Posts Tagged ‘Chamber Commerce’

Green Chamber of Commerce Germinating

By Rita Robinson | LB Indy Being green is putting businesses back in the black. Thats the premise, anyway, of a new Chamber of Commerce thats about to emerge in Laguna Beach, only the second one to be established in the state. read more

Green chamber sets networking night

Green Chamber of Commerce's Networking Night on May 19 will be sponsored by Copeco and Sharp Digital Products.

Investors Pressure GM, Boeing, Deere, Xerox to Quit U.S. Chamber

Trying to ramp up pressure on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and its position on climate change, an investors group has fired off letters to 14 major U.S. corporations, asking them to publicly distance themselves from the chamber’s positions. Representing $16 billion in assets, the investors group is led by Walden Asset Management and Green Century [...]


Greenpeace praises Apple’s US Chamber of Commerce exit

Filed under: Apple Corporate , Apple Greenpeace has decided they’ll get more attention from praising Apple than by trying to bury it. The environmental organization is singing hosannas and heysannas to the Cupertino-company for taking a green stand and resigning from the US Chamber of Commerce . Apple walked away from the organization on Monday over Chamber actions seen by Apple as opposing efforts to limit greenhouse gases. Chamber President Thomas Donohue says his organizatio


Apple Leaves Chamber of Commerce Because It Opposes Job-Killing Legislation

There’s nothing like watching an American company in the middle of a deep recession be so committed to killing jobs and economic growth that it resigns from massive business interest groups. Apple, known for its friendship with Al Gore and financial support of social liberalism, is leaving the Chamber of Commerce because the organization opposes cap-and-trade legislation in its current form. Apple is pulling out of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce because of the organization’s strident critic


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