Responsible Drinking: Organic WineIt’s Saturday morning and the last wine bottle clatters into the recycling bin. Your head is one throbbing mass and the brain inside simmers in the little liquid your body has managed to conserve. In a matter of hours you will have managed to recover slightly, but the effects of alcohol extend much further than [...]
Business and human rights – from ‘do no harm’ to promoting human rights? Do Australian businesses any longer have the choice?Corporations can lift human rights standards where these are inadequate and not in line with international expectations; or corporations can abuse them, often as an unintended side effect of operations, sometimes through negligence and in ‘worst case scenarios’, intentionally to obtain unfair advantage.
For some business executives the shift from assuming that human rights protection and [...]
Eco Fashion - part IISustainable fashion - it sounds like an oxymoron. In an industry built upon the profitability of disposability, where a style of jean has a shorter lifespan than a wedge of Pecorino cheese, how could anything be sustainable? The use of sustainable textiles (think broader than purely organic textiles) in the production of garments has a [...]
“People are universally becoming much more concerned with the honesty of the company that they’re buying the product from and the environmental impact,” says outspoken fashion designer Katherine Hamnett on the current mainstreaming of organic and sustainable clothing. (see clip here)
Hamnett, who forged an image in the 1980’s with bold protest slogan T-shirts is now [...]
I have just across an article about “Our Moral Footprint” The New York Times by Vaclav Havel, the former president of the Czech Republic.
He makes some pertinent points which have made me reflect on my moral footprint, in terms of my responsibility to leave as little of an impact on the earth as possible so [...]
This is a critical question in the current climate. Is it REALLY possible to be socially responsible and become a large and successful company at the same time? I have finally had the chance to take some time out and read a couple of very inspiring books that confirm that YES it is possible! You [...]
I recently read about Bono’s new (RED)™ campaign and thought it was worth noting and discussing on Soul Economy. The background is that Bono has teamed up with Bobby Shriver, Chairman of DATA (debt, AIDS, trade Africa) to create the (RED)™ concept and campaign. They have secured big business to participate in what they consider [...]
There is certainly increasing coverage in the media about CSR and CSR events taking place are also on the rise. So why the growing interest? What is the current status? Where to from here?
Firstly however, it is useful to define CSR. While there are many definitions available, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development is [...]
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There are 1.3 million SMEs in Australia, accounting for 96 per cent of all businesses (Sensis, Feb 2007). With SMEs playing such a prominent and important role, I was keen to find out the more about how they are giving back to the community. Much of the research focused on corporate philanthropy in the form [...]
