Now You Can Hire an Advertising Agency to Spread Your Social Responsibility Messages
I have been a journalist for virtually all my working life, except when I took up residence at the J. Walter Thompson Company from 1963 through 1967, then the largest and one of the oldest advertising agencies in the land. I didn’t write […]
I spent my summer vacation being educated and inspired on an eye-opening trip through the Honduran rainforest as a new board member of the EcoLogic Development Fund.* EcoLogic is a U.S.-based nonprofit dedicated to community-led sustainable development that strengthens the conservation of rural Latin American’s unique and threatened biological diversity. (Some readers may recognize the […]
What Fair Trade Means for Alejandro and Elida Maldonado
This summer I had the honor and the privilege to live for several days with Alejandro and Élida Maldonado, who own a small coffee farm in northern Peru. I saw first hand how fair trade is improving their lives, and those of 25 other families in the […]
“FOODFIGHT: The Citizen’s Guide to a Food and Farm Bill” by Daniel Imhoff.
Who Says We Have Made No Progress?
My Vegginator’s a BABE
Bill McKibben’s new book, Deep Economy, may be a landmark publication like Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, published in 1962. Carson’s revelation of the lethal effects of the pesticide DDT ignited public concerns about degradation of the environment at the hands of a mindless industrial economy. Carson died, tragically, of breast cancer in 1964 but […]
Planning for “Enough”
That business activity is conditioned by social norms has been recognized by the strongest promoters of the free market system, from Adam Smith to Milton Friedman. Over 35 years ago, Friedman stated that a corporate executive has direct responsibility to the owners of the business, “while conforming to the basic rules of the society, […]
Media reform is essentially the watershed issue that affects everything from the environment to the quality of our electoral process
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