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Anita Roddick (born 1942, died 2007) was

• a founder of the Body Shop
• Advisory Council, Demos
• Advisory Board, Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions ^[1]
• Campaigner against corporate globalization / unfair trade. [1]
• Former Trustee, Peace Direct ^[2]
• Winner of the 1993 Audubon Medal

Roddick publicly supported the Greenpeace-backed boycott of Exxon Mobil over the company's opposition to the Kyoto Protocol on climate change and its failure to invest in renewable energy sources. [2]

Contents 1 Other Affiliations [3] 1.1 Trustee/Board Member 1.2 Patron 2 External links 3 Resources and articles 3.1 Related Sourcewatch articles 3.2 References

Other Affiliations ^[3]

Trustee/Board Member

• 1984 - present - The Body Shop International Plc
• 1989 - present - The Body Shop Foundation
• 1994 - 2001 - Mother Jones Magazine - Foundation for National Progress, USA
• 1996 - 1997 - Human Rights Watch, USA
• 1999 - present - The Ruckus Society, USA
• 2003 - present - Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, USA

Patron

• 1991 - present - Schumacher College for Human Scale Education
• 1994 - present - Association for Creation Spirituality
• 1996 - present - Body and Soul (women & families with HIV and AIDS)
• 1998 - present - EMMA (Ethnic Minority Media Awards)
• 2002 - present - Findhorn Foundation College
• 2002 - present - My Acre Of Africa, South Africa

External links

• Press release, "Dame Anita Roddick questions effectiveness of Corporate Social Responsibility in online video," Big Picture TV via SourceWire PR, March 22, 2007.
• Jon Entine, "Queen of Green Roddick's 'unfair trade' started when she copied Body Shop formula," Daily Mail (UK), September 15, 2007.
• John Entine, "Let them eat Brazil nuts:The rainforest harvest and other myths of green marketing," Dollars and Sense, March/April 1996.
• John Entine, "Shattered Image: Is the Body Shop too good to be true?" Business Ethics, September/October 1994.
• Stephen Corry, "The Rainforest harvest: Who reaps the benefit?", The Ecologist, July/August 1993.

Resources and articles

Related Sourcewatch articles

• Roddick Foundation
• Corporate Social Responsibility

References

1. ↑ Advisory Board, Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, accessed August 28, 2009.
2. ↑ PEACE DIRECT FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 2004, Peace Direct, accessed February 22, 2008.
3. ↑ About, Anita Roddick Website, accessed February 23, 2008.

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