Editorials
Check out the donation box filled with straws. So much for seeking the public’s...
Greenwash – It’s all hogwash
By Dilaila Mohd Yunus As more and more consumers are getting increasingly concerned...
CSR and the Media
By Dilaila Mohd Yunus It goes without saying that the media plays a huge role in...
BP Only Provides What the World Demands
By Ingrid E. Newkirk BP has more than the loss of human life, livelihoods and tourism...
Oil Spills: A Threat to Business As Usual
By Abdul Rahim Bin Abdullatif, Co-Founder of Eco Leadership. US President Obama said...
Read More From This CategoryInitiatives
MasterCard and Hôtel de la Paix are teaming up again to train young rural Khmer...
MS&L Singapore, part of MS&LGroup, a leader in public relations and events...
Not sure how it works, but Bangsar Village collects food and other necessities for...
Thai luxury developer teams up with Plant A Tree Today foundation
Luxury property developer Raimon Land continues its efforts to improve the environment...
P&G announces plan to use innovative sustainable packaging
The Procter & Gamble Company today announced plans to use renewable, sustainable,...
Read More From This CategoryNews Bites
Bursa Malaysia Bhd recently organised a dialogue with industry captains to highlight...
Solid waste management company eyeing Malaysia’s main market listing
Cypark Resources Berhad, a leading service provider in environmental engineering...
As economies in the region begin to pick up, more consumers are feeling a tug at...
Malaysian logging multinational, Samling Global, has been excluded by Norway’s...
A recent audit on PT SMART Tbk, revealed the Indonesian palm oil gian had not destroyed...
Read More From This CategoryEvents
Entries for the eighth Annual Asian CSR Awards are now being accepted, with the submission...
Top Malaysian Entrepreneurs and Businesses Win Regional Awards
Enterprise Asia’s Asia Responsible Entrepreneurship Awards Programme (AREA), which...
Community engagement and social media at the Global CSR Summit 2010
The Second Annual Global CSR Summit 2010 & Awards, held in Singapore in June...
While the roots of corporate responsibility (CR) deepen globally, existing trends...
Sixth Annual Global Local Content Summit
The Global Local Content Summit is the largest and most prestigious annual gathering...
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Sick leave expected to increase during World Cup
Recruitment and Human Resources Specialist, Randstad Group, has warned employers in Malaysia to consider the impact of the World Cup on their workforce and productivity levels, especially when the nation catches football fever later this month. [Read more] Tweet This Post Plurk This Post Buzz This Post Delicious Digg This Post Facebook Reddit... [Read more]
Little-Known Approaches to Make More Economical Solar Panels
By Shannon Combs Despite the fact that silicon is the market common semiconductor in the majority of electronic units, including the solar cells that solar panels use to transform sunlight into energy, it is not really the most effective product readily available. For instance, the semiconductor gallium arsenide and similar substance semiconductors... [Read more]
Devastation In The Gulf: Learning From the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (Pt. 2)
By Nathaniel Payne (Simon Fraser University & Justmeans.com) Balancing the Risks As Asian societies develop, governmental and private sector leaders are required to make significant decisions regarding the use and pursuit of natural resources. Governments face tough decisions regarding access to resources, mimetic and normative pressures from neighboring... [Read more]
Devastation In The Gulf: Learning From the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (Pt. 1)
By Nathaniel Payne (Simon Fraser University & Justmeans.com) Over the last century, the pursuit of natural resources has brought the human race wealth, pleasure, agony, and pain. Resources provide societies with valuable raw materials, are the backbone of great empires, and agitator of great wars. Unfortunately, when one examines the history of... [Read more]
How to Apply for a Job at a Charity
We don’t need your blood type By Jason Baker, Director for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) Asia Applying for a job at a non-governmental organisation is really no different from applying at a for-profit corporation. Ten years ago, I set up PETA’s India affiliate in Mumbai, and I now serve as director of PETA Asia. Over... [Read more]
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Greening the web with Greenscroll
Webmasters and web publishers, you now have the option to go green! Greenscroll is new a nonprofit seeking to fight climate change in the real world by greening the virtual one. Its mission is to power the Internet by green renewable energy and help save the Earth. On behalf of anyone having a website, Greenscroll will pump green energy into the grid... [Read more]
Going green, using social media
Sustainability is integral to Standard Chartered. Worldwide and in Malaysia, the bank champions dedicated causes, one of them being environment. The organisation believes that each person can make a difference, and through small steps, the collection action contributes to the overall impact as the community unites to preserve the environment for future... [Read more]
Micro donations for charities with Beanstalk Giving
Speaking to a CSR Consultant recently, the CSR Digest confirmed that personal donations amounted to the majority of funding for charities. And even more money could be available if only micro donations could be leveraged. Beanstalk Giving (BG) saw this need and designed an API which helps E-Tailers round off purchases, allocating the balance to a charity... [Read more]
The Global Agenda of Sustainability & The Green Movement
Kaye Lim, Vice President, Corporate Communications, Asia Pacific of specialty global chemicals group, Lanxess, discusses the green movement and sustainability with the CSR Digest. [Read more] Tweet This Post Plurk This Post Buzz This Post Delicious Digg This Post Facebook Reddit Stumble This Post Read More →
Philanthrocapitalism: dawn of a new era?
Courtesy of INSEAD Knowledge Matthew Bishop, US business editor and New York bureau chief of The Economist, and co-author of ‘Philanthrocapitalism: How Giving Can Save the World’ speaks to Anil Gupta, INSEAD Professor on the rise of Philanthrocapitalism. You need Adobe Flash plugin version 8 or higher to view the videos on this site Get it... [Read more]
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What Does (and Does Not) Make Sense in the Nonprofit World
By Jean-Michel Piedagnel Accenture has the reputation of employing the best consultants in the world. The publication of a book about the non-profit sector by Willie Cheng, “Doing Good Well” promised to be an interesting read, for better or worse. He is a former partner at Accenture in Singapore and since his retirement at an early age (and therefore... [Read more]
The Responsibility Revolution
By Amanda Coffin As Jeffrey Hollander and Bill Breen of Seventh Generation reflect upon the dismal atmosphere following the past two years’ financial upheaval, they see in it the incubator for a revolution. Their newly-released book, The Responsibility Revolution: How the Next Generation of Businesses Will Win, offers a review of companies... [Read more]
by Amanda Coffin It boggles the mind of many a visitor to this region how Malaysia and Singapore, acrimoniously divorced in 1963, can now – a mere 46 years later – be such different worlds. The two states have much in common, certainly, but if a traveller awoke from a deep sleep whilst in transit, it would take him but a moment to discern which... [Read more]
A Vast, Diverse and Philanthropic Archipelago
By Amanda Coffin Spanning over 17,000 islands and 5,000 kilometres, the Republic of Indonesia is home to more than 237 million people. Its citizens are ethnically, linguistically and religiously diverse. The country’s motto reflects its pluriformity: Bhinneka Tunggal Ika, or Unity in Diversity. Especially amongst its south-east... [Read more]
¿Qué CSR, Señora?
By Amanda Coffin Perhaps to the disappointment of some readers, the Global Latinas in the title of Lourdes Casanova’s newly-released book (INSEAD Press, 2009) include neither Mexican telenovela starlets nor Shakira, but rather a sampling of South American multinational companies. Dr. Casanova asserts that most research on multinationals has focused... [Read more]
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