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Recent CommentaryFebruary 17, 2010 Is Capitalism Broken?
Source:CSRwire Contributing Writer Bill Baue of Sea Change Media
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) creates change by re-structuring the corporate system – for example, Wal-Mart’s recent Sustainable Products Index that rates the environmental (and, to a lesser degree, social) impacts of its...[more] February 17, 2010 12 Ways to Convince Your Boss to Add Social Responsibility - A blog by Olivia KhaliliSource:CSR 3BL MediaOnce you understand that a social mission is an incredible asset for your business your first question is usually “Where do I start?” Many of the pieces I write focus on what an entrepreneur or CEO should consider when building a... February 17, 2010 The Clean Energy Gold RushSource:Michael Northrop, The Huffington PostOf the 10 largest wind power companies in the world, the United States has one -- General Electric. Of the world's 10 largest solar companies, we have two -- First Solar and SunPower - but almost all their manufacturing is in... February 17, 2010 Real Cause Of Tension Between China And USA Is Not Being Reported By MSMSource:William Cormier, OpEdNews.comToday's rift in our relationship with China began several years ago when globalization was in it's infancy. China's ascendancy as a leading economic power was not due to Chinese ingenuity, nor are its new weapons systems that... February 17, 2010 Corporate Governance Role in MeltdownSource:The Street.comWhat role did board governance play in the financial meltdown of 2008? According to John Gillespie and David Zweig, co-authors of a new book called "Money for Nothing," it was a major one. February 17, 2010 Feinstein's water meddling - editorialSource:Los Angeles TimesCities, farmers, fishermen and environmentalists have been waging an exhausting tug of war over water for decades in California, but last fall something unusual happened. All those ropes being tugged by competing interests were... February 17, 2010 The Future For Healthcare Reform
Source:Robert R. McMillan
For over one year, the President, his staff, and the Congress have had a focus on healthcare and the uninsured – not the escalating unemployment statistics. Why? I have not been able to understand the President’s priorities. ...[more] February 16, 2010 Global collective action is the key to solving climate changeSource:John Sauven, Guardian.co.ukIan Katz says "it is hard to see where the political leadership for a global [climate] deal will come from" (The case for climate action must be remade from the ground upwards, 9 February). With climate science under siege and... February 15, 2010 Recession’s Silver Lining: U.S. Trade Deficit Is Down the Most on RecordSource:Floyd Norris, NY TimesAFTER years of being told by Asians and Europeans that it had to find a way to reduce its trade deficit, the United States did find a way in 2009. A global recession did the trick, producing the largest decline ever in the... February 15, 2010 Future Bailouts of America
Source:Gretchen Morgenson, NY Times
AS Washington spins its wheels on financial reform, it’s becoming painfully clear that the problem of entities that are too interconnected or “too politically powerful to fail” is also too hard for our policy makers to tackle. February 12, 2010 Pope Benedict and True Corporate Social ResponsibilitySource:Action Institute BlogIn a private audience held this past weekend with Rome’s water and electrical company, ACEA, Benedict XVI expressed to local business leaders his priorities for improving true corporate social responsibility within business... February 12, 2010 Climate's snow job
Source:Thomas Kostigen, MarketWatch
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (MarketWatch) -- Both global warming skeptics and climate change believers are using the snowstorms pounding the East Coast of the United States as fodder to further their debate. February 12, 2010 XBRL adds universal access to corporate reportingSource:QFinanceOne of the annoying things about printed documents in this electronic age is that you have to do quite a lot of work to turn them back into machine-useable form. This is particularly true of complex documents like a company’s... February 12, 2010 Progress on Pay to PlaySource:Wall Street JournalThe cozy relationship between elected state officials and the plaintiffs lawyers who contribute to their campaigns and win state business has always been ethically troublesome, if not illegal. So we're happy to report that a... February 12, 2010 Corporate Social Responsibility Update -SEC DECISION RAISES THE BAR FOR CORPORATE (ISSUER) DISCLOSURE ON SUSTAINABILITY RISKS
Source:Hank Boerner, Chairman Governance & Accountability Institute, BusinessWired
One more shoe drops – this one a size 15 or more – in the rising and accelerating importance of ESG & Sustainability corporate key performance indicators and ESG-related factors for investment management and financial analysis,... February 11, 2010 Global Warming, Environmentalism and Related Issues: The Other ViewSource:P. K. Gautam, Institute for Defense Studies and AnalysisGovernments, as members of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC), acknowledge that change in the Earth’s climate and its adverse effects are a common concern of human kind. Countries are concerned that... February 11, 2010 Keep Your Values and Still Beat the MarketSource:The Motley FoolTo many investors, socially responsible investing is a bit like eating your peas: You might think it's what you should do, but you'd really rather pass and find something more appetizing instead. February 11, 2010 10 Trends in Sustainability Reporting: Great Minds Think AlikeSource:Triple PunditDon’t you love it when you are thinking about your best friend, and when the phone rings, she’s on the other line? That’s what happened to me this morning with our friends over at Environmental Leader. Just as I was sitting down... February 11, 2010 Ten GOP Health Ideas for ObamaSource:Newt Gingrich & John C. Goodman , Wall Street Journal'If you have a better idea, show it to me." That was President Barack Obama's challenge two weeks ago to House Republicans regarding health-care reform. He has since called for a bipartisan forum, not to start over on health... February 10, 2010 NGOs Rush In To Fill the Void
Source:Richard Barr
Government Isn’t Everything… With President Obama’s presidency looking more like it will not be able to pull off cap and trade; any carbon tax; and any meaningful reduction of the kind that we need to make a dent in world wide...[more] February 10, 2010 Senate offers some hope for legislation to combat climate changeSource:Washington PostCLIMATE CHANGE legislation, according to conventional wisdom, is all but dead for the year. It fell victim to Senate gridlock, yawning gaps between lawmakers over how and even whether to tackle the issue and President Obama's... February 10, 2010 Corporate Governance in Sad Shape
Source:The Street.com
A new book documenting how poor the state of corporate governance is in America -- and how it was a major cause of the financial meltdown -- will make you sick. Money for Nothing, authored by former Lehman Brothers banker John... February 9, 2010 Market Volatility
Source:Tim Quast, Managing Director,ModernNetworks IR LLC
What a blast we had in the high country skiing last week! But now, East Coast, we here in Denver would like our snow back, please. Everybody’s got an opinion on why the market is yinning and yanging. We, I believe uniquely...[more] February 9, 2010 Corporate Sustainability Ranking Gets a Face Lift at Davos
Source:Bill Baue, CSRWire
Last week’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, saw a major upgrade in the quantification of corporate sustainability with the unveiling of what I’ll call the “second generation” of the Global 100 Most Sustainable...[more] February 9, 2010 Globalization Is Killing the Globe: Return to Local EconomiesSource:CommonDreams.orgGlobalization is killing Europe, just as it's already wiped out much of the American middle class. Spain and Greece are facing immediate crises that many other European nations see on the near horizon: aging boomer workers are... |
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