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TURKEY: Fethullah Gulen profile - International Herald Tribune
His life-work -- the creation of a network, first of private schools and residences, then of universities, media outlets and civil society groups as centres of excellence promoting a mode...
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http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/18/europe/19oxan-Turkishpreacherprofile.php
Top MBAs: "Want More Values, Will Work for Less" | Sustainable Life Media
The study of 759 graduating MBAs at 11 top business schools, conducted by Stanford Graduate School of Business and UC Santa Barbara, found respondents ranked a company's ethical conduct n...
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http://www.sustainablelifemedia.com/content/story/strategy/top_mbas_want_more_values_will_wo...
Fair Trade, Organic and Eco-friendly Shopping - Ethical Superstore UK
Offers eco-friendly shopping products such as ethical gifts, green gadgets, fair trade and organic groceries from Ethical Superstore UK
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http://www.ethicalsuperstore.com
Employees: Your Most Important Stakeholders | Sustainable Life Media
Attracting the best people is only getting tougher and, increasingly, top talent demands that employers demonstrate a solid commitment to corporate responsibility.
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http://www.sustainablelifemedia.com/content/feature/strategy/employees_your_most_important_s...
Valuing Nature
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http://www.valuingnature.org
WorldChanging: The Problem with Big Green
To create lasting change, groups working for environmental change should be targeting the intrinsic set of values that motivates the public, rather than tantalizing their extrinsic desires.
2008, article, behavioral, committed, crompton, ethical, evidence-based, green, painless, psychological, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008144.html
Walmart shift to green and ethical gold, silver and wood
The US retailer has committed to ‘phasing out illegal and unwanted wood sources from its supply chain.’
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http://www.greenbang.com/3730/walmart-shift-to-green-and-ethical-gold-silver-and-wood
Drew Westen: The Psychological Dynamics of the 2008 Primaries: Who's Where and Why?
Policies and plans should be indicators or examples of what candidates care about, which tell voters whether they share their values and would approach the nation's problems in sensible w...
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/drew-westen/the-psychological-dynamic_b_100136.html
Orange Hues
Manu Sharma, New Delhi, India. Orange Hues blog is where my current occupation in renewable energy, my former occupation in user experience design, my longtime interest in business innova...
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http://orangehues.com/blog
Do Female Business Managers Make Greener Decisions Than Men? | Sustainable Life Media
The study, by market research firm GCR Insight, found that female decision-makers consistently make greener choices on the job.
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http://www.sustainablelifemedia.com/content/story/strategy/do_female_business_managers_make_...
Fighting Eco Fatigue – Green Companies Need to Take The Lead : Ecopreneurist
[Consumers do not like to be put in a position where it’s hard to generate those good feelings. In some ways, that’s where we are today. Years of creating a disposable, feel-good soci...
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http://ecopreneurist.com/2008/07/19/fighting-eco-fatigue-green-companies-need-to-take-the-lead
CSR reporting made easy | Greenbang
Greenbang was a little impressed to see a recent release from Clownfish which, the PR department says, is the “first online tool that enables companies to understand and dynamically rep...
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http://www.greenbang.com/3815/csr-reporting-made-easy
- Prometheus: How much influence should a ‘mega-foundation’ have? Archives
Is it possible for a single foundation to drive research and programmatic agendas? If so, how much control/influence should a foundation have?
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http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/archives/author_cherney_d/001467how_much_influe...
Amazon.com: Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win: William C. Taylor, Polly G. Labarre: Books
Fast Company cofounder William C. Taylor and Polly LaBarre, a longtime editor at the magazine, give you an inside look at the "most original minds in business" wherever they find them: fr...
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http://www.amazon.com/Mavericks-Work-Original-Minds-Business/dp/0060779616
Ode Magazine : In praise of unreasonable people
They are unreasonable because they want to change the system, because they are insanely ambitious, because they aren’t guided by reason but emotion, because they think they know what th...
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http://www.odemagazine.com/doc/51/in-praise-of-unreasonable-people
Business.view | Unreasonable people power | Economist.com
[Perhaps in the future] the term social entrepreneur, whatever it means, will no longer be necessary—but its disappearance from the dictionary will symbolise its triumph. Is that such a...
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http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10555875
What is the DNA of the Green Corporation? - Harvard Business Online's Leading Green
The same principles of management are necessary to make companies green as those that we’ve been discussing at the edge: democratization, openness, transparency, love, and a fierce embr...
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http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/leadinggreen/2008/06/the-dna-of-the-green-corporati.html
Stanford Social Innovation Review : Articles : Reimagining Microfinance (June 8, 2008)
A new vision of microfinance as a platform, not a product; one that relies on high volumes, not high margins, and that uses limits on private benefit, holistic performance standards, and ...
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http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/reimagining_microfinance
FT.com / Wealth - Investments in people
As models such as venture philanthropy, microfinance and social entrepreneurship are embraced by non-profit organisations, and corporations start to focus on social issues, the barriers b...
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/771993f0-3423-11dd-869b-0000779fd2ac,dwp_uuid=d8e9ac2a-30dc-11da-a...
7 Questions for OsoEco | Max Gladwell
The value of our social shopping and research site is our community’s influence, as well as our ability to deliver relevant content and marketing messages to citizens based on their int...
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http://www.maxgladwell.com/2008/06/7-questions-for-osoeco-founders
Oxytocin: the direct route to altruism? « BRAINETHICS
The administration of oxytocin affected subjects’ in a trust game. In particular, it was found that subjects that received oxytocin were not affected by information about co-players tha...
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http://brainethics.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/oxytocin-the-direct-route-to-altruism
Remake a Living: Hire definition | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist
It seems like everyone is planning a "green jobs" study -- but each will provide a much-needed service. These studies are helping employers, policymakers, and educators sort out hype from...
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http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/2/19/155825/434
WorldChanging: Tokyo's Climate Change Leadership
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG) is tackling global warming with new initiatives. These innovative and comprehensive initiatives seem to say, "Municipalities lead Japan!"
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http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008007.html
Tokyo's "Just Do It" Leadership on Climate Change - Harvard Business Online's Leading Green
Governor of Tokyo, Shintaro Ishihara, is tired of waiting around for his national leaders to act, so he's implementing an aggressive greenhouse emissions reduction program for his own "de...
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http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/leadinggreen/2008/06/tokyos-just-do-it-leadership-o.html
Persuasive 2008
Persuasive Technology 2008 will gather people interested in how software and related technologies influence people's attitudes and behaviours.
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http://www.persuasive2008.org
Smári McCarthy`s blagoblag on Yaxic.org :: Building a post-scarcity society in a patent-and-copyright-encumbered intellectual climate
In the end, it doesn’t matter how the game has been played so far, or that it’s being played unfairly, but only that we are in the unique situation that we can change everything, fore...
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http://smari.yaxic.org/blag/2008/05/19/building-a-post-scarcity-society-in-a-patent-and-copy...
Oprah’s Top 7 Tips for Creating the Life You Want
And now all those books you bought may become more useful. Because you are no longer looking at them as a magic pills that will “fix you”. You see them as roadmaps that can guide you ...
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http://www.positivityblog.com/index.php/2008/05/24/oprahs-top-7-tips-for-creating-the-life-y...
Neuroscientifically Challenged: The Neuroscience of Distributive Justice
The imaging evidence from this study may help to explain why the debate over distributive justice has never been resolved. The concepts of equity and efficiency, and their respective valu...
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http://neuroscientificallychallenged.blogspot.com/2008/05/neuroscience-of-distributive-justi...
Conscious Capitalism: From Social Responsibility to the "Experience Economy"
As the meaning and experience-based economy evolves, “green and sustainability will no longer be an issue” says Nathan Shedroff, “in ten years it will become integrated in the econo...
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http://www.triplepundit.com/pages/conscious-capitalism-from-soci-003156.php
Irshad Manji blog and official website » home
In the best spirit of liberal education, the Moral Courage Project teaches that rights come with responsibilities, that we are citizens rather than members of mere tribes, and that meanin...
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http://www.irshadmanji.com
At One University, Tobacco Money Is a Secret - New York Times
the contract, a copy of which The New York Times obtained under the Virginia Freedom of Information law, is highly unusual and raises questions about how far universities will go in searc...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/22/us/22tobacco.html
social capital: civic community and education
Interaction enables people to build communities, to commit themselves to each other, and to knit the social fabric.
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http://www.infed.org/biblio/social_capital.htm
ClimateEthics.org » Blog Archive » The Ethical Duty to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Face of Scientific Uncertainty
Those emitting high levels of greenhouse gases cannot deny that their emissions create a significant risk to human health and the environment around the world.
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http://climateethics.org/?p=35
Web exclusive: 'The emerging moral psychology' by Dan Jones | Prospect Magazine April 2008 issue 145
Even when explicit reasons appear to have the effect of changing people’s moral opinions, the effect may have less to do with the logic of the arguments than their power to elicit the r...
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http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10126
happiness, flourishing and education - theory, practice and possibilities
If educators are to take happiness, human flourishing, seriously then there need to be some fundamental changes in the way we understand, approach and organize education.
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http://www.infed.org/biblio/happiness_and_education.htm
Basel Action Network
The world's only organization focused on confronting the global environmental injustice and economic inefficiency of toxic trade (toxic wastes, products and technologies) and its devastat...
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http://www.ban.org
Ethical Living | guardian.co.uk
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http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/ethicalliving
Carrotmob
Carrotmob organizes consumers to make purchases that give financial rewards to those companies who agree to make environmentally friendly choices.
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http://www.carrotmob.org
Does Being Ethical Pay?, By Remi Trudel and June Cotte - MIT Sloan Management Review
Companies should segment their market and make a particular effort to reach out to buyers with high ethical standards, because those are the customers who can deliver the biggest potentia...
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http://sloanreview.mit.edu/wsj/insight/brand/2008/05/12