Do All The Good You Can
Doing good has become good for business. And its time that the laggards took notice. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) isn’t enough anymore. Socially Responsible Corporations (SRC) is the new CSR. Smart companies are shifting to SRC and building sustainability into the very core of their business models. Because when they [...]
Who Benefits from the Various ‘Wars’?
P.R. experts are skilled at framing policy debates in favorable though misleading ways like the “war on terror” or the “war on drugs.” What gets shielded by this packaging are the unstated goals, interests and outcomes that would draw popular opposition if known.
Clinging to Mass Violence
Is the human race determined to snuff itself out through mass violence? There are many signs that it is. The most glaring indication lies in the continued popularity of war. Despite well over a hundred million deaths in World Wars I and II, plus the brutal military conflicts in Korea, [...]
“Can we shop to end poverty?”
The digital world makes it easier for us to do good through everyday actions, but often these acts, done without real engagement, feed our egos more than they solve the real struggle of feeding the poor. That's the argument made in a video by GlobalPov, an University of California-Berkeley project [...]
The Moral Imperative of Activism
Today’s crises – endless war, environmental catastrophe, desperate poverty and more – can seem so daunting that they paralyze action rather than inspire activism. But the imperative to do something in the face of injustice defines one’s moral place in the universe.
Shortsighted Thinking on Israeli Settlements
On Monday [12 Aug 2013], Israel released a list of 26 Palestinian prisoners to be released Tuesday. A few hours before that it published bids for the construction of more than 1,000 housing units in West Bank settlements — a move to mollify right-wingers who oppose the prisoner release. This [...]