Social Responsibility
Social Responsibility
A comprehensive and practical guide to responsible business ecology. This Elmwood Institute handbook shows how to conduct an ecological audit (as opposed to the current practice of compliance auditing), which is a...
Every product has a hidden backstory of impacts caused by its manufacturing, transport, ingredients, or use. However, customers today have no information to compare products according to their ecological effects. In...
The world has only so much food, water, energy, and precious metals to meet the needs of its growing population. In Earth Wars, Geoff Hiscock outlines the struggle for resources as the world’s...
Benjamin Franklin advocated living with frugality, inventiveness, and diplomacy. In Doing More with Less, Bruce Piasecki suggests that the solution to many social and business problems lies in those...
The moment we all open our eyes in the morning, the decision process begins, and continues to happen all throughout our day until we fall asleep at the end of it...
Tim Irwin’s Derailed focuses on how a lack of key character qualities can cause a leader to go off track. To make his case, Irwin profiles six very public leadership demises: Bob Nardelli of Home Depot, Carly Fiorina...
Modern corporations face unprecedented challenges to remaining profitable, including demanding market conditions, constant public scrutiny via today’s technology, and increased awareness of environmental consequences...
Creative Capitalism focuses on the possibility of expanding capitalism into new areas and using it to solve problems that were previously assigned to charity or to government. In January 2008, Bill Gates gave a speech...
Five hundred years before the Christian Era, teacher and consultant, Aristotle, offered practical guidance that is just as applicable to thoughtful people in today's post-9/11 era as it was to the leaders of ancient...











