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EcoGEOS > October 31, 2009

Sovereign Funds To Boost Ethical Investing | VCCircle

[VCCircle Feeds] And greater involvement of sovereign wealth funds (SWFs), who already own nearly 10 percent of global stock markets, might create a virtuous cycle for the SRI industry, boosting performance and encouraging other investors to follow suit.

MacroScope » Blog Archive » SWFs and ethical investing: serving ...

[MacroScope] Sovereign wealth funds, eager to be accepted in the West, are increasingly interested in showing the world that they care about environment and governance by investing in socially responsible firms.

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October 31, 2009

Sovereign Funds To Boost Ethical Investing | VCCircle

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MacroScope » Blog Archive » SWFs and ethical investing: serving ...

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October 28, 2009

Citizenship, State and Community in Lebanon : Reflections from the ...

[Centre Tricontinental - CETRI] The identity of the individual as a citizen conflates with his ”˜social identity’, namely his community’s identity in the case of Lebanon, and the sociological ”˜social organization’, community, he belongs to. The connection, or disconnection, of the social self with citizen behavior is the outcome of the relationship between the ”˜self’ and the ”˜social environment’ [6] and the relationship between the ”˜communal self’ and the community at large, whereas every human being strives to enhance and protect the identity that they associate with.

Posted at 02:05 PM

Action Figure Insider - Best Toy News on the Web! Mattel Releases ...

[Action Figure Insider - Best Toy News on the Web!] The report also includes highlights of how Mattel’s philanthropy programs, including the Mattel Children’s Foundation, product donations and volunteer experiences, impacted the lives of children around the world. Mattel donated 2 percent of pretax profits in cash and in-kind product donations to charitable activities.

Posted at 02:03 PM

October 24, 2009

Rhizome | RSA Arts and Ecology Centre: Ecological Innovation.

[Rhizome.org Announcements] As part of Culture|Futures - a series of events that spans discussions at COP 15 - RSA Arts and Ecology is inviting international partners from the arts and beyond to describe a ”˜cultural offer for an ecological age’. To inform that enquiry, we will discuss case studies that offer cultural value within a wider sustainability agenda, and seek to identify key policy areas and lines of collaboration.

Posted at 09:04 AM

Gaian Economics: Ecological One-Upmanship

[Gaian Economics] Ecological citizenship suggests that strict policy-making might militate against our best environmental behaviour. Two Swiss academics analysed a mass of international research into the effect of compensating people financially for acts .

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October 21, 2009

ACT Greens » Blog Archive » MEDIA RELEASE | Ethical Investment ...

[ACT Greens] “This trust brings together two of my passions Ethical investment and energy efficient buildings. By choosing investments that are consistent with our ethical as well as our financial goals it is possible to make a competitive financial return while doing good for the world,” Ms Le Couteur said today.

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Cultural Offering.com: Ethical investment

[Cultural Offering.com] Technorati. Add to Technorati Favorites. Cultural Offering.com: Ethical investment. Ethical investment. Posted by Cultural Offering at 10/6/2009 8:57 PM Categories: Food,Environmentalism,Global Warming. "When Nobel Peace Prize winner ...

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October 17, 2009

sterlingknightconsultants.com | Performance of Socially ...

[sterlingknightconsultants.com] Socially responsible investing (SRI) spans a wide and growing range of products and investments, from stocks and bonds, to savings, checking and other banking accounts, to venture capital. Like all investors, socially responsible .

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Surge in Socially Responsible Investing Builds Business Case for ...

[SustainGenuityâ™] I have been following SRI for about forty years and believe that when we invest in a company, or many companies in the case of a mutual fund, we share in the responsibility for the activities of those companies as well as participate in the outcomes of their corporate activities. So, anyone valuing their personal or spiritual growth has to take these things into account when investing.

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October 14, 2009

Be a part of the conversation - how is social media changing the ...

[Social Signal: Latest Blog Posts] In a series of sessions comprised of journalists, academics, artists and activists, this conference - one in a series of events sponsored by the SFU Institute for the Humanities as part of its Imagining Citizenship initiative - features four interactive sessions to explore aspects of new relations between witnessing, social justice and citizenship.

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Corporate social responsibility awards « Blog Archive « Boston ...

[Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship Blog] Chris Jarvis: The “Mapping Success in Employee Volunteering: The Drivers of Effectiveness for Employee Volunteering... Larissa: Hello, I am a graduate of the BCCCC Corporate Citizenship program.

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October 10, 2009

Ethical Food and Beverage, Personal Care and Household Products in ...

[Bharat Book Bureau - one stop shop for business information] Table 4-7: Top 10 Marketers of Natural/Organic Personal Care Products by Retail Sales and Percent Share of Total Retail Sales, 2006 vs. 2008 (in millions of dollars)

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Certified Ethical Hacker: Not Your Everyday Job - The Community's ...

[LinuxSecurity.com - Latest News] Certified Ethical Hackers are paid by companies and government agencies to test their computer systems against the sort of attacks the bad guys often attempt to pull off. Computer infrastructure has become the foundation of businesses, governments, and militaries across the globe.

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October 07, 2009

Join the Campaign for Responsible Investor Enfranchisement (CRIE ...

[Social Business Blog] Most of the ethical fund managers I know are uniquely well-suited to undertake this role. On frequent occasions I have been told that this is what they seek to do.

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Two-thirds of charity advisers now asking the ethical question ...

[Ethical Pulse] Latest research from the EIRIS Foundation Charity Project and the Charity Finance Directors Group (CFDG) finds that 87% of UK charities with an ethical investment policy said that their financial adviser has asked them about incorporating ethical issues within their investments. However, for those charities without an ethical investment policy, only 43% of charities said their adviser has asked about ethical investment.

Posted at 02:02 PM

EcoGEOS > October 31, 2009

Sovereign Funds To Boost Ethical Investing | VCCircle

MacroScope » Blog Archive » SWFs and ethical investing: serving ...

October 31, 2009

Sovereign Funds To Boost Ethical Investing | VCCircle

MacroScope » Blog Archive » SWFs and ethical investing: serving ...

October 28, 2009

Citizenship, State and Community in Lebanon : Reflections from the ...

Action Figure Insider - Best Toy News on the Web! Mattel Releases ...

October 24, 2009

Rhizome | RSA Arts and Ecology Centre: Ecological Innovation.

Gaian Economics: Ecological One-Upmanship

October 21, 2009

ACT Greens » Blog Archive » MEDIA RELEASE | Ethical Investment ...

Cultural Offering.com: Ethical investment

October 17, 2009

sterlingknightconsultants.com | Performance of Socially ...

Surge in Socially Responsible Investing Builds Business Case for ...

October 14, 2009

Be a part of the conversation - how is social media changing the ...

Corporate social responsibility awards « Blog Archive « Boston ...

October 10, 2009

Ethical Food and Beverage, Personal Care and Household Products in ...

Certified Ethical Hacker: Not Your Everyday Job - The Community's ...

October 07, 2009

Join the Campaign for Responsible Investor Enfranchisement (CRIE ...

Two-thirds of charity advisers now asking the ethical question ...

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