Interview with Rinaldo
Editors | Jan/Feb 2009 issue Rinaldo Brutoco is the founder and director of The World Business Academy in Ojai, California. Through lectures and publications, the Academy works to promote a shift in mentality among business leaders toward corporate responsibility and values-driven leadership. Here Read More...
Built to last
Cement is a basic building block of economic growth. Its manufacture also produces twice as many CO2 emissions as aviation. How Bertrand Collomb and industry giant Lafarge are laying the foundations for sustainable cement. Peter Van Dijk | October 2008 issue Homes, offices, schools, hospitals, Read More...
Fixing the free market
How co-ops—businesses in which the employees are also the owners of the company—merge economic growth with social goals. Steven van Yoder | October 2010 issue In Quezon City, a new approach to funding funerals is just one way the Inner City Development Cooperative is bringing fresh life to Read More...
Silent spring, again
Speaking up to protect the voices of the wilderness. Amy Domini | July 2008 issue Silence can be a source of healing, a refuge from the stress of modern life, a pathway to enlightenment. Or it can have a more sinister meaning. In 1962, Rachel Carson, an accomplished biologist and popular writer, Read More...
The gospel according to Adam Smith
Is doing good compatible with making money? It is if you practise spiritual capitalism. Carleen Hawn| June 2008 issue Art DeLorenzo and I were having a hard time connecting. He’s a 67-year-old retired financial adviser in the New York City area whose budding consulting practice keeps him from Read More...
Not the same old drive-thru
The meat is raised naturally; the packaging is recycled; the ovens use renewable power. New green fast-food chains are serving up burgers and fries to feel good about. Mary Desmond Pinkowish| April 2008 issue It's really cold and windy in Manhattan. The Friday lunch crowds scurry in and out of Read More...
Thinking allowed
The Hub wants to be the social innovator with a centre everywhere and circumference nowhere. Lillian Kennett| March 2008 issue One morning last December, Briony Greenhill gleefully brandished five copies of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest—Christmas presents for her family. Read More...
Blue sky thinking
Peter Barnes' Sky Trust would make companies pay for permission to pollute - and then give the money back to us. Janet Paskin| Jan/Feb 2008 issue In 1985, Peter Barnes dreamed up a unique way to change the world. He started a long-distance telephone service that pledged to donate a fraction of Read More...
Think outside the bank
How peer-to-peer lending helps entrepreneurs - and helps lenders make a difference. Janet Paskin | December 2007 issue For the first few months, Renaud Laplanche financed his software company with credit cards. Then he looked at the statements. “It’s painful when you realize you’re paying 18 Read More...
School for social change
At a pioneering academy in Johannesburg, underprivileged Africans are learning to become entrepreneurs. Fred De Vries | October 2007 issue Behind the public library, at the corner of Commissioner and Sauer streets, the problems of Johannesburg—and other cities on the African continent—are Read More...