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Dissecting Marlboro College's MBA in Managing for Sustainability - A blog by Aman Singh
Blog from 3BL Blogs
Here In Good Company we have been busy keeping up with all the business schools who have recently been adding sustainability and CSR course content to their curricula. Whether that's MIT's Sloan School of Business, the recent announcement by University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business on the revamp of their MBA curriculum or Marlboro College Graduate School.The rationale for …
15 Small Business Tips to Going Green
Blog from Taiga Company
Integrating sustainability concepts into core business functions makes companies more nimble in a fast-changing world. It also makes a business’s brands more attractive to consumers and retailers, and its management more respected by employees, regulators and the financial markets. In short, the drivers for improved business sustainability equate to cost savings and improved …
Lessons For Recruiting Top Talent (Hint: Don't Pay Them)
Blog from Korngold Consulting LLC
If you think it’s difficult getting the very most desirable candidates to join your team when you’re going to pay them, imagine convincing top talent to join your nonprofit board of directors when you’re going to ask them to give you money, fundraise from their company and friends, and give you expert guidance.There are lessons to be learned from the experiences of …
Green shoots take root in the US
Press Release from Acre
(3BLMedia/theCSRfeed) May 11, 2010 - In a year which has seen some difficult economic challenges for many businesses, one positive story of growth through the recession is that of specialist green recruitment company Acre, proving that green shoots are taking root in the US job market. One year after opening their US office, Acre is already seeing a rise in the number …

How to Help? Host a Boom-A-Que
Blog from Greenopolis
Don't throw your old nylons away. . .host or donate to a Boom-A-Que. Boom-A-Ques are popping up in New Orleans and surrounding areas thanks to Daisye, spa director at the Ritz Carlton downtown.She has started her own Boom-A-Que operation at the spa and suggests you start one too. Daisye and her team are asking for donations of nylons, old mink coats, hair (pet hair, people hair and any type of …
Dancing Our Way to a More Sustainable World: DanceGiving by Bpeace
Blog from Taiga Company
Drop the disco balls! Bring on the magic lights! Pump up the volume! Are you ready to break out into a master groove to help a worthy cause? Well, now is your chance! If you are in the New York area on May 12th, Bpeace is celebrating its annual DanceGiving FUNraising event. DanceGiving is a culmination of a year of fundraising by the Bpeace …
7 DIY Recycled Birdhouses and Feeders You can Build this Spring
Blog from Greenopolis
OK, it’s late spring, the bugs are back. In force. But it’s only a matter of a few weeks before the baby birds, bats and dragonflies come out and start snacking them back down to a reasonable level. I love to attract and keep birds around on my rural Massachusetts homestead by building feeders and houses for them. I mostly cobble mine together out of scrap wood. 4 sides, a bottom, …
Can Trash Contain The Gulf Oil Leak?
Blog from Greenopolis
Icy slush stalled BP’s attempt Saturday to contain the massive gulf oil spill. But BP officials, along with the U.S. Coast Guard engineers, have devised a new plan...to stuff the oil pipe with trash in an effort to clog it.Called a “junk shot”, shredded tires, golf balls and other trash would be forced into the exploded pipe under very high pressure in an effort to stop the …
Power of the Hour: Transforming Inspiration into Action
Summary from The Conference Board Of Canada
The Challenges of Intercultural Leadership
Blog from The Acacia Group
Cross-cultural, multicultural, intercultural...these terms are often used interchangeably yet have finely nuanced distinctions. For a leader, the cross cultural context means literally crossing cultures to do business, provide service, or vacation in another culture. Multicultural refers to multiple cultures existing in a geographic place or organization, each separate and …
GRI announces launch of Food Processing Sector Supplement and NGO Sector Supplement
Press Release from GRI
(3BLMedia/theCSRfeed) Amsterdam - 11 May 2010 - The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) - provider of the world’s most widely-used sustainability reporting guidance - announces the launch of the Food Processing Sector Supplement and NGO Sector Supplement during the Amsterdam Global Conference on Sustainability and Transparency, 26 - 28 May 2010. The new Sector Supplements will enable food …
Plastic by the Numbers: What to Choose, What to Lose
Blog from Greenopolis
With oil still gushing into the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the tiny firestorm that erupted around Greenopolis’ partnership with PepsiCo to recapture bottles and cans, and some of the pushback on my recent blog How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Plastic, I thought I’d bring a little data on plastics to the conversation.First of all, two-thirds of all the …