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1. Turning Garbage Into Gold
Author Alicia Korten explores the cost-negative side of Terracycle – a company taking CSR to the next level…
2. Is Philanthropy a Smokescreen?
Is “doing well by doing good” really CSR? Wayne Visser asks a tough question…
3. Sustainable Industries and TriplePundit Join Forces
Leading independent green business media companies Sustainable Industries and TriplePundit announced they are joining forces in a merger…
4. Blood in the Mobile – the world’s most graphic CSR report?
‘Blood in the Mobile’ is a must-see film for those with even the mildest interest in challenges cos. face to reduce environmental impact…
5. Spotting 50 Stars In Seriously Long-term Innovation
John Elkington and team map the kaleidoscopic patterns high-FQ leaders trace in the final Future Quotient series installment on Talkback…
6. World’s Largest Investors, Worth $20 Trillion, Step Up Call for Urgent Policy Action on Climate Change
In a joint statement, the group of 285 investors representing more than $20 trillion in assets, stressed the urgent need for policy action which stimulates private sector investment into climate change solutions, creates jobs, and is essential for ensuring the long-term sustainability and stability of the world economic system…
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1. Green Transition on the Global Agenda
The Green Economy Transition is bustin’ out all over in the run up to Rio…
2. The Death of CSR
Dr. Wayne Visser opens the new ‘Quest for CSR 2.0′ blog series by claiming CSR, as we know it, is dead. Read it on Talkback…
3. Our Greatest Deficit: Future-Oriented Leadership
Future Quotient 1 (first in a 3-part series). Sustainability thought leader John Elkington says CSR hasn’t gone far enough – future generations must become a top priority…
4. What American Business Needs to Know
Business Take Note: Americans are shifting to a New Normal. David Wann explains on Talkback…
5. EF Presents Company of the Year Awards at 12th Annual “Powered by EF” Reception
EF announced that Cisco and Silver Spring Networks are this year’s recipients of the Company of the Year (COTY) award. EF’s CSR awards are given annually to firms and companies within the network that best represent the mission of EF: to engage companies in corporate citizenship and philanthropic efforts so that new and leveraged resources are generated for community benefit…
6. How green is that building? Check the label
Architecture 2030′s plan is for all buildings to proudly announce how many emissions it requires to build, operate and eventually tear down…
7. Occupy Wall Street: Who Are They And What Do They Want?
A mass movement is building across the U.S., joining its international counterparts in demanding economic and social fairness…
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1. CGI 2011: Finding the Courage to Act
CSRwire Contributing Writer Martha Shaw reports from the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) 2011 on human rights, leadership and courage…
2. Why Aren’t We Sustainable?
The biggest threat to America is the American way of life, yet we cling to it like a sweaty pillow on a sleepless night. David Wann shows how to break the addiction to ‘unsustainability’…
3. Business must push for sustainable growth
Why are progressive companies so timid when it comes to addressing the key sustainability challenges of our age?…
4. How Many Slaves Work for You?
If you’re a 20-something renter who owns a laptop, a bike and a fair amount of shoes, you probably have close to 100 slaves working for you…
5. Successful business will be synonymous with sustainable business
The founders of Patagonia outdoor clothing company and Blu Skye Consulting explain how sustainability might be scaled…
6. How to Turn Green Legacy into a Gold Brand
The road to green is paved with all sorts of intentions…
7. Launch of World’s First Ratings Platform for Impact Investing Announced at CGI
At the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) annual meeting in New York this week, B Lab announced the launch of GIIRS Ratings & Analytics, and the commitment of 15 GIIRS Pioneer Investors who declare as part of their impact investing strategy an investment preference for GIIRS-rated funds and companies…
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1. Morgan Stanley Added to Carbon Performance Leadership Index
Morgan Stanley is one of 29 companies from the Global 500 Index to be represented in the Carbon Performance Leadership Index (CPLI)…
2. Report shows 16 ‘greenest firms’
The World Economic Forum has identified 16 companies from across the developing world that are sustainability champions…
3. One Universal Score Will Impact Purchase Decisions
New survey findings published in the One Green Score for One Earth sustainability research white paper suggest shoppers would increase sustainable product spending if only they could determine which products were truly green and which had been simply green-washed…
4. How to future-proof your company
Future-proofing needs collaboration, innovation, education and inspiration. Use these four primary catalysts for transformation to optimise your company’s journey and change your business mentality…
5. CSR: Carbon Social Responsibility
Monitoring carbon is a key corporate social responsibility issue. Carbon management and reduction, particularly within the built environment, construction and facilities management sector should be seen not only within sustainability/environmental terms but as a lens to understanding wider CSR impact…
6. CSR Reduces Costs
A new Harvard study shows CSR reduces capital costs. Joe Sibilia, CSRwire CEO, reports on Talkback…
7. Next Up for Cause-Related Marketing
Platforms: It’s what’s on deck for cause-related marketing. Robert Rosenthal drives home the message on Talkback…
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1. If You Need Strong Nonprofit Board Members, Start With Internal Housekeeping
Nonprofit leaders who think finding the right board chair and board members is vital to organizational success are exactly right…
2. UK ethical fund sales highest since 2007, beat total market for the year
Sales of UK ethical funds hit highest quarterly amount since the fourth quarter 2007 with net retail sales of £94m in the second quarter of 2011…
3. Logistics Firms Become E-waste Managers
With rising online commerce and their role as supply chain managers, logistics cos. are increasing waste diversion rates for customers and themselves…
4. Promoting Diversity in the Workforce
Israelis are demonstrating for a better economy. Does CSR have the answer? Momo Mahadav has one solution…
5. Making Sure Our Food Is Safe
America’s unhealthy truth about GMOs is weighing on the minds of food analysts and caregivers alike…
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1. Banking On The Big Society
Social entrepreneurs may need to turn to private “social” capital for help in tackling society’s ills…
2. Meet Social Impact Bonds
If you care about social innovation and haven’t already heard about social impact bonds, let Chris Meyer & Julia Kirby be the ones to tell you about them…
3. Zero-sum competition makes business unsustainable
To avoid kicking the proverbial sustainability can down the road, industry needs to rise above zero-sum competition, says Eric Lowitt…
4. Reflections on the Passing of a Sustainability Giant: Ray Anderson
Dave Meyer, a sustainability giant in his own regard, pays tribute to the life and works of “Ray.” Ray Anderson ran InterfaceFLOR, a brand to mirror in the CSR arena…
5. World’s Newest Famine Declared In Somalia
Oxfam America calls on the USG to respond to deepening crisis in Horn of Africa…
6. Kill the SR in SRI
Green marketing needs to get out of its niche and into the mainstream…
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1. Timberland Announces Bolder CSR Goals That Underscore Its Brand Values
Company Launches Dynamic, New CSR Communications Portal to Provide Real-Time Content and Discussion Around Social and Environmental Efforts…
2. SOCAP11 Convenes Hundreds of Global Innovators from 75 Countries to Confer, Partner & Shape the Impact Investing Market September 6-9th in San Francisco
Impact investing market predicted to grow to $500 billion by 2014…
3. Social Impact Insight
Alison Braybrooks explains why every business leader should measure their company’s social impact and gives some advice on where to start…
4. Sustainability Development Index launched by Shanghai Stock Exchange
Next month the SSE will launch a 40-stock index to focus on low carbon and resource efficiency…
5.Raising the bar for sustainability rating agencies
Two recent developments illustrate the need for valuing ratings: the Global Initiative for Sustainability Ratings (GISR) and SustainAbility’s Rate the Raters research…
6.”Our” Troops vs. Our Eco-System
US troops would be better served if, instead of spending the national treasure on wars, we spent it on the environment…
7. U.S. Debt Ceiling Deal Will Put the Kabosh on Clean Energy
The debt ceiling deal will slash support for clean tech development in the United States…
8. Moving Forward on the Happiness Initiative
The UN General Assembly says happiness is an important social index…
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1. From grey to green: Where does your CSR sit?
Built environment expert, Martin Brown, uses a litmus test of sorts to disseminate the varying degrees of CSR and sustainability within organizations…
2. How to Make Diversity and Inclusion Real
Douglas Conant, former CEO of the Campbell Soup Co., writes about true diversity and inclusion in the workplace, and includes five helpful tips…
3. CSR Mandatory in India?
India’s government is in the process of replacing the half-a-century old Companies Act, 1954 with a new law, which may include CSR…
4. Lipscomb study shows gender gap still exists in nation’s corporate leadership
A 2011 national study conducted in part by the Lipscomb University College of Business reveals limited presence of women in corporate leadership nationwide, proving that a gender gap still exists in the nation’s executive suites and boardrooms…
5. Author of U.N. Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to Join Foley Hoag
John G. Ruggie, U.N. Special Representative for Business and Human Rights, will join Corporate Social Responsibility Practice…
6. New SJF Report Links Employee Engagement to Better Business Performance
SJF Institute’s new report, “Employees Matter: Maximizing Company Value Through Workforce Engagement,” profiles two dozen fast growing entrepreneurial firms that utilize employee ownership and engagement strategies which their executives say are closely linked with improved business performance. The report uses these company profiles to frame and illustrate ten best practices for engaging employees at all levels for increased business success…
7. Pricking The Carbon Finance Bubble
A bubble in fossil fuels? Hazel Henderson reports fossil fuel assets are dangerously overvalued…
8. It’s time for transformational change
Businesses must transform into firms of the future by embedding sustainability, creating value for themselves, their communities and the ecosystems in which they operate…
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1. New Study: Cloud Computing Can Dramatically Reduce Energy Costs and Carbon Emissions
Cloud computing can help companies realize $12.3 billion in energy savings and 85.7 million metric tons of CO2 savings annually by 2020…
2. Revolution for a Sustainable Economy
A new report published this week entitled, “How to Liberate America from Wall Street Rule,” by the New Economy Working Group and authored by David Korten, a distinguished economist, proposes a revolutionary agenda for ending “Wall Street’s disastrous hold on the economy” and creating a new economy…
3. The Invisible Economy: Family Capitalism
What distinguishes the sustainability agenda from corporate citizenship, corporate social responsibility, or the ‘creating shared value’ approach? Family businesses take the long view…
4. The Next Great Brand Challenge
When plastic exploded on the consumer market after the second world war, it opened up a world of new possibilities. But its success was its downfall...
5. America’s Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs: 2011 Winners
From hiring recovering addicts and ex-offenders to fund raising for small nonprofits, these social entrepreneurs comprise Businessweek’s 25 most promising for 2011…
6. CSR in Annual Reports: 7 Conflicting Trends
Why are a majority of annual reports increasingly addressing social responsibility, sustainable practices and corporate giving? …
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1. Growth? Europe’s Greenest City Shows the Way
Växjö, Sweden has been able to slash its carbon footprint by a third while nearly doubling its GDP, Francesca Rheannon discusses…
2. GreenBlue releases Guideline for Designing Recyclable and Compostable Packaging
Following two years of research into various end-of-life infrastructures and technologies, today GreenBlue® released a suite of reports that provide technical guidance on designing packaging to be compatible with common recovery methods…
3. Green energy investment hits record global high
Global investment in renewable energy sources grew by 32% during 2010 to reach a record level of US$211bn (£132bn), a UN study has reported…
4. Accounting for Sustainability: A Charge to Professionals and Students
Martha Woodman has a simple formula for you: sustainable business practices + reporting = continued improvement and growth = better business and a better world…
5. Human Rights – NGO’s dissatisfied? Fine with me…
Last month, the U.N. Human Rights Council unanimously endorsed the Guiding Principles for business and human rights. Christine Bader discusses…
6. Boards in a Time of Crisis
What role does the board play in times when a company is involved in a crisis that has an impact on the community?
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