ViewPoint: EFCA – A Human Rights Imperative
In January 2009, Human Rights Watch issued a briefing paper entitled Employee Free Choice Act: A Human Rights Imperative. The paper details some of the glaring deficiencies in current US labor law...
View ArticleTrends: Wikis for Human Rights
Sea Change Radio looks at the trend of corporate social responsibility using Web 2.0 tools. In this case, a wiki — BASESwiki, specifically (BASES stands for Business and Society Exploring Solutions.)...
View ArticleNewsAnalysis: Fairtrade Cocoa Goes Big League
Cadbury, the popular British chocolate maker, just agreed to source Fairtrade cocoa for Cadbury Dairy Milk, the top-selling chocolate bar in the UK. The move effectively triples sales of Fairtrade...
View ArticleBuilding Green – LEED and Passive Survivability
BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine Chocolate USA, welcomes the move by Cadbury to source...
View ArticleNewsAnalysis: The Business of Water
Sea Change Host Francesca Rheannon brings us the Sea Change News Analysis examining the sustainability of water as a business proposition. The News Analysis draws on content from the CSRwire.com News...
View ArticleSeeding the Solidarity Economy
The Center for Popular Economics (CPE) recently hosted the first Forum on the Solidarity Economy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst — home of Sea Change Radio. CPE Executive Director Emily...
View ArticleA New Morality for Capitalism?
William Greider talks about a new moral order for capitalism, drawing from his new book . And in the Sea Change ViewPoint, Hazel Henderson of Ethical Markets Media predicts the rise of “new...
View ArticleViewPoint: Communities Going Sweat-Free
Currently, communities are unwittingly supporting sweatshop labor when state and local governments use tax dollars to buy things such as firefighter uniforms. Liana Foxvog, National Organizer of the...
View ArticleEmpowering Citizens To Protect Their Local Community
Longtime shareowner activist Steve Viederman discusses the notion of community governance, where communities reclaim democratic power of self-determination from corporations and other external forces....
View ArticleMining for Disclosure
The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, or EITI, is the focus of today’s show. First, we hear from Bennett Freeman, who serves on the EITI board. Then, we hear from Arvind Ganesan of Human...
View ArticleJustice in the Environment
Jim Boyce of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst talks about the new report, Justice in the Air. It looks at EPA data showing that the toxins...
View ArticleHome, Home on the Web: Advancing Business & Human Rights in the Digital World
By Bill Baue of Sea Change Media The United Nations’ 2005 appointment of Harvard Professor John Ruggie as Special Representative on Business and Human Rights shone a spotlight on the often adverse —...
View ArticleViewPoint: The Looting of Equatorial Guinea
In July 2009, Human Rights Watch released a report entitled Well Oiled: Oil and Human Rights in Equatorial Guinea. In this commentary, HRW Director of Business and Human Rights Arvind Ganesan links...
View ArticleNewsAnalysis: TIAA-CREF Divests from Genocide
This week’s NewsAnalysis from the Sea Change Radio Headlines Anchor, Tania Haldar Hart: So, what’s the connection between investing and genocide in the first place?? I’m no expert on the ethics of...
View ArticleVan Jones: A Conversation With America’s Green Jobs Guru
This week on Sea Change Radio, host Alex Wise speaks with one of the leader's of a new generation of environmentalists, Van Jones. Jones is the founder of Green For All, an organization that advocates...
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights Turns 60
On December 10, 1948, the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, calling on member country governments to promote the UDHR. Now, on the Declaration’s 60th anniversary,...
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John Ruggie on Business and Human Rights
The mandate of John Ruggie as the United Nations Special Representative on Business and Human Rights, first extended by the UN Human Rights Council in 2005, was recently extended another three years....
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Investing in Sustainability
Today, Sea Change Radio talks with Nick Robins of HSBC and Cary Krosinsky of Trucost about their book, Sustainable Investing. We also visit the Responsible Investing Forum, produced in association...
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Blog: Top Corporate Social Responsibility News of 2008
Each January for the past several years, Bill has surveyed the top Corporate Social Responsibility news stories of the past year for CSRwire.com, where he is a contributing writer. Here’s this year’s...
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Lisa Woll Proposes Federal Office of CSR Innovation
The Social Investment Forum (SIF) submitted a letter to President Obama listing a series of policy proposals, from proxy access allowing shareholders to nominate board candidates to “say on pay” giving...
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