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Writer critiques business ethics, socially responsible investing, and green brand marketing.
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Jon Entine Online: Jon writes on ethics, business, genetics, science and politics, the media, Jewish issues, and sports. Entine is available for speaking engagements on a variety of topics including Media Bias and Ethics, Brand Marketing and Business Ethics, the Politics of Science, Genetics and Human Engineering, and Sports and Race. Find out more Jon Entine was fantastic!...Commentary critical of social investment movement and those attempting to watchdog industry.
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Corporate Ethics and Accountability I was attending a conference on social investing in Boston this spring when a spirited debate erupted over lunch. It was about what constitutes a socially responsible business, not a topic expected to get ones blood boiling. But this day,...Article exposes claims by green energy businesses.
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Solar Utilities Network Greenwashing We assumed all along that deregulation was another name for help the rich enrich themselves and of course, we were right. In California, where the abuses started first, the clarion call of guaranteed 10% rate reductions was enough to obscure...Is Social Responsibility Possible? Brief paper argues ways that it can be.
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Entine prefaced the discussion with his view that the narrow, value-driven social agendas pushed by some so-called socially responsible companies should not be the yardstick by which other company's ethical and moral actions are judged. He feels that the recent...Article describes the fallout from and responses to an Oct. 15 report from the Natural Capital Institute (NCI) in San Francisco that harshly criticizes the socially responsible investing industry.
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Has social investing lost its way csmonitor.com Chinese decry toxic coverup 11/28/05 Outsourcing moves closer to home 11/28/05 Old ice gives new clues to climate change Special Projects Ethical Investing from the November 15, 2004 edition Has social investing lost its way? By G. Jeffrey MacDonald Correspondent...