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A growing group of activists and socially responsible companies are rethinking business as usual.

The National Book Awards held at the Metropolitan Theater a few weeks ago was a joyous occasion—the first face-to-face ceremony since the pandemic to celebrate the best books published in 2021 and 2022.

The late Carlos Padilla was pivotal in El Salvador's historic unanimous vote to ban metal mining in their country

The River Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed is a powerful, earthy and harrowing story of how, in the early 2000s, a community in northern El Salvador fought together with international allies to prevent the Canadian gold mining giant, Pacific Rim, from destroying their country’s main water source, the Lempa River.

Where did the supposed wealth of the Marcos family come from?

The Water Defenders tells the story of ordinary people coming together across national and political boundaries to resist powerful corporate interests.

The Water Defenders: How ordinary people saved a country from corporate greed (Beacon Press, 2021) by Robin Broad and John Cavanagh is the winner of the 

These books have given me important new perspectives and allowed me to travel the world safely throughout this most difficult year.

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The Good Men Project Become a Premium Member We have pioneered the largest worldwide conversation about what it means to be a good man in the 21st century. Your support of our work is inspiring and invaluable. Water Is Life. Can We Protect It? Americans will have to fight hard to protect their water from corporate greed. They can learn a lot from El Salvador. From West Texas to Jackson, Mississippi, tens of millions of people struggled through late winter storms that froze pipes, broke water ma...