Why do we degrade the environment through the production, consumption and trade of food, clothes and other commodities? Why do transnational corporations have more and more influence over our lives? It's time for companies to take responsibility for the social and environmental damage they cause.

Large-scale production of biofuels is having a devastating effect in developing countries, leading to rainforest clearance, which destroys communities and ecosystems, and pushing up food prices as land is used to grow fuel crops instead of food crops. We're taking part in a national summer of action to persuade MEPs to scrap the EU's proposed target for biofuels to make up 10% of all road fuels by 2020...

We took part in a national days of action on 29th October 2005 and 25th February 2006 to highlight the damage that palm oil production is having on the rainforests that are home to endangered species such as the orang-utan...

The mission of the Confederation of British Industries (CBI) is to "create and sustain the conditions in which businesses in the United Kingdom can compete and prosper". Unfortunately, as our CBI dossier explains, this is often at the expense of people's rights and the environment...

Take action: ask your MEPs to vote against biofuels targets, tell Rio Tinto to protect the people and wildlife of Madagascar, and urge Shell to comply with a court ruling that requires them to stop flaring gas in Nigeria...