In an effort to boost its social responsibility, Adidas is planning to make "one Euro shoes" for the millions of people around the world who cannot af...
Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business
If they're publicly asking for $4 million, I'll bet we could get it for $3 million. Putting the plane itself up as collateral we could probably finance, say 85% of it. That's less than half a million.
Lloyd Garver | Posted 10.25.2009 | Living
There is a "Neighboring Gap" going on in our country. As opposed to previous generations, many people don't know their neighbors. They'll almost brag...
Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living
I was encouraged to "bring my useless or broken gold" to an acquaintance's home, where I could "sell it all and take home cash." This was a new one for me, I've never left a social gathering richer than when I came in.
Ron Mirenda | Posted 09.20.2009 | Living
Social capital allows us to invest in the future of society in areas we are passionate about and in those we strongly believe will make a difference in our society.
Nosheen Abbas | Posted 09.19.2009 | World
Tired of hearing people complain about what's wrong with Pakistan, these students decided to do something about it by meeting every Sunday to clean up trash.
Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 09.06.2009 | Living
We all dread stepping out of what is familiar and known: your comfort zone. But when we do, we can discover enormous reserves of strength within ourse...
Amitai Etzioni | Posted 08.23.2009 | Living
Family is more than chicken soup.
Lynsey Wood Jeffries | Posted 07.22.2009 | Living
Corporate-nonprofit partnerships are most fruitful when they combine three key ingredients: senior corporate leadership, shared expertise, and financial investments.
Michael DeJong | Posted 05.22.2009 | Green
Unfortunately, Earth Day for many has become yet another narcoleptic occasion to enact pointless environmental rituals while denouncing the greed and excesses they also find themselves ankle deep in.
Jim Luce | Posted 04.30.2009 | Living
One person can make a difference. You can make a difference.
Eric Ehrmann | Posted 04.17.2009 | Business
Rio -- Brazil's president Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva got free coffee from President Obama at the White House Saturday. But back home he'll pay $20 f...
Jim Wallis | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics
My prediction is that many in the faith community, especially those on the front lines of serving the poor, will rally around the principles and priorities of this budget.
Deirdre Imus | Posted 02.28.2009 | Green
We have finally come to the crossroad where patriotism and environmental responsibility intersect. As a new administration comes into power, a new environmental agenda is on the horizon.
Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 02.23.2009 | Media
The same media that is creating a negative impression of President Obama is saying little about the outgoing administration's widespread destruction of official government records.
Karen Talavera | Posted 01.23.2009 | Living
To say things are different in America is perhaps the greatest understatement of the year. Things are different all right, good-different and bad-diff...
Russell Bishop | Posted 12.05.2008 | Living
Today the vigil begins. The tension is building and just about everyone can feel it. Many are saying this is the most important election in decades....
Good Magazine | Anne Trubek | Posted 11.27.2008 | Living
Say you decide to spend some of your discretionary income on a good, recently-published novel. (Note: I won't blame you if you want to use what's left...
Treehugger | Alex Pasternack | Posted 11.22.2008 | Green
Perhaps the world's biggest, boldest convert to sustainability, and the company about which we're most ambivalent, Wal-Mart announced today its most a...
Jim Wallis | Posted 11.09.2008 | Business
What is a Christian response to a deepening economic crisis like this? What should people of faith be thinking, saying, and doing?
Jim Luce | Posted 06.28.2009 | Living
As I approach my fiftieth birthday, I am feeling incomplete. Part of me - my soul? - is still missing. In secular terms, I think I am not yet in tou...
Jake Brewer | Posted 07.02.2008 | Business
Trying to make the world a better place is messy and almost always full of the same back-room shenanigans chronicled throughout the political sectors, but with one difference: those involved act like it's not, and no one talks about it.
Boston Globe | Matthew Battles | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
When Milton Friedman famously stated that "the social responsibility of business is to increase profits," he furnished ammunition to both free market ...
Posted 11.17.2009 | Impact