By: CSRwire President
We need a strategy that establishes a new code of conduct that includes incredible transparency.(CSRwire) The free market ideology is dead. Those that have espoused that the market is efficient enough to be left alone without any...
By: Business Today
Manu Kaushik
Less than eight decades ago, there were just two billion people living on earth. Since then, the number has more than tripled to 6.7 billion. Despite the explosion in population, if the world in general is more prosperous than...
By: USA TODAY
Paul Davidson
The nation is turning to alternative energy as never before amid concerns about global warming and runaway fossil-fuel prices.
Wind and solar power, for example, each grew 45% last year, while the U.S. consumed 633,000 barrels...
By: USA TODAY
Linda M. Castellitto
In perhaps the biggest marketing coup since DeBeers convinced consumers that diamonds are the must-have gemstone for lovebirds, beverage companies have transformed water from a free, simple thirst-quencher into a colossal...
By: BusinessWorld
Johanna D. Poblete
Green consumerism became globally hip only recently, and it's no longer unusual for Asian shoppers to come bearing Anya Hindmarch's "I'm NOT a plastic bag" tote, discuss the merits of buying furniture made from driftwood over...
By: The Economist
Some scientists think climate change needs more radical approach. As well as trying to curb greenhouse-gas emissions, they have plans to re-engineer the Earth
THERE is a branch of science fiction that looks at the Earth?s...
By: The Washington Times
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
In her Aug. 24 Op-Ed column, "Hidden slush fund," Michelle Malkin takes a predictably partisan view of an innovative new public policy idea that has attracted support from Democrats, Republicans and leading CEOs who eschew...
By: Hank Boerner (Corporate Finance Review September/October 2008)
Greening is everywhere in the corporate world, and seemingly epidemic among corporate managers at all levels. Board members are looking for ways that their enterprise can be more green. Is this a passing fad (remember the...
By: Trucost
Rising oil prices have led to a boom in investment in the oil sands industry, which is 3-4 times more carbon intensive than conventional oil production. Despite Canadian regulations designed to reduce carbon emissions at oil sand...
By: CFA Institute
A growing number of people are extending their social consciousness beyond driving hybrid vehicles or drinking fair trade coffee to pursuing a socially responsible investment strategy that reflects their values and core beliefs.
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