Filed in archive CSR
by mstandaert 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...
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The Financial Times on social enterprise, with a special focus on GreenWorks: When hsbc relocated to its headquarters in Canary Wharf from more than 20 offices around London, it had 50,000 pieces of...
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(Picture from Money Times) A damning global warming report prepared by a respected economist was released in the UK today warning that climate change will trim 5-20% from global wealth over the next...
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(Pic from Tribune India) This week is Anti-Corruption Week in Uganda and I've Left Copenhagen has coverage here, with news that there will be a procession in Kampala to mark the start of this...
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(Picture from Tony Pierce) From the Sunday Times out of London this week comes a piece by Fariba Nawa on how the West has come up quite short of its goals in Afghanistan: The excitement and hope...
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According to WorldWatch, and Reuters, 80,000 homes in the UK are now using domestic wind turbines: Now turbines have been embraced by mainstream retailers like B&Q, a chain of hardware stores run...
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Image from Closer to Free. Via CSR Asia comes this story at ENN about the numbers of sharks being slaughtered just for their fins for shark fin soup: Up to four times more sharks than previously...
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Filed in archive CSR
by mstandaert 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 like...
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(Picture from Results.org) I'm not sure if I posted this article from The Nation about microfinance or not, but it's worth highlighting prominently here. I tend to agree with a lot of what the...
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Say that five times fast. From CSRWire: Vaclav Havel, an internationally renowned Czech intellectual and playwright and advocate of human rights and democracy who served as the last president of...
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Just a quick roundup of the first U.S.-EU meeting on Climate Change, Clean Energy and Sustainable Development in Helsinki the last two days. There's s a joint press release from the EU Environment...
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From Eldis: This article, in the journal Human Resources for Health, argues that the two most important World Bank health reform policies in Latin America - decentralisation and privatisation - have...
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I'm not sure yet how or if I even can post YouTube videos up on this blog, but I'll be looking into it soon. In the meantime I just wanted to point people to a few that I've come across......
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Via Gristmill, an essay by Bill McKibben, much of it about James Lovelock, that will appear next month in the New York Review of Books: The technology we need most badly is the technology of community...
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Filed in archive Social Enterprise
by on October 22, 2006
I've been away in Seattle for a few days so haven't had any time to blog. That means I do have quite a backlog of news items to post though, so here's a bit of a cleaning job of some......
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That seems to be the question coming to the fore these days as someone has finally made a convincing argument for paying now in order having to pay outrageously later. Arguments that implementing...
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First off, I've been planning to blog a bit more than I have been the past few days but the new MacBook I got had some problems so I had to send it off to get fixed. That means a......
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(Photo from the Sydney Morning Herald) There have been all kinds of stories on Muhammed Yunus winning the Nobel Peace Prize since yesterday so I wanted to highlight some of the better or more...
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No doubt many of you have heard about Muhammed Yunus winning the Nobel Peace Prize today, it's been all over the airwaves. This is a great boost to the visibility of microfinance and microcredit...
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Okay, so my title is lame. Well, so is this post! There's certainly a lot to say on this topic, though for the moment I'll pass on the commentary. I did want to highlight a few stories...
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Filed in archive Social Enterprise
by on October 11, 2006
(Image from Synthstuff) From Yahoo News: The government of Libya has reached an agreement with an American nonprofit group to provide inexpensive laptop computers for all of the nation's 1.2...
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Filed in archive Personal
by mstandaert on October 10, 2006
I don't have any other blogs anymore so don't really have a place to put odd stuff I come across. So I decided to do it here. I'm not sure if you can read this or not, but look at......
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Filed in archive Social Enterprise
by on October 10, 2006
I was notified that TED (Technology Entertainment Design) has put up two podcasts from the TED Global 2005 that should be interesting to some of our readers. They also let me know that they have a...
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No doubt you'd probably already heard about Norway writing off $80 million in foreign debt, though I hadn't put anything up here yet so thought I'd supply a run down of stories on this....
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