Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship: Why China Will Define the Future

Christopher C. Pinney, director of executive education for the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship, recently wrote about his CSR-focused trip to China, in “Why China Will Define the Future Corporate Citizenship.” He argues that China needs to continue to embrace corporate social responsibility to solve some of the biggest problems facing the country and [...]

Green Glam in China

(Editor’s note: Please welcome our first post by contributing blogger Sophia Mendelsohn about some of the benefits of luxury consumption and “lifestyle” publications in China!)
China’s public is receiving a mixed message from mainstream media. On the one hand, they are told development is destroying the environment. On the other hand, the messages equate luxury [...]

CESDRRC: Organic trends

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Check out the latest newsletter from the China Environment and Sustainable Development Reference and Research Center about “organic trends” in China:
ORGANIC TRENDS aims to promote environmentally friendly and healthy food production and processing. Offering a forum for producers, distributors, retailers, consumers as well as academicians, it reports on recent trends in organic farming [...]

China prepares for socially responsible mutual fund

“China’s First SRI To Be Issued“
China CSR
March 24, 2008
Industrial Fund Management has been approved by the China Securities Regulatory Commission to begin the first socially responsible investment product in China.
It will be issued through eight Chinese banks and other securities companies on March 28. The most prominent feature of the SRI is that it will [...]

ResponsibleChina Podcast: Dermot O’Gorman, WWF China and “Go For Gold”

In this edition of the ResponsibleChina Show, I talk to Dermot O’Gorman of WWF China’s Go For Gold campaign, an initiative that that encourages Olympic athletes, National Olympic Committees, and individual tourists to offset the carbon emissions from their air travel to Beijing for this summer’s Olympic Games.

Listen to the podcast: 04-responsiblechina_-dermot-ogorman-wwf-china-and-_go-for-gold_.mp3
(Music credit: “Fresh,” by [...]