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Saturday, 28 April 2007 |
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Corpobligation = the principle that corporations have duties and responsibilities as actors in society and on the planet.
Which? Why? Who? Where? When? How? Why?
So many questions, and you are a busy web surfer, activist, business leader, lawyer, government leader, frisbee player, curious person, we will keep this brief.
- Corporate social responsibility (CSR) may be defined briefly as the
responsibilities of corporations towards actors other than their
shareholders, including human rights, environmental and other areas.
Which acronym?
CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility), CR (Corporate Responsibility), CC (Corporate Citizenship), CS (CorporateSustainability), Sustainability are just a few acronyms that pop up when one talks about changing corporate behavior to be kinder/better/less destructive to people and the environment. We actually had a long discussion about this (Not that long). But we don't really care what acronym you use. CO is actually too confusing because it sounds like company. Thus, we will allow you to pick your own acronym. We will stick to corpobligation in full.
Why corpobligation?
We are optimistic about the corporation being a vehicle for producing stuff. We are less optimistic about corporations making the right, timely and voluntary choices about how they make the stuff. This is why the corporation has and should have real obligations to not damage other members of society and other users of the planet.
Who is involved?
Still growing... We expect visitors from Europe, Canada, the Americas, Africa, Asia, and elsewhere.
You.
How?
Change happens through individuals making choices and groups doing action.
- Encourage and promote articles for and against corporate obligation.
- Writing and sharing news about the good and bad things corporations do.
- Connect individuals and groups in different buildings, towns, cities, regions, countries.
- Learn. Share. Encourage.
Why?
We all share the planet. We all exist in a connected political-economic community. Individuals have obligations to each other and so should corporations.
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Friday, 20 July 2007 |
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For your convenience, Corpobligation has brought together newsfeeds from google news that relate to CSR. We take no responsibility for the views and claims made in these articles. We do welcome
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Tuesday, 03 July 2007 |
- Corpobligation is an advocacy and news site that aims to push for better corporate, government and consumer approaches to human rights and the environment
Are we a corporation, NGO, a government?
- Corpobligation is a for profit venture. We have an agenda to change the world, but we hope to be able to fund this agenda through things like advertising and referrals. We appreciate the help of sponsors and readers who help spread the ideas of corpobligation.
- Currently, Tim Brown is the publisher and editor of the site and the revenue from the site goes to him. He lives in Toronto, Canada and loves to argue about how to fix the world.
- Authors who submit work through email or after registering are eligible to receive at least 50% of the ad revenue that arises from their articles. Please
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How responsible is corpobligation.com?
- Like any consumer and producer we are far from perfect, but we are taking steps
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- Corpobligation's hosting is green:
- we identify direct or indirect benefits that we may receive and we identify conflicts of interest
- we are open to suggestions: by
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or in the forums
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Sunday, 01 July 2007 |
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Simple stuff here.
We are corpobligation.com
You are you.
We will not share your email with other sites or businesses.
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit
our website. These companies may use information (not including your
name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to
this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods
and services of interest to you. If you would like more information
about this practice and to know your choices about not having this
information used by these companies, click here.
If you register on the site, we will email you from time to time. Feel free to email us to cancel the subscription, we will not be offended.
If you submit content to the site, we will publish it if we decide to publish it. Please state if you wish to be credited and if you would like a link back to your site.
Corpobligation.com is based in Ottawa, Canada and the site is run by Tim Brown (info @ corpobligation.com).
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Sunday, 01 July 2007 |
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At some point, even the most hardcore of us buy stuff. Well here is a brief list of suppliers that give a kickback to our site to keep things going. We would love to hear from you on this policy and we are open to feedback.
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