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by gautam on January 15, 2010
Corporate Social Responsibility or CSR is changing and definitely is changing for the better. The concept of CSR has been around since the early seventies but it entered the mainstream business a deca...
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by Miche on December 17, 2007
Sustainability Blog, like many others, seem to think the practices of corporations, socially responsible or otherwise, are like the news on TV - we just watch it happen. There is another popular opi...
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by Miche on November 7, 2007
Every now and then you get a group going on strike because they are actually underpaid.
The big issue on the table for the Writer's Guild is new media residuals. With the advent of DVDs and pod...
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by Miche on November 6, 2007
Let's say you are raising a child. One day you decide that it is unfair to make said child clean their room, so you do it for them. What do you think that child is going to learn?
Perhaps that ev...
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by Miche on October 31, 2007
In a rather bold move, Bank of America has decided to offer Spanish language services and statements for its MLB branded credit cards. I say bold for two reasons.
Granted we don't have an Officia...
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by Miche on October 29, 2007
John Bowe was recently on a book tour for his newest publication Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy about - as you might have guessed - modern day slaver...
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by Miche on October 29, 2007
So here's a hypothetical question for you. What would you do with a pen, 10 minutes, and 1 vote?
Don't answer! This is a hypothetical question. Just do it!
And may I recommend Ron Paul? Yo...
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by Miche on October 25, 2007
I've said it before, and I'll say it again - in business, it's all about the money eventually.
Time warp to 2003, Aurora Dairy gets a big $18 million investment to help finalize the com...
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by Miche on October 24, 2007
Hypothetically, let's say you had a product and the power to coerce the entire world to want your product, completely unbeknownst to them. Would you do it?
Now you might think I'm some crazy ...
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by Miche on September 25, 2007
Isn't it sad that we need non-profit third parties to figure out what pesticides, cosmetics, dyes, prescription drugs, and gasoline does to us? The manufacturers should do the studies and be hones...
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by Miche on September 22, 2007
If there's one thing Microsoft does well, it's keeping the money rolling in. Most recently the technology giant has been asked to re-write their Permissive Lisence (MS-PL) because OSI has foun...
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by Miche on September 21, 2007
Chiquita International and its Columbian subsidiary Bananex have a really big problem. On one end of the debate you have the Columbian militant group United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), who ...
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by Miche on September 20, 2007
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Normally you wouldn't have to worry about crocs when you're taking the escalator, but if your kids are wearing these special sticky shoes by the same name, you shou...
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by Miche on September 20, 2007
In a recent commercial, Hyundai asks the question "if you had the technology to save 10,000 lives, would you hesitate to use it?" The first thought in my head is, heck yeah! Especially sin...
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by Miche on September 20, 2007
No no, it's not that multi-million dollar blockbuster "The Matrix" - it's "The Meatrix" - an interesting set of flash mini-films that demonstrate where meat really comes ...
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by Miche on August 29, 2007
Stocks go up, and stocks go down - but contrary to popular belief of the mysterious and confusing stock market, investors can profit when stocks go down too. As I learned in An American Hedge Fund, in...
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by Miche on August 22, 2007
95 years after its inception, it is pretty easy to forget about the largest corporation in the United States. It is very easy to just take it for granted, and assume, what this gargantuan corporation ...
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by Miche on August 20, 2007
A group by the name of Forest Ethics is using YouTube to spread a message - West Fraser is cutting down Caribou. The video states caribou populations in Canada have fallen almost 50%, and are on the v...
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by Miche on August 16, 2007
Remember when Michael Jordan started playing baseball? How about the day pigs started flying?
I ran across something very similar. Apparently Tyco has joined the Ethisphere Council in teaching other ...
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by Miche on July 19, 2007
So what happens after the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012? Global warming won't just disappear. In fact, most countries can't even hope to be CO2-neutral until at least 2050.
In response to th...
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by Miche on July 18, 2007
Since I know you don't have the time to read them, here's my review and summary of 2006 corporate sustainability reports of interest - and links to the reports just in case you're interest...
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by Miche on July 17, 2007
"The Easy Button" just keeps getting better. Staples just recently released their 2006 Soul Report, detailing their social responsibility efforts.
Measures include ethics streamlining effor...
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by Miche on June 19, 2007
Dieting is a multi-billion dollar industry in the United States, and no wonder, with the world's largest obese population. I have a huge gripe with the dieting industry that I won't get into h...
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by Miche on June 18, 2007
Corporate Social Responsibility isn't just about green practices or doing something good for the environment and society. I also believe that businesses and organizations have a social responsibil...
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by Miche on June 16, 2007
A couple days ago I told you about Big Pharma funding doctor education, and the bias it creates. If you didn't already, you should also know that studies are developed to prove a hypothesis that w...
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by Miche on June 15, 2007
I like Google. Really, I do - but I'm slightly disappointed.
Google has made my life so much more efficient. I use my Gmail not only to communicate, but with the way it is set up I don't feel...
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by Miche on June 14, 2007
Believe it or not, medicine causes illness. Avandia causes heart disease. Vioxx doubles the risk for heart attacks and strokes. Zyprexa causes diabetes. It makes you think - what will that blue pill d...
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by Miche on June 3, 2007
A few weeks ago I reported on that Fleshman-Hillard survey, and if you will remember, it stated that the American public felt the government should do more to enforce CSR. Personally, I am opposed to ...
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by Miche on May 30, 2007
There's a lot to watch out for when you're checking out a corporation. It's not just their green practices, budgeting, or volunteer work. Remember Enron? Tyson? MCI? Martha Stewart? Yeah, ...
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by Miche 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...
