CSR Blogs

CSR Blogs
Justmeans | Newsroom

If only sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) were simple and easy to execute. On the contrary, their very complexity is shifting and shaping the current and global professional landscape. And with these changes come a host of new questions, a bevy of new challenges, countless creative successes, and even more demoralizing failures as businesses, nonprofits, governments, and individuals attempt to embrace sustainability and CSR on both the professional and personal levels.

In this everchanging space, Justmeans Staff writers use their knowledge and expertise to bring you the leading stories and facts to help readers stay current on all these issues. As the business world continues to grapple with sustainability and CSR, Justmeans will continue to write about it.

Content from this campaign

Public Eye 'Awards' Companies That Go Against the Grain of Sustainability and Social Responsibility
The Public Eye Awards, a Berne Declaration and Greenpeace Switzerland initiative to shame the worst cases of contempt for the environment and social responsibility, is on again. The event is scheduled to coincide with the World Economic Forum in Darvos, Switzerland, later...
Jan 19, 2012 4:32 PM ET
Social Design: An Integral Part of Social Enterprise
Social design focuses on achieving a social outcome of a design process. It can involve a design of products that benefit a large number of people, such as a low-cost water purifier for people without any access to potable water. It can involve a design of services such as more inclusive financial services, and processes such as a more participatory decision making process in an...
Jan 17, 2012 4:01 PM ET
Rio+20 or Bust: Zero Draft of Outcome Document for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development Released
The United Nations has released the long-awaited "zero draft" of outcomes for the parties to negotiate at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD). To be held in Rio de Janeiro from June 20-22, UNCSD is also known as "...
Jan 16, 2012 5:22 PM ET
Social Enterprise Promoting Health and Nutrition for Kids
Helping Unite Mankind and Nutrition (HUMAN) is an innovative social enterprise based out of California that has come out with a unique way to fight childhood obesity. Andy Mackensen, the co-founder of HUMAN Healthy Vending and a self-described social entrepreneur, has a clear focus that the problem of obesity can be rooted out when children are kept away from obesity. HUMAN has...
Jan 10, 2012 11:41 AM ET
A Bright Idea for a Sustainable World
There are around 1.5 billion people across the globe without proper access to electricity. With those people in mind, New York-based Studio Kalkwijk has created WakaWaka Shine Bright, a solar-powered LED light designed to replace kerosene lamps. These can be unsafe, damaging to health and a source of greenhouse...
Jan 9, 2012 1:02 PM ET

Pages