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[The Responsibility Project ”” Blog] Blog: Beyond a Bottom Line | The Responsibility Project by Liberty ...: According to last year's study by Kelly Services Inc., acting in a socially and environmentally responsible manner is what it takes to gain top talent. Nearly 90 percent of respondents said they are more likely to work for an organization perceived as ethically and socially responsible.

[Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit] Op Ed: Eliminate the Competition? | Triple Pundit: People, Planet ...: My friend and CEO of a popular CSR social networking site shared his strategic initiative clearly to me: “I don’t care about the movement, I just want to make a boat load of money.” Another friend and CEO of a popular green business site advocates for ”˜invite only’ and ”˜exclusive’ meetings, “they’re more profitable and everybody wants to be special”, he said. Sounds like the same old same old”¦to me.

[GreenBiz.com Green and Sustainable Business News] What Makes a Firm a Good Bet for Socially Responsible Investors ...: Adam Kanzer: Domini has consistently excluded BP from our portfolios because of our concerns about their safety record. Our initial review followed the Texas City explosion in 2005, but our decision was quickly reinforced by the Prudhoe Bay spill the following year.

[Gambling Companies] Gambling Companies | Socially Responsible Investing: Our Money and ...: SRI picked up momentum in the 1980's when CalPERS (California Public Employees Retirement System) and several large endowment funds decided to protest apartheid by withdrawing investments from companies doing business in South Africa. The idea spread to mutual funds that chose not to invest in companies participating in activities at odds with social or environmental values.

[Stock Newsletters] OTCPicks.com Daily Market Movers Digest Midday Report f - Friday ...: Urban Ag`s goal is to promote the sustainable consumption of natural resources through clean technologies, to demonstrate environmentally and socially responsible business practices and to provide good jobs to empower a diverse community-based workforce while at the same time creating shareholder value. Urban Ag`s farming activities will offer consumers a healthy, local, sustainable, eco-friendly alternative to large-scale industrial farming, which is highly dependent upon the use of agricultural fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides that may be harmful to consumers and both the agricultural products themselves and also the environment in which they are grown.

[MasterResource] BP Fools the “Socially Responsible” Investors ('Green' Enron did ...: MMA Praxis Mutual Funds held BP in its International Fund as of June 30, and in a review last month decided not to exclude the stock from its investment universe. (It isn’t clear how many socially responsible funds held BP as of April 20, since mutual funds are required to disclose holdings only on a quarterly basis.)

[think-tank.ie] People ignore design that ignores people | think-tank.ie: It should be viewed instead as a fundamental business discipline that can create fanatical customers and fat, healthy margins - while at the same time being sustainable and socially responsible. In an Irish context design seems to be considered a luxury, rather than a fundamental and it's often challenging to convince clients that good design should be viewed as an investment and not a cost.

[Insight] WSJ Takes on CSR, But Who Are They Talking About? The Problem of ...: In addition, excellent corporate social responsibility programs anticipate regulation in tracking mounting government and stakeholder concerns and responding to them. The best CSR champions in the corporate world leave their competition in the dust when new rules take effect, because they already have superior solutions to minimize risk and maximize shareholder value.

[In Good Company: Vault's CSR Blog] Why There Is a Case for Corporate Social Responsibility and ...: Korngold disagrees: "In the past decade, we are seeing more and more examples of companies that are increasing their profitability by establishing and implementing policies that protect the environment, human rights and worker safety, and provide healthcare and literacy education for employees and their children."

[Portfolioist.com] “Wall Street” The Sequel: What's Changed? « Portfolioist.com: Below hear from corporate governance and movie expert Nell Minow,  New York Times blogger and financial advisor Carl Richards, and socially-responsible investor Paul Herman on the movie’s impact and lessons.

[GreenBiz.com Green and Sustainable Business News] Social Funds and BP: How Embarrassing! | Business | GreenBiz.com: When Cary Krosinsky, an editor of a book called "Sustainable Investing: The Art of Long Term Performance," tallied up the holdings of about 350 socially responsible investment (SRI) funds from around the world, he found that at the end .Bennett Freeman, senior vice president for sustainability research and policy at Calvert, says that BP under its former CEO, Sir John Browne, in the late 1990s and early 2000s, was a pioneer in its approach to corporate responsibility.

[GalacticMessages.com] Life changes when it is not about the money | GalacticMessages.com: In describing what led him to pursue the Slow Money project, Woody Tasch, reflecting on so-called socially responsible investing, said (paraphrasing): “It’s not enough to pull a couple of troublesome items out of your investment portfolio and go on about your day.” This reminded me of a simple axiom I first heard from noted Marxist geographer and political theorist, David Harvey.

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