Tag: csr
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November 25, 2009 10:49 AM EST --
After speaking about the benefits of doing your best to be an ethical shopper and buying locall y when you can, this can be confused with buying sustainably. Food sustainability is different in . . .
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August 03, 2007 01:50 AM EDT --
In my recent position as manager of the Executive Customer Assistance Team at a large computer security company, one of my duties was to listen to and evaluate calls taken by my team and sometimes by members . . .
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July 15, 2009 10:53 AM EDT --
A couple months ago, Sara wrote a great post about water privatization , and it got me thinking more about bottled water.
You see, a few weeks ago, my friends and I took a trip to Istanbul for . . .
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August 04, 2009 10:25 AM EDT --
In last Friday's Wall Street Journal, a cancer patient wrote an impassioned entreaty to American health reformers . Her message: the system ain't broke so don't fix it. She places particular emphasis . . .
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July 14, 2009 09:34 AM EDT --
I watched replays of today's Tour de France stage with a skeptical eye. Seeing the riders outrace pace cars up the Pyrenees made me wonder how many of the riders were taking steroids.
These thoughts . . .
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July 10, 2009 10:05 AM EDT --
Climate change deniers have frequently pointed to regional weather patterns to provide irrefutable evidence against climate change. Back in January Gerald Warner of the Telegraph, for example, was quick . . .
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July 23, 2009 10:25 AM EDT --
I've written in a number of previous blogs that issues over fairness and conflicts between teaching and preaching would become ever more apparent in the lead-up to Copenhagen. Last week, during . . .
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October 27, 2009 11:54 AM EDT --
To be clear. I'm a R.E.G. - A Renewable Energy Gal - and proud of it. I've got a particular fondness for Renewable Energy Guys- men who can look at a wind turbine and know how its made, fix a solar . . .
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July 13, 2009 08:37 AM EDT --
How should your company be using social media to engage your customers, employees, activists, and other stakeholders online? What are the best tools, platforms? Should you be on Facebook, . . .
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July 22, 2009 11:48 AM EDT --
It baffles me that so much attention is paid to where a wine comes from, how it was grown, aged, stored and this scrupulous attention to the like in what we eat has only begun to come about recently. . . .
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November 03, 2009 10:56 AM EST --
In an attempt to encourage sustainable investment, approximately 2.2 billion dollars were released by the United States treasury in new bonds. This move is being considered a great kick-start for the . . .
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July 17, 2009 11:06 AM EDT --
Today, some great news greeted me in the pages of the Guardian: the UK has halved its plastic bag consumption simply because consumers have said no .
From 2007 to 2009, plastic bag use has been . . .
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July 20, 2009 10:01 AM EDT --
This week the UK government announced that it would move forward with its plans to create four new 'eco-towns'. The details of these towns are fuzzy but the general idea is that these towns will be . . .
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August 04, 2009 10:24 AM EDT --
A few people have asked me what I, as an ethical consumer, think about the Cash for Clunkers program. This extremely popular program allows individuals to receive a federal subsidy when they trade in . . .
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August 28, 2009 12:10 PM EDT --
The other day I was chatting with a friend about how well the Economist has been covering climate change and particularly the international elements. He was surprised because, "it was an environmental . . .
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July 16, 2009 10:33 AM EDT --
This post comes from JustMeans member Christopher Cairns .
When looking at unethical investing it's often difficult to trace responsibility down the chain. A recent Wall Street Journal piece . . .
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July 16, 2009 10:36 AM EDT --
In previous blogs I have discussed the importance of fairness and the fine line between preaching and teaching in the lead-up to Copenhagen. I was recently in Dubai and found myself grappling . . .
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July 22, 2009 11:50 AM EDT --
The weekend Financial Times has a fascinating article for anyone interested in the technology of social change: how termite structures are shaping the future of print-on-demand sustainable architecture. . . .
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July 23, 2009 10:27 AM EDT --
Yesterday, NY Times columnist David Leonhardt argued that President Obama must convince Americans that the country's health care costs outweigh the benefits. After observing my grandmother struggle . . .
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August 04, 2009 10:20 AM EDT --
The Financial Times has published a profile of how MIT is incorporating field work into classes on international development:
Global health delivery is an emerging field that looks at how healthcare . . .
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