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Amazon, Best Buy and the free rider problem

Gap, Nike and Walmart can police their global supply chains to outlaw child labor but what about discount retailers and no-name brands? McDonald’s can become a leader around animal health and welfare...

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Goldman Sachs, and the evolution of sustainable investing

Will socially-responsible investing (SRI) ever grow up? With roots in religious communities and the anti-war movement of the 1960s, SRI funds have long shunned investments in tobacco, alcohol, guns and...

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Turning CO2 from waste into an asset

It’d be nice if the world could be powered with zero-carbon energy but wishing it so doesn’t make it so. We’re going to be burning fossil fuels, for better or worse–actually, for better and worse–for...

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OS Fund: A venture fund that embraces big risks

A company that makes drones for humanitarian purposes, another that makes plant-based egg substitutes and still another that wants to mine asteroids for precious minerals would not seem to have much...

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How to divest fossil fuels, for the 99 percent

I’m all for the fossil-fuel divestment movement, at least as a way to start a conversation about climate change and build a movement. I’m undecided about whether it makes sense as an investment...

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COP out

I wish I could be optimistic about COP21, the climate negotiations coming to an end in Paris. I can’t. Even if the world’s countries keep their promises  — known, in the mind-numbing argot of the UN as...

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Monsanto, and its critics

Have you heard? Monsanto is going on trial in The Hague for “crimes against nature and humanity, and ecocide.” The Organic Consumers Association had the story: The Organic Consumers Association (OCA),...

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The egg industry, scrambling

Hens are being freed from these cages If you, like me, have puzzled over the many labels on egg cartons — natural, organic, cage-free, pastured, free range  — you might want to read my story about the...

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Goodbye to this blog

Nine and a half years ago, I started this blog with a post titled, simply, This blog. One thousand, two hundred and forty-three posts later — roughly two per week — I’m ending it. It has been a great...

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Please follow my writing about philanthropy, nonprofits and global development at Nonprofit Chronicles. Nonprofit Chronicles also has a Facebook page. You can also find me on Twitter.

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