Sustainability

During the last two decades of the 20th century, societies around the world have made a bet on free markets and the corporation. The communist nations of Eastern Europe dismantled their state-controlled economies. China integrated private ownership into its industries...

SAN FRANCISCO - "Economic hit men," John Perkins writes in his controversial new book, "are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extorti...

According to an article in the Telegraph on 27 January entitled, "Shoppers push 'do -gooding' issues down priority list" a study by Millward Brown, has been released claiming that consumers largely ignore corporate "do-gooding" when deciding what to buy. Business in ...

BUFFALO - KeyBank Western New York District President Marsha Henderson is one of 47 top "Women of Initiative," according to international publication, Profiles in Diversity Journal. Henderson currently appears in a four-page leadership pictorial in the magazine's thir...

What does spirituality have to do with business? According to co-authors and Wall Street veterans Peter Ressler and Monika Mitchell Ressler plenty. In Spiritual Capitalism: What the FDNY Taught Wall Street About Money, Monika Ressler states that "In business, w...

NEW YORK, NY - New Mountain Media, LLC, a New York-based distributor of media content and programming, announced today that it had purchased Business Ethics magazine from Mavis Publications, Inc., and plans to revamp the premier publication, which covers the su...

New York - Global opinion leaders'* trust in established institutions (business, government, media) and figures of authority (CEOs, heads of state) is being supplanted by a personal web of trust that includes "colleagues," "friends and family," "a person like yourself...

HERNDON, VA - Humane Farm Animal Care (HFAC) endorses the formation of an Animal Compassion Foundation by Whole Foods Markets, a national grocery retailer as "further proof that humane treatment of farm animals is an emerging consumer issue," said Adele Douglass, exec...

PARIS - Novethic, a subsidiary of the Caisse des dépôts (CDC), is a resource center for socially responsible investment. Below, Novethic presents the highlights of the SRI* investment market in France for 2004: net change in SRI assets under management, num...

Austin, Texas - Whole Foods Market®, the world's leading natural and organic foods supermarket, today announced Anne Malleau will serve as executive director of the new Animal Compassion Foundation. To help meat producers achieve a higher standard of animal welfare ex...