Corporate Social Responsibility – wordSmith

Antibiotics, antidepressants, blood thinners, ACE inhibitors, calcium-channel blockers, digoxin, estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, painkillers, anti-seizure drugs, cholesterol drugs, diabetes drugs and more – it’s all in your drinking water. Here are five steps to help clean it up.

We’ve all read and heard a great deal about pollution in our society – carbon emissions in our air, toxic chemical dumping poisoning our water supply, garbage and industrial waste on land, plus newer concepts like noise and light pollution. The message is clear: our world is dirty, cluttered and getting worse.

There’s another type of pollution, though, that we hear comparatively less about. Unfortunately, it’s one with potentially harmful implications for the air and water we’re leaving our children.

This new category of dangerous pollutants? Pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs).

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This isn’t exactly the most active business day of the year, but on the off chance that somebody is surfing by let me wish you a happy 4th.

In celebrating the nation’s independence we’re also celebrating an idea – the freedom to pursue opportunity, to shape and control our own destinies.

Of course, despite our best intentions opportunity isn’t always as equal as we’d like. Given my own history, I’m a big fan of those who work hard to make something of themselves even when the odds are not in their favor, and I’m also a huge fan of those who use their influence and position to create opportunity for those further down the socio-economic ladder.

Here’s hoping that in the coming year we can find ways, all of us, to create more meaningful opportunities for prosperity and happiness.

Have a good one. And now I have a cookout to attend to….