Sea Change Radio

Amber Chand discusses how the Jerusalem Candle of Hope, made collaboratively by Palestinian and Israeli craftswomen on either side of the checkpoint separating them, bridges the political divide between the two countries. Also, an update on Coca-Cola, which was recently deleted from the KLD Broad Market Social Index, prompting TIAA-CREF to dump 1.2 million Coke [...]

TAKE BACK YOUR TIME is a major U.S./Canadian initiative to challenge the epidemic of overwork, over-scheduling and time famine that now threatens our health, our families and relationships, our communities and our environment. Corporate watchdog radio discusses the challenges this issue poses to corporate policy. Then, we discuss the role that some real estate management [...]

Bill Baue speaks with Eric Reeves, professor of English at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts and host of SudanReeves.org, about the campaign he helped initiate to divest from international companies doing business with the genocidal regime in Sudan. Peter Kinder, founding president of socially responsible investing research firm KLD Research & Analytics, compares and contrasts [...]

Guests Marjorie Kelly and Allen White go into more depth on their efforts in Corporation2020 to redesign the corporation. They discuss the need to realign the purpose of the corporation so that it does not undermine societal well-being, and how to ensure that corporations do not undermine human rights — ending the fiction of “corporate [...]

Marjorie Kelly, former editor of Business Ethics, and Allen White, a founder and former director of the Global Reporting Initiative, have organized an effort to redesign the corporation. Their new organization, Corporation 2020,brings together business people, experts, academics, investors and stakeholders to reconfigure the corporate form — one in which private interests would be harnessed [...]

The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed major changes to dilute the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI), which makes information on the harmful pollution companies release into the air publicly available. Joining us in the studio is Jim Boyce, director of environmental programs at the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) of the University of Massachusetts, which has [...]

Mindy Lubber discusses the role of investors regarding the risks that climate change poses to shareholder value. Lubber’s organization, CERES, is spearheading a massive effort by investors to bring better disclosure, accountability and responsiveness by corporations. Link CERES

Richard Liroff, Ph.D. talks about a new investor network concerned with reducing unnecessarily toxic chemicals in products. DuPont shareholders broadly support resolution calling for the company to report on options to speed the elimination of PFOA production and use (a chemical used in producing Teflon as well as grease and stain resistant coatings on carpet, [...]

Coca Cola faces human rights and environmental charges in India and Columbia. Amnesty International targets Yahoo for cooperating with Chinese government to jail a dissident. Guests include Amit Srivastava of the India Resource Center, Camilo Romero Students Against Sweatshops, Kari Bjorhus of Coca Cola, Ann Corbett and Simon Billeness of Amnesty International. Coke in India [...]

Annual shareholder meetings in April and May are a time to press companies to do the right thing on environment and human rights. CWR discusses shareholder fights at DuPont(toxic chemicals), Dow Chemical (Bhopal), Whole Foods (toxics in products), CVS and others. A report back on a public conversation at the American Bar Association with a [...]