‘The Blog’
News and articles picked or written by our executive director and others; humor, opinion, anecdotes and the truly unconventional.
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Glimpses of sane economics
Guest blog by Brian Landever, member of the Ethical Markets Reseach Sustainability Group, March 16, 2010 Is it clear what the problem is with unregulated capitalism? It boils down to undignified suffering and destruction of communities. (more...)
Measuring What Matters at the CSIN 2010 Conference in Toronto: Why Sustainability Counts
by Timothy Jack Nash - March 10, 2010 Imagine a world where everyone is healthy and wealthy. A world where governments set policies and regulations that promote triple-bottom line progress of economic, social, and ecological return on investment. Although idealistic, this vision of a sustainable economy is achievable. To realize it, we first [...]
Harmonic Humanity has a new idea…and it’s working
By guest blogger Joseph Jacques www.harmonichumanity.org They stand in front of the grocery store and on highway entrances. They are our nation’s homeless population. Over the last twenty years, homelessness has increased significantly in the US. On any given night, approximately 750,000 men, women, and children are homeless, many of them [...]
UN Global Compact Delists Hundreds of Companies
Rosalinda Sanquiche, Executive Director, Ethical Markets Media, February 2010 The UN Global Compact, started in 2000, is a strategic policy initiative for businesses committed to aligning their practices with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labor, environment and anti-corruption. Since its inception, the UN [...]
Behavioral Targeting Goes LOHAS??
Though we're closely following the use of neuromarketing to drive consumerism, we at Ethical Markets Media are interested in marketing of all forms. My current attention is on behavioral targeting – web-based marketing using cookies to track your actions while surfing. The sites you visit provide a snapshot of you to info-gathering [...]
How to Embed Corporate Responsibility Across Different Parts of Your Company, Ethical Corporation 2009
This report from Ethical Corporation provides specific guidance on incorporating corporate responsibility at all levels within a corporation, whether it be procurement, human resources, communications and marketing, finance and accounting, or facilities, logistics and operations. The report includes findings from in-depth interviews with senior [...]
Congressman Grayson Calls for Action
Many members of Congress are concerned about the undue influence the Supreme Court has allowed businesses to have over politcal campaigns. See Hazel Henderson's article "Supreme Court Shocker." Congressman Grayson in particular calls for action: Dear Friends, This Wednesday, January 27, at 9:30 a.m., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. [...]
Neuromarketing and Spellcasters
Tim O'Connor, co-executive director of the EthicMark®, has produced Spellcasters, a video showing how neuromarketing unethically influences consumer behavior. The video debuted this week on truthout.org and is quickly going viral! The EthicMark® was one of my earliest projects at Ethical Markets Media. Hazel Henderson began this project [...]
Sustainable production a “must” not an “option”
We at Ethical Markets get asked our opinion on lots of things all the time. Sometimes the questioner likes our response, sometimes not. Either way, it's worth the mental exercise. Here's my response to The NRF, A United Nations Sustainable Development Journal, inviting replies to the following question for the Viewpoints section of the February [...]
