Sustainable Business

Relevant Web Sites

• BALLE - Business Alliance for Local Living Economies A nascent movement who's focus is Our mission is "to create, strengthen and connect local business networks dedicated to building strong Local Living Economies."
• Brown and Williamson Files Thousands of pages of scientific studies on the addictive behavior of nicotine and other health effects of tobacco smoke from the Brown and Williamson files. Searchable and browsable.
• Business Ethics Resources on WWW - Business ethics listing Codes, courses, publications, institutes, etc.
• Business Ethics: Corporate Social Responsibility Report A magazine edited by Marjorie Kelly since 1988 now also deals with economic democracy
• Calvert - ethical funds
• CERES Home of the CERES Principles for corporate social and environmental responsibility.
• Citizens Trust From a family of mutual funds that has a Citizens Index of 300 companies; includes some research on companies and industries.
• Caux Round Table: Principles for Business
• Communications for a Sustainable Future -
• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
• Corporate Watch - Dedicated to watching transnational corporations and their impact on local communities
• Creative Investment Research - Socially responsible investment, corporate ethics, and list of women and minority owned banks
• Depaul University Institute on Professional and Business Ethics
• Equal Exchange One of the founders of the "Fair-Traded" movement that connects consumers with small producers of coffee and tea.
• Domini Social Investments - Home of the Domini Social Index
• EcoMall - Green shopping on the web
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Electronic Privacy Information Center
• EthicScan Social and environmental performance monitoring of 1500 Canadian corporations
• European Union Eco-Label Home of the EU's pioneering effort to move toward environmental production.
• Executive Paywatch Find out what kind of compensation chief exectuvie officers(CEO's) of the Fortune 500 are making.
• First Affirmative Financial Network - Ethical investment advisors
• Gaeia Independent financial adviser with a British focus, but good info and other links.
• Good Money - Great US Ethical Investment Site
• Green Seal - Environmental certification label
• GreenBiz Home a a good source of current news on green business developments, has a biweekly electronic newsletter you can subscribed to for free.
• Greenmoney Journal - A good news source for sustainable businesses
• Institute for Global Ethics - As it says
• International Society of Business, Economics and Ethics -
• Kinder, Lydenberg, Domini & Co. - Leading socially responsible investment organisation
• LENS Fund - Activist investment fund (US)
• McSpotlight - Site criticising McDonalds
• Mother Jones - Progressive magazine
• Multinational Monitor Monthly coverage of corporate responsibility and lack of.
• Net Impact: New Leaders for Better Business -
• Pax World Fund - Early ethical and socially responsible business mutual fund
• Responsible Shopper Guide to rating of products and retail using publicly available data -neat idea!!
• Solstice - Sustainability and energy efficency site
• SRInvest - Guide to Ethical Investment
• Sustainable Business Com Includes journal, forum and links
• Trillium Asset Management Formerly Franklin Research and Development an early developer of socially responsbile investment alternatives
• The Wharton Ethics Program

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