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=Time Warner=

On Time Warner’s website, it is stated that their “local community outreach includes support for environmental concerns.” Time Warner also has a page on their website, explaining what steps they are taking to protect the environment such as: a “Buy Recycled Campaign”; where 22% of Time Warner’s purchases are post consumer products, a “Community Reuse Partnership Program”; which allows computers, offices supplies, furniture, etc. to be donated to non-profit organizations, a “Waste Reduction” belief system; which encourages preventing waste by using double-sided copies, electronic communication and reports, re-use of television stage sets and their various components, and use of steel scaffolding for platforms instead of wood, and various recycling programs at their main locations. They also have a specific website with more information on their environmental activities at: www.wbenvironmental.com. Along with their more basic environmental procedures they go as far as to state that they "grass-cycle", meaning they let the grass clippings biodegrade into the law as opposed to bagging the clippings and disposing of them. One questionable environmental advancement that Time Warner was involved with was cleaning up an abandoned cite that had =environmentally hazardous waste, and replacing it with a cable station.

=Sources=

www.timewarnercable.com/nc/community/default.html http://www.timewarner.com/corp/citizenship/environment/recycling/index.html

http://www.calvert.com/index.html

http://www.dec.ny.gov/environmentdec/25488.html

http://www.wbenvironmental.com

=Alcoa=

Alcoa Aluminum is a leading manufacturer of aluminum, and is listed as one of the top ten most toxic companies in the country. One questionable aspect of their business is their market of sodium fluoride for drinking water. Originally Alcoa denied fluoride as an industry waste product stating that they exclusively went through chemical distributing companies, but later statements conflict saying that their policies change from "time to time" and that they were now directly producing the fluoride.

=Sources=

http://www.fluoride-history.de/chemicals.htm

=Solar Panel Production=

The manufacturers of solar panels generally won't expound on the environmental effect of the production process of solar panels, however the potential harm it could cause the environment becomes apparent when the composite structure is explained. P-type (pure) silicon and N-type (impure silicon) are both required in the solar panel manufacturing. N-type silicon is produced (in simple terms) by roughing up the silicon to produce random bumps or impurities to deviate the electric field. This process of making impurities in the silicon produces large amounts of poisonous waste. It does cut down on other forms of pollution, but if this so called environmental friendly alternative is not regulated sufficiently much damage that the solar panels are claiming to prevent and reduce could actually be heightened.

=Sources=

http://www.earthscan.co.uk/news/article/mps/uan/505/v/3/sp/

=Sharp End International=

=Introduction=

Sharp End International is a specialist training company that provides services in Foreign Internal Defense (FID). Specifically Sharp End International offers: service organization, integrated security and protection solutions to Governments and private corporations worldwide. On the Wikipedia PMC page, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_military_company, they list Sharp end International as mainly using Australian and New Zealand ex-special forces instructors.

=Services=

On their web site http://www.sharpendinternational.com/, Sharp end International lists the key services they provided as:

* Assessment and analysis; * Technical surveillance countermeasures; * Tactical training; * Full-scale security; * Medical and Trauma training; * Protection operations and life support services to enable you to create and sustain a secure operational environment

=History= It is stated on the Sharp End International website that their operators have trained the Ministerial Protection Details for the ‘New’ Iraqi Government including the Prime Minister and Presidential Teams. As well as, training the Justice Protection Details for the US Marshall's Service in Baghdad and providing in depth counter terrorism training to both the Police and Military in Iraq.

=Sources= http://www.sharpendinternational.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_military_company