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Just ask Citigroup. In 2000, U.S. environmental activists from RAN began campaigning against the bank's funding of old-growth logging projects and a controversial new oil pipeline through an Ecuadorian ecological preserve. RAN placed a full-page advertisement in the International Herald Tribune labeling CEO Sandy Weill an environmental villain. Citigroup started meeting with RAN and last year announced that it would apply the Equator Principles to its business. The bank committed to banning investment in firms that logged primary tropical forests, and it pledged to invest in renewable-energy projects...
...Just ask Citigroup. In 2000, U.S. environmental activists from ran began campaigning against the bank's funding of old-growth logging projects and a controversial new oil pipeline through an Ecuadorian ecological preserve. ran placed a full-page advertisement in the International Herald Tribune labeling ceo Sandy Weill an environmental villain. Citigroup started meeting with ran, and last year it announced it would apply the Equator Principles to its business. The bank committed to banning investment in firms logging primary tropical forests and pledged to invest in renewable energy projects...
MEANWHILE IN ECUADOR ... Punctuality Pays A nationwide synchronization of watches marked the start of a campaign to stamp out the country's legendary tardiness. Locals run on what is referred to as "Ecuadorian time," meaning most people turn up for appointments at least 15 minutes late. The civic group behind the scheme puts the cost of this lax approach at more than $700 million a year. The campaign has the backing of President Lucio Gutierrez, below, who is often as much as three hours late for meetings...
...combat the ill effects of his countrymen’s pervasive tardiness on the economy, Ecuadorian President Lucio Gutierrez, has initiated a public service campaign to promote punctuality. The campaign began with an interview with Gutierrez on Teleamazonas...
...half-Ecuadorian and half-Irish. Did you ever feel like an outsider...