B-Corporation - Essential Organizational Innovation

"B Corporations" is a business sustainability initiative to achieve the fundamental change in corporate rules and structure required for the private sector to make the powerful contribution to sustainability society requires. See http://www.bcorporation.net/about. 

Their communication to the Obama transition team elucidates this focus, as follows (http://www.bcorporation.net/resources/bcorp/documents/Obama-Biden--TransitionTeam_Private-Sector-Social-Innovation-Briefing.pdf).

Systemic Problems

1) Non-profit Social Innovation and government intervention are necessary but insufficient to address society’s challenges. Private sector leadership is required to address our challenges with the speed and at the scale required.

2) Private sector Social Innovation requires investment capital to scale, but current corporate law and capital markets were not built to embrace sustainability. Corporate law requires short term shareholder value maximization at the expense of social and environmental interests. Furthermore, investors do not have the transparent and comparable measurement tools to assess the social and environmental impact of their investments.

Systemic Solutions

The role of government is not to pick winners and losers, but rather to create the public infrastructure which enables the private sector  to support businesses creating both social and shareholder value. The current financial crisis also highlights the need for public policies to enable a market-based change in corporate transparency and accountability. The following proposals address systemic problems with systemic solutions and advance many elements of the Administration’s Social Innovation, Energy and Environment, and Economic Agenda simultaneously.

Next 10

Go to: http://www.next10.org/index.html

Next 10 is an independent, nonpartisan organization that educates, engages and empowers Californians to improve the state’s future.

California was founded by pioneers driven by big dreams and unafraid to face difficult challenges. Like many of us, they came to California to create a better life for themselves and their families. While this legacy of the California dream continues today, many of us are concerned that the future will not be as bright as our children deserve.

Next 10 is focused on innovation and the intersection between the economy, the environment, and quality of life issues for all Californians. We create tools and provide information that fosters a deeper understanding of the critical issues affecting all Californians. Through education and civic engagement, we hope Californians will become empowered to affect change.

We call ourselves Next 10 because we are not here for the quick fix. Our sights are set on joining with others to improve the state over the next ten years, and the ten years after that. The decisions we make together will affect California’s economy, environment and quality of life for years to come. Together, we can create the brighter future we all want for ourselves and our children.

Donald Vial Center on Employment in the Green Economy

Go to: http://www.irle.berkeley.edu/vial/:

In response to growing concern about climate change and its potential effects, a “green” economic sector is growing rapidly in California to provide consumers with products and services ranging from solar panels to plug-in hybrid cars to environmentally certified building materials. The State of California has a strong history of policies to promote energy efficiency and renewables, and is about to implement the strongest anti-global warming legislation in the country, the Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32, 2007). At the local level, cities and counties are developing initiatives to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and attract new business in emerging technologies, such as the East Bay Green Initiative recently proposed by the mayors of Oakland, Emeryville, Berkeley and Richmond.

Organic Agriculture Can Feed the World

FROM:  FEED - Food and Environment Electronic Digest -- the Union of Concerned Scientists -- January 8, 2009 http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/feed/feed-latest.html

5. "Organic green revolution" can solve global hunger
In a new report, the Rodale Institute calls for a dramatic shift from costly, chemical-intensive industrial farming systems to regenerative organic systems, which it says can help the world feed itself. The report cites a study of small-scale farmers in 57 countries whose yields increased by an average 79 percent when they used sustainable agriculture techniques and other research in developing countries that found organic farming was two to three times more productive than conventional farming. Organic farming methods restore nutrients and carbon to the soil, resulting in higher nutrient density in crops and increased yields. Organic soils also contain more beneficial microorganisms, are less vulnerable to erosion, and retain moisture better to help plants survive drought conditions. A 28-year side-by-side comparison of organic and conventional practices on Rodale's research farm in Pennsylvania has found that organically grown corn and soybeans are more resistant to drought, outperforming conventional crops by 30 percent and 50 to 100 percent respectively. Read the report at http://www.rodaleinstitute.org/files/GreenRevUP.pdf

Also at: http://www.rodaleinstitute.org/files/GreenRevUP.pdf

John Holdren on the Sustainability Challenge

John Holdren, provided a comprehensive overview of the sustainability challenge during his plenary address to the 2007 AAAS annual meeting in San Francisco. Access it using the links below or go to the AAAS website:  http://www.aaas.org/meetings/Annual_Meeting/2007_San_Fran/02_PE/pe_01_lectures.shtml

Plenary Lectures 

AAAS President's Address

John P. Holdren, Ph.D.

AAAS President; Director, The Woods Hole Research Center; Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy, Harvard University

Trained in engineering and plasma physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University, Holdren co-founded the graduate program in energy and resources at the University of California, Berkeley in 1973 after brief stints at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Caltech. At Harvard he teaches both in the Kennedy School of Government—where he Directs the Program on Science, Technology, and Public Policy—and in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. His work has focused on energy technology and policy, global environmental change, and nuclear arms control and nonproliferation.

Watch the welcoming remarks by Gilbert S. Omenn, John Holdren, and Susan Desmond Hellman in RealVideo
Watch the president's address in RealVideo
Download the PowerPoint presentation

TNS Sustainability Training

The Natural Step courses (on-line) and workshops for 2009, go to: http://www.naturalstep.org/en/usa/courses-workshops.

Courses and Workshops

TNS offers a variety of learning options including live and online courses. We plan to introduce a new series of live courses by end of March 2009.  
 
COMING SOON:

Train the Trainer Series – Part 1: This 2-3 day course provides the basic knowledge to deliver TNS presentations, to lead a backcasting exercise and initiate organizational change. (Spring 2009)

Train the Trainer Series – Part 2: This 2-3 course expands trainer capabilities to creating long term sustainability plans, how to establish metrics and monitor success for ongoing organizational change. (Summer 2009)

Leadership for Sustainability: This 1-day course established skills to initiate discussions and foster development of critical buy-in for successful sustainability initiatives within your organization. (Fall 2009)

AVAILABLE NOW ONLINE:

These award winning courses have been developed by TNS Canada. They provide practical sustainability education. These innovative courses are being used by thousands of people in leading organizations around the world such as Interface Carpets, Rohm and Haas, Nissan, Levi Strauss, Nestlé Waters and others.

Sustainability 101™

Sustainability: Step by Natural Step™

Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability

Introduction to the International Masters Programme of the Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH). The BTH is the most distinctly profiled institute in Sweden, thank to its strong emphasis on applied information technology, IT and sustainable development of industry and society.

Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability

International Masters Programme

"The question of reaching sustainability is not about if we will have enough energy, enough food, or other tangible resources - those we have. The question is: will there be enough leaders in time?"

- Dr. Göran Broman and Dr. Karl-Henrik Robèrt, programme founders

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The challenge and the opportunity of sustainable development

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The results of unsustainable human development are evident worldwide - climate change, species extinction, pollution, poverty, and inequality are deteriorating our capacity to sustain our ways of life. Our society needs more effective ways of using our skills and resources to create positive change. This is the challenge that our graduates are prepared to meet.

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Programme Description

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The programme is founded on the basic premise that a "whole-system", transdisciplinary approach is needed to deal with the sustainability challenge of meeting our society's needs today and into the future. The programme is delivered in a non-traditional educational setting with experiential and holistic learning methods. Two integrated streams are the focus: 1) a framework for strategic sustainable development; and 2) organisational learning and leadership required for sustainability decision-making.

Join Earth Hour 2009

Join Earth Hour 2009. Take action on March 28, 2009.  http://www.earthhour.org/action

What you can do

Turning your lights off for an hour is a great start. However, there are many other things you can do to make Earth Hour 2009 a success.

• Sign Up Now. Become a part of Earth Hour and get useful tips and tools to reduce your carbon footprint everyday

• Tell A Friend. Better still – tell them, your family and even your work mates. Encourage them to sign up. Email them a link to this website and mobilise even more people!

• Tell Your Story: How is climate change affecting your family and your community? We want to hear how you're becoming part of the solution.

• Run your own Earth Hour. Download our quick guide for how to run Earth Hour in your city or town. It's easy!

• Downloads: Come back after January 15 for downloads to help you run Earth Hour. Put it in your diary so you don't forget!

Dynergy Abandons 5 Coal Plants

Action  can work. Cross Post:

Dear Scott T. Edmondson, Your gift today creates a healthier, greener future for all. Your donation supports our work to tackle climate change, stop corporate abuse, grow the green economy, and help families, businesses, and communities everywhere go green. Donate today! Great news to kick off the new year! Our work together to shift our nation's energy use from dirty fossil fuels to clean, green energy has just seen tremendous pay-off with coal-fired energy giant Dynegy pulling the plug on five new coal plants. Last May, Green America's climate action campaign coordinator Yochi Zakai traveled to Dynegy's annual shareholders' meeting to speak out about the destructive effects of its coal plants on surrounding communities and on the world through climate change. What's more, thousands of you joined Green America's letter-writing campaign and sent messages to Dynegy throughout 2008 that coal is not clean, and clean, renewable energy is the only right way forward for power companies in our times. According to the company's announcement, Dynegy has cut its ties to coal-fired power plant plans in Arkansas, Georgia, Iowa, Michigan and Nevada. Another smaller power company (LS Power) may continue development on the Arkansas coal plant, and Dynegy currently plans to move ahead with plans to build a new plant in Texas. With your help, Green America will continue to oppose these new coal plants. (Learn more about Dynegy -- and other power companies -- from our ResponsibleShopper.org.) Congratulations -- you did it! And thanks again for your support on this crucial issue. Here's to the successes to come in 2009 (this is only the beginning), Alisa Gravitz Executive Director Green America

(NEW) Green America (Today)

Green America (formerly Co-op America), is a 25-year sustainability pioneer of the integrative approach to sustainability required for success. Read their new year's announcement about their new name, which they feel is more aligned with their unchanging mission. Join. Benefit. Participate. Contribute.

Your gift today creates a healthier, greener future for all. Your donation supports our work to tackle climate change, build fair trading systems, stop corporate abuse, grow the green economy, and help families, businesses, and communities everywhere go green. Donate today! Welcome to 2009! Today is the day that Co-op America becomes Green America. (www.greenamericatoday.org) Our mission stays the same, as we ensure that the cooperative spirit remains embedded within what we mean when we say green: social and economic justice, community and environmental health, people and the planet. Today's interconnected crises (economic, climate, food, water, health) require solutions from an economy that works for both people and the planet — which means that our work together is more important that ever. For the past 25 years, together with our members and allies, we’ve worked to build the green economy into what it is today, and for the next 25 years, we'll interconnect all of our green economy work with two overarching goals: Setting the standard for "green" — No greenwashing here! Only companies that pass our rigorous screens including both social and environmental criteria will ever make it into our Green Business NetworkTM or exhibit at our Green FestivalsTM, while our Responsible Shopper program gives you all the dirt on the worst companies. What’s more, we’ll always take the greenest stance on the issues of the day: from stopping sweatshops (here in the US and all across the globe) to advancing only the greenest forms of energy (i.e. saying “no” to dirty coal forever, and pushing for efficiency and renewable energy). Rapidly scaling up all the green economy solutions — The time is now for the green economy to become the mainstream economy. We can make living wages and zero waste the norm, not the exceptions. We can make organic food and nontoxic products into household staples. We can make green energy and green buildings as commonplace as gas guzzlers and big-box stores. Our job is to accelerate the green economy as the foundation for a green society—one that works for all. And that’s why our new name is Green America. Our Web site can now be found at www.GreenAmericaToday.org. Be on the lookout for our new name on our publications, our Web site, and our campaigns, starting today. To keep everything in the same green family, the name of our popular green living newsletter, Real Money becomes Real Green. Our flagship magazine, which covers the social and environmental issues of our time, Co-op America Quarterly, becomes Green American. This year, Real Green will include special features about how to live green on a tight budget. Green American will dive into the green economy solutions for today's broken economy – how to use this unprecedented historical moment to transform the economy into one that works for people and the planet. All the best to you, as we begin our work together in 2009, Alisa Gravitz Executive Director Green America P.S. If you're not already a supporting member, please join today.

Food First - Institute for Food and Development Policy

Food First - Institute for Food and Development Policy

www.foodfirts.org

DJSI - Dow Jones Sustainability Index Licensed for US

PRESS RELEASE, 12-18-08

DOW JONES SUSTAINABILITY WORLD INDEX LICENSED FOR U.S.-BASED MUTUAL FUND FOR THE FIRST TIME

The Dreyfus Corporation to use index to select stocks for its first-ever global sustainability fund

NEW YORK (December 18, 2008) - Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, and SAM, the sustainability investment specialist, today announced that the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index has been licensed to The Dreyfus Corporation to serve as the stock selection pool for the firm's first-ever global sustainability-themed mutual fund.

This is the first time that the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index, which tracks the performance of the world's top sustainability leaders, will serve as the selection basis for a mutual fund available in the U.S.

"Since their launch in 1999, the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes have gained recognition and acceptance by the global investment community as the established benchmarks of companies that are leaders in long-term economic, environmental and social sustainability practices. Along with SAM, as the first index providers to create global sustainability indexes, we've observed growing interest among market participants in ways to incorporate sustainability principles in their investment strategies and portfolios. Dreyfus' new mutual fund will give U.S. investors the opportunity to gain exposure to this important investment approach," said Michael A. Petronella, president, Dow Jones Indexes.

"The Dreyfus Global Sustainability Fund will be the first mutual fund offered in the United States that uses the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index as its investable universe," said Phil Maisano, vice chair and chief investment officer for Dreyfus and chief investment strategist for BNY Mellon Asset Management. "Dreyfus and The Bank of New York Mellon are pleased to continue our history of innovation through the development of this fund. We are committed to environmental sustainability."

Launched in 1999, the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index measures the performance of global sustainability leaders. Since then the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI) have expanded to include European, euro zone, North American and U.S. benchmarks. The indexes are published cooperatively by Dow Jones Indexes, STOXX Limited, the leading European index provider and a joint venture of Dow Jones & Company, Deutsche Boerse and SWX Swiss Exchange AG, and SAM (Sustainable Asset Management). The DJSI serve as objective and appropriate benchmarks to measure sustainability portfolios. The indexes also are suitable to underlie financial products.

Index components are selected based on the comprehensive SAM assessment process that identifies the leading companies from each of 57 sectors based on long-term economic, environmental and social criteria. This annual assessment measures general as well as industry-specific sustainability criteria. A growing number of listed companies have defined inclusion in the DJSI as a corporate goal.

There are currently more than 70 licenses globally with more than US$7 billion tied to the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes. The DJSI licensees have created a variety of index-based financial products, including active and passive funds, structured products, warrants and futures contracts.

For more information on the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes, please visit www.sustainability-indexes.com.

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Journalists may e-mail questions regarding this press release to PR-Indexes@dowjones.com or call one of the Dow Jones Indexes/STOXX press offices:

New York: +1-212-597-5720
Frankfurt: +49-69-29725-290
Hong Kong: +852-800-969-336
Singapore: +65-6-4154-299

Note to Editors:

About Dow Jones Indexes
A full-service index provider, Dow Jones Indexes develops, maintains and licenses indexes for use as benchmarks and as the basis of investment products. Best known for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Dow Jones Indexes also is co-owner of the Dow Jones STOXX indexes, the world's leading pan-European indexes, and together with Wilshire Associates, provides the Dow Jones Wilshire Global Index family, which is anchored by the Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 and covers more than 12,000 securities in 63 markets. Beyond equity indexes, Dow Jones Indexes maintains a number of alternative indexes, including measures of the hedge fund and commodity markets. Dow Jones indexes are maintained according to clear, unbiased and systematic methodologies that are fully integrated within index families. www.djindexes.com

Dow Jones & Company (www.dowjones.com) is a News Corporation company (NYSE: NWS, NWS.A; ASX: NWS, NWSLV; www.newscorp.com). Dow Jones is a leading provider of global business news and information services. Its Consumer Media Group publishes The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, MarketWatch and the Far Eastern Economic Review. Its Enterprise Media Group includes Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones Factiva, Dow Jones Client Solutions, Dow Jones Indexes and Dow Jones Financial Information Services. Its Local Media Group operates community-based information franchises. Dow Jones owns 50% of SmartMoney and 33% of STOXX Ltd. and provides news content to radio stations in the U.S.

About SAM
SAM was established in Zurich in 1995 as the first investment group focused exclusively on the integration of economic, environmental and social criteria into investing. The company's services comprise asset management and indexing. In 1999, SAM teamed up with Dow Jones Indexes to launch the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI) - the first benchmarks tracking the performance of sustainability leaders on a global scale. Two years later, European index provider STOXX Limited joined this cooperation to expand the DJSI family with European and Eurozone sustainability benchmarks. SAM evaluates and analyzes companies on the basis of industry-specific sustainability criteria considering economic, environmental and social dimensions. The company's know-how is based on its proprietary, independent research approach and an active, international sustainability network. SAM is headquartered in Zurich (Switzerland) and is present in Europe, Australia, the USA and Canada. The company employs 100 individuals.

Climate Change Portends Global Economic Meltdown

. . . from which recovery would be unlikely without seizing the business opportunity now to fast-track the transition to a non-carbon regenerative economy. That economy will maintain and enhance global ecological integrity and be wildly more productive, prosperous, and equitable, and capable of meeting the basic needs of the world's people. The climate crisis is the front line of the sustainability challenge, but the sustainability challenge is even larger. Fortunately, the needed responses to the sustainability challenge are the solution to the climate crisis.

The article ((excerpted below) describes the release of the Stern Report in October 2006. Go to: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/oct/26/topstories3.politics. The report is available at Amazon: The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review. An Interview with Stern before the report, along with biographical information is available (click here).

Tackle climate change or face deep recession, world's leaders warned
· Economic review turns cost argument on head
· Technologies investment 'could stimulate growth'

By James Randerson, science correspondent.
The Guardian, Thursday 26 October 2006

Climate change could tilt the world's economy into the worst global recession in recent history, a report will warn next week.

Sir Nicholas Stern, a former chief economist with the World Bank, will warn that governments need to tackle the problem head-on by cutting emissions or face economic ruin. The findings, due to be released on Monday, will turn economic argument about global warming on its head by insisting that fighting global warming will save industrial nations money. The US refused to join the Kyoto protocol, the international agreement on greenhouse gas emissions, because George Bush said it would harm the economy.

. . . Speaking at a climate change conference in Birmingham, he said: "All of [Stern's] detailed modelling out to the year 2100 is going to indicate first of all that if we don't take global action we are going to see a massive downturn in global economies." He added: "If no action is taken we will be faced with the kind of downturn that has not been seen since the great depression and the two world wars." [this is actually an understatement; recovery from the economic meltdown is highly unlikely].  Sir David called the review "the most detailed economic analysis that I think has yet been conducted".

. . . The International Energy Agency predicts that $15 trillion (£8 trillion) of investment in new energy sources will be required over the next 15 years. "The massive investment programme that's ahead of us is an opportunity for us to move towards a zero carbon energy system. The investment process is going to act quite possibly in the opposite direction to an economic downturn," Sir David said.

. . . He told the Rapid Climate Change conference, organised by the Natural Environment Research Council in Birmingham, that achieving global political consensus would be extremely difficult. "In my view this is the biggest challenge our global political system has ever been faced with. We've never been faced with a decision where collective decision making is required by all major countries." The timescale too is unprecedented. "Actions being asked of the political system today are only going to play through into mid-century and beyond. So for the first time we are asking a global political system to make decisions around risks to their populations that are well outside the time period of any election process."

. . . He drew parallels between scientific advice on global warming and advice from seismologists ahead of the Boxing Day tsunami. A month before the disaster a delegation warned governments around the Indian ocean about the extreme danger posed by tectonic activity under the sea. No government chose to act on the advice. "$30m as the cost to install some kind of early warning system presumably looked like a lot of money." But such a system could have saved 150,000 lives.

Sustainable City - San Francisco

A website to continue citizen-based advocacy for sustainability following publication of San Francisco's Sustainability Plan in 1997. From their website,

Sustainable City's advocacy for a sustainable future -- one that provides for the needs of the present without sacrificing the ability of future generations and the natural world to provide for their own needs -- is embodied in the Sustainability Plan for the City of San Francisco, featured on this website. Over 350 San Franciscans -- community activists and people representing many city government agencies, over 100 businesses, and academia -- gathered in working groups in 1996 to draft the "rough game-plan that is necessary for a concerted effort to achieve a sustainable society." In July, 1997, the goals and objectives of the sustainability plan became policy of the City and County of San Francisco.

Our Website
In its introduction, the sustainability plan is described as "an invitation to all San Franciscans to think about a common future, and an opportunity to make a choice of the routes to that end." This website is intended to be a resource for all those who accept that invitation -- those already participating in San Francisco's many environmental advocacy, service and municipal organizations, and those just now looking for a way to get a handle on this complex challenge we share.

http://www.sustainable-city.org/

SDI-Sustainable Development International

A web-based bridge between solution providers and decision makers around the world. They say,

"SDI Online Members will be able to raise awareness about their sustainable business solutions in front of ministers, business leaders and key stakeholders through our website and e-newsletter, showing a commitment to the ethic: Inform, Influence, Implement."

Their newsletter ". . . provides month-by-month updates and coverage on SD and CSR matters, including interactive news, calendar, events, jobs, campaigns and CSR report launch promotion."
http://www.sustdev.org/index.php

SustainUS - US Youth for Sustainability

SustainUS is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, nonpartisan organization of young people advancing sustainable development and youth empowerment in the United States. Through proactive education and advocacy at the policy-making and grassroots levels, we are building a future in which all people recognize the inherent equality and interdependence of social, economic, and environmental sustainability. http://sustainus.org

American Solar Energy Society

Established in 1954, the American Solar Energy Society (ASES) is the nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing the use of solar energy, energy efficiency, and other sustainable technologies in the U.S. http://www.ases.org/

Stete of the World Symposium 2009 - The Pivotal Year

WorldWatch Institute's 13th Annual State of the World 2009 Symposium, January 15, 2009:

About the Event:

The year 2009 will be pivotal for the Earth's climate. Scientists have warned that we have only a few years to reverse the rise in greenhouse gas emissions and help avoid abrupt and catastrophic climate change. The world community has agreed to negotiate a new climate agreement in Copenhagen in December 2009.

What must we do in the 21st century-especially in 2009 and the years just following-to head off the kind of climate catastrophe that many scientists now see as likely?

Please join leading thinkers in climate change mitigation and adaptation for an afternoon briefing that will explore the visionary next steps required to create an international climate change agreement.

RSVP to Kimberly Rogovin at 202.452.1999 ext. 530 or krogovin@worldwatch.org no later than January 9, 2009

http://www.worldwatch.org/node/5949

Journal of Urbanism (International Placemaking & Sustainability)

Announcement:  http://www.intbau.org/journal.htm

The new Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability will be a centralised source for scholarly research on the design of the built environment within social, economic and environmental contexts. As a a multi-disciplinary, international journal focusing on human settlement and its relationship to the idea of sustainability, social justice and cultural understanding its research topics will include Urban Regeneration, New Urbanism, European Urbanism, Landscape Urbanism, Urban Sustainability, Smart Growth, Livable Communities, Transit-orientated Development, Walkable Communities, Urban Morphology and a variety of other strongly related interests. It will be published 3 times a year (print and online). More  information: www.informaworld.com/rjou.

The Bridge at the Edge of the World:

The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability (Yale U. Press), by James Gustave Speth, dean of Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, cofounder of both the Natural Resources Defense Council and the World Resources Institute, top  environmental  adviser to President Jimmy Carter, and head of the UN Development Programme during the 1990s.  Socialism is not the answer and neither is capitalism as we know it. Main stream environmentalism has been getting stronger, but the global economy is growing faster and devastating the environment. There's a need to step back, outside the system, develop a more powerful critique, and take on the big issues--over consumption, inaccurately low prices for most market products, revising the basic charter of the modern corporation to serve the long term interests of all the stakeholders, from workers and communities to future generations and the environment, etc.--if we're going to get beyond the capitalism of the day to a third alternative.  http://www.emagazine.com/view/?4429 Summary of interview by Melinda Tuhus in EMagazine.