Monthly Archives: October 2009
TOMS shoes walks the CSR walk
We’ve written many times in this space about the need to link corporate social responsibility (CSR) with business objectives and vice versa. Now there is an interesting little (not so little anymore, really) shoe company that is moving CSR to a new and exciting level. Instead of making CSR an important part of its business …
Hootsuite adds simplicity to Twitter, Social Media management
As Twitter evolves to become less of an exercise in personal vanity (users posting endless drivel about their personal lives) and more of a communications tool (users communicating and sharing information others might not otherwise encounter), the tools to manage one’s Twitter presence continue to evolve. The standard Twitter interface just doesn’t cut it. In …
The Food Waste Dilemma
Discarding food waste in your trash is illegal in San Francisco, where the city’s new food composting law is now in effect. The law requires residents to discard food waste in a separate bin. I’m in San Francisco this week for the annual Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) conference. Local feedback on this law is …
Economic downturn hindering sustainability? Not this time
Conventional wisdom long has held that economic slowdowns put responsibility initiatives of all kinds on the corporate “back burner.” Not the case anymore, according to Jim Davis, senior vice president and chief marketing officer for business analytics and software giant SAS. Davis recently made some interesting observations regarding what he calls the two “legs” of …
Who's the greenest: country mouse or city mouse?
It’s easy to stand on a busy corner in Manhattan and think about how life is cleaner and greener out in the country. But is it really? A new book by David Owen answers the question with an unqualified NO! I was driving home from a meeting last week when I heard part of an …