CSR News
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07-30-08
The Aspen Institute Issues Report on Ethical Globalization in Business and MBA Education
NEW YORK,NY. - July 30, 2008 - The Center for Business Education at the Aspen Institute today released a white paper on how the topic of ethical globalization is currently being considered in both business education and practice.
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07-30-08
New BSR Report Outlines Lessons on Building Supply Chain Capacity for CSR
SAN FRANCISCO,CA. - July 30, 2008 - While many companies concerned about corporate social responsibility (CSR) issues in their supply chain tend to focus on monitoring factory conditions, a new report by Business for Social Respon...
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07-29-08
Americans Willing to Pay More for Eco-Friendly Products
New York,NY - July 29, 2008 - Many Americans, including those who are enduring financial hardship, are willing to pay more for environmentally friendly products, according to a survey conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Media and the Yale School of Forestry & Env...
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07-29-08
Kyoto Planet Capital Partners Invests in SustainPro Conference Adding Momentum to #1 Sustainable Corporate Operations Event and Online Community
(July 29, 2008, Vancouver BC, Canada & Edison, NJ, USA) Eco-conscious financial services and media company Kyoto Planet Group announces that it has invested in SUPR Show LLC, producer of the SustainPro Conference and operator of SustainPro.com, the world's largest corpor...
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07-29-08
Grameen Foundation, Bakrie Telecom and Qualcomm Join Efforts to Enable Affordable Telecommunications Access to Rural Indonesia
NUSA DUA, BALI - July 29, 2008 - Grameen Foundation, Bakrie Telecom and Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM) through its Wireless Reach(TM) initiative, today announced the launch of the first Village Phone Program in Indonesia, branded as Uber ESIA, using 3G CDMA technology ...
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07-29-08
Innovest Introduces IVA Rating for Virgin Media
- July 29, 2008 - CSRwire: Innovest Strategic Value Advisors has introduced its Intangible Value Assessment of Virgin Media based on the company's relative performance of social, environmental, and strategic governance (ESG) issues relative to sector peers.
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07-29-08
Burt’s Bees Sets Aggressive Greenhouse Gas Reduction Goal
Burt's Bees today announced its goal to reduce its U.S. Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions by 35 percent per dollar sales from 2006 to 2011. Last fall, Burt's Bees joined the US EPA's Climate Leaders program and has spent the last six months working with US EPA to learn the form...
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07-29-08
Standards Committee Selected to Drive National Sustainable Agriculture Standard Forward
Madison, WI - July 29, 2008 - Following a 15-month public outreach period to inform stakeholders and interested parties about the opportunity to participate in the development process of the Sustainable Agriculture Practice Standard for Food, Fiber and Biofuel Crop Producers...
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07-28-08
Strategic Sustainability Consulting Announces New Green Auditor Certification Course
Bethesda, MD - July 28, 2008 - Strategic Sustainability Consulting (SSC) is pleased to announce a new program designed to train and certify environmentally-focused consultants in SSC's own Green Audit methodology.
"We've been providing SSC Gre...
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07-28-08
VolunteerMatch Teams Up with Corporation for National and Community Service to Promote U.S. Volunteering Trends
July 28, 2008 - In an innovative partnership that brings together the nation's leading volunteer matching Web service and the most comprehensive research on U.S. volunteering ever assembled, VolunteerMatch today launched a promotion with the Corporation for National and Comm...
