwood

Anita Roddick was a truly original trailblazer. A successful businesswoman in a world where, still today, that is a rare exception. And it came with a great sense of humour and a gift for storytelling. Her ability to communicate was the driving force behind the success of the Body Shop. But her legacy will really be in an area where she was so ahead of her time: how business could and should be done so that it takes into account people and the environment.

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Writing on the wall for fossil fuels

Posted by bex - 2 September 2002 at 7:00am - 0 Comments

Choose Positive Energy petition hand in

Greenpeace and The Body Shop presented 1,602,489 signatures to the Earth Summit in the form of an interactive mural calling upon delegates to agree to get clean, reliable, renewable energy into the hands of 2 billion of the world's poorest people by 2010.

Greenpeace and The Body Shop teamed up about a year ago to create the Choose Positive Energy Campaign, launched in January of this year. The demand: that governments vastly expand renewable energy for people across the world - the industrialised governments should expand their renewable energy supplies and all governments should commit to providing small-scale renewable solutions like solar and wind power, small-scale hydro, and biomass, to the world's poorest.