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on May 26, 2007
A teaspoon of sugar may help the medicine go down, but Mary Poppins will find herself in a load of trouble if the U.S. FDA gets their newest bill passed.
They want to make it so that anything you giv...
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on May 25, 2007
I have already mentioned there's a problem with corporate transparency on the matter of organic food - and apparently there are zero regulations on natural personal care products. I hadn't eve...
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on May 21, 2007
You need to read this today, because if you have anything to say about it, today is your last chance. They only gave the public a 7-day review process, and this only crossed my desk about 10 hours ago...
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on May 18, 2007
Forget "Don't Ask" - the US government is adopting a policy of flat out "Don't Tell." Or at the very least the military is - but if the military can do this, how can we kno...
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on May 17, 2007
Isn't it amazing how doing one thing right can be so gosh derned beneficial to everyone?
The new trendy thing for corporations to participate in is volunteer work. Of course corporations would li...
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on May 13, 2007
Jim Talent and Arianna Huffington on the FH NCL Corporate Social Responsibility Panel. Photo courtesy of Fleishman-Hillard, rights reserved.
A few days ago I was contacted by Rachelle Lacroix at Fleis...
Read more of CSR and the 2008 U.S. Elections
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on May 11, 2007
It would appear that higher education is gradually losing sight of their social bottom line, seeking instead to increase their financial profits. Financial aid advisors at certain colleges and univers...
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on May 10, 2007
Do you like where you work? What you do? ...Why not?
I've mentioned before at LoanShak that I stopped working in the mortgage industry because it didn't agree with my ethics. I hated my job -...
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on January 4, 2007
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A simple roundup of CSR news for you today ...
*At Social Funds: CSR is good for business, and telling the good from the bad.
*CSR Wire's overview of the top CSR news of 2006.
*A journ...
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on December 12, 2006
A story from my colleague Stephen Gardner at Euro-correspondent.com on CSR in Romania and Bulgaria, originally for Ethical Corporation magazine.
For both Bulgaria and Romania, things will change. EU...
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on December 3, 2006
Two articles from the past weeks caught my eye here since they're basically the same article, although one calls CSR bunk and the other that CSR is immoral. While there's room to criticize CSR...
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on November 26, 2006
I was browsing through some of the CSR resources at Case Place and thought I'd point to some of interest as an open source CSR exercise ... unfortunately a lot of case studies in CSR, social enter...
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on November 26, 2006
Some 'off day' (is it ever an off day around here?) thoughts from Notes from Sweden ...
Back when I was a kid in the early 60's I remember very well a debate in society over what was call...
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on November 22, 2006
Some bark to the bite for CSR here, according to CSR Wire. Gap released its CSR report yesterday and also announced that it had sacked 62 factories for code violations. With all the Red promotion ther...
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on November 19, 2006
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I meant to post this about a month ago! Shows you how much I'm behind. This is the text of a talk Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, gave at Harvard in the middle of l...
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on November 8, 2006
Once again, I can't figure out how to download and upload Mp3's directly to the posts, so I'll have to link to this instead. There's a nice, from what I've listened to, conversatio...
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on November 8, 2006
It has been a rough year or so for U.S. domestic automakers like GM as they restructure, but all is not always so gloomy. A couple days ago I got this press release stating GM has won an award from th...
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on October 31, 2006
Today GlobaLab points out a project at One World Trust called the Global Accountability Index, which will launch in December. The GAI will look at 30 top organizations from public, private and non-pro...
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on October 27, 2006
It seems that way from the articles that keep sprouting up. Here's one from yesterday at China Daily:
Corporate social responsibility, or CSR, is creating a buzz in China's business world lik...
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on October 4, 2006
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From CSR Wire:
The G3 launch represents one of the most significant CSR developments this year. Sustainability reporting drives the corporate social responsibility age...
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on September 22, 2006
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The Global Reporting Initiative ... that's the question of the day over at Social Funds, as Canadian SIO lines up for amending the Canada Business Corporations Act to mandate ann...
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on September 11, 2006
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This story comes from The Standard, a business newspaper out of China, about a report released over the weekend by Hong Kong-based Students and Scholars Against C...
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on August 31, 2006
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Simon McKeon at The Age on CSR as a grassroots movement:
While CSR has so much to offer, it has not exactly been a smooth ride to date, and nor will it be in the future. T...
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on August 21, 2006
Some interesting thoughts on CSR at Town Hall from Tom Borelli. I actually think it speaks more to how corporations are willing to use a mirage of CSR compliance to help their images than a problem wi...
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on August 15, 2006
From Newswire Today:
In what is a first for corporate blogging, Cal Safety Compliance Corporation (CSCC), a leading provider of responsible sourcing services, has launched "Perspectives in Respo...
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on August 7, 2006
As the planet warms up, the power production sector can expect to find itself under more scrutiny than most. The pressure to reduce the amount of greenhouse gas pumped into the atmosphere will not jus...
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on August 2, 2006
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We've all been seeing these Hummer commercials, right? Henry Rollins sounds off. From the Huffington Post:
Did you see the run of ads for the Hummer where the pretty lady with ...
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on July 26, 2006
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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:
A...
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on July 19, 2006
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CSR Wire has news that fourteen major investment companies have lanched a report on SRI for the UN's Environment Programme Finance Initiative.
The report, entitled "Show...
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on July 8, 2006
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Food Navigator Europe had this article yesterday about Friends of the Earth took a strategic shot at Tesco's CSR practices ahead of its annual general meeting.
Following mon...
