Ergebnis für "Das Gesetz" in Wissenschaft & Technik

Silent Spring meets Erin Brockovich in this eye-opening, riveting true story of the lawyer who spent two decades building a case against DuPont for its use of the hazardous, unregulated chemical PFOA, uncovering a history of environmental contamination that affects virtually every person on the planet, and the heartless behavior that kept it a secret for 60 years.

Steven Donziger, a self-styled social activist and Harvard educated lawyer, signed on to a budding class action lawsuit against multinational Texaco. The suit sought reparations for the Ecuadorian peasants and tribes people whose lives were affected by decades of oil production near their villages and fields. During twenty years of legal hostilities in federal courts in Manhattan and remote provincial tribunals in the Ecuadorian jungle, Donziger and Chevron's lawyers followed fierce no-holds-barred rules.

After years of prosecuting hard-core criminals, rising legal star Alan Bell took a private sector job in South Florida's newest skyscraper. Suddenly, he suffered such bizarre medical symptoms, doctors suspected he'd been poisoned by the Mafia. Bell's rapidly declining health forced him to flee his glamorous Miami life to a sterile "bubble" in the remote Arizona desert.

Peter Brandt, a litigator at the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), has been at the forefront of some of the toughest cases of animal abuse in the last 10 years - including supervising a team of lawyers working to protect the interests of farm animals. In this revelatory and often surprisingly funny memoir-cum-manifesto, Brandt describes his growing awareness of the extent of the cruelty of animals in concentrated animal feeding operations (a.k.a. factory farms) and the manifold harms to human health, local communities, and the environment for those who live near them.

Die Initiative Gesundheit und Arbeit (iga) beschäftigt sich in diesem Podcast mit besonderen Themen der Prävention und Gesundheitsförderung im Betrieb. Ganz neu erschienen ist ein Beitrag zur Kooperation der verschiedenen Zweige der Sozialversicherung in den Betrieben. Wie greifen die verschiedenen Beratungskompetenzen gut ineinander und nützen dadurch allen am meisten? Hören Sie in Interviews die Expertinnen und Experten für Prävention und Gesundheitsförderung. Ein weiterer Beitrag stellt Erkenntnisse aus der Positiven Psychologie vor, die die Gesundheit im Arbeitsleben unterstützen ...