Companies large and small are learning the importance of corporate social responsibility, or CSR. The term covers a range of behaviors and practices such as fair wages, fair trade, nondiscrimination, environmental stewardship, and contributions to the local community. While a number of companies have had these values for years, many are new to the practice -- sometimes dragged there by testy shareholders or increasingly savvy customers, who expect more from a company than simply a good product at a good price.
Companies large and small are learning the importance of corporate social responsibility, or CSR. The term covers a range of behaviors and practices such as fair wages, fair trade, nondiscrimination, environmental stewardship, and contributions to the local community. While a number of companies have had these values for years, many are new to the practice -- sometimes dragged there by testy shareholders or increasingly savvy customers, who expect more from a company than simply a good product at a good price. Larger numbers of people now believe that companies have more responsibilities than just making a profit, providing jobs, and creating goods and services. This month's ENN Special Report on CSR will help you to become an even more educated green consumer.more >>
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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY INFORMATION RESOURCES
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Web Sites
Books
Magazines & Journals
Television & Video
Blogs
Organizations
White Papers
Articles
On ENN:
Companies Reward Individuals For Taking Two Million Miles Off US Roads
Dell's National Solar Car Race Begins Today
Tom Chappell Grows Tom's of Maine Into a National Company
Georgia Power Investing $1.3 Billion in Environmental Controls, Reducing Sulfur Emissions About 50 Percent
Mainstream Chains Join Organic Revolution
Manatee Hotels, Resorts Reach Out to Environment
Business for Corporate Responsibility to 'Green' November Conference
UPS Releases Report on Sustainability Goals
Rebates Encourage Businesses to Try Alternative Sources of Energy
Office Depot and The Nature Conservancy Employ New Boreal Ecologist
C&A Floorcoverings Earns Environmentally Preferable Product Certification for Ethos Brand Carpet Backing
Market Operates in Environmentally Friendly Building
Abbott Sponsors Youth Policy Summit on Child and Adolescent Obesity and Nutrition in America
N.H. Firm Carves Niche Selling Pasteurized Chicken Manure as Organic Fertilizer
High-Tech Recycling: It's a Trashy Future
Pre-Financing Used To Make Possible The Sale Of Over 22.3 Million Pounds Of Coffee, Improve Circumstances For Small Coffee Farmers
Sales of Hybrid, Diesel Cars Projected to Soar by 2012
Elsewhere on the Web:
100 Best Corporate Citizens for 2005
Corporate Social Responsibility in Mining in Southern Africa: Fair Accountability or Just Greenwash?
Two-faced Capitalism
UN Resolution Mixes Human Rights And Business
Tree Huggers, Soy Lovers, and Profits
Warren Buffett Speaks Out
When Preaching Globalized Ethics Is Just Corporate P.R.
Taking Care of the Environment, with Fido's Help
Mixing it up: Property Developers are Responding to a Demand for Mixed-Use Projects
Corporate Social Responsibility: What's Good for the Community is Good for Business.
Do Corporations Have Social Responsibility?
When Doing the Right Thing Provides a Pay-Off
Seeing is believing: CEOs Speak Out About Their "Sustainable Livelihoods Experience"
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Radio Programs
EarthNews Radio: Recycled Glass
EarthNews Radio: GEM car
EarthNews Radio: Biotech Pharming
EarthNews Radio: Pesticide Alternatives
EarthNews Radio: Coffee Pacifica
EarthNews Radio: Seafood Guide
EarthNews Radio: Why Organic Flowers?
EarthNews Radio: People's Grocery
EarthNews Radio: Plastic Wrap Alternative
Earthwatch Radio: A Bold Plan for Energy
Earthwatch Radio: Riches and Responsibility
Earthwatch Radio: Capitalizing on Cleaning Up
Earthwatch Radio:Greener Markets
Sky Radio World Business Monitor
Natural Capitalism - A lecture by Amory Lovins (transcript)
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Helpful Web Sites
Greenbiz.com
Sustainable Marketing
Business in the Community
Small Business Journey
BSD Global
Natural Capitalism
AccountAbility: Institute of Social and Ethical Accountability
CSRwire (press releases)
World Business Council for Sustainable Development
David Grayson (CSR activist)
SocialFunds.com (socially responsible investing)
Rocky Mountain Institute
FTSE4Good Index Series (CSR market index)
Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes
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Books
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
The Natural Step for Business: Wealth, Ecology and the Evolutionary Corporation
Mid-Course Correction: Toward a Sustainable Enterprise
Walking the Talk: The Business Case for Sustainable Development
The Conscience of Capitalism: Business Social Responsibility to Communities
Social and Economic Transformation in the Digital Era
Liberating the Corporate Soul: Building a Visionary Organization
Corporate Responsibility: Private Initiatives and Public Goals
Sustainability Perspectives for Resources and Businesses
A Survey of Sustainable Development: Social and Economic Dimensions
Corporate Social Responsibility Failures in the Oil Industry
Corporate Social Responsibility : Doing the Most Good for Your Company and Your Cause
Empires of Profit : Commerce, Conquest and Corporate Responsibility
When Good Companies Do Bad Things: Responsibility and Risk in an Age of Globalization
The Planetary Bargain: Corporate Social Responsibility Matters
Harvard Business Review on Business and the Environment
Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights
Looking Good and Doing Good: Corporate Philanthropy and Corporate Power
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Magazines & Journals
Business Ethics Magazine
Ethical Performance
Harvard Business Review
Fast Company
Ethical Corporation
Corporate Knights - The Canadian Magazine for Responsible Business
Capitalism Magazine (advocates pure capitalism)
Dollars & Sense: The Magazine of Economic Justice
Green@Work Magazine
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Television & Video
CEO Exchange
Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy
Extreme Oil
Nova: World in the Balance
Wall $treet Week with Fortune
Earth Report: Hands On
BBC Business Today
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Blogs
CSR in China
The Conglomerate
Corporate Social Responsibility: A Blog by Tariq Mohammed
Ideoblog: A blog about ideas
IABC Cafe
Leadership. Now. by Don Blohowiak
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Organizations
Eldis Corporate Social Responsibility Resource Guide
UK Government Corporate Social Responsibility
mallenbaker.net
CSR Europe
Business for Social Responsibility
Corporate Social Responsibility Canada
International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility
The European Business Campaign for Corporate Social Responsibility
World Bank CSR and Sustainable Competitiveness Program
CSR Asia
Harvard Kennedy School of Government Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative
European Union Corporate Social Responsibility Guides
Center for Media & Democracy Sourcewatch
Canadian Business Corporate Social Responsibility
CSR Watch (anti-CSR organization)
The Copenhagen Center for Corporate Responsibility
United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
Centre for Social Markets
The Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston CollegeThe Committee to Encourage Corporate Philanthropy
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White Papers
Socially Responsible Investing Trends in the United States
CSR: An Issues Paper
Endpaper: Corporate Social Responsibility
An Appropriate Ethical Model for Business and a Critique of Milton Friedman's Thesis
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