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Eurosif’s 2012 Procurement Report: What Investors Must Know About Sustainability Supply Chains
By: Aman Singh Post: 2012-04-12
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Who’s Afraid of Europe’s Human-Rights Court?
At a time when Europe's ongoing debt crisis is fracturing public faith in the continent’s political and economic institutions, European leaders should strengthen as many unifying symbols as they can. Instead, they have allowed one of the jewels of European integration – the European Court of Human R...
Don’t Follow America on Health Care
With the US Supreme Court set to begin considering the Affordable Care Act (the massive health-care reform derided by opponents as “Obamacare”), it is worth noting that the number of Americans without health insurance reached an all-time high in 2010, the year the law was enacted. Whatever the Court...
“Terrorists” at Home
America's new National Defense Authorization Act, also known as the “Homeland Battlefield Bill,” to detain anyone, including Americans, indefinitely, without charge or trial, anywhere at any time, forever. Many fear, with some justification, that the NDAA will be used to stifle journalists, publishe...
Weigh More Pay More
Obesity is an ethical issue, because an increase in weight by some imposes costs on others. That is why obese people should be subject to transport surcharges, and why foods that make people fat should be subject to higher taxes. We are getting fatter. In Australia, the United States, and many othe...
Living Wage and Voluntary CSR: Still an Oxymoron
After decades of evolution, CSR remains a useless societal instrument to make business responsible for the impact of its economic activity on its sphere of influence. A myriad of norms, standards, guidelines and codes have been introduced and yet, little has changed. Corporations are still free to ...
Workplace Giving, Beyond The Numbers
There’s nothing like a competitive, achievement-oriented culture to get results. The trick: to make sure you’re aiming for the right results and measuring the right metrics the right way. For the past three years, Wells Fargo’s workplace giving campaign has been the biggest in the country according ...
Bad Apple Sweatshops & Twitter Censorship
For those of us who have been working in corporate social responsibility (CSR) for years: Now is our moment. Apple’s supplier woes have put the social impacts of business onto every media outlet from the Daily Show...
US: Top 5 Most Stressful Country
Unrest over income inequality and financial corruption occupies emotional space, not just urban space. Economic imbalances are unacceptable in part because they release toxic levels of insecurity into society. The evidence is clear: out of 145 countries, the U.S. ranks in the “top” five in measurabl...
The Ethics of Job Creation and Automation
In the U.S., conceptual and political confusion over the issue of jobs was evidenced by wide disparities in claims over job creation, for example in the XL Pipeline case. Many politicians still claim that "the government can't create jobs; only the private sector creates jobs."
Retail Workers On The Cheap
The National Retail Association had its annual Big Showlast week in New York. Last year’s event saw 22,000 attendees, and from the crowds streaming around me through the giant halls and corridors this year...
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