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04-04-12
Meeting Higher MPG Standard Likely To Bring Higher Profits For All Automakers, nearly $2.5 Billion In Extra Profits For Detroit Three
Automakers will likely make billions more dollars in profits - under proposed new national gas mileage and emissions standards that will be finalized later this summer. A new report - produced by Citi Investment Research ...
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04-03-12
Major Investors and Companies Tackle Climate Change and Sustainability
Don’t let the weak economy and election-year rhetoric fool you: companies and investors across the United States and around the world are tackling climate change and other environmental challenges head-on—and are finding it profitable to do so. They are investing in solutions, deploying new techn...
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04-02-12
How Businesses Can Co-Create a Greener Economy - Advice from Alisa Gravitz of Green America
Green America believes the economy will be 20% green by 2020. But given that it’s less than 5% green now, there are still many ways the green economy can grow.
That’s why the people of Green America, like Alisa Gravitz, executive director of Green America and
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03-27-12
FedEx wins Boston College 2012 Corporate Citizenship Film Festival
The Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship announced the winner of the 2012 Corporate Citizenship Film Festival Monday night. While only one entry can take top honors, the field of 67 entries offered evidence that many companies have discovered how they can successfully use video as a co...
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03-26-12
Curtain Rises In Phoenix On 2012 International Corporate Citizenship Conference
The largest-ever International Corporate Citizenship Conference opened in Phoenix as Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship Executive Director Katherine V. Smith welcomed a fittingly energetic crowd of 550 professionals to the Valley of the Sun.
Smith thanked convening sponsor Ari...
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03-22-12
SVN Launches Story Initiative
The Social Venture Network (SVN) is partnering with Axiom News to launch a stakeholder news program that engages and shares the stories of its members, some of the world's most innovative social entrepreneurs, impact investors and business leaders.
SVN executive director Deb Nelson says th...
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03-22-12
Office Depot Foundation Weekend In Boca V Symposium Offers 'Keys To Non-Profit Sustainability'
In a world where standing still is never an option and the only thing certain is uncertainty, non-profit organizations face huge challenges as they seek to serve their constituents and fulfill their missions. There’s barely a moment to breathe.
But for a day and a half on March 23 and 24,...
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03-22-12
First Round of Keynotes & Panelists Announced for SOCAP:Designing the Future
March 21st 2012 - SOCAP:Designing the Future, SOCAP’s 2nd European-based event to be held this year in Malmö, Sweden May 8-10, has announced it’s first round of confirmed keynotes and panelists.
In total, 100+ pioneering individuals will speak on global innovations ha...
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03-22-12
Runa Amazon Guayusa Tea: An Insider's Advice on Creating a Social Enterprise in a Developing Country
Runa Amazon Guayusa Tea Company is a thriving triple bottom line business started by entrepreneur Tyler Gage in 2008 as a way of helping Amazonian communities in Ecuador to share their rich-tasting tea (guayusa) with the global market in order to...
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03-20-12
The Premiere Event for Values-Driven Business Coming to NYC
Social Venture Network (SVN) just announced the first four of 25 inductees into the SVN Hall of Fame . Honorees will be presented with an award in a ceremony that will pay tribute to best performances in transforming the way the world does business.
Eileen Fisher, founder of EILEEN FISHER...
