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November 16, 2007 - Can Corporations Help Create a Sustainable World? Mark McElroy, executive director and chief sustainability officer of the Center for Sustainable Innovation in Vermont, discusses whether companies are contributing to a sustainable world and how it can be measured.
October 31, 2006 - Terry Mollner, a founder of Calvert Funds and Board member of Ben and Jerry's, discusses his ideas about maturing the corporation to make the good of society a priority.
December 5, 2006 - Seth Petchers, Oxfam International's Make Trade Fair campaign coffee leader, discusses how Starbucks opposes Ethiopia's bid to trademark its renowned regional coffee names--Sidamo, Harrar, and Yirgacheffe.
February 6, 2007 - Whether it's cosmetics, computers, mattresses, or "rubber" ducks, there are shocking chemical surprises in many of the products we once presumed were safe. We speak with Dr. John Warner, Director of the Center for Green Chemistry at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell to learn about the strategies and opportunities for greening our chemical economy.
February 18, 2007 - University of San Francisco Ethics Professor David Batstone speaks about his research in writing "Not for Sale: The Return of the Global Slave Trade--and How We Can Fight It" and his launching of the Not for Sale campaign to help end human trafficking.
April 4, 2007 - In the current corporate annual meeting season, shareowners have stepped up demands on companies to seek alternatives to toxic materials in their products. A shareholder resolution at Apple calls on the company to set an accelerated timetable for ending the use of certain toxic materials. But why has the Board of Directors, which includes Al Gore, unanimously recommended against the resolution?
May 1, 2007 - Bottled drinking water is an $11 Billion per year US industry, and the withdrawal of water has been referred to as a "Blue gold rush." With impacts to local water supplies and quality of life looming, citizens groups are challenging the right of corporate water companies such as Nestle to withdraw drinking water from local supplies.
June 7, 2007 - Dean Foods' Horizon Organic Milk brand is under fire for its industrial farming model. Mark Kastel of the Cornucopia Institute and Steven Heim of Boston Common Asset Management speak about the shareowner engagement they've been conducting with the company, asking why Dean would want to endanger the reputation of its Horizon brand by sourcing milk from factory farms.
July 5, 2007 - Bill Baue and Francesca Rheannon discuss the benefits and shortcomings of biofuel as a solution to climate change. Francesca interviews Allan Kahane of Global Foods, which recently received one of the biggest biofuel-related investments from the Carlyle Group.
July 17, 2007 - Co-host Francesca Rheannon talks with Wood Turner, project director of Climate Counts.org, a project of Stonyfield Farms that rates companies' commitments and actions to reducing their greenhouse gas emissions.
July 31, 2007 - We visit with Andy Bichelbaum of the Yes Men. This two person team of corporate impersonators have passed for executives of Exxon, Halliburton, Dow Chemical and the WTO. We'll learn how they do what they do, and why.
August 16, 2007 - Renowned Futurist Hazel Henderson discusses her new book, Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy, and the paradigm shift from our current economy measured in Gross Domestic Product to a new, sustainable economy measured by such yardsticks as the Buddhist country of Bhutan's Gross National Happiness or Henderson's own "love economy."
September 5, 2007 - The conversation in this second show looks at the difference between finite games (such as climate change) and infinite games (such as sustainability), as well as looking at the open source websites Hawken has set up to profile organizations participating in the Blessed Unrest movement--WiserEarth.org and WiserBusiness.org.
August 29, 2007 - Bill Baue and Francesca Rheannon speak with Paul Hawken about his new book, Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming.
October 17, 2007 - In part one of this two-part
interview, British journalist George Monbiot discusses his new book, Heat: How
to Stop the Planet from Burning, with CWR co-hosts Bill Baue and Francesca
Rheannon.
September 19, 2007 - Allen White and Marjorie Kelly discuss
the upcoming Summit on the Future of the
Corporation that the organization they founded, Corporation 2020, is hosting in
Boston on
November 13 and 14, 2007. The Summit
gathers thought leaders from business, civil society, labor, government, and
academia to discuss and plan new corporate structures designed for social,
environmental, and financial sustainability.
October 3, 2007 - Emily Kawano, executive director of the Center for
Popular Economics in Amherst, Massachusetts, discusses the launch of
the US Solidarity Economy Network coming out of the US Social Forum in
Atlanta in June 2007.
November 7, 2007 - Peter Senge and Joe Laur of the Society for
Organizational Learning (SoL) discuss how corporations need to
transform, the central theme of the Summit on the Future of the
Corporation on November 13 and 14 in Boston that SoL is co-sponsoring
along with Corporation 20/20.
In part two of this two-part interview, British journalist George Monbiot discusses his new book, Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning, with CWR co-hosts Bill Baue and Francesca Rheannon. He touches on the irony that increased energy efficiency can lead to increased greenhouse gas emissions and the promise of high-voltage DC cables in transmitting renewable energy over long distances.
November 21, 2007 - Corporate Watchdog Radio co-hosts Bill Baue and Francesca Rheannon speak with Auden Schendler, who heads the sustainability program at Aspen Skiing Company and has stirred up a heap of controversy as the subject of a recent BusinessWeek cover story entitled "Little Green Lies."
November 28, 2007 - Corporate Watchdog Radio co-hosts Bill Baue and Francesca Rheannon speak with Larry Lohmann of the Corner House, a UK-based environmental and human rights NGO, about the book he recently edited, Carbon Trading: A Critical Conversation on Climate Change, Privatisation and Power.
2007 could have been called the Year of Shopping Dangerously. First there was the pet food scare, then toxic toothpaste, then a bevy of poisonous toys being recalled, one after another – containing lead, asbestos and other toxic materials. Many of the toxic products came from manufacturing outsourced to China. Do we have to choose between products that are cheap or products that are safe? Or is our regulatory system broke?
Corporate Watchdog Radio co-host Francesca Rheannon attended the Summit on the Future of the Corporation in mid-November in Boston, a gathering to consider a fundamental re-design to integrate sustainability into the corporate structure.
Corporate Watchdog Radio co-hosts Francesca Rheannon and Bill Baue attended the Summit on the Future of the Corporation in mid-November in Boston, a gathering to consider a fundamental re-design to integrate sustainability into the corporate structure.
In part one of this two-part interview, Corporate Watchdog Radio co-hosts Francesca Rheannon and Bill Baue speak with Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder, co-authors of the new book, The Clean Tech Revolution: The Next Big Growth and Investment Opportunity.
In the second part of this two-part interview, Corporate Watchdog Radio co-hosts Francesca Rheannon and Bill Baue speak with Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder, co-authors of the new book, The Clean Tech Revolution: The Next Big Growth and Investment Opportunity.
Corporate Watchdog Radio co-hosts Francesca Rheannon and Bill Baue speak with Rachel Louise Snyder, author of Fugitive Denim: A Moving Story of People and Pants in the Borderless World of Global Trade.
urope is leaping far ahead of the US in regulating toxic chemicals in products. According to today’s guest, the successes of America’s business community fighting against regulation on the home front may be its downfall in the global economy. Francesaca Rheannon interviews author Mark Schapiro. author of Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power.
The Idea of the Corporation is one of the most powerful forces in our world – both constructive, efficiently moving money and goods, and destructive, polluting our environment and disempowering workers and citizens. Author Francis Moore Lappe' shares her ideas for reframing the the corporation, the citizen and the economy from her new book, Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity and Courage in a World Gone Mad.
CWR co-hosts Bill Baue and Francesca Rheannon talk with GreenBiz.com founder and executive editor Joel Makower about the first annual report on The State of Green Business, which GreenBiz.com released today on January 30, 2008.
Vermont State Treasurer Jeb Spaulding delivered the opening address at the launching of the Marlboro College Graduate Center MBA in Managing for Sustainability program in Vermont where CWR co-host Bill Baue teaches.
CWR, hosts Bill Baue and Francesca Rheannon go to their local Green Drinks gathering to talk with John Mercak of the Center for Ecological Technology and Chris Landry of the Sustainability Institute. Then, Franceca talks with NYT business reporter Louis Uchitelle about his book, The Disposable American.
Corporate Watchdog Radio co-hosts Bill Baue and Francesca Rheannon speak with John Elkington, author of The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets that Change the World. Elkington explains how social entrepreneurs use business strategies, such as scaling and replicability, to help solve social and environmental problems.
CWR co-hosts Bill Baue and Francesca Rheannon speak with Eric Cohen, chairperson for Investors against Genocide and Tim Smith, senior vice president at Walden Asset Management and immediate past chair of the Social Investment Forum, about the campaign promoting targeted divestment by mutual funds from companies supporting the Khartoum regime in the Sudan.
Corporate Watchdog Radio co-hosts Francesca Rheannon and Bill Baue speak with Laura Berry, executive director of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility.
CWR co-hosts Francesca Rheannon and Bill Baue speak with Daniel Lerch, author of Post Carbon Cities: Planning for Energy and Climate Uncertainty and manager of the Post Carbon Cities project of the Post Carbon Institute.
CWR co-hosts Bill Baue and Francesca Rheannon speak with investigative journalist Greg Palast, who notes the coincidental timing of revelations of Eliot Spitzer’s hiring of a prostitute on the eve of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s $200 billion bailout of banks implicated in the subprime meltdown.
CWR co-hosts Francesca Rheannon and Bill Baue attended the conference, hosted by investor-environmentalist coalition Ceres and its Investor Network on Climate Risk.
CWR co-host Bill Baue speaks with Mil Niepold, senior policy advisor at Verité, a supply chain monitoring and auditing nonprofit that serves as secretariat of the International Cocoa Verification Board, and Bama Athreya, executive director of the International Labor Rights Forum.
The first in a two-part conversation with Chris Martenson of the Martenson Report, who recently spoke about the convergence of economic, environmental, and energy crises at the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA) Annual Conference.
CWR co-hosts Bill Baue and Francesca Rheannon speak with Gary Hirshberg, CEO of organic yogurt maker Stonyfield Farm, and author of Stirring It Up: How to Make Money and Save the World.
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