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A-Clue.com
Business journalist and author Dana Blankenhorn’s site on ecommerce
insights—but more often than not he comes up with insights
that extend well beyond this area, into policy and global justice.
Realism backed with lucid arguments
Beyond Branding
One of the 2000s’ great branding books, with a collection of
articles by members of the Medinge Group. Get a free Chapter 1 download,
or read the regularly updated blog
Brand
New Justice
review
Simon Anholt’s important brand book is reviewed here
at CAP Online
Business Ethics
Edited by Marjorie Kelly from her Minneapolis base, Business
Ethics, celebrating its 15th anniversary in 2002, is arguably
the world's best thought-out periodical on the subject
Business in the Community
A site promoting corporate social responsibility and companies that
champion it
CAP Online
JY&A Consulting's magazine on design, business and marketing, with
features from CAP magazine, plus web-exclusive articles
Code for Corporate Responsibility
(C4CR)
Introduced in Minnesota, C4CR’s mission is ‘to transform
the legal purpose of corporations to include responsibility to employees,
communities and the environment’
Corporate Accountability
Project: How the System Works (or Doesn’t Work) and What to
Do about It
A simply laid-out page on some facts about our system today—and
suggestions for solutions. Some lean toward the left more than the
others on this page, but for fairness, we feel they should be included
Corporate Babble
The site that ‘stalks the talk’, analysing the American
corporate world with irreverence and insight (recommended by Phillip
D. Johnson)
CorpWatch
Started in 1996 and formally known as CorpWatch since 2001, this
moderate San Francisco-based site aims to hold corporations accountable
through promoting grass-roots, rather than corporate-led, globalization.
A sister site is open in India
Creating the World We Want
Creating the World We Want organizes local gatherings where people
can collaborate and strengthen relationships using Open Space technology,
all with the aim of creating better communities and societies Creative Latitude
According to its site, Creative Latitude is a worldwide community
that unites creative disciplines for collective promotion, education
and ethical business practice. Which means there are interesting
features, designer profiles, resources and more, all in a very smart
package
Design for the World
(shown above)
Our sort of site. A way for designers to give back through giving
voluntary services through cooperation with humanitarian organizations
and governmental agencies. Workshops and reports on design for social
causes can be found on this site, too
Development Gateway
A complete resource on sustainable development and poverty reduction
Ethical Corporation
Started in 2002, UK-based Ethical Corporation magazine covers
issues in global corporate citizenship
Global
Reconciliation Network
A network set up to share knowledge and to reconcile political and
cultural differences Global Reporting Initiative
GRI, an official collaborating centre of the United Nations Environment
Programme (UNEP), develops sustainability reporting guidelines
The Global
Vision Project
Sponsored by half a dozen UN agencies, Global Vision is an educational
programme designed to teach others about sustainability
Group Partners
The Group Partners network not only takes on consulting projects
but has some of the most responsible dialogues going in its forum
Headshift
Livio Hughes’ new web site, working on R&D for online applications
that build value through social interaction. This could take the
form of online communication within a company, KM, social networking—in
other words, humanizing business
Human Rights Internet
Known for its databases and networking in human rights, including
the publication of the Human Rights Tribune magazine, HRI’s
site is a gateway to human rights’ resources. Though founded
in 1976, ‘Internet’ was part of its name from the beginning,
signifying its international network
Johnnie Moore
The site of John Moore, dedicated to providing authenticity in marketing.
It also features a very popular marketing blog
Journal
of Brand Management
The branding industry’s academic journal, with the latest research
and papers
NetAid
The largest global online community acting on extreme poverty worldwide,
to which JY&AC’s Paolo Vanossi belongs
No Logo
Naomi Klein’s nologo.org takes the social message in her book a step further: toward online-geared activism
Public Integration
A German company, registered in England and Wales, dealing with
the dynamic processes of CSR
Routecause
Malcolm McQuarrie, who is co-writing Routecause with Thomas
Power, previews the book at his site
The Royal Society for the Encouragement
of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA)
Programmes and lectures based around the ideas of global citizenship
and enterprise
The Simultaneous Policy
Getting countries together to work on global problems, and to stop
thinking of them as domestic ones Smart Growth Online
Smart Growth helps citizens participate in their communities using
collaboration techniques and technologies. Issues tackled include
housing, land use, open space and transportation
Society for Research and Initiatives
for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions (Sristi)
Indian NGO set up to help inventors and ecopreneurs engaged in conserving
biodiversity
TakingITGlobal
Jennifer Corriero and Mike Furdyk (19 and 21 years old) are building
a global network of youth focused on changing the world. They recently
presented at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg
and at Davos (suggested by Bill Jensen)
ValueTrue
Filling a great need, particularly in the early 2000s, ValueTrue
is about creating new standards for valuing corporations using community
standards and including intangibles
World Development Movement
WDM tackles the underlying causes of poverty—Barry Coates analyses
how GATT rules can stifle poorer nations into virtual commodity
slavery
Worldwide Democracy Network
How can we get from an unjust world to a just and stable one? The
Network links people and organizations who wish to create a new
paradigm of democracy and citizenship, using a process of mutual
learning. Check here
for the latest events
Xtramile
A Swiss label of corporate social responsibility—companies
(one per sector) that meet Xtramile’s 10 criteria pay a licence
to use its seal of approval. Licence fees go to support people in
need (recommended by Simon
Young)
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