July 2011
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Why Is There Still Green In My Funds?
The green message needs some honing to go mainstream
By Marc Stoiber
This article is based on a speech I presented to the Canadian Socially Responsible Investment Forum June 20, 2011.
About two months ago, Joel Makower posted a story titled ‘Green Marketing Is Over.’ Makower believes green marketing as we know it has failed us – the great green consumer revolution simply hasn’t materialized,...
Boards in a Time of Crisis
The phone hacking scandal in the UK raises questions about the role of its corporate board.
By Lucy P. Marcus
What role does the board play in times when a company is involved in a crisis that has an impact on the community?
I don’t mean “brand management” or “reputation management”. I mean cases like the one we are seeing now with the News of the World hacking scandal in the UK, or last year...
NGOs dissatisfied? Fine with me…
New Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights are just out from the U.N.
By Christine Bader
Last month, the U.N. Human Rights Council unanimously endorsed the Guiding Principles for business and human rights. Despite overwhelming support of the principles from many previously-opposed camps — business lobbyists and socially responsible investors, trade unions and corporate law...
Zero Net Emissions With Economic Growth? Europe’s...
Originally posted on the CSRwire website.
By Francesca Rheannon
Växjö, Sweden has been able to slash its carbon footprint by a third while nearly doubling its GDP.
Summer is houseguest time out here in the Hamptons. So it was that I recently found myself hosting a young friend from Sweden – in the U.S. as a Visiting Artist with a New York dance organization — and her parents, who were here...
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When the People Lead
History teaches us that ordinary citizens can – and do — change the course of history.
By David Korten
Through word and deed, the early American colonists who refused to accept the authority of a distant British monarch and his rapacious chartered corporations created a political imperative. Ultimately the formal political leaders we now call the founding fathers were forced to issue a...
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Accounting for Sustainability: A Charge to...
Guidance on reporting for students and sustainability professionals.
By Martha Woodman, MBA I’ve got a simple formula for you: sustainable business practices + reporting = continued improvement and growth = better business and a better world. How do I know? For more than 20 years I taught college students about accounting. That changed in 2001, under the guidance of an inspirational...