Street Party - Meet your Neighbours in your Traffic-free Street GreenXchange KissKissBankBank — Let's fund creativity together! Local Currencies: Communities Printing Own Money To Keep Cash Flowing UPDATE: USA Today's reporting on local currencies gives the impression that this is a NEW phenomenon born from the recession. Rather, many of these programs have existed for some time. The organization that runs BerkShares, told Huffington Post that it has been producing currency since 2006, well before the financial crisis dominated headlines. Ithaca Hours have been in production since 1991. Despite the fact that these currencies have existed - a point USA Today should update - there is a growing interest in currency production for communities hit by the recession. New currencies, like the Detroit Cheers are coming into play. Read the article from USA Today on local currencies. A small but growing number of cash-strapped communities are printing their own money.Borrowing from a Depression-era idea, they are aiming to help consumers make ends meet and support struggling local businesses. Do you know of other local currencies that have been circulated in response to the recession?
La Buena Empresa OuiShare - A Creative Community for the Collaborative Economy Embassy Network Guests are a cornerstone of our house and we love having new (and familiar) people stay with us. This isn’t your typical B&B – it’s more of an adopted family. We’re working on the hypothesis that density breeds ideas and collaborations, and that’s a big part of what we hope to foster here. We know and expect that guests are usually traveling for specific projects and collaborations. Similarly, residents are working on their own projects most days. But, just like staying with a friend or family mbber, it’s nice to hang out a bit, too! Events To aid in your enthusiasm, we try to keep the house lively, fun and interesting, with anything from casual chats in the evenings to movie nights, dinners, performances and salons. Projects As a community house there are also many ways you can contribute! Home
«La responsabilidad empresarial es una forma de ser y no un valor colateral». Entrevista con Josep Maria Canyelles y Albert Riera ¿Cuál es tu visión del concepto responsabilidad social corporativa? J. M. C.: Estamos ante un fenómeno que se está produciendo en algunas empresas y que tiene una historia relativamente corta, de diez o quince años. Cuando hablamos de responsabilidad social corporativa es un enfoque de gestión relativamente nuevo, en el sentido que no es un tema colateral, sino que está estrechamente vinculado a la propia estrategia de la empresa. Es una dinámica imparable y cada vez hay más empresas que se suman a ella, porque forma parte de lo que la sociedad pide y hay la expectativa de que las empresas que tienen madera de líder vayan integrando la gestión responsable. ¿La Fageda es un ejemplo de empresa responsable corporativamente? A. Recientemente habéis sido nombrados entre las cien mejores empresas del Estado en el ranking general Merco y en la posición veintidós entre las empresas más responsables. A. No hay muchas empresas como La Fageda. J. A. J. J. J. A. A. A. A. J. A.
Great! The next step is to verify your address. There was a problem connecting your Facebook account. Please sign in to Nextdoor Design District to continue. If you don't have an account, sign up. Nextdoor The private social network for neighbors in Design District. San Francisco, CA Map data ©2014 Google Terms of Use Connect your Nextdoor account Sign in to your Nextdoor account to connect it to your Facebook account. Forgot your password Don't have an account? Flag thisthese s for review Please select a reason for flagging this Destacadas | Cómo construir marcas significativas en la era de la sustentabilidad El informe estuvo basado en una investigación global que contiene la opinión de 14 mercados (Reino Unido, EE.UU., España, Alemania, Francia, Italia, India, Brasil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, México, China y Japón), 50.000 consumidores, 12 industrias y más de 300 marcas. En Argentina se relevaron 5.400 consumidores y 40 marcas durante 2011. El Informe se destaca por su enfoque ya que en lugar de medir la salud de las marcas a través de los indicadores tradicionales, tales como precio de la acción y ventas a corto plazo, analiza el impacto que las marcas tienen en la gente a nivel individual, si las personas perciben que las marcas están mejorando su calidad de vida y el sentido de bienestar, y a nivel colectivo, si las personas perciben que estas marcas están contribuyendo con las comunidades y con el planeta, de manera sustentable. En América Latina el 30% de los encuestados creen que las marcas contribuyen a su vida personal y colectiva y 53% tiene un vínculo con alguna marca. 1. 2.
mooc.org The End of Corporate Social Responsibility: Crisis and Critique: Peter Fleming: 9781849205160 Electronic Inspection Copy available for instructors here Providing a much-needed critique of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practice and scholarship, this book seeks to redress CSR advocacy, from a political and critical perspective. A strident approach backed up by extensive use of case studies presents the argument that most CSR-related activity aims to gain legitimacy from consumers and employees, and therefore furthers the exploitative and colonizing agenda of the corporation. By examining CSR in the context of the political economy of late capitalism, the book puts the emphasis back on the fact that most large corporations are fundamentally driven by profit maximization, making CSR initiatives merely another means to this end. As CSR gathers momentum in management practice and scholarship, students in the fields of CSR, business ethics, and strategy, will find this text a useful companion to counter received wisdom in this area.
ii. Foreword by Charles Eisenstein | The Moneyless Manifesto FOREWORD by Charles Eisenstein Going into my first conversation with Mark Boyle a year ago, I was feeling a little bit defensive. “He probably thinks he is better than the rest of us,” I thought. When we actually began talking, though, I found Mark to be free of sanctimoniousness or self-congratulation. One contribution of this book is to open that path to others. While we might for very good reasons choose to use money, we may not actually have to. Here, then, is another illusion: we cannot actually achieve independence via money. Mark Boyle offers us one way to do this. None of this means that living moneyless is the only way to enter the spirit of the gift. What about the collective level? That is why I believe Mark’s work has a significance beyond merely describing a more joyful, connected way of living. Charles Eisenstein August 2012, author of Sacred Economics – Money, Gift & Society in the Age of Transition
Bart Houlahan, de B Lab: Cómo estimular la responsabilidad social en las empresas Bart Houlahan, de B Lab: Cómo estimular la responsabilidad social en las empresas AND 1, empresa de calzados y vestuario deportivo que Bart Houlahan ayudó a gestionar durante los años 90, fue, en muchos sentidos, una compañía socialmente responsable antes de que el concepto adquiriera popularidad. "No teníamos ese objetivo en mente", dijo Houlahan durante una reciente charla sobre Impacto Social en Wharton. "Nuestros clientes no estaban preocupados por eso. A fin de cuentas, eran jóvenes de 18 años interesados sólo en las zapatillas de baloncesto que vendíamos". La empresa, sin embargo, tenía tasas elevadas de retención de trabajadores, dijo Houlahan, tal vez porque a los empleados de AND 1, con sede en Paoli, Pensilvania, les gustaba ir a trabajar a diario y se les trataba bien. Extrabajador de un banco de inversiones, Houlahan se incorporó a AND 1 a principios de los años 90, el segundo año de funcionamiento de la empresa. Houlahan estuvo en contacto directo con los desafíos en AND 1.