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The group Sustainable Business has released a list of 20 companies changing the world for the better with over half of them in the renewable energy sector. The list includes:

Abengoa SA (Madrid: ABG.MC)
Acciona (Madrid: ANA.MC)
Best Water Technology (Vienna: BWT.VI)
Conergy (Frankfort: CGY.F)
Energy Conversion Devices (Nasdaq: ENER)
Gamesa Corporation Technologica (Madrid: GAM.MC)
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (Nasdaq: GMCR)
Interface (Nasdaq: IFSIA)
JM Inc. (JM.ST)
Maxwell Technologies (Nasdaq: MXWL)
Novartis AG (NYSE: NVS)
Ormat Technologies (NYSE: ORA)
Philips Electronics NV (NYSE: PHG)
Precious Woods (Geneva: SWX: PRWN)
Renewable Energy Corp (Oslo: REC.OL)
Sharp Corp. (Tokyo: 6753)
SunPower (Nasdaq: SPWR)
United Natural (Nasdaq: UNFI)
Wainwright Bank (Nasdaq: WAIN)
Whole Foods Market (Nasdaq: WFMI)

In other CSR news ...

*Dispatches from Zembla reviews the documentary The Corporation.

*Check in on a debate over corporate law at Conglomerate.

*BP has reached a multimillion pound settlement with a group of Colombian farmers who accused the British oil and gas giant of benefiting from a regime of terror carried out by Colombian government paramilitaries to protect a 450-mile pipeline.

*From CSR Wire, Carbonfund.org announces that new partner, Camphill Village Kimberton Hills of Kimberton, PA, will be offsetting the emissions of its entire annual electricity usage with renewable energy certificates retired by Carbonfund.org.

*Some coverage of a CSR seminar in India.

*In Thailand, ethics make good business sense.

*Heidelberger Druckmaschinen publishes sustainability report.

*The Shell Petroleum Development Company fills in stakeholders about HIV/AIDS survey of Niger Delta.

*HSBC Group and other lenders under fire in Hong Kong for cutting hours at branch offices in low-income areas.

*StartingBloc, a training corps for young change makers.

*Europe's largest oil and gas companies plan database on supplier CSR.

*Will economic pressures force business to return to social responsibility?

*From Business Week: In Brazil, the Committee for Democracy in Information Technology helps the unempowered use computers to reboot themselves and their communities.

*Lastly, be sure to check out Credo Advisors as Peter Begley blogs on his three week visit to China.