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Just when you thought, oh, the well is capped and Tony Hayward’s gone, maybe we can get back to normal—comes this little bit of news, courtesy of my colleague Chris MacDonald, a business ethics guy in Canada: BP faked a photo of its Houston command center to make it look busier and more determined than [...]
All deep-sea offshore drilling needs to be shut down until the appropriate safety measures are in place so that Deepwater Horizon is not repeated. It’s a lot harder to put the genie back in the bottle than to keep it in to begin with.
Tags: bp·deep sea oil drilling·deepwater horizon·energy policy·fossil fuels·nuclear power
By Alexis Bonari [Editor's note: Yes, this is fairly elementary—but it's nice to be reminded of the basics once in a while. If this topic interests you and you want more depth, I recommend Stephen M.R. Covey's Speed of Trust as well as my own Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green: Winning Strategies to Improve Your Profits [...]
Tags: Business Ethics·trust
I just did, and I hope you will too. http://www.standfordemocracy.org/ratify/?r_by=21779-1224363-q_0LmAx And while “you’re in the zone,” If you haven’t yet signed the Business Ethics Pledge, you may do so at http://business-ethics-pledge.org.
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What about a tougher case? Suppose someone has been involved with the sustainability initiatives over at BP (a company that actually at one point was fairly well regarded by mainstream environmentalists)? Some kind of arbitration system will be needed to determine who qualifies and who does not. Any ideas for how to set that up?
Tags: bp·Business Ethics·halliburton·International Association of Earth-Conscious Marketers·labor conditions·Matthew Ammirati·walmart
Membership in the International Association of Eco-Conscious Marketers will not be open to anyone who claims to be Green. To provide value in the membership, members need to pass both accomplishment-based standards (employment, education/training, and/or volunteer work) and behavioral screens. We’ll talk about accomplishments today, and screens tomorrow
Here are some I’m thinking about:
Tags: green marketers association·International Association of Earth-Conscious Marketers·membership standards
Worldwide, SRI now accounts for 1 of every 9 dollars invested. However, even though Africa was a pioneer in this field (not just with the Sullivan Principles but also the Johannesburg Stock Exchange’s first-in-the-world SRI index), it has lagged—but rapid growth appears to be imminent.
Tags: arbenz coup guatemala·cia·Mossadeq coup iran·ron robins·socially responsible investing·sri·sullivan principles
My friend Paul Krupin of Direct Contact PR sent me this memo from the Deepwater Horizon recovery team. Even if the Gulf of Mexico weren’t drowning in BP’s oil–a situation in which you’d expect the form letters would at least act grateful for the advice–this is one of the worst examples of corporate messaging I’ve [...]
Tags: bp company memo·Carl-Henric Svanberg·deepwater horizon·gulf oil spill·Tony Hayward
Recent stories in the New York Times make it clear that Attorney General Eric Holder should be “sharpening his saw” (as Abraham Lincoln said). BP deliberately chose to use a high-risk sealing method in the days before the blast, and ignored warnings that things were going deeply awry, the paper reports.
Tags: atorney general eric holder·bp oil spill·criminal negligence·disaster warnings
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Name: Shel Horowitz
Location: Hadley, Massachusetts, United States |
A blog about business ethics from Shel Horowitz, expert on Green principles and business ethics as success drivers. This blog covers the intersections of ethics, politics, media, marketing, and sustainability.
About Shel: Copywriter, marketing and publishing consultant, speaker, and award-winning author of seven books. The three most recent are Principled Profit: Marketing That Puts People First, Grassroots Marketing for Authors and Publishers, and Grassroots Marketing: Getting Noticed in a Noisy world.
Shel specializes in affordable, ethical, and effective marketing for authors, publishers, small businesses, nonprofits, and community groups.
He's currently engaged in a campaign to get 25,000 people to sign--and spread--the Business Ethics Pledge: www.business-ethics-pledge.org
Wall Street Reform + Oil Cap + Gay Marriage
July 16th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Business Ethics, Democracy, Energy & Sustainability, General Commentary, media-general, Politics, Protests and Crackdowns, Social and Economic Justice, Socially Responsible Investing
Rarely do I open up my morning paper and see even one positive story among the day’s major news. Today—though I already knew about two of them from other sources—there were three: 1. The Wall Street Reform Bill has passed both houses of Congress. Is it everything I want? Of course not. Is it more [...]
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Tags: Argentina Gay Marriage·deepwater horizon·news stories·Oil Cap·Wall Street Reform