The Top 10 Questions for Socially Responsible Leaders

March 16, 2007 by jameslucas.

The World is Not Enough: Calling for a More Ethical Approach to Personal Finance
With the success of the Live 8 and Make Poverty History rallies in bringing ethical awareness to world finance, the public needs to turn the spotlight onto their own personal finances to ensure real change is made.

Socially Responsible Mutual Funds
Investing can have a dark side. There are plenty of shady business ventures, which may not be legally but are definitely not moral. There are people out there who believe that to get ahead in business, investing, and life you have to do unpleasant things.

The Business of Saving the Planet
As the days are getting shorter and the downtown air has finally started to cool off, the dialogue about fighting global warming keeps heating up. All this talk is changing the way business is being done.

The Top 10 Questions for Socially Responsible Leaders
The assets of your business traditionally include property, plant, equipment, and your customer base. Progressive organizations understand that business assets also include their good reputation.

TreehuggerTV: How to Buy Green Produce
This week on TreeHuggerTV we are back in the supermarket shopping with nutriton expert Marion Nestle. You may have caught a previous THTV episode when Marion was helping us to buy green milk. This week we’re in the fruit and veg aisle and Marion is lamenting the fact that lack of labeling means we can’t tell where the apples come from. This is especially frustrating when they are out of season because we can’t tell how far round the world they’ve traveled. Come help us carry the shopping basket and learn more about the pros and cons of selecting organic fruit and vegetables in the supermarket.

TreehuggerTV: Edible Estates
How do you make your front lawn greener? Landscape with food instead. Edible Estates wants to tear out your lawn & replace it with a garden that is both beautiful and functional. What if keeping up with the Joneses meant you had a better tomato bush or a bigger plum tree? Edible Estates wants to make that happen, transforming suburbia one lawn at a time.

TreeHuggerTV: Green Alcatraz, Cool Cob and Toxic Co.
This week TreeHuggerTV brings you something dirty, something clean, and a whole lot of green in between, starting with a look at the Toxic 100 list of the largest corporate polluters. But before you jump to any quick conclusions, we’ll let you know what Toxic 100 company also made the list of Global 100 of the most Sustainable Corporations in the world. In cleaner, less confusing news — the infamous former federal prison Alcatraz gets greener, British schools move towards carbon neutrality, and kids in California celebrate cob ? reviving a traditional building technique to craft modern benches.

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