CSR

CSR stands for corporate social responsibility. Proper CSR is a conscious attempt by corporations to act ethically. CSR has also become a marketing advantage. Businesses can promote their ethical approach to employees, the environment, human rights, fair trade, honest marketing, ethical selling, community involvement, and policy transparency.

CSR might also be abused by enacting ethical policies without actual intention for the sake of liability, marketing, or to appear within compliance. A notable example of this is Enron’s seventy-five page code of ethics.

Evidence indicates that consumers are willing to pay more for items and services believed to be ethically produced. One study even indicates that consumers punish unethical business. There are many blogs that discuss various aspects of CSR.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “CSR”

• Transurban Reduces Energy Use by 3%

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 621
  Transurban, a toll road owner-operator with assets and projects in Australia and North America, reduced its energy consumption at its head office in Melbourne by installing energy-saving systems for office lighting, according to the company’s Sustainability Report 2009. Lighting accounts for about 20 percent of ...
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• Environment Top Issue Consumers Want From New Media Communications

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 621
  About 26 percent of consumers list the environment as a corporate responsibility issue they want businesses to address through new media, according to the 2009 Cone Consumer New Media Study (registration required).That puts the environment narrowly ahead of health and wellness (24 percent) and ethics (20 percent).When ...
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• Can Windows 7 make PCs green?

  
  Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News — Authority: 440
  http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2009/08 On Autust 14, 2009 Todd Bishop wrote in his blog One study estimated that changes in Windows Vista — mostly changes in the operating system’s “sleep” mode — could benefit the environment in the U.S. as much as taking 380,000 cars off the road. ... The next version ...
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• The Role of R&D and Technology Diffusion in Climate Change Mitigation: New Perspectives Using the Witch Model

  
  Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News — Authority: 440
  http://www.feem.it/Feem/Pub/Publications/WPapers/WP2009-014.htm Summary: This paper uses the WITCH model, a computable general equilibrium model with endogenous technological change, to explore the impact of various climate policies on energy technology choices and the costs of stabilising greenhouse gas ...
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• Secrets About Giving

  
  Memmis.com News Agency — Authority: 159
  The secret to get what you want is revealed. Simply by giving. The reasons are explained using the classic philosophical question: "Which comes first, the chicken or the egg?" The chicken and the egg, which forms the circle of life, serves as a profound analogy to giving and getting what we want: the circle of joy. ...
  17 hours ago

• PepsiCo to Reduce Water, Energy Use 20% by 2015

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 621
  PepsiCo has saved more than 750,000 megawatt hours of energy and more than 7.5 billion liters of water as a result of gains in energy and water efficiency compared to the 2006 baseline, according to the company’s 2008 Corporate Citizenship Report (PDF).The food and beverage company is committed to cutting ...
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• Top 5 Reasons to Like Rickshaw Bagworks

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 629
  Mark Dwight, former CEO of Timbuk2, has taken his vision of sustainability and experience in messenger bag industry and spun it into San Francisco’s newest bag company- Rickshaw Bagworks.  Rickshaw is a relatively new company, and operates out of a two year old factory situated in San Francisco’s Dogpatch ...
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• Hotels: What’s Keeping You From Going Green?

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 629
  By Jeff Slye, Chief Evolution Officer Business Evolution ConsultingI have two questions I’d like to pose to the hospitality industry, particularly to the hotels, hotel management companies, and investors that do not have a sustainability or green platform for their property or properties:1) What data or additional ...
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• Cartier goes for the gold

  
  Marc Gunther — Authority: 465
  All too often, behind the glitter of gold are ugly environmental and social costs: Unregulated mines creating toxic wastes, child laborers working under grim conditions, rivers and bays polluted with waste. Sales of diamonds, meanwhile, have been used to finance wars in Africa. Under pressure, the jewelry industry has ...
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• Which renewable energy policy is a venture capitalists best friend? Empirical evidence from a survey of international cleantech investors

  
  Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News — Authority: 440
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2009.06.071 Abstract: Governments around the world have adopted ambitious targets to increase the share of renewable energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. They pursue a variety of policy approaches to achieve these targets. It has been a popular theme for contributions in ...
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• Liberty Mutual’s 10 St. James Avenue, Boston Building Receives LEED Silver Certificate for Existing Buildings Operations and Maintenance

  
  Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News — Authority: 440
  http://www.libertymutualgroup.com On November 05, 2009 Liberty Mutual Group, announced that its 10 St. James Avenue building, a 585,000 square foot Class A office building located in Boston’s Back Bay, has been awarded LEED Silver Certification for Existing Buildings Operations and Maintenance (LEED EB O&M) by ...
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• Happymaking for 200 kids

  
  Happymaking — Authority: 103
  Three years ago I went to Valea Plopului and met the 200 lonely kids. I said to myself that others should hear about them also so I made this web page: www.valeaplopului.com . You can find there all the details. Ever since I visited them and tried to help them out :-) I think about 2 months ago I made them a ...
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• Izmir Metro buys Chinese trains

  
  MINING.com News — Authority: 171
  Railway Gazette reported that Mayor of Izmir Aziz Kocaolu and CSR Zhuzhou VP Mr Fu Jianguo signed CNY 350 million contracts on October 28th 2009 covering the supply of 8, 4 car trainsets for the Izmir metro. The vehicles will be used on the citys
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• Report: U.S. Risks Falling Behind Other Nations in Financing Clean Technologies: New Green America/Clean Edge Report Analyzes Five Most Promising Financing Models To Put U.S. Back In the Lead Globally on Clean Tech

  
  Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News — Authority: 440
  http://www.cleanedge.com/reports/reports-financemodels.php Although significant clean-tech investments are being made in America, the United States risks losing ground to other nations -- such as China and South Korea -- that are pursuing aggressive clean-tech growth initiatives, according to a report being released ...
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• Green Buildings Continue Impressive Growth, New Market Study Finds

  
  Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News — Authority: 440
  http://www.GreenerBuildings.com/impact2009 Green building activity has sustained impressive growth during 2009, amid a brutal construction market that has decimated other segments of the construction marketplace, according to the 2009 Green Building Market & Impact Report published on November 5, 2009 by ...
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• The 2010 International Corporate Citizenship Conference: Have you saved your seat at the table?

  
  Governance Focus — Authority: 148
  When: April 11-13, 2010 Where: Boston, MA, USA Has your company made a place at the table for corporate citizenship? During these turbulent times, more companies are discovering the financial and reputational advantages that come with a solid commitment to corporate citizenship. Don’t fall behind as competitors ...
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• 60 Minutes, Conflict Gold from the DRC, and Jewelers Of America Panic Letter

  
  Fair Trade Jewelry — Authority: 110
  ~ Opinion by Marc ChoytThe latest public relations crisis in the jewelry world is an upcoming segment on 60 Minutes on the “conflict gold”, funding wars in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The images, according to Jewelers of America (JA), are “harrowing” JA wrote a letter to its members and other ...
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• New on Twitter: Corporate Social Responsibility News

  
  BusinessWired - Business Wire Blog — Authority: 118
  You may have noticed a new addition to the “Follow Us on Twitter” box over at the right:  @BWCSRNews.  Anna-Christina Cabrales, our Global Disclosure & Financial Reporting specialist, will be tweeting the latest in Corporate Social Responsibility news from Business Wire as well as links to other CSR-related ...
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• Fuel-Smart Driving Tools Help Fleets Reduce Cost and Emissions Driver best practices and trainings available online at no cost

  
  Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News — Authority: 440
  http://www.edf.org/pressrelease.cfm?ContentID=10486 As the GreenFleet Conference 2009 kicks off this morning in Chicago, fleet managers have access to comprehensive online tools and materials to help them cut costs and emissions. Available at http://edf.org/greenfleet , the tools unveiled on October 19, 2009 by ...
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• Why Social Media Is Vital to Corporate Social Responsibility

  
  Mashable! — Authority: 886
  Melissa Jun Rowley is a freelance entertainment correspondent for CNN, a writer for Causecast, and producer for “That Morning Show” on E! Entertainment. She is @MelissaRowley on Twitter and blogs at melissajunrowley.com . A cultural and corporate shift is taking place in the world. The result of things like ...
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