Anita Roddick
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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] Her daughter is Sam Roddick and her husband was Gordon Roddick.
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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
References
- ↑ Advisory Board, Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, accessed August 28, 2009.
- ↑ PEACE DIRECT FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 2004, Peace Direct, accessed February 22, 2008.
- ↑ About, Anita Roddick Website, accessed February 23, 2008.
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