by Jeffrey Hollender | Apr 12, 2012
Guest Blog Post by Santiago Halty, Founder of SENDA ATHLETICS, Berkeley, CA How it all got started Soccer is king in Argentina, where I grew up. As a kid, there wasn’t a time when I didn’t want to play. But soccer, for me, was more than a game. It was a way to...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Apr 10, 2012
In 2010, 2.3 million jobs in the United States were associated with the production of green goods and services, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports in its just released report on “EMPLOYMENT IN GREEN GOODS AND SERVICES – 2010.” What defines Green Goods and...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Apr 4, 2012
The answer: By avoiding tax payments and cutting its US workforce! No corporation has surpassed General Electric’s mastery of profit-maximization, or its use of public-relations (“corporate propaganda”) to mask its true aims behind the widely-supported...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Apr 2, 2012
Powerful news: A recent study proves that sustainable banks deliver higher financial returns than some of the world’s largest financial institutions. A study commissioned by the Global Alliance for Banking on Values (GABV), compared the performance of 17 values-based...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Mar 30, 2012
Guest Blog Post by Jason Aramburu, founder of re:char, based in Western Kenya Earth’s population is growing exponentially towards 9 billion people by 2050. While our carbon emissions increase daily, our ability to grow our own food does not. The FAO estimates that 925...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Mar 27, 2012
Out of the The New York Times unfolds a story that once again highlights the absence of morality and fair play that has come to represent the company we know as Goldman Sachs. Goldman’s own employee’s in Japan workers are unionizing. In the wake of 200,000 financial...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Mar 23, 2012
Over the course of the past decade, the movements focused on corporate social responsibility, sustainability, social innovation, cause-related marketing, micro-lending, buy-local, Fair Trade, impact investing and social entrepreneurship have grown at an astounding...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Mar 20, 2012
GoodGuide’s staff of 25—including chemists, toxicologists, nutritionists, sociologists, lifecycle-assessment experts, computer scientists, and business and marketing experts—have rated more than 120,000 food, personal-care, and household-chemical products, as well as...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Mar 16, 2012
Guess which country I’m describing? This country has: • the highest poverty rate, both generally and for children; • the greatest inequality of incomes; • the lowest social mobility; • the lowest score on the UN’s index of “material well-being of children”; • the...
