Yearly Archives: 2007

Designing the Future of the Corporation

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Marjorie KellyAllen 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.

This conversation, co-hosted by Bill Baue and Francesca Rheannon, follows up on CWR’s two-part interview with Allen and Marjorie in June 2006, and also touches on the question of whether legal regulation is the best means of promoting corporate change first addressed on CWR when we spoke with Terry Mollner, a Ben & Jerry’s boardmember and a founding boardmember of Calvert Social Investment Funds.

Summit on the Future of the Corporation

Corporation 2020

June 5, 2006 edition of CWR: Redesigning the Corporation

June 21, 2006 edition of CWR: Redesigning the Corporation Part II

October 28, 2006 edition of CWR: Corporations Need to Grow Up

Paul Hawken’s Blessed Unrest (Part Two)

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paul_hawkenCo-hosts Bill Baue and Francesca Rheannon continue their conversation 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. 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.

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Blessed Unrest

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Paul Hawken’s Blessed Unrest

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paul_hawkenBill 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. Our conversation was so fascinating that we are presenting it in two shows. The first show focuses on defining the Blessed Unrest movement that brings together environmentalists, social justice activists, and indigenous people’s advocates, and on describing the metaphor of how this system works like the planet’s immune system.

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Blessed Unrest

Hazel Henderson Divines the Future of Sustainability

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Hazel HendersonRenowned 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.” Francesca Rheannon and Bill Baue co-host.

SocialFunds.com Book Review–Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy

Ethical Markets

Hazel Henderson

Confessions of a Corporate Yes Man

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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. Interviewers Sanford Lewis and Francesca Rheannon.

Biofuel–Pros and Cons

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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.

SocialFunds article by Francesca–Biofuels: Keeping Good Intentions on the Right Path

Article by George Monbiot

Article by Lester Brown

Is Shareholder Activism on the Chopping Block at the SEC?

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Is there too much or too little shareholder activism and democracy? The Securities and Exchange Commission, in recent roundtable discussions, called for reexamination of the rights of shareholders to place shareholder resolutions on the corporate ballot. Attorney Sanford Lewis and Journalist Bill Baue, Corporate Watchdog Radio cohosts, discuss the array of ideas and pressures at work on the SEC. We hear excerpts of comments from David Hirschmann of the US Chamber of Commerce, Damon Silvers of the AFL-CIO, Bill Mostyn, Bank of America, and Delaware Judge Leo Strine. The future of shareholder democracy may hang in the balance.

Article by cohost Bill Baue on the SEC Roundtables

Organic Milk and Factory Farming

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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.

George SiemonGeorge Siemon, CEO of Organic Valley, a cooperative that competes with Horizon nationally, talks about the difference between the family farm organic model and the industrial farm organic model, as well as noting some positives that corporations can bring to the sustainability movement. Francesca Rheannon of Writer’s Voice co-hosts this edition with Bill Baue.

Cornucopia Institute

Boston Common Asset Management

Dean Foods Stock Drops 12% on Concerns About Organic Brands – Investors Challenge Dean Foods’ Investment in Organic Factory Farms at Annual Shareholders Meeting

Organic Valley

Bill McKibben Debunks Myths that More is Always Better and Economic Growth is Always Good

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billmckibbenBill McKibben speaks about his new book, Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future. He discusses localism as an answer to the problems created by globalism. In other words, the “durable” economies of farmers markets, distributed energy, and community radio to replace the unsustainable premise of perpetual growth that capitalism promises, but has led to climate change and peak oil. Co-hosting the interview is Francesca Rheannon of Writer’s Voice.

SocialFunds.com Book Review: Deep Economy: The Wealth Of Communities And The Durable Future

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Writer’s Voice with Francesca Rheannon