May 8
I have a new idea to finance sustainability: a futures market trading the value of the life of Bangladeshi textile workers.
”Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as
to conceive how others can be in want.”
Jonathan Swift
A Bangladeshi Low-Income Workers Exchange (BLIWEx) makes a whole lot of sense. The idea is to Read more
I struggled today as I put on my jeans. All I could think of was the 300 workers who died in a Karachi textile factory two weeks ago.
Separated by distance and culture, sometimes it’s hard to feel for the nameless poor that make our clothes, our electronics, our food. But this morning, I could not help but imagine their names, their hopes, how they lived, the faces of their children and of their families.
Their deaths were as tragic as they were avoidable. The owners of the factory have fled in shame and fear, but left behind over $5 million in bank accounts. It makes me cry to think of what small portion of this Read more
Intangible, immaterial, illusory, abstract, illusive, chimerical… words used to describe CSR’s contribution to corporate profitability and value (or at least the contribution of non- Big Four – water, carbon, material use, and energy – related contributions).
Cynics can use whatever term they want (and be wrong) and the proof is in the pudding which got demonstrably thicker this past week when the Walt Disney Company announced plans to license a Mickey Mouse logo for food products meeting nutritional criteria with healthy levels of calories, saturated fat, sodium and sugar.
Nothing against Bugs or Phineas, but who the heck Read more
CSR Americas – 21 de Mayo de 2012
Apoyar a mi staff a organizar el stand para su montaje en la conferencia de CSR Américas 2012, la más grande convención de RSE en América Latina, siempre es una experiencia excepcional. La convención crea un marco ideal para percibir la pasión de diversos ejecutivos que buscan soluciones a sus problemas de RSE, el interés de funcionarios de gobierno en aprovechar el poder del sector empresarial para el bienestar de los ciudadanos, el ánimo de los estudiantes para explorar como pueden contribuir a una vida y un mundo sustentable, o Read more
At a conference of 600 people or so, your incoming intelligence is limited by the number and type of people you meet. And who you meet is pretty much limited to luck, or as my wife would say the synchronicity of fate.
Here just a sample of things and thoughts fate brought my way today at CSR in the Americas. Read more
Marc de Sousa Shields is Managing Partner of ES Global, a sustainable business consultancy with 14 years working in over 60 countries (www.esglobal.com). With over 25 years of CSR, social investment, and social impact work, Marc de Sousa-Shields brings to CSR Counts his experience working with over 100 clients, in more than 30 countries on five continents, assisting CSR work that has benefited over 2 million people.
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