EcoGEOS > March 31, 2010
The Acacia Group - Socially Responsible Leadership: To Develop ...
[The Acacia Group - Socially Responsible Leadership] The Acacia Group's socially responsible leadership experiences are premised on taking advantage of the bright light that shines on our values and assumptions when we enter a community that is culturally different than our own.
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Apr 5: Green Leaders Forum #3: Low-Carbon Communities ...
[greenz] The Green Leaders Forum @ British Council is a free monthly learning and networking event for leading thinkers and practitioners from business, NGOs and government, as well as entrepreneurs, media, students, and those with a general interest in the fields of sustainability, cleantech, the environment and society, energy and climate change, corporate social responsibility (CSR), socially responsible investment (SRI), and environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG).
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March 31, 2010
The Acacia Group - Socially Responsible Leadership: To Develop ...
[The Acacia Group - Socially Responsible Leadership] The Acacia Group's socially responsible leadership experiences are premised on taking advantage of the bright light that shines on our values and assumptions when we enter a community that is culturally different than our own.
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Apr 5: Green Leaders Forum #3: Low-Carbon Communities ...
[greenz] The Green Leaders Forum @ British Council is a free monthly learning and networking event for leading thinkers and practitioners from business, NGOs and government, as well as entrepreneurs, media, students, and those with a general interest in the fields of sustainability, cleantech, the environment and society, energy and climate change, corporate social responsibility (CSR), socially responsible investment (SRI), and environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG).
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March 27, 2010
Kent News - Ethical investment plea rejected by County Hall
[Kos RSS Feed] Kent News reports KENT NEWS; An appeal to put pressure on companies involved in the controversial exploitation of 'oil sands' has been rejected by the body overseeing Kent's pension fund.
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Ethical funds feel investment surge | 24/7 Online shopping
[24/7 Online shopping] Lisa Bachelor reports The global banking crisis, coupled with an increased awareness of issues such as climate change, has seen a surge in money being poured into ethical funds in the past few months. The Investment Management Association reckons investors put £62.2m into ethical funds in the fourth …
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March 24, 2010
Effects of Bad Corporate Social Responsibility: Aftermath of a ...
[Suite101: Social Corporate Responsibility Articles] ExxonMobil paid $4.84 billion in cleanup costs, fines, punitive damages and interest for the flagrant bad CSR act in the Exxon Valdez ethics scandal that dumped 11 million gallons of crude oil into Prince William Sound, damaging wildlife and the fishing industry.
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Social Security and Citizenship for Adoptive Parents
[Born in Our Hearts] No matter when you obtain your child's social security card, you still have to pay the SS office another visit to change your child's citizenship status, and that will necessitate you getting your hands on the Certificate of Citizenship or a U.S. Passport for your child. Once you have that, you MUST go back to social security with the proof of citizenship to change your child's status in their computer system.
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March 20, 2010
Consumer 101 Ethical Investment
[AfricaHolidays] Quakers in the 18th century used to take a stand against the slave trade refusing to invest money in any business related. More recently, it has been used to attack apartheid in South Africa in the State of California withdrawing 50 billion dollars from the campaign.
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Ethical investments could increase 1000% this year
[Finance Markets: Finance News | UK Personal Financial News & Daily Finance Market News] Ethical investments currently have a 1% share of the ISA market, but The Co-operative predicts that this could increase thirteen-fold later this year as savers use their increased ISA allowance for more eco-friendly investments.
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March 17, 2010
Active Citizenship Fund and Social Enterprise Fund | Hands on ...
[Hands on Handsworth] A key aspiration of the Be Birmingham partnership is for local people to value one another and be able to play an active part in their communities. Strong social capital in neighbourhoods helps to improve that quality of life of citizens by forming bonds between neighbours, families, individuals, and communities.
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Mobile Phones and Community Development: A Contact Zone Between ...
[MobileActive.org - A global network of people using mobile technology for social impact.] The specific focus is the use of mobile phones in community development, with examples including the Grameenphone, agriculture and markets, the Filipino diasporic community, HIV/AIDS healthcare, and mobile phones in activism and as media. It is argued that mobile phones form a contact zone between traditional concepts of community and citizen media, on the one hand, and emerging movements in citizenship, democracy, governance, and development, on the other hand.
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March 13, 2010
Forty Shades of Green - Investing in Ethical Funds | Drigged.com
[Drigged.com] Seventy per cent of people in Great Britain consider their outlook and lifestyle to be green and ethical, and half of people with savings and investments would like to make a difference with their money, according to the UK sustainable .
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Socially Responsible Investing
[Target 2025] A socially responsible investor might shy away from a company that produces guns, alcohol or tobacco products for example. But since it was first re-introduced back in the eighties - a Methodist minister gave the first socially responsible investment speech back in 1708 about how his parishioners should use, or should say not use, their money, it has become quite a bit more. But the basis of what socially responsible is still, all these years removed, don’t invest in sinful companies.
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March 10, 2010
Network for Sustainable Financial Markets » NSFM participant Matt ...
[Network for Sustainable Financial Markets] Mercer’s responsible investment (RI) team is seeking to hire an Associate or Senior Associate to evaluate investment managers of alternative thematic investment products and contribute to RI client projects. The successful candidate will be expected to lead research across alternative investment strategies, with a special focus on thematic funds including (but not limited to) cleantech, microfinance, sustainable forestry, carbon trading, social infrastructure and sustainable property.
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Socially Responsible Investment and an Improving Market
[Fiscal Fizzle] One of the reasons that I wrote Socially Responsible Investing for Dummies is that people need to take charge of their own finances, but some people seem afraid to in part because they think it’s immoral or something. We have a lot of conflicts about money and wealth in our culture, and few people want to think that they are getting rich while making the world worse!
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March 06, 2010
Matthew Yglesias » A Better Poverty Measure
[Matthew Yglesias] So was T.H Marshall, whose definition accepts that, while there are national variations in living standards, that there is a common standard of how people should live relative to others in their society – note that his definition also includes “a modicum of social and economic security”
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Debate on dual citizenship for exiles | Nehanda Radio
[Nehanda Radio] Protagonists of dual citizenship on the other hand point that dual citizenship jeopardise national security and sovereignty. According to a report by the Australian Parliament on the advantages and disadvantages of dual citizenship, opponents of dual citizenship argue that “a person should be totally committed in a legal and emotional sense to one country”
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